Reply #55: Great list! You'll have to bend over a whole lot just to find left-wing equivalency [View All]

[alp227]

Lemme try:
- College student protests? EHHHH! Usually the student protesters have been organizing non-violent events; there are non-fatal clashes with police though, and usually most of the damage is to property.
- The "Justice for Oscar Grant" protests in Oakland? Nope. Most of the people who did rioting were NOT residents of Oakland, and again property damage dominated the aftermath.
- The Weather Underground/'60s radicals? They split up after the Vietnam War, and the one fatal incident, the San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombing (1970), is still unsolved with little evidence blaming WU. While WU carried out bombings, again most of the incidents resulted in property not personal damage. Obama/Ayers anyone?
- Animal-rights activsts bombing scientists' homes: In 2010, a British court threw out the conviction of Mark Broughton, who served 10 years in prison for a conspiracy to arson Oxford University. In 2006, Donald Currie was arrested "after admitting conducting a campaign of terror against companies linked to Huntingdon Life Sciences." In August 2008, two UC Santa Cruz scientists' homes were firebombed. Four activists were prosecuted in federal court after a violent protest outside one UCSC professor's home.