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[Code Pinko] Anti-war protesters disrupt Golden Gate Bridge traffic
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/21/6 | Marisa Lagos

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: codepinko; enemywithin; moonbat; refugeesfromthe60s; terrorsupporters
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Code Pinko supporting the terrorists.
1 posted on 09/21/2006 3:32:12 PM PDT by SmithL
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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.


2 posted on 09/21/2006 3:33:41 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: SmithL

Jail 'em!


3 posted on 09/21/2006 3:34:49 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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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.



4 posted on 09/21/2006 3:35:50 PM PDT by avacado
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To: SmithL

How To Win Friends and Influence People


5 posted on 09/21/2006 3:36:38 PM PDT by dighton
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To: SmithL

Run 'em over.


6 posted on 09/21/2006 3:37:46 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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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.


7 posted on 09/21/2006 3:37:47 PM PDT by teacherwoes (To a liberal diversity is finding different people who agree with them)
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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".


8 posted on 09/21/2006 3:38:36 PM PDT by Alia
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To: Don Corleone

Better idea.....into San Francisco Bay with them, sharks have to eat too.


9 posted on 09/21/2006 3:38:57 PM PDT by stm (Katherine Harris for US Senate!)
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To: fatnotlazy

No, Just Throw them Off, PEACEFULLY !


10 posted on 09/21/2006 3:39:27 PM PDT by cmsgop ( President Mahmud Ahmadinejad Must Purify Himself in The Waters of Lake Minnetonka)
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"their source of income that at least 60% of them are on the dole in one way or the other. "

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....

11 posted on 09/21/2006 3:40:56 PM PDT by traditional1
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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.


12 posted on 09/21/2006 3:43:34 PM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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The crowd of men, women and children -- who ranged in age from 8 to 78

One, why aren't the kids in school. Two, are these absences excused?

13 posted on 09/21/2006 3:45:16 PM PDT by Andy from Beaverton (I'm so anti-pc, I use a Mac)
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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


14 posted on 09/21/2006 3:48:31 PM PDT by Valin (http://www.irey.com/)
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"...and one pink-clad dog..."

Animal cruelty!


15 posted on 09/21/2006 3:54:54 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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40 Pinko's get press and over 30,000 protesting Iran & Chavez at UN get barely a mention....go figure


16 posted on 09/21/2006 4:00:02 PM PDT by penelopesire
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Yeah. A rich vein of Bush support there.

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). ;)

17 posted on 09/21/2006 4:02:23 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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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.

BTTT!

18 posted on 09/21/2006 4:02:26 PM PDT by Prime Choice (True Conservatives don't vote for Liberals just because they have an 'R' by their name.)
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Several times each month these nutcases, dressed in pink, stand on an overpass in Bezerkley with their stupid signs. They disrupt traffic going into San Francisco, but on the Bay Bridge side. I called the CHP on them a couple of times complaining that they were making a traffic hazard, but I got no satisfaction. Why they think this helps their cause, I have no idea. Apparently they did not feel they were disruptive enough, so they went to the Golden Gate Bridge.

However, when our group of flagwavers stood on an overpass waving U.S. flags, we were run off one week because they said we were causing a traffic problem. Now we only go up there on Sept. 11 each year.
19 posted on 09/21/2006 4:06:00 PM PDT by usflagwaver
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Why they think this helps their cause

They think? :-)


20 posted on 09/21/2006 4:15:37 PM PDT by Valin (http://www.irey.com/)
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