This is a silly thread topic. Tookie and Sheehan have nothing to do with each other. I didn't realize that public assembly and protest were "far left tactics." I thought that this was a fairly common democratic action, one that the right engages in (over abortion and homosexuality often). However, I don't suspect that the biased OP will make the link between all these groups, just try to isolate the ones he doesn't agree with them and then call them "miserably ineffective" and somehow the link the topics of international war and capital punishment . I just wonder why, since he is so biased he continually tries to don the "independent" cloak. chassisman, since you are a partisan Republican, just say so. No need for the false appearances.