What you are describing here is the ANTIFA and anti fascist group of anarchist's who are against every thing they are more akin to the neo Nazi skin heads on the right than anybody on the
right and like them have an attraction to violent acts. The students in Berkeley did not wreck their own campus they were peacefully protesting professional agitators who have nothing to offer but hate speech. and make their living doing it and their point is to stir up passions on both sides fan the flames of division and polarization. People like Milo Yianopolous , Ann Coulter, David Horowitz, Ben Shapiro Professional shit disturbers all

Remember the olden days, when the right wing was in a twist because their protesters were limited to a ribboned off area in an attempt to demonstrate..

Once in a while the laws do work. In Minnesota the man who walked into and shot 5 demonstrators at the 4th precinct was sent to prison for 15 years.

We should indeed get rid of or amend the Patriot bill.

and yes, Alicia, the GOP via the orange man are falling allover themselves to stop protesters at any price.. The draconian idea seem endless..

I could do pages about them but will simply leave it at this..

Now, under cover of the Trump administration’s “law and order” platform, Republican lawmakers at the state level—often with the backing of police unions—are advancing a spate of bills aimed at crushing this groundswell. The proposed legislation would impose draconian penalties on protest organizers and participants, expanding local powers to put demonstrators in jail, seize their assets and further criminalize property destruction.

In recent weeks and months, politicians in at least 11 states—Minnesota, Washington, Iowa, Michigan, North Dakota, Indiana, Virginia, Colorado, Missouri, North Carolina and Arizona—have either introduced or threatened to introduce bills that make it more dangerous or costly to attend protests, or be anywhere near them. One bill recently proposed in North Dakota, and clearly aimed at Standing Rock resistance, would have expanded protections for drivers who “accidentally” hit and kill protesters. While the legislation failed earlier this month, it nonetheless reflects a troubling political push to snuff out dissent.

Using racketeering laws to go after protesters’ assets

A bill that just passed through the Arizona State Senate would expand the state’s racketeering laws on organized crime to “rioting,” broadly defined to include acts that result in property destruction. This move would broaden the powers of authorities to target protest organizers and participants—and even seize their assets.

Man George Soros gets blamed for more shit than can be imagined. That's a lot for an old guy nearly 90 years old It was around 2000 that in a conversation with my late mother that I lamented
the fact that the conservatives had taken over the country beat down the unions all without a whimper and wondered where the hell were the anti Vietnam war type protestors. Why weren't the young people in the streets protesting the destruction of their future. The decimation of the middle class the money corrupting our political system. It is a relief to see young people protesting again that's what democracy is about. Reform never comes from the top down but from the bottom up