Something like this?
Posted on 11/03/2004 11:02:27 PM PST by bgcountry187
After Action Report-Operation Social Strike San Francisco, CA—Nov 3, 4:30 pm
The day started off horrible. If anybody has been watching the national news, you might have noticed it stormed out here. It was raining when I left. I figured, since I set up the protest, I better show up and let people know they can go home. I felt like it wasn’t worth braving the storm, we made a great showing out here in CA in the polls and I felt countering this in the storm wasn’t worth it.
To my surprise, almost everybody who said they were coming did! They were willing to possibly brave the storm (and we're talking rain and hail here)! We gossiped down in the Bart station (talked about our Victory parties we had!) where we were meeting. When it started getting closer to 5:00, which was the America-haters meeting time, it was nice and clear out, although a bit cold. There ended up being about 15 of us all together. We decided since we were all there, we might as well drop in on the America-hating, Anti-Israel, Anti-All-That-is-good-and-honest crowd and show our support for the war and our overwhelmingly re-elected President. We moved in and took a spot towards the side. We were immediately greeted by the opposition. I could tell they were happy to see us!! We spent some time hanging out and debating some of the opposition. I must say, I met a few really great people from their side, which was a complete surprise (and I have been doing this counter-protesting pretty frequently the last couple of months). There were some very fascinating intellectual conversations. Of course there were many more intellectually bankrupted people there.
After an hour, the peaceniks decided it was time to march. The way things were going we couldn’t pass up the chance at some more mingling. A couple of people decided it might be a little dangerous and went home, but about 12 of us decided to brave the crowd and we marched after all. There was a lot of anger around. I got spit at, which is nothing new for us protest warriors, but being a big guy, I have never been spit at myself! Myself and another pw got surrounded by some anarchists who held hands and tried to stop us from marching. I don’t know what they were thinking in picking out the biggest guy in our group, but that’s what they did. I just walked through the little punks. The cops were close by and called for some more cops to keep an eye on the anarchist punks. We also had the “how come you aren’t fighting in Iraq” comment and when I would break out my being an Air Force Veteran, they never had much more to say after that. Sometimes they would come back with, “why don’t you go back in” and I would respond with I fougth for freedom of speech and how many of your people have served their country? They never had much to say after that, accept pure ignorance. We started feeling more and more anger from the opposition and cut our march down about 5 blocks and took an earlier bart. Overall it was a complete success. Thanks to all who came out. We had quite a few new faces. Hope to see you all again in the future. Oh yah--------- FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!!!!!! THE SILENT MAJORITY HAS SPOKEN!!!! 59 million loud!!!!
Great job guys!
Here's some pics of the lefty losers, taken by an undercover operative :-)
http://www.zombietime.com/sf_rally_november_3_2004/
Gotta love those effigies--are we in Pakistan or San Francisco? Same difference.
On a more destructive note, the water in the Yerba Buena fountains was dyed red to symbolize the "blood of empire." Sick stuff. I'd post the link, but it's Indymedia and I don't think they're allowed around here...
I live in SF and I haven't heard of this group. Who/what are they?
I don't know if it is a "group" so much as a fringe movement. It involves a certain style of dress (ripped-up and studded black cotton clothes with "anarchist" symbology, black bandanas over the face, etc. See StL's link for photos.), a nihilist attitude, and a propensity for violence, vandalism and disruption of traffic.
The black bloc types are a minority (albeit a significant one) of these commie-organized protest marches. The black bloc ones say they are "anarchists" rather than socialists but from everything I've seen there is no indication that any of them have the intelligence, rationality, education, or experience to form any coherent political philosophy whatsoever.
I refer to them as the "Children's Violence Club." They know each other, socialize together, have a high group-cohesion and an "us against the world" mentality and seek to make their mark on the world simply by breaking windows of "bad" corporations (Starbucks, Mickey D's, etc.), blocking traffic, grafitti-ing public spaces, etc.
They organize through the internet and are very passionate. They are in all of the big cities, especially on the West Coast. Overall they are not that important but if you are counterprotesting (as we were on Wednesday in S.F.) you need to keep an eye on them.
They are very self-righteous and thus are utterly willing to take a cheap and cowardly shot at someone and cause them injury if it can be done anonymously and without repercussion. Their dress (which hides their individual identities) and their deployment (in roving, swirling masses) are designed to enable their hit-and-run attacks.
All this and they smell bad too.
Yuck!
You got it.
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