Patriots Rally For America San Francisco version 4/20/02

21 April 2002 | CounterCounterCulture / Photographer: Syncro

[CounterCounterCulture]

Patriots Rally For America – San Francisco version – 4/20/02

Today the main Freepers rally to counter the Palestinian/Anarchists/”Peaceniks” /whatever was in Washington D.C. There was a west coast version in the Baghdad-by-the-Bay (San Francisco).

The total attendance on our side was about 14-15. Freepers included…

• American Preservative
• CounterCounterCulture
• deeel-me-in
• Drango
• mac_truck
• Rogue Yam
• Syncro

And others not associated with FR that was disgusted with the leftist hate-mongers such as Mary, Darren, Carol, Ron, Joseph, a veteran, and my friend Pat. There were a few others whose names I didn’t write down.

Deeel-me-in (David), Pat, and myself commuted up from San Jose to voice our disgust with the opposition. Perhaps it was an omen, but we barely escaped getting sideswiped by a pickup truck that spun out of control on the I-280 freeway and ended up facing the other direction without rolling over by the time he or she stopped.

We arrived the civic center parking lot at about noon, our rally start point. Drango and mac_truck were all ready for us and somehow our patriotic garb gave us away. :-)

By about 12:20, we had our signage and bullhorn all set for Freeping in front of City Hall. The other side was doing a 2-mile march from Dolores Park to the Civic Center Plaza, across the street from City Hall. But there was already a large contingent of Palestinians and supporters across from us who weren’t doing the march. We could see many Palestinian flags as well as the various left-wing booths, soundstage, and of course buses.

Soon we caught them off guard with our pro-America/pro-Israel group that was about ten strong at this point. Once American Preservative and Syncro (a.k.a., Dr. Zoo) arrived, we gave them a good showing.

• 2-4-6-8, Arafat is full of hate
• Get your BS out of the US
• Take off your masks (in response to some of the cowards their covering their faces)
• Erase the hate
• No more holocausts
• No justice, no peace (at one point, both sides were shouting this in an awkward moment)
• Show us your green cards

Our signs were decidedly pro-American, pro-Israel, and anti-terrorist/Arafat. The other side had the typical offensive signs equating or superimposing the swastika over the Star of David.

The media, KPIX-5 and Spanish language station KDTV-14, along with the San Jose Mercury News, covered and interviewed our unexpected group. Other stations had coverage too but probably followed the parade of fools and were too late by the time all hell broke loose at City Hall.

Early in our rally, the police captain came over to strategize with our group, fearing for our safety with our small numbers compared to their thousands in what the news coverage had described as the “largest march in twenty years,” which is saying something in lefty demonstration friendly San Francisco. The captain was friendly to us and we were equally concerned about our safety. He said if the other side was to get out of hand, which of course was probable, then our group would retreat inside City Hall until things calmed down.

By 1:45pm, the Paleswinians were about halfway across the street chanting inane and hateful slogans toward us and then the parade of fools veered left and headed for City Hall instead of the park. At that point the police officer gave us the sign to move back and then inside City Hall for our own protection. So the leftists trumped our First Amendment rights, not too unusual.

While we were huddled inside near the doors, there was a wedding inside the central part of the building, so we had to keep the noise down in the echoing building. The members were, I think, Japanese, so the police were able to use a little racial profiling to know which ones to let in the building in which ones to keep out.

We looked around and noticed Syncro was missing from our group but were relieved to see him outside playing the part of photographer, documenting the insanity close up.

After a while, the head of security inside City Hall was uncomfortable with our presence at the front and gave us options of either hanging out in the cafeteria downstairs or leaving out the back. About half of us split and the other confabbed downstairs. The catch was that we had to leave our signs off to the side at the front of the building, not being allowed to carry them inside.

So in the cafeteria, a.k.a., The Bunker, myself, Joseph, Pat, deeel-me-in, American Preservative, and eventually Syncro. Also in the bunker were other cops on break before they headed out to join the insanity outside. We could hear over their radios that an Israeli flag was being burned, which Syncro was able to catch on film.

After a while when it seemed too risky to go back out to finish our protest, we gathered back our signs and headed out the side door and stored them in Syncro’s Dr. of Phenomenology vehicle and, except for Joseph, went out for lunch at a Japanese restaurant and shot the breeze. By the time we got done, about 5pm, the leftist swine were taking down their soundstage and stuff, with the park looking like a mess, as usual. And so we live to fight another day against the hateful left in our closest call thus far.

[BufordP]

Puttin' your life in danger is a rush, ain't it?

Kudos!

[ElectricStrawberry]

Glad to see y'all out on the left-coast, continuing to show how most Americans feel about our great country and those who protect it.

[CounterCounterCulture]

BUMP to some more of our D.C. heroes.

[thunderdome]

Where is America in this invasion? Channel 2/Fox reported with a pali-sympathetic tone last night. It's like all that my grandfather and his peers worked and died for in WW2 is gone.

[Angelwood]

Great job in the face of so much hatred. The police always work out an exit route to safety and I'm glad you were able to make your point and then use it to retreat. The sorry state of our media is that no one cares or will point out that your 1st Amendment rights to freedom of speech and assembly were trampled while those of the leftist pro-Palestinians (many of whom may not even be citizens) were allowed free reign.

Again, thanks to all who braved the San Francisco counterprotest. FReep On!

[Carry_Okie]

Anybody have a guess how many of these people are here on h1-B or student visas?

[Carry_Okie]

Who paid for all the buses? Where did the money come from?

[CounterCounterCulture]

I've e-mailed Melanie Morgan...not enough time to get on the air and who's listening at 5am in the morning anyway? ;-)

[mtngrl@vrwc]

CounterCounterCulture and Syncro at the same protest! Oh my gosh! That alone would have been worth the drive from Fresno to attend!

It's wonderful to read about and see pictures of you all representing the right side at this event on Saturday. It's one thing to do this in relatively conservative Fresno, but another thing altogether to do it in San Francisco. I am proud of all of you!

[mtngrl@vrwc]

Oops! Reply #49 should have been directed to you too!

[deeel-me-in]

AP, you are right on the money. Frankly, that episode scared me….not for our safety, I had confidence in the police to do their best. What scared me is the fact that there were what seemed like hundreds of FOREIGNERS burning flags, challenging the police, rushing City Hall, openly behaving like the terrorist cockroaches who inspire them. When I saw them, I thought about Pat Buchanan. The enemies of freedom have arrived on our shores and they no longer believe they need to obey the laws or show ANY RESPECT. And all the while, there are the leftists, right behind them, selling out their nation. By the time they wake up, they’ll be dead. You saw the people I spoke to...the two teenage girls, and the so-called “peaceful Muslim” in the photograph. You did not see these people on September 12. To my knowledge, NO Muslim Cleric or lay person of any kind came out and spoke against Bin Laden, and none spoke against Palestinian terrorists while they were sending a bomber every day into Israel. But let the US or Israel retaliate, and the Islamic kooks squeal like the pigs they are. I pointed out to them that Muslims are involved in every conflict in the world today except one…..Ireland-England. You name it, Kosovo, Bosnia, Taliban, Palistine, Phillipines, …..on and on. And it is always Arafat who breaks every cease-fire, starts every war, attempts every takeover, wherever he goes. The Palestinians are the stray dogs of the Middle East….nobody wants them, not even the other HUGE Arab states. On Saturday, we found out why. One thirty-ish Palestinian man I spoke with actually played the race card on me. He suggested that as a Black Man I might better understand their plight. I said to Hell with that. I’m supposed to buy the crap that Arabs give a damn about blacks. I told him about the enslavement, murder, starvation, land mining, bombing, maiming, impoverishment of black Christians in the Sudan by the Muslim government. He had no idea about it. I pointed out that there is no Muslim-led Democracy anywhere in the world—that every Muslim led nation is a tyrannical, racist, misogynistic, violent, hateful regime. How in the Hell does the Left Wing in America fail to understand this? How stupid can the socialists in this country be? What happened Saturday is a microcosm of the nation. It has been happening slowly for thirty years. The mud people, the Barbarians, the violent hordes are advancing on us, and they’re planning to back us up against the wall. Meanwhile, the traitors and muttonheads on the Left are too stupid to see it-even when it happens right before their eyes. They’re so busy hating America that they just don’t care. Even President Bush doesn’t seem to care anymore. And the Democrats never did. The lies go on, and the masses have been put to sleep with Political Correctness gas…..they’re just waiting for their next Government freebie. When will we wake up as a nation? Will it be too late to fight back?

[Drango]

I've e-mailed Melanie Morgan...

I'm deeply thankfull for the support that KSFO gave us. Yet, I can't help wonder what the response/attendance would have been if their talent had been there with an open mike. I wonder if Capitan Fagan would have nonchalantly let the scum overrun us if sweet Melanie had been there. Perhaps Ron, OV, or the Savage one himself...

Well I can dream.

[CounterCounterCulture]

And if you noticed, you inspired one of my signs (The track of the American chicken sign) :-)

[CounterCounterCulture]

Amen and amen.

[CounterCounterCulture]

BTW...

Thanks for the action update....we'll get out the word tomorrow. Good work!
Mel

Tune in to KSFO tomorrow!

[diotima]

WOW, great work! Thanks for making the effort to go down and have your voice heard.

[CounterCounterCulture]

I've also e-mailed Brian Wilson about the SF and DC rallies.

Feel free to call in with your thoughts. :)

[FreeTheHostages]

Good for you guys!! Accept these pats on the back from the D.C. Freepers.

[thunderdome]

So, that's my opinion. : ( If anyone has any suggestions of what to do.....

Stay diligent, observant and ready. If you add up the various factions in this country who want to destroy it, the numbers could be scary - Astlan'ers, Radical Islam, Anti-semetics of all variety, inner city uneducated youth, the extreme left, etc...

My fear is that there is currently an organized psy-op in progress that we are watching unfold in the pro-Palestinian rallies, the money from Saudi Arabia coming in to setup radical Islam mosques, and the terror attacks on the world.

The media is playing right along with this orchestration of American dis-unity with it's left wing reporting. In fact this morning I thought I could stomach KFOG's liberalism long enough to listen to some classic rock...I just about choked on my OJ when the DJ reported that the SF RALLY WAS ENTIRELY PEACEFUL WITH NO ARRESTS!!

...why am I shocked?

[purereason]

Some Jordanian Arab has been stalking my daughter who lives in San Jose...Went up from San Diego to confront him on 19th of April....Wasn't there, now I know why.