In response to both this comment and the one before it:

Please don't misunderstand. My take on the Funk the War action (and, I'm sure, that of most everyone else there) was hugely positive. In all seriousness, I was impressed.

I didn't at all mean to minimize what SDS accomplished; I was just trying to give a brief overview of everything that happened. Giving a full account would've required many more words than I'd intended to spend to tell this story, which was only intended as a summary of my own very subjective impressions of the day.

I also didn't mean to imply that SDS was being overly "authoritarian" -- I was just attempting a sort of tongue-in-cheek observation about how silly doctrinaire anarchism can be in practice.