On Inauguration Day, I joined the thousands of "DisruptJ20" protesters massed in Washington for street demonstrations.
I hurried along with the vanguard of one group as it ran amok through the downtown streets. They used hammers and metal ramrods to smash plate glass windows, car windshields, and ATMs; hurled every object in sight through the broken windows or into the middle of the street; and set small fires inside trash containers and limousines. They endangered a lot of bystanders, who looked on haplessly and in shock.
You haven't lived until you've been in the center of a cyclone of armored police, spraying mace and tossing concussion grenades into the air.
But anarchists have no place in my world. They have no right to trash my home town and terrify my fellow Washingtonians.
Call me a fogey, but you can count me out.
