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.

[JudyinCanada]

Do not regret coming from a warped background now that God has gotten ahold of you.

There will be a good use for having had that background of yours...redeemed by His Grace.

Don't you just love Him?

[rmlew]

That immigrant should leave this horrible country!

[beckysueb]

Not sure but I think its the sign of anarchy.

[streetpreacher]

Thank you both for the kind words and God bless.

[beckysueb]

Has anyone seen this rally covered in MSM?

[beckysueb]

What is so chilling is their ecstatic screams over the burning of the efigy and the flag. These people are dangerous and our government seems powerless to stop them. I know I know, free speech and all. Sick!

[zip]

ping

[edchambers]

You should be nice to anarchists they could very well be future Republicans .They want no Govt. eventually they will grow up and realize that will never happen and less Govt starts to look pretty good.How do I know this? let's just say I have some experiance on the subject.

[exDemMom]

It just proves to me how many normal people post on FR and how un-normal my own life experience has been (former leftist/socialist/pseudo-intellectual until God knocked me off my horse).

Actually, I don't know that my life experience has been at all normal. I come from a family of leftist nut-cases. Growing up in the Bay Area in the sixties, I was thrown (by my mother!) into the middle of the whole hippy movement, hated it without knowing why. I figured out, years later, that it was because hippies were such complete phonies, pretending to be things they weren't, pretending that people are something other than what they are. See my FR name, my upbringing should have made me a whack-job.

Nevertheless, I didn't know the anarchists' symbol--and it still looks like a Satan worshipper's symbol to me, perhaps the resemblance is intentional?

[jonrick46]

These photos illustrate the depths of sickness that a culture will sink before those engaged in it become so devoid of normal human thinking that they would be better off in a mental hospital.

These people are beyond the normal exchange of free thinking. They are beyond any efforts to extend conciliatory good will. These people are not peacemakers. These people may be well beyond the help of mental health counseling. It may be that the only thing that will make them normal is the healing power of our living God, the Lord Jesus Christ. With our prayers, God will hear us and spare these poor souls from what must be a hell on earth.

[Savage Beast]

These people must be assisted in returning to their ancestral homeland in the Neanderthal Valley.

[piasa]

Who are they kidding? It's just a bastardized "at" symbol.

@

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

[piasa]

Let's not insult neanderthals. They could reason, they were good at making tools and their art was elegant...

...definitely not anarchist types.

[American in Israel]

Sodomfrancisco

[asgardshill]

Sounds plausible to me. All I know is, every time I see that symbol, the person bearing it or wearing it always seems to be in desperate need of a shower (with real soap) and the services of a barber.

[phillygirl2]

Wow...I just had flashbacks of being on my left-wing college campus:)

This is totally revolting. Do these people have any idea what they're promoting????

And, by the way, isn't "Freedom Socialist Party" a bit of an oxymoron??

Yuck.

[ken5050]

Many thanks for posting these, and for your undercover work. May I suggest you email these to Drudge. All of America needs to see this..and dude, you'll be famous...

[SunnySide]

"Bet most of these vermin didn't vote."


That and most of them like this Black Bloq(never heard of them) don't care, don't offer solutions, don't contribute, don't love or like anything and probably don't WORK. Anarchists aka hate mongers(self projecting) are the anti-christ.

[stanz]

SCUM...put them on the next flight to the Sudan and let them work hard for "Democracy."