I guess they think they can take the law into their own hands:
"An anti-war protester confronted former Bush administration aide Karl Rove while he spoke at a San Francisco mortgage bankers' meeting. A statement by the group Code Pink identified the woman as 58-year-old Janine Boneparth, who tried to handcuff Rove in what she called a citizen's arrest for "treason."
Liberal acquaintances of mine keep shouting that it is Republicans and conservatives who are the extremists these days. Hmmm...