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Life During Wartime
Mar. 20th, 2003 08:37 pmToday, I am ashamed to be a San Franciscan.
With the kick-off of the last night/this morning, protestors had promised to disrupt the streets of the "war economy." Since there are no defense contractors in SF, this meant the usual big bag capitalists. So, starting about 0600 they began blocking streets. They're still at it.
At last count, over 700 people had been arrested. The are promising to keep doing this day after day.
For what end? Do they really think George Bush is going to say "Oh my, traffic in San Francisco? Call off the war!" What is going to happen (and has already happened in a small way) is that tempers are going to flare, someone will throw a punch, or a rock, and we will have a riot on our hands.
These people aren't out there for peace, they are out for a confrontation. All they are doing is pissing off thousands of people. They are making the peace movement look, once again, like an out of control group that has no respect.
And the splinters! I saw many signs demanding freedom for Mumia. This is man, who in front of witnesses, killed a police officer. He's been tried, and convicted for his crime. How can you demand peace on one hand, and demand a killer be set free on the other? Seven cops are in the hospital. One protestor is, and he was hit by a bottle thrown by another protestor. The morons even attacked the news cameras covering the protests!
The avalanche has already begun. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
In what is a remarkably more saner corner of the world, the US/UK invasion has gotten an early jump. While I was skeptical at first about "embedded" journalists, the tactic has paid off with excellent shots of service members just doing their jobs. So far, there has been very light resistance.
Good luck guys, and get home safe.
With the kick-off of the last night/this morning, protestors had promised to disrupt the streets of the "war economy." Since there are no defense contractors in SF, this meant the usual big bag capitalists. So, starting about 0600 they began blocking streets. They're still at it.
At last count, over 700 people had been arrested. The are promising to keep doing this day after day.
For what end? Do they really think George Bush is going to say "Oh my, traffic in San Francisco? Call off the war!" What is going to happen (and has already happened in a small way) is that tempers are going to flare, someone will throw a punch, or a rock, and we will have a riot on our hands.
These people aren't out there for peace, they are out for a confrontation. All they are doing is pissing off thousands of people. They are making the peace movement look, once again, like an out of control group that has no respect.
And the splinters! I saw many signs demanding freedom for Mumia. This is man, who in front of witnesses, killed a police officer. He's been tried, and convicted for his crime. How can you demand peace on one hand, and demand a killer be set free on the other? Seven cops are in the hospital. One protestor is, and he was hit by a bottle thrown by another protestor. The morons even attacked the news cameras covering the protests!
The avalanche has already begun. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
In what is a remarkably more saner corner of the world, the US/UK invasion has gotten an early jump. While I was skeptical at first about "embedded" journalists, the tactic has paid off with excellent shots of service members just doing their jobs. So far, there has been very light resistance.
Good luck guys, and get home safe.
