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Live From the SF Pro Iraq Demonstration
Original Observaton | 03/20/2003 | InABunkerUnderSF

Posted on 03/20/2003 8:49:16 AM PST by InABunkerUnderSF

Greetings from high above Market Street - InAnOfficeAboveSF. The SFPD is trying their best to keep the streets open but every time the get one intersection cleared another is blocked. The people that have been arrested are being kept in a pen on the corner of Market and Sansome, across the street from the Pacific Stock Exchange. Whenever the pen gets full they load the crown onto a Muni bus and haul them off to who knows where (Guantanamo we hope).

I had to wade through the demo to get to work so stopped off at McDonalds just to support Globalization and listen to the protest for a few minutes. It was there that I heard one of the worse things I’ve ever heard in my life – several hundred people who don’t speak French trying to sing the Marseilles. How the French could support these people after what they did to the French National Anthem is beyond me.

On the way through the crow I passed by the sound system – no bull horns for these guys. I was surprised to see that some of their exhortations were pre-recorded. Must save them from getting hoarse with all the chanting. The signs were pretty tame. The chants were very tame (“No F***ing War!” Was about the toughest thing going.) It’s like all of the groups couldn’t agree on an agenda so it’s sort of a least common denominator demonstration.

SFPD has just enlarged the pen and the demonstrators have chained themselves together across Market Street. SFPD have called in the Fire Department with their power saws to cut through the chains. The demonstrators better hope none of the SFFD guys remember 9/11.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: demonstrations; iraq; sanfrancisco
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1 posted on 03/20/2003 8:49:16 AM PST by InABunkerUnderSF
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
The demonstrators better hope none of the SFFD guys remember 9/11.

Any way to get a reminder to the SFFD?

2 posted on 03/20/2003 8:50:53 AM PST by Eala
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
Didn't the SFFD send a rescue team to the WTC?
3 posted on 03/20/2003 8:52:07 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
The people that have been arrested are being kept in a pen

Like pigs. Hey, are they calling the police pigs yet?

4 posted on 03/20/2003 8:52:26 AM PST by jwalburg (Just so you know, we're ashamed the Senate minority leader of the United States is from South Dakota)
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To: Eala
Where is Freddy Krueger when we need him?
5 posted on 03/20/2003 8:52:28 AM PST by MindBender26 (.....and for more news as it happens...stay tuned to your local FReeper station....)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
Walk past the sound system and "accidentally" stumble on the power cord and unplug it.
6 posted on 03/20/2003 8:53:03 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: jwalburg
Listen to live commentary from the leftists involved...

SF protest commentary

I had to click on stream 1b, 1a was full. (If you can stand the in between commentary music...)

7 posted on 03/20/2003 8:53:32 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
Uncreative idiots. Hope the SFFD have the hoses ready!
8 posted on 03/20/2003 8:53:59 AM PST by retrokitten
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
Does your window open?

Maybe you could lob a few cans of coke down to the poor thirsty demonstrators.

Hey, surprise them. Don't tell them the cans are coming.
9 posted on 03/20/2003 8:54:19 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (I feel a song coming on...)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
LOL .. great idea
10 posted on 03/20/2003 8:54:53 AM PST by Mo1 (Patriots Rally for America V: Liberty Weekend in Washington DC Sunday March 23)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
please somebody get me pictures of the morons in the pen!
11 posted on 03/20/2003 8:55:02 AM PST by Charlie OK
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
Hopefully the SFPD will get that Isreali bulldozer with driver to clear those pro-terrorist commies out.
12 posted on 03/20/2003 8:55:04 AM PST by Beck_isright (I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French division behind me...)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
Live reporting from the scene in SF eh?

SFPD have called in the Fire Department with their power saws to cut through the chains.

I think if I saw the FD approaching me with power saws I would suddenly produce the *keys*.


13 posted on 03/20/2003 8:55:33 AM PST by HairOfTheDog (May the blessing of elves and men and all free folk go with you.)
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To: Charlie OK
Check indymedia. They've been calling for video and pictures all morning.
14 posted on 03/20/2003 8:55:47 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
quote on
The demonstrators better hope none of the SFFD guys remember 9/11.
quote off

Watch your fingers!
Oophs!
Bummer


NOT!
15 posted on 03/20/2003 8:56:30 AM PST by off-roader
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To: Eala
Any way to get a reminder to the SFFD?

I'll shoot (no pun intended) an e-mail their way.....

16 posted on 03/20/2003 8:56:53 AM PST by jdontom (BacktheBadge)
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To: Beck_isright
Remember the scoops in Soylent Green???
17 posted on 03/20/2003 8:57:23 AM PST by PortugeeJoe
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
Been watching coverage on KTVU-2

A.N.S.W.E.R. = CANCER
18 posted on 03/20/2003 8:57:53 AM PST by CounterCounterCulture (So many dirtbags, so few tractors)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
I had to wade through the demo to get to work so stopped off at McDonalds just to support Globalization

LOL. Love your Freepname, too.

19 posted on 03/20/2003 8:59:16 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Black Agnes
* * These flaming A$$ Hooes need to listen to this tape. * *

* *Iraqi Women tells truth* *

This site is extremely busy please be patience. But it is worth the wait. You will have no question regarding the reason for the justification.

* *

20 posted on 03/20/2003 8:59:26 AM PST by CHICAGOFARMER (Citizen Carry)
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