Hmm...

If someone makes the choice to throw rocks or damange stuff, that's their choice, and it might piss someone off.

If someone makes the choice to say they disagree with such a choice, then they shouldn't be allowed to run their mouths because of it?

I respect your position on this issue (more than I did in 2001, btw) ;) but I think it's just as legitimate for people to talk about such action and oppose such action as it is for others to engage in such actions.   

I think I agree with Judy on this one, though.  I understand the difference in magnitude between breaking the window of a fast food chain and the violence of the state when it comes to poverty and police action and all that.  But still, I don't really feel like violence and destruction is the answer.

Of course, then again, when Jose Bove "deconstructed" that McDonald's, that was a pretty amazing action.  But I would say that's different because it was a group of people who decided that the entire action they were going to take would be to dismantle the construction that was going up.  That to me is different than a few people taking it upon themselves to go to a vastly peaceful protest and start smashing things without any consultation from the rest of the protesters or the organizers.