The G-20 Summit in Toronto may be history but the fallout from the related protests isn't.

Last week, Toronto police released photos of their 10 most wanted from the G-20 riots to the Canadian Bankers Association (CBA) in the hopes that it could use facial recognition software to help ID the people on the list.

Some of the “most wanted” employed Black Bloc tactics, whereby protestors, sometimes anarchists, dress in black and hide their faces with black masks, bandanas and balaclavas, to obscure their identities and have been known to threaten people who try to photograph them.

There method of protest sometimes includes damaging to buildings and storefronts related to “big business” with The GAP and (my “favorite” coffee chain) Starbucks victims of damage in a number of reported instances.

I'm no child of the 60's, I didn't wear flowers in my hair and I have made both love and war and I'm not sure what constitutes proper protesting etiquette.

But as far as I'm concerned, smashing windows and causing widespread damage really isn't a proper way to show your disapproval of G-20, the various heads of state or what they stand for.

It's also not a way to win people over to the cause.

Mind you, I'm not a fan of how the Toronto police turned the Big Smoke into something out of Orwell's 1984 or the video game Half-Life 2 either.

People have the right to protest, we live in a democratic society after all, and I realize that there are a lot of things the G-20 nations could be doing differently but what I define as protesting – peacefully, with signs, without the smashing of windows and the setting of fires – is different from some of the people at the G-20 protests.

I can see why people are against the G-20 but when I see them causing damage, it's hard to sympathize with them.