How did I defend them, Avanti? In every post on this thread I have condemned the handful of perpetrators as vandals. Did you even bother to read my posts? It certainly doesn't seem so! Yet I see your frownie face on my two posts, above.

I don't give a damn about the guy's stupid flag. It didn't look burned when Mr. Sparhawk tossed it back into his truck. I went back to the Sunday report and saw the police had called it "partially burned" so I suppose one of the vandals held a BIC to it for a couple of seconds. As I said, I condemned them in every one of my posts.

Those Breakaways looked like about thirty young people. That's 3% of the march, the rest were peaceful and law-abiding. Yet many (I hope not you) seem willing to make them representative of the thousand decent, law-abiding citizens who marched to protest  Trump's ban on Muslims.

I think you're a decent person, so I wonder, why all the criticism for something I didn't do or say?