SAN FRANCISCO -- About 40 peace activists, many of them dressed in pink and flashing peace signs, slowed traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge this morning and got into minor clashes with police. Posted on 09/21/2006 3:32:10 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- About 40 peace activists, many of them dressed in pink and flashing peace signs, slowed traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge this morning and got into minor clashes with police.
No one was arrested during the hour-and-a-half protest -- organized by the anti-war group Code Pink as part of International Peace Day -- but bridge authorities did confiscate signs and banners they said would distract drivers and slow traffic even more.
There were also two minor collisions on the northbound side of the highway during the protest, which began at 8 a.m., according to Golden Gate Bridge police Capt. Mike Locati. He said he could not definitively link the fender-benders to the political action, but told protesters "I could probably attribute them to ... you folks."
The crowd of men, women and children -- who ranged in age from 8 to 78 -- and one pink-clad dog gathered at both ends of the bridge, many of them sporting letters pinned to their shirts that spelled out slogans such as "NO WAR." But police officers said the group -- which was offered a permit to carry small signs, but not until after 10 a.m. -- would have to remove the letters or be arrested.
"How can we be a danger to traffic at 10 a.m., but not at 8 a.m.?" asked Sam Joi, adding that they insisted on the earlier hour to catch rush-hour drivers. "It's like saying you can flyer an empty parking lot, or hold a concert with no music."
As Locati talked to the protesters on the south end of the bridge, two California Highway Patrol officers unfurled a chain of handcuffs in front of a CHP van...
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Great place to stick to all those right-wing, pro-war types driving between San Francisco and Marin County. Yeah. A rich vein of Bush support there.
Jail 'em!
I guarantee that if they we checked out for their source of income that at least 60% of them are on the dole in one way or the other.
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Run 'em over.
What were children doing there? Isn't this a school day or were they learning how to protest school as well? I hope they were marked as truant from class.
These protestors don't work. They have no idea what the Golden Gate is like during commute traffic hours. Further, they don't care to know. Only, to be "noticed".
Better idea.....into San Francisco Bay with them, sharks have to eat too.
No, Just Throw them Off, PEACEFULLY !
No doubt about that; none of them had to be at work, so that tells you a lot about WHO this crowd of malcontents is....
When their "International Peace Day" protest collides with somebody's "International Have-To-Get-To-Work Day" routine, they shouldn't be surprised to be waking up in an ER somewhere with tread marks on their damn faces.
Those schmucks have obviously never considered the possibility of a road rage type of response to their antics.
One, why aren't the kids in school. Two, are these absences excused?
SAN FRANCISCO -- About 40 peace activists, many of them dressed in pink and flashing peace signs, slowed traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge this morning and got into minor clashes with police.
Oh that will really help them get more support!
/sarcasm
"...and one pink-clad dog..."
Animal cruelty!
40 Pinko's get press and over 30,000 protesting Iran & Chavez at UN get barely a mention....go figure
Well, more than you might think, because those 15% of Marinites who vote Republican and actually work for a living do commute south over the bridge (I was one of them for many years). ;)
BTTT!
Why they think this helps their cause
They think? :-)
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