The Greatest Mostly Peaceful Riot In DC Ever!

Now that a man from Florida has been indicted for everything except the Kennedy assassinations and the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping, we are able to get on with our lives and talk about that time in Washington, D.C., when some people were so mad at the government and the perceived injustices that they marched in the streets and rioted. The also had firearms, threatened to use them and they burned a certain politician in effigy – which for those of you under thirty, mean they burned a doll of the politician – no.. not a Barbie doll, usually a full sized… well… an effigy of the offending person. Listen, just Google the word if you don’t know it already. Anyway, long before a time when everything became “the greatest” this or the “most amazing that,” upset people just had a way of letting it be known that they were upset without resorting to social media or donating to various political “causes” that might or might not involve the purchase of real estate. And since everything seems to need to have a ranking as “the most violent” day in history, we take you to a day, not that long ago, when a large group of Americans, who felt that the government was ignoring them and, in fact, was abusing them, took to the streets of Washington D.C. and began to burn things. It was, as they say, the most violent (but mostly peaceful) day in the history of Washington, D.C….