Posted on 03/21/2003 4:25:42 AM PST by I_Love_My_Husband
Direct Action Plans for the Next Business Day After the War Starts
Direct Action to Stop the War has called for mass nonviolent civil disobedience in downtown San Francisco on the next business day after the Bush administration begins military strikes on Iraq.
****(commie crap snipped)*****
We are calling on people from all walks of life and all backgrounds to join us at 7am in Justin Herman Plaza.
****(commie crap snipped)**** We believe that silence is agreement and that peace is an idea which demands action.
Our goals are to nonviolently transform downtown San Francisco from profiteering and war to life and resistance.
This includes nonviolently shutting down key intersections, government offices, and certain corporate offices ....(commie crap snipped)
Intersections and Arteries
1) Lombard & Van Ness 2) Polk & Broadway 3) Polk & Bush 4) Market & Franklin 5) Division & Van Ness 6) 6th & Brannan 7) 5th & Mission (SF Chronicle) 8) 3rd & Folsom 9) Harrison & 2nd 10) Harrison & Fremont 11) Embarcadero & Market 12) Broadway @ Columbus 13.a & 13.b) Stockton Tunnel 14) Powell & Bush 15) Market & 6th 16) 16th & Valencia/Mission 17) Howard & Fremont 18) Embarcadero & Washington 19) Embarcadero & Broadway 20) Parking Lot of Your Choice a. Civic Center (McAllister betw. Polk/Larkin) b. Sutter/Stockton (entries on Bush and Stockton) c. 5th/Mission (entries on Mission and on Minna)
Government and Corporate Financial A) City Corpse/UK Consulate—Sansome & Market B) Carlyle Group/TransAmerica Pyramid — 600 Montgomery C) Pacific Stock Exchange (2nd floor) — 220 Bush (near Kearny) D) Spanish Consulate - 1405 Sutter
Media E) CBS Westinghoue Electric—221 Main St. Near Howard
Federal F) Federal Building—Golden Gate & Polk G) Federal Reserve—101 Market H) Military Recruitment Center—670 Davis
[why have these targets been selected?]
BIKES NOT BOMBS Bicycling: A Quiet Statement Against Oil Wars Join the mobile Bikes not Bombs. Bring your bike (or rollerblades, or skateboard or any human-powered wheels) with signs, flags, and decorations to Main and Market at 7am (or whenever you can make it) and support all the stationary action, fill the streets with bicycles, get the word out…. Your affinity group can be its own moving anti-war bike ride.
AUTO BRIGADE
Drive solo through downtown very, very slowly. Or team up with one or two other drivers and take two or three lanes on one street. Support bicyclists and help the street blockade actions. Simply stop your car and refuse to move for as long as you are comfortable doing so. Leave it. Run out of gas. Transform the City. Stop the War.
"This approach might provide some of us older people, in particular, with a more viable method for prolonged participation."
-From the person who started this idea and said this was used by the movement that toppled Slobadan Milosevic.
In a way, I disagree. These people object to the very existence of the American system of free enterprise and capitalism. They think because they are "enlightened", they shouldn't have to do anything as banal as working for a living - they should just sit around the neighborhood coffee house and have the government mail them checks. They are using the war as a pretext to express their anger at the United States in general, and to trash and vandalize the system they hate. The cause of "peace" gives them cover. And their leadership is well-funded by international Communist groups, even if many of the rank-and-file don't know that. It's the same bunch we saw protesting globalization in Seattle a while back - malignant professional slackers.
It's easy to see how the Nazi party got started in Weimar Germany. Germans were disgusted with this same type of leftist poseur trashing their streets and looked on in approval as the SA marched in to crack the Communists' heads. Let's hope these actions aren't a precursor to a similar backlash in America - I don't think they will be since at the end of the day, support for the protestors is tiny.
I pretty much agree with just about all of what you say, especially the above.
Only I do think the commie organizers at least understand what Hussein is. Many of the "rank and file" idiot protestors may justify their idiocy by pretending to themselves that Bush is just as bad or worse (some of the interviews of "human shields" indicate this).
It's just that historically, socialists have always been ready to "eliminate" entire segments of humanity in their pursuit of what they refer to as the "common good." I just have the idea that these protestors' callous disregard, in their pursuit of their agenda, for the lives of the ordinary Iraqi, or for the victims of Muslim terrorism, demonstrates that typical socialist willingness to dispense with those who may be considered to stand in the way of their "common good."
It's chilling.
That is probably right, for many of them. When I was in college during the late 60's, I thought the same of the anti war protestors then. I figured the real motivation was that the whole thing gave some of the kids a chance to feel important and be noticed. I didn't realize at the time, though, that many of the main organizers were actual commies, just as they are now. Then, as now, it was not widely reported by the media.
'Course I was somewhat sympathetic at the time, didn't want to really go to Viet Nam, considered myself a liberal, was an art student, etc. I knew enough, though, to understand how evil socialism was, just didn't know enough to know that "liberals" had become socialists.
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