[thatsnotnice]

Much to the displeasure of the SFPD, only 12 protesters were facing felony charges.

And the DA subsequently dropped the felony charges according to earlier radio news and an article posted here.

[jiggyboy]

Three months ago after the first round of window-breaking would have been better, of course, but I imagine that it takes quite a number of people complaining very loudly for a very long time to overcome the reluctance of the city to first abandon the "it was just an aberration" mentality and eventually admit that it must take some action against its fellow flower children.

The inability of the typical poor thinker (on the Council) to predict from past reports elsewhere or to learn first-hand from his own experience is no doubt a factor as well.

[Pinetop]

Ah San Francisco--these are probably the only tourists they have anymore-bussed in agitators with Molotov cocktails, illegal immigrants and homeless who go there for the cash and cheap heroin. Two of the 3 new breed of SF tourist defecate on the street. Let's give credit where it's due to Mayor Willie Brown, police chief Earl Saunders, D.A. Terrence Hallinan. Throw a chain link fence around the place and call it a federal prison.

[EdReform]

BTTT

[Sally II]

Good!! That's exactly what they need to do. They need to start up a lawsuit, the people of San Francisco vs. the protestors, make them pay compensation for damages. Let them know that they cannot just commit acts of civil disobedience and let the tax payers and local businesses pay for it. SF should put its foot down on "Critical Mass" too. I mean, if a crazy person stands in the middle of bridge and holds up traffic for three hours, that's one thing. The guy has an excuse if he's crazy. Traffic is enough of a pain in the Bay Area, these people need to be held accountable if they willfully cause a major traffic block.

[The Old Hoosier]

SF gets what it deserves.

[Pinetop]

Ah San Francisco--these are probably the only tourists they have anymore-bussed in agitators with Molotov cocktails, illegal immigrants and homeless who go there for the cash and cheap heroin. We know that two of the 3 new breed of SF tourist defecate on the street. Let's give credit where it's due to Mayor Willie Brown, police chief Earl Saunders, D.A. Terrence Hallinan. Throw a chain link fence around the place and call it a federal prison.

[TheShadow1]

They should be sentenced to community service in the form of cleaning all the kennels of the animal control centers. Maybe the next time they felt the urge to vomit and/or defecate on the city streets they would be able to resist it.

[jiggyboy]

FWIW, I would love to see the City bankrupt C.A.N.S.W.E.R. et al, but I think it's going to be a tough job to pierce the "corporate" veil. "We never advocated violence", etc. The sight of "send a strong message" in the story also suggests to the cynical that this is mostly for show anyway and won't be pursued vigorously at all.

[finnman69]

Time to make these LW groups pay with a few lawsuits brought forward by the city for a change.

[Henrietta]

Why don't they just sic the Patriot Act on these violent protestors? I'm sure there's more than enough in there to put some of these violent freaks behind bars.

Free speech is one thing, but this crap has gone too far, IMO. Violent outbursts and blocking traffic is not free speech.

[bedolido]

Fine? Nooooo.... have them wear a sign that says:

"I'm an aledged peace activist... and I'm silly"

[FITZ]

More than 2,000 others have been fined $97 and released.

$97 is ridiculously low if they were vandalizing and keeping people from getting to work. Let their parents pay for all the damages their children did -- maybe some of their parents will get smart and cut them off and tell them to get jobs. Many of them can just pay out of their trust funds and when they run out ---too bad ---they can see what it's like to have to work for a living.

[JoJo Gunn]

I think those Communist groups need to be investigated from head to toe. Here's something I didn't know until a couple of days ago-one of THE instigators of all this, the SF-IMC, gets partial funding from Bill Moyers.


http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/horowitz.html

[BRO68]

It's more likely that the SF Supervisors would try again to implement a commuter tax. Make the non-resident workers pick up the tab.

[LaGrone]

I was going to say how about long jail sentences also, but I don't think any of these losers ever work.

[Sally II]

Enough of this crap about America having a "great tradition of civil disobedience." There is nothing great about allowing groups of people to destroy private or public property or to disrupt 100s of businesses.

[HighRoadToChina]

BUMP! Let these "retreads" rot in jail for a month!

[pfflier]

Start with ANSWER and Ramsey Clark. Saddam has paid him to be his legal counsel.

[eleni121]

So why aren't these hoodlums being charged with the RICO statutes? They are organized, they are blocking entrances, they are conspiring to commit crimes...shall I go on?