Okay, I'm back on Front St and inside the condo. This whole situation is still making me very tense. Of course the riot police three blocks away at Queen and Spadina doesn't help with that.

Everybody has already said everything that can be said about all this. I will only add that I lived for the better part of the year in basically the world's capital city with motorcades and nuclear summits and K9 teams where I worked, and never did I feel like this. Never did I feel like it was a police state where civil liberties were ignored and still hooligans ran rampant over the streets.

You want to search pregnant woman on their way to Starbucks? Fine, but then how is it that such destruction and chaos seemed to rule the weekend?

I am a veteran protester. I love a good protest or rally. But what cause was actually served or supported by any of this?