So some biker poseur ran over and kicked a hibachi scattering hot coals, then some others joined in to attack people engaging in a lawful and peaceful protest. This is then lauded as some sort of righteous act by the conservative ditto-heads on wimpy leftists. The right resorts to violence whenever they like and the injured to be despised, I guess. What if, in a different situation, some people objected to images that depicted our president in an objectionable manner tore up the posters and attacked the protesters carrying them? Well, that would be just wrong in the eyes of the same people that attacked the flag burners, wouldn't it?
There are two things that the lower life forms inhabiting this forum are getting very wrong. First, these perpetrators used violence to suppress legal free speech protected by law. Their support for the unlawful use of violence to suppress free speech only confirms that the right have no idea what freedom means -- they are actually offended and enraged by it. Second, the right confuses the US flag with the US society. The flag is a symbol and means many things to many people. This attack on a peaceful protest demonstrates that the right do not respect alternate views and again resort to violence whenever and if ever they see fit. We see carnage from the right all the time, for example, in a Charleston church, in a political rally in Arizona, arson at a Missouri mosque following six dead after an attack on a Sikh temple and on and on. The right embrace violence just like their Nazi brothers in another time and just like their biker brothers in the Iranian paramilitary. That they claim to embrace freedom would be funny it they weren't so menacing.
It is a good thing that the reactionary right represent a minority in this country. The liberal and higher minded majority may not approve of their actions but in this case did not lower themselves to their tactics. The reasonable and intelligent act of the demonstrators was to disengage with the bikers and not escalate the biker-initiated violence into a riot. I hope that some of these bikers are brought to court to face the consequences of their assault, it would be best to let the courts sort this out rather than in the streets.