[SwellJoe]

"The protests crossed that line when they started shutting down freeways and transit. The only difference between that and terrorism is the rhetoric."

Are you serious? You see no difference between beheading someone and sending out a video of it, and peacefully stopping traffic for a few minutes, other than the way they talk about it? Flying airplanes into buildings, and disrupting a train schedule for a little while by peacefully locking arms, are the same thing to you? Suicide bombers, and a (simulated, and peaceful) "die-in" in a shopping mall, those are morally no different?

That's such an unreasonable, and inflammatory, position to take that I'm genuinely not even sure how to communicate with you.