The word "mob" has become politically interesting. I confess to joining one outside my senator's offices on Camelback. There were at least twenty of us with placards protesting immigration policy. The police, tubby and in civvies and "packing," lounged around their cars, nonchalantly eyeing us in case we were about to break out violently. The press was there with cameras and tripods and notebooks and interviewing anybody they could find. Cars honked, drivers shook their fists or cheered. It lasted about three hours and I got to talk to some really nice people.

I don't think we changed history but we presented a petition. Not quite true of those patriots masquerading as native Americans who vandalized British merchant ships by throwing their tea overboard into the harbor because they were upset about the impending removal of the stamp tax. Then there was that armed violent mob of citizens who attacked Officers of the State at Concord which eventually led to civil war...or was it a revolutionary one? Was that a good mob? Then of course those mobs in Paris storming the Bastille. This is confusing. Are "mobs" good or bad? Difficult to judge with a President who behaves like a mobster!