Meh. I'm not defending the attacks. I do think, however, that the moral landscape is significantly greyer than you depict. No nascent movement in history has been morally acceptable by the standards of the establishment. Whether this becomes the American Revolution, the Khmer Rouge, or That One No One Ever Heard Of Or Remembers remains to be seen.
As to your specific point, leaving my car unlocked with the windows down overnight on a dark street in Detroit doesn't make the inevitable thieves justified, but it does make me retarded, and completely undeserving of sympathy.
As to your specific point, leaving my car unlocked with the windows down overnight on a dark street in Detroit doesn't make the inevitable thieves justified, but it does make me retarded, and completely undeserving of sympathy.