Wednesday, April 09, 2008

The Shitty by the Bay

A couple of days ago at lunch I predicted massive violence in San Francisco.  Having lived there for almost seven years, and knowing firsthand what vile, contemptible scum the city’s residents are, I knew that they would turn to violence in a split second, and I was right.

Two hours before the Olympic flame began its undignified trek through the deserted streets and freeways of San Francisco, The Times witnessed the tension between pro-Tibet groups and Chinese demonstrations, some of whom had reportedly been bussed in by the Chinese Embassy.

One man, red faced, screaming and waving a “Free Tibet” flag, was hauled out of the crowd by black-uniformed police and thrown into the back of a riot van. The police were immediately surrounded by a chanting mob shouting, “Free him now! Free him now!”

The stand-off ended when a dozen more officers arrived, each one armed with what looked like long, thin black baseballs bats. Meanwhile, the proTibetans became distracted by a group of pro-Chinese demonstrators waving red flags. The two groups stood face-to-face, shouting their slogans at each other. It was later reported that an American man who challenged the Chinese, calling them communists, had been beaten up.

That’s the thing, right there.  Remember how I said that the Chinese would view this as a national insult?  There you go.  I doubt that these guys were waving the flag to support communism (though that’s certainly possible), any more than waving the US flag at the Olympics will represent support for the Iraq war.  They’re simply Chinese. 

Fascinating, isn’t it, that San Francisco, a city which almost elected an admitted Marxist as mayor a few years ago, and which practices the most extreme socialism found anywhere in the United States, suddenly finds the word “communist” to be pejorative. There are about a hundred bookstores in the city where the writings of Marx are still proudly on display in the shop windows.  In case you think I’m making this up, here are the values of San Francisco.

This picture was taken by me in February 2003 at one of the massive antiwar rallies in San Francisco.  We can see a t-shirt featuring the likenesses of Marx, Lenin, and Mao juxtaposed with an image of Bush as an “international terrorist.” That pretty much sums up the entire city right there.  So communism is good, apparently, except when it isn’t.

At any rate, I think this was probably the most pathetic thing in the whole article.

By Tuesday night, the Mayor had cancelled all police leave and put in place a massive security plan for the 80 runners. Nevertheless, one runner, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, backed out because of fears over her safety.

How sad.  This girl has probably been looking forward to this for months.  This could have been one of the highlights of her life, carrying the Olympic torch, but as any good resident of San Francisco can tell you, “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” After all, society should be structured “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,” and the rights of needs of this little girl to be able to safely carry the Olympic torch pale in comparison to the innate need of San Francisco’s leftists to violently protest.