Aaaarrgh These FUCKING PROTESTORS!!!

[mystkev]

They have blocked the FUCKING exit to the financial district.

Who the fuck wants to be stuck on the damn bridge.

The streets to my job are completely blocked off, and police are all around our entrances.

I think they are afraid that the folks will try to come in here.


*sigh*

Let's see how it will be when I have to get home.

[seductive_tee]

Demonstrations Shut Down Key Bridge Briefly
Posted - March 20, 2003 9:18am Posted By: Tracy Stokes

Arlington, Va. - More than 200 anti-demonstrators shut down the Key Bridge and M Street in Georgetown Thursday morning disrupting traffic into DC and Arlington.

The bridge shut down at 8:30 a.m. and reopened at 8:45 a.m.

Police used pepper spray to disperse the protesters traveling on foot and on bikes that interfered with Thursday morning's rush hour commute.

Earlier, about 50 protesters on bicycles carrying signs that said "Bikes not Bombs," traveled through downtown as they chanted "no war." But those riders traveled in the same direction as traffic and didn't impede city drivers.

The demonstrators road from Dupont Circle past the Old Executive Office Building near the White House before proceeding back to Dupont Circle.

[mystkev]

LMAO@200

We have THOUSANDS of people in the streets that are linked together by metal pipes.

Although that thousands has got to be an overestimation, I hope.

[mystkev]

Protesters disrupt morning commute in SF, other cities
JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, March 20, 2003


(03-20) 07:51 PST (AP) --

Protesters linked with metal pipes blocked streets just after dawn Thursday in San Francisco's financial district, carrying out their pledge of a "festival of resistance" that would paralyze the morning commute and kick off statewide demonstrations against the war in Iraq.

Police and firefighters used power saws to separate the protesters and arrested dozens of people, but not before traffic was snarled in parts of downtown.

"We don't want to alienate people. I hope people realize that political murder merits action that inconveniences them," said Quinn Miller, 32, who took the day off from his job for a banking company and said he expected to be arrested for the first time in his life.

At other intersections, protesters dispersed without incident when police in riot gear asked them to leave the area. Sirens and the whirring of helicopters rattled through the city's concrete canyons.

Bracing for the civil disobedience, police were out in force, trying to anticipate where the protesters would try to disrupt traffic, and a helicopter crew monitored their movements from above. By 7 a.m., small pockets of demonstrators appeared on downtown streets, including one man waving a huge French flag on Market Street.

Given the months-long buildup to a U.S. advance on Baghdad, organizers have had plenty of time to plan. Many groups planned solemn vigils or restrained rallies, while others insist only open defiance of authorities will get their message across.

In San Francisco, where demonstrators have twice occupied financial district intersections in recent days, a group called Direct Action to Stop the War said volunteers would try to close 20 intersections and several landmark buildings, as well as off-ramps from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

Police have focused on unrest and the possibility of a terrorist attack in retaliation for the war.

The department beefed up staff to process the expected spike in arrests and updated phone lists so that all the department's 2,300 officers could be roused to hit the street, spokesman Bob Mammone said.

"We're going to keep the city streets open," said Alex Fagan, assistant chief of the San Francisco Police Department. At the same time, he cautioned commuters to expect delays.

Police also were monitoring Internet sites used by the decentralized protest groups to plan events -- and, in one case, call for "a creative rampage" in the city.

In Los Angeles and other cities, police went on 12-hour shifts to keep as many officers as possible on the street.

Warm-up demonstrations dotted the state Wednesday. Though the rallies were generally peaceful, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton called for an investigation after an officer there struck at least three people with a baton.

About 500 workers in Oakland spent their lunch hour winding a peaceful route through downtown, and hundreds gathered in Santa Rosa and San Jose during the afternoon.

At an afterwork rally near San Francisco's toniest shopping district, thousands of people chanted and drummed before marching off into the rainy night. Police escorted the rain-drenched crowd, which was led by actor Danny Glover and stretched as long as six blocks.

In West Los Angeles, police in faceshields and flak vests arrested 35 protesters for failure to disperse during an afternoon demonstration a block from the Federal Building, Assistant Police Chief Jim McDonnell said.

Two blocks of busy Wilshire Boulevard were closed to traffic for two hours and at one point dozens of protesters laid down in the middle of the street. That's when police stepped in.

One police officer's aggressive tactics prompted Chief Bratton to visit the scene after he saw the confrontation on television, said Lt. Horace Frank, a police spokesman.

"What we've seen in the video is very disturbing," Frank said. "If the investigation concludes any misconduct on the part of the officer, we will take appropriate action."

Like many groups, the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center has for weeks told demonstrators to gather on the afternoon after war starts. The group spent Wednesday negotiating a protest march route with Palo Alto police.

That was a stark contrast to groups in San Francisco that have called for efforts to shut down commerce by blocking intersections and businesses.

"Some people are almost apologizing that they'll probably be in San Francisco because they feel that we're at the point where civil disobedience is a necessity," center director Paul George said Wednesday. "Other people want to do something in their own community, and they're looking for a peaceful, legal way to voice their opinion."

[Andre98]

.. at least, with this President, where does it get you? Bush was going if Jesus himself told him X-nay.... If he had backed off after all this, no one would have taken any world leader seriously.

Let's hope its over soon, with minimal casulties.

[que90nek]

unfortunately.....instead of being out lookin for TERRORISTS....

we have to police our OWN!

:rolleyes:

[seductive_tee]

Originally posted by mystkev+
LMAO@200

We have THOUSANDS of people in the streets that are linked together by metal pipes.

Although that thousands has got to be an overestimation, I hope.

200 downtown is enough....you see what 1 man and a tractor did for damn near 2 days.

[mystkev]

Now they are having a "puke in" in front of the federal building.

They mixed milk w/something stinky to look like vomit. They said workers are slipping on it....Eeeeew :(

Or

Maybe it's real vomit.

[HulaSista]

Originally posted by que90nek+
unfortunately.....instead of being out lookin for TERRORISTS....

we have to police our OWN!

:rolleyes:

yano

[mystkev]

Now they are shitting in the streets.

[mystkev]

Hula, are you at work today?

What's going on over there?

[que90nek]

ewwwwwwwwww

gives a new meaning to SHOWIN YO ASS!

[mystkev]

Only in FUCKING San Francisco, California. And you know these people aren't even from here.

This city is too damn small for all of this.

[Melotic]

Originally posted by que90nek+
unfortunately.....instead of being out lookin for TERRORISTS....

we have to police our OWN!

:rolleyes:

1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Washington, DC is good place to find some terrorists...

[Melotic]

Originally posted by mystkev+
Now they are shitting in the streets.

shitting or sitting, is that a typo...

[mystkev]

Originally posted by Melotic+
shitting or sitting, is that a typo... Not a typo

[Melotic]

Originally posted by mystkev+
Not a typo

There's some crazy mofos in Cali...

[mystkev]

Originally posted by Melotic+
There's some crazy mofos in Cali... And how much you want to bet most of these mofos are y'all screw ups from the East Coast :rolleyes:

[Melotic]

They get crazy over there, though... Cause, it's acceptable... That is wouldn't fly over here...

[mystkev]

Originally posted by Melotic+
They get crazy over there, though... Cause, it's acceptable... That is wouldn't fly over here... It's not acceptable here either.

[Melotic]

Brake out the fire hoses...

[dulce]

That is just nasty and stupid! I was reading about the vomit-in on sfgate.com but they didn't mention the shit...Damn, if you're gonna protest, at least be intelligent about it...and clean...

[Melotic]

I wonder who cleans it up...

[dulce]

OK! Now that's a fucked up job!

[Melotic]

They should do them, like I did my puppies during potty training, put their nose in it and say don't go here...:beating

Should be their sentence, community service...

[mystkev]

They are still out there too.

Let's see how tomorrow goes.

I saw the police taking a bus load of people to jail

So far 1,025 people arrested.

Sfgate.com sucks for news coverage (yeah I know), but I gots to be real.

Folks shit outside my job all the time (w/all the homeless it's common). When I worked in our other building on the side, that's what would be in the door way.

Also in between our alley, ugh, lol. We have this big ass machine that sits inside one of the trucks and it just hoses down the street. I'm sure somebody else has one of those.

[mystkev]

This is the pic outside my job. These protestors aren't as bad

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object.cgi?object=/chronicle/pictures/2003/03/21/ba_wardemo_bw01.jpg&paper=gate&file=protesters.DTL&directory=/gate/archive/2003/03/20&type=universal

I'd have to say the police did a good job...Only so much they can do.

People were hitting them w/wrenches and stuff. I wish I had a pic of all the weapons people had.

[que90nek]

they just handle protestors differently here....

if they break the law in any way...they are TEAR GASSED or PEPPER SPRAYED....period.

[Brightness]

We had to get in on the action.

There was a rally here last night and arrests. Glad I was out of downtown. Maybe I shouldn't drive today. . .hmm?

[que90nek]

chicago did their thug thizzle too....

i like the idea that we can do this.....BUT.....don't become part of the Problem by breaking the law.

this war has brought black and white, young and old, poor and rich together on the marching ground.....that in itself...is good.

[HulaSista]

Originally posted by mystkev+
Hula, are you at work today?

What's going on over there?


i wasn't yesterday, but i am today.

i don't know what is going on. i am oblivious to it all. i do know they sent a couple of folks home yesterday from work because they (transportation authorities/police????) were closing up the bridge entrance out of sf.

today... i'll be catching the ferry home if there are any problems :) ... take the long way around to the ferry building and totally avoid down town...

did you all see the news clipping about the dude who got his arm up in some kinda pipe and they had to saw his ass out?

[zuriyahe]

"I'm 49, but I never lived a single day," said Yusuf Abed Kazim, a Baghdad imam who was pounding the statue's pedestal. "Only now will I start living. That Saddam Hussein is a murderer and a criminal."

**************

What do the protestors say now?

[que90nek]

where are the protestors now?

and how do they feel?

[Melotic]

I have changed my opinion...

[que90nek]

Originally posted by Melotic+
I have changed my opinion...

:beer