We've seen anti-bank protesters step up their activity lately. I can't remember a time when banks have prompted so many street demonstrations, which in general are a fine way for people to exercise their first amendments rights. But what about when protesters show up at the homes of executives and lobbyists?

We saw this at the home of a few AIG executives. We saw it more recently in Washington, D.C., when protests organized by the  Service International Employees Union (SEIU) and Chicago-based National People's Action were staged outside the homes of Gregory Baer, a deputy counsel for Bank of America, and Peter Scher, an executive and lobbyist for JPMorgan Chase. Protesters chanted "Bank of America: bad for America." Baer just happens to live next door to a Fortune journalist who wrote: 

"Waving signs denouncing bank ‘greed,' hordes of invaders poured out of 14 school buses, up Baer's steps, and onto his front porch. As bullhorns rattled with stories of debtor calls and foreclosed homes, Baer's teenage son Jack-- alone in the house--locked himself in the bathroom. ‘When are they going to leave?' Jack pleaded when I called to check on him. 

"Baer, on his way home from a Little League game, parked his car around the corner, called the police, and made a quick calculation to leave his younger son behind while he tried to rescue his increasingly distressed teen. He made his way through a din of barked demands and insults from the activists who proudly ‘outed' him, and slipped through his front door. 

" ‘Excuse me,' Baer told his accusers, ‘I need to get into the house. I have a child who is alone in there and frightened.' " 

The journalist called the protest "a mob." 

The SEIU added to the story. It says Easton "came storming across her lawn, screaming at us to shut up and go away--telling us we had no business being there." It notes that Easton is married to a former lobbyist turned Republican strategist and consultant to corporate clients, suggesting she was too cozy with the banks. It called her Fortune article a rant.

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