As long as these violent acts are carried out symbolically and artistically, have at it. I found this quite entertaining, and hope you'll do more.

"I'm betting Alex Koppelman is a grown man who still rides a bicycle. By choice. On the sidewalk. You know I'm right about that, too..."

Speaking as a grown man who rides a bicycle by choice, I wonder what she is suggesting?

When is Salon going to hire some writers who understand how politics work?

Did I and my cracker brethren infest the black community with HIV? I would be very open to the idea of resources going to fix that problem, but guilt? Why would "we" owe "them" an apology for that? I feel as though I personally had as much to do with that as I did with, oh, a bunch of ancient Southern crooks enslaving their ancestors, for example.

We should fight the Civil War again, except this time the goal should be to kick the South OUT of the USA.

... after all, you can't just decide you don't like the law, so you're going to disobey it. And if you're going to take up arms against the government, what do you think is going to happen?

Tom and Rollie apparently thought they could just do whatever they wanted without regard for law. You may think the law is wrong, but I don't think his strategy for change was very sound, nor did he appear to shore up the necessary support among his following that he needed to make change.

Had Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcolm X had decided that the best way to bring about the change they wanted was to sit at the Southern lunch counters and, when the police came along to arrest them, stage an armed revolt, that movement's story would have had a much different ending.

The only thing I would agree with the author on is his opinion of the Reagan crime bill that allows law enforcement agencies to keep proceeds from raids. I think his opinion there is right on target.