Thursday, November 03, 2005
That IS peace!
On SFChron's frontpage, this story is headlined:
10 Arrested In Downtown Protest
Anti-Bush demonstration through S.F. is mostly peaceful. Chronicle building hit by a Molotov cocktail.
Yeah, peaceful.
The protesters also staged a "die-in" at Hyde and Market, in which they lay down on the street.
All right, guys, just because you call it a [blank]-in, doesn't mean it'll have the same impact as the sit-ins of the civil rights movement. The reason those things meant something was because the act of sitting in was illegal in many cases, and it was civil disobedience against an unjust law. Yes, civil disobedience, which is "disobeying an unjust law," not "doing something illegal while complaining about the government." A die-in is just a bunch of idiots lying in the middle of the street.
As they lay in the street, about 25 police officers in riot gear holding batons told the protesters that "anyone who didn't want to be arrested should get up and move to the sidewalk," said Villa.
About a third did, Villa said. Without warning, she said, the police circled the remaining protesters, charged in and grabbed them, forcing them to fall on one another.
"Without warning"? Isn't that what the previous paragraph describes? A warning?
Anyway, these folks sure don't seem into it. From The Daily Cal:
"Anybody who wants to complain about Bush, here's a day to do something about it in a peaceful manner. We're not rioting, we're not setting things on fire," said UC Berkeley junior Trevor Adrian just before a Molotov cocktail was thrown and burst into flames as the group moved in front of the San Francisco Chronicle building.
Whoops. I bet you feel dumb, now.
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