After losing their bid for coveted Civic Center park space in a lottery process Thursday, one of the group's lead organizers vowed to gather there anyway on the night before the Democratic National Convention and wreak havoc in the process.

The group spent a year making nice with city officials and asking to be dealt with in a civil fashion. Then they treated the entire process with a disturbing lack of respect.

It's a shame that the group has come to embody the hypocrisy it has so vitriolically attacked.