Introduction Political protests and political violence are not rare in the world nowadays. Various groups and organizations protesting against the current state of things in the economical, social, or political arena of their areas or the world, in general, occur in different countries every day. The story of Daniel McGowan is a detailed demonstration of what happens within various protesting organizations during their working process. Earth Liberation Front (ELF) Daniel McGowan used to be a part of was a very active organization involved in multiple environmental protests on the territory of the United States of America concerning the government’s treatment of the country’s ecology, flora, and fauna. Peaceful protests and strikes used to bring public and political attention to various subjects were mainly ineffective or took too long to achieve any success. Besides, active protesting tactics such as blocking various geographical objects of buildings often caused violent reactions from the side of the police and security workers and resulted in aggressive and painful confrontations where the unarmed protestors were victimized and badly hurt for following their principles and attempting to move their point across. Logically, some of the members of the Earth Liberation Front lost their temper and decided to turn to more effective measures of protest. Since the members of the movement were unprofessional, judgmental, and subjective, they tended to choose their target facilities relying on rumor or old data (Katonafull, 2014). This is how they ended up burning down the buildings that had nothing to do with environmental damage. Besides, the lack of control or clear leadership in the organization combined with its active encouragement of the society to join their protests resulted in the occurrence of various uncontrolled and non-democratic branches of ELF working through private property attacks and arsons. The behavior of such groups remains unregulated and this is why no guarantee that ELF members will not harm humans or other living beings can be given. Reflection I agree that the anonymity of the Earth Liberation Front enforces anarchy and the absence of the inner structure of the organization. As a result, small uncontrolled groups of individuals such as the one Daniel McGowan belonged to tend to separate from the organization and work according to their own policy and judgment. Such small groups of people normally consist of individuals sharing ways of thinking and ideas. It is only natural for people to become aggressive after witnessing cruelty towards nature or animals. The desire to take revenge or punish the people that are viewed as perpetrators of violence and cruelty often takes over good intentions and logical thinking of such groups of individuals and they start taking action based on a lot of ruination which is perceived by the government as domestic terrorism. Journal Entry Social movements start dividing into various aggressive groups of individuals pursuing slightly different goals or working towards the initial goals by means of terrorism in cases when an organization unites many goal-oriented people that become very passionate about certain beliefs and ideas and then the organization cannot work out a strategy or tactic leading to conflict resolution or goal achievement. As a result, all the passionate and energetic participants of the protests spend years trying to draw the public and political attention to some subjects, protect and preserve some areas, save some people or animals, and experience failure after failure. The government and the police, armed with pepper spray, rubber bullets, shields, and all kinds of other instruments to get rid of protesting crowds of unarmed people, always win. Being defeated by the protestors often means going to jail for a short amount of time, being arrested, and physically hurt in many ways. Such incidents