These photos were taken at the post-election anti-Bush rally in San Francisco on November 3, 2004.

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[narses]

These photos were taken at the post-election anti-Bush rally in San Francisco on November 3, 2004.


The rage and frustration of another Bush victory was more than many San Franciscans could take. As soon as Bush's re-election was confirmed in the middle of Wednesday, November 3, people started gathering at Powell and Market streets. By 5pm the crowd had swelled to several thousand.

The photographs below were taken at the rally and at the march that followed. Captions are provided only where needed.
























Succinct.














Many protesters there simply could not accept what had happened. They paraded around with their election messages calling for Bush's defeat. I call them "November First people."


Still living in denial.











One group carried signs depicting famous revolutionaries and communists.


The most incomprehensible sign of the evening.


After night fell, around 6:30pm, the rally turned into a march to Mission and 24th streets. I heard murmurs that it might degenerate into a riot.





The Black Bloq folks hate San Francisco's touchy-feely leftists as much as they hate George Bush.


Luckily, the police came prepared, with officers lining the entire route, so the riot never materialized -- until the end, at the intersection of Mission and 24th, when the Black Bloq could no longer contain themselves. One of them threatened to attack a policeman, and was immediately arrested. The rest of the crew surrounded the cop in an angry mob.


Other cops swooped in and drove back the crowd. Here, the arresting officer drags the offender backwards toward the safety of the adjacent BART subway station.


As soon as the police descended the stairs into the station, the Black Bloq swarmed over the railing and rained firecrackers, rocks and traffic diverters down on the officers.


The BART staff panicked and decided to close down the station entirely. I ran to the other station entrance and saw that all the passengers were being quickly evacuated.


After a while the main entrance quieted down -- all that was visible were three traffic diverters that had been hurled at the cops.


Still frustrated, the Black Bloqers cried out, "Get the McDonald's!", but again the police were waiting for them. After seeing this row of cops protecting the building, the Black Bloqers backed off.


Their blood lust was satiated when someone started burning George Bush in effigy.


The crowd howled and screamed in excitement.








After the effigy was burnt to a crisp, the evening came to a shattering conclusion as the protesters ignited an upside-down American flag and cheered in ecstasy while the flames leaped into the night sky.

[Doctor Raoul]

Last night,as I'm driving home from the dinner held by the anti-Kerry Veterans groups that was held in Rhode Island, I heard a repeat of the weekday broadcast of the "Midnight Trucking Network".

THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS THREAD!!! I'm sure of it. What they were discussing tracked the sequence of photos.

Great job, I enjoyed reading your report very much.

[Doctor Raoul]

Difference is that Republicans don't hate America and love left wing tyrants. In that sense, these guys would be more likely to become Democrats

[zeebee]

What is that symbol that looks like an "A" with a circle around it?

[zeebee]

What is that symbol that looks like an "A" with a circle around it?

Nevermind. I should have read the thread. Anarchy symbol, whatever.

[spunkets]

Yes that's the anarchists symbol. Regardless of what they say it is, it is chaos. That is one of the reasons why any explaination you get from them regarding it's meaning is irrational and unintelligible. Their philosophy ia actually nihilism and anarchy represents the state of permanently established nihilists.

The protest is their social event. They protest for it's own sake, because that is what nihilism is at it's core. The folks driving their ideas and using them are the socialists. They are useful idiots that promote and enable the establishment of socialism w/o ever knowing it. Ignorance, chaos and emotional appeal are important, because if most of these idiots knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be doing it.

" Anarchists are devoted to the re-establishment of freedom for everyone"

LOL! See, if they knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be doing it. Notice they impose their own order, w/o ever being conscious of what it is. This con is intended for the young and that's why it includes the buzzword freedom. They were never taught what it is and instead were taught foggy notions and bred to be nihilists for the cause of socialism.

[asgardshill]

Regardless of what they say it is, it is chaos.

The irony of finding a definition of anarchy on a medium (the Internet) that requires so much structure to work didn't escape me :)

[Serb5150]

I bet not a single one of them was wearing any deodorant.