Doug R - somewhere back, if you unravel this this thread back far enough you said with regard to peace protesters in Washing, DC, probably around the fall of 1969:

"Protestors were overturning cars in the streets setting them afire, causing damage to government buildings, etc."

I find that kind of generalization irritating, implying that maybe some large percentage of the protesters were doing such acts. There were some 600,000 of us in Ocotber of 1969 marching peacefully down the Mall. Well, some of us were shouting chants and singing. There might have been as many as 600 who were indulging themselves in attacking private and public property, probably some proportion of them being paid provocators. But don't worry. That's old history and you're free to make of it what you want...