Fair enough. It's got to be infuriating suddenly having parts of your life screwed up for this and seeing damage done to your home. As far as your city looking like an armed camp - I've been there, it's no fun for anyone - isn't that as much your city's response to the protests as the actions of the protesters themselves?

But I'm sitting here looking at email requests for a peaceful protest and zero violence from several of the groups having at it this evening (I'm involved with a few different groups up there, this week) and just generally getting frustrated at the assumption of violence (especially given police behavior in general during the riots) and the continued assumption that these are all trust fund kids.

There are many, many douchebag anarchists. And many many more who were doing nothing more than protesting or filming or being identifiable as an anarchist. Those are arrests worth protesting.