San Francisco “Anti-War” Rally: The New Communist/Truth/Jihad Alliance
On March 20, a coalition of communist groups, 9/11 “Truth” activists and anti-Israel extremists gathered in San Francisco to protest against — well, just about everything.
The event was in theory an “anti-war” rally timed to coincide with the seventh anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, but since that war is basically over, the anti-war movement now has not only evaporated almost completely but has also lost its focus, as a plethora of tangential issues and petty gripes have taken center stage.
And so, without the veneer of faux-pacifism to disguise the protesters’ true feelings, one stance has emerged as the unifying philosophy:
Anti-Americanism.
The glory days of the 21st-century anti-war movement were in 2003 and 2004, when tens of thousands of naive “average Americans” would show up at each anti-war event. Then, as I documented extensively over the years at zombietime, far-left and extremist groups quickly seized control of the movement and tried to lead the middle-of-the-road protesters leftward politically. But as the radicalism escalated with each successive protest, the sane people all stopped coming, the rallies started getting smaller and smaller, and from 2004 onward it’s been a continuous downward slide.
Now we’ve reached rock bottom. Only a couple thousand people showed up for this year’s protest, all of whom were hardcore radicals. Gone are the naive hangers-on, or anyone in the central 98% of the political spectrum. All that’s left of the anti-war movement are the revolutionaries, the diehards and the crazies.
When I say that the rally was composed of “communist groups, 9/11 ‘Truth’ activists and anti-Israel extremists,” I’m not exaggerating or mischaracterizing the nature of the participants. These people are stone-cold, self-admitted and unapologetic communists. And in equal numbers, Truthers who think the United States perpetrated 9/11 intentionally. And jihad-sympathizers who want Israel to disappear.
Below, I present the photographic evidence proving the presence and dominance of these three groups, along with a new emerging class: people disappointed in and angry with Obama (for being insufficiently left-wing). And at the end of this report we’ll see some other reports of a similar rally in Los Angeles that mirrored this one almost exactly in every respect.
But before we get to these “theme sections,” let’s take a quick tour among the unaffiliated San Francisco eccentrics.
Many of the protesters presented very persuasive and carefully thought-out arguments against the war. For example, this woman really got me to thinking with her message that “War Is Stupid! Stupid!!”
And how can you argue with the logic of “Military Industrial Bullshit!!”?
I weep for my country.
There’s naiveté, but this is something way beyond mere naiveté. What’s the word I’m looking for? Idiocy?
Zombie is 007!
Somebody should show those photos to a certain loon named Ron Rosenbaum.
Hmmmmmm.
“Some LaRouchite cult members showed up with Obama-Hitler signs. Will the Left now be accused of bigotry, intolerance and hate crimes because someone who showed up at their rally put a Hitler mustache on the President? Signs point to “No.” ”
Well, those LaRouchite guys are clearly secret Tea Party infiltrators!
Also giant puppet Obama! It was only a matter of time, and as expected the Left protesters got their first.
Delia, I don’t think Ron cares. You see there’s different rules between the different movements, or something.
What I found most disturbing about the protest I went to in Los Angeles was the growing number of 9/11 “truthers”. When I first started going to protests back in 2004 there were only a handful of 9/11 conspiracy placards to be seen. But starting in 2007 with the infusion of Ron Paul supporters, their numbers began to grow steadily. Now the idea that the Bush Administration and/or Israel were the true culprits behind 9/11 seems to be regarded as received wisdom among nearly everyone in attendance. At the protest march this past Saturday, “truther” signs and banners dominated the event. Even the most ardent Leftists who once regarded 9/11 as understandable “blowback” for American imperialism now all seem to have joined the “truther” camp. And what was even more troubling was how so many of the “truthers” appeared to be in their teens and early twenties, which would have made them mere children when 9/11 actually happened.
The idea that this truly crazy conspiracy theory is growing rather than shrinking over the years, and that it is successful in recruiting new, young converts is both sad and extremely disturbing.
You neglect to mention that the mainstream media aids & abets these looney-leftists, misfits, & wackos by giving them serious coverage & conveniently ignoring how screwy they are, in effect, giving them a degree of credibility. We have lots of experience with this phenomenon here in Israel. If ten idiots from our Peace Now crackpot group stage a demonstration, you can bet our mainstream media morons will give it a headline like, ”Israelis protest Netanyahu” -
Those pictures gave me a flash back to the time I came home from Vietnam. I intentionally walked in front of a group of demonstrators in Philly (marine corps uniform) not a peep. Point is most of these people are red diaper revolutionaries.
“All that’s left of the anti-war movement are the revolutionaries, the diehards and the crazies.” What a coincidence, that’s all that’s left in Washington as well…
Seriously, what a homely bunch. I went through all the pictures in the hopes of spotting some dumb, naïve but good looking girl. That’s 6 minutes and 36 seconds I’ll never get back.
Does Rosenbaum condemn this rally? By his silence that means he not only condones it but supports it.
That, based on his idiotic logic.
I can’t say I’m terribly surprised by any of this. Even Obama’s formerly most fanatic supporters turning on him when he “didn’t deliver” on what they thought his promises were.
I’m also not surprised that the news media overall didn’t even notice this. (Did the local media even show up?)
Zombie and Ringo, Well Done. (As always.)
cheers
eon
The AE 9/11 Truthers need to do a little better in the sign coordination department … one sign read 1000 Architect and Engineers and a different one read 100s. Guess that’s being being a little nit-picky, but they do claim to be ‘truthers’ after all. California still the home of more fruits and nuts than any other state in the union … once my home state, now you couldn’t pay me enough money to move back there. Like your articles Zombie, but your photo essays are ‘da bomba’. Keep up up the great work!
These pictures are beyond depressing.
One hears California is contemplating legal recreational marijuana use. Can’t be any worse than whatever these people are smoking.
If they hate America so much, why do they stay here? If communism is so great as both an economic and governmental model then why don’t these people move to Cuba or Russia, or China or N. Korea?? If Islam is the ANSWER and it such a peaceful religion, why not move to some Islamic nation?
No, these slothenly, pond scum sucking wastes of human DNA are nothing but bitter, lonely, irrational, spoiled, narcissistic, self-absorbed, and fragile white, slovenly-dressed hypocrits who feel they need to mean something so protesting becomes their way of making themselves feel good. But instead of really doing something like volunteering at a Boys/Girls club, YMCA, or some other organization that deals with kids, or making sure the elderly are comforted and have meals, or sending things to our soldiers they protest.
What they totally miss is that their ability to protest against this great nation is because this great nation gives them the freedoms and security to do so.
…naiveté, but this is something way beyond mere naiveté. What’s the word I’m looking for? Idiocy?…This quote form your article describes yout article perfectly!
just pull my other post on pj…
“Useful Idiots” takes on a new meaning!
Sure, there are some uneasy bedfellows among your enemies. But look a little closer to home; trace the faultlines that run through PJM’s posts like the San Andreas cubed. The biggest, most dangerous of all is the chasm between paranoid flyover-state social conservatives and aging Hollywood Jews upset at the left’s queasy acknowledgment that Palestinians actually exist, but otherwise aligned with the coastal elite. Mutual detestation is all too clearly lurking behind this alliance of convenience.
Between the Mumia signs and the truthers, it’s hard not to draw the conclusion that these people revel in the murder of police and firemen.
Fund the scools!
A picture is worth a thousand words. Great work, as usual.
And I dearly love the suggestion of forwarding this on to the insufferable Ron Rosenbaum. He’ll probably make accusation their “tea bagger” plants, as nobody from his crowd could be so dumb.
Zombie you the best-
The peaceful San Fransisco flower children have spawned a generation of conspiracy loony tunes.
Could it have been the music, drugs, or free sex?
I personally believe the true conspirators of 9/11 were Mick Jagger,
The Rolling Stones, and Hells Angles.
If they had not moved their “peace and love” concert to Altamont,
Unicorns would still roam the streets and fairy’s would dance on bridges.
13. Tex Taylor:
Fund the scools!
ROFLMAO= Bhahahhaaha!
When you live in grandmas basement all your life,
its hard to see the words.
Is Global Warming really causing flowers to lose their smell,
or have the Hippies in San Francisco been sniffing too much dope?
Oh goodness…pedantic aside, “they’re” tea bagger plants.
“What’s the word I’m looking for?”
IGNORANT.
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I figure in about ten years we’ll be able to go to a similar Conservative freak show parade.
Remove the Truhers, bring in the Birthers
Out with the Communists in with the Objectivists
Down with Marx, up with Hayek
I used to think only the left could produce the kind of skin crawling embarrassing pictures you’ve taken, but the Right is coming into it’s own.
Forever children. Though rarely capable of articulating an intelligible sentence*, John Dewey has left his mark.
* ———
“Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations[sic] of experience its own full and unique meaning.”
or,
“By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.”
I especially love the “Industrial Worker” party members…..why aren’t they at their factory jobs?
“Seriously, what a homely bunch.”
You want to make yourself sick?
Just imagine looking at nude pictures of the girls from the The International Communist League.
Thanks for the reportage.
“CHIMERA” is the name that I give to the marxists/muslims alliance.
It has in fact a third head, the forces that go under the collective name of “George Soros”.
Pelosi’s homeboys/girls/nuts
explains a lot..
blotto is right.
I think the dems are more than capable of producing physical violence and blaming on the right.
@ blotto
You captured so perfectly all I wanted to say.
If it really is so awful here, why don’t they go elsewhere? If they love Gaza so much, let’s drop ‘em off there and see how long they last.
How about we take up a collection and send them all to Cuba or North Korea. I’m sure I could find plenty of volunteers to donate and even help pack their bags!
They despise the very country who gives them the freedom to do what they do. How infantile is that?
Great job as always Zombie. Lots of free Mumia signs. Mumia Abu-Jamal is an ex Black Panther that killed Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He can in no way be innocent yet he’s conned millions of idiots into thinking he was framed. Like Che Guevara moonbats idolize him.
Before you go TOO far down the distraction path from the protesters of the conservative kind in washington this week, let me ask a simple question – Should the Tea Partiers and right wing bloggers who are making threats of violence against these politicians be arrested?
#35, skeezik:
1) Can you prove that it was Tea Partiers and right wingers who made threats against the pols?
2) When Eric Cantor’s office was shot up should the Left condemn the shooter?
3) Why is it when someone does something to the Left all of conservatism must be collectively held accountable, but when the Left does it must be viewed as an isolated incident?
4) I would daresay that based on some of the stuff that Zombie posted, and the amount of violence that has been displayed towards conservatives, there would be a stronger case to be made that the Leftist MSM and academia should be held accountable. But that would be, oh, I don’t know, loony to make that logical leap.
Fringe groups usually have a very good arguement, but rarely attract main stream folks. Whether its only a few hundred (t-partiers) or up to a few thousand (lefties), they are usually considered “entertainment” by the general public. I think the only reason the vietnam era protests attracted some of the mainstream was because of the draft. However, as a student of history, I have noted that some of the views of the looney.s are sometimes adopted by one (or more) of the mainstream parties. Whether that be the progressive income tax or even universal health care. Dont you agree?
#35
I smell the stench of a sockpuppet attempting to derail a thread.
And, if anyone ought to be arrested it’s Ms. Military Industrial who ought to go to jail for NOT wearing a burqua.
Looking at her makes my brain hurt.
As always, Zombie, thanks for your good work. I don’t know how you can stand being around all of that insanity without running screaming into the night!
These are the freaks who continued to put Pelosi in power for so many terms that she rose to the Speakership by simply sticking around long enough. This is the number one flaw in our representative government. A small number of freak districts have disproportionately way more power over the rest of us. I mean, John F&$!ing Conyers is Chair of the Judiciary Committee??? They just sent his wife to prison for five years!
It’s easy to see why all the great circuses went out of business. Just look at this competition they were up against!
At least they are honest Communists, not like the ones who are in high elected office, who have to spend an inordinate amount of time and energy convincing everyone that they are not.
Thanks once again zombie for doing the foot work to show the world what these protesters really are. They are nothing but a bunch of scared haters who are envious of other people who can manage to live life without being scared or filled with hate. Hate for the land that gave them freedom in this life, hate for the married parents who birthed and raised them, hate for the people who have more money than them, hate for the government that lets them atout this way instead of giving them the Putin treatment, hate for the Jews, those old standby objects of “not-us” scorn. As long as those people have somebody they can blame their misfortunes & the troubles of the world upon, they will have some feeling their lives aren’t worthless. Although, having a nice job, a nice family, and a nice home in a nice USA might be a better goal for their energy.
I came back for a second look.
Actually Zombie, unlike most who ask how you can stand this, I’m incredibly jealous.
I had to pay good money to attend the freak show or the floppy boobed dancing ladies when I was a kid.
You get to see all this and more for free. Life just isn’t fair.
they’re perverted in their lives and their odd thinking. as a group, something is wrong with their collective brains. mostly, they are annoying, but also a heinous embarrassment. creeps.
They are the people that keep a very dangerous Pelosi in power.
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That is a disgusting thought
3. Jack,
I wouldn’t doubt if Ron-Ron Rosenbaum is all of the same-’personalitied’[sic] sock-bots trolling PJM.
I think I threw up a bit in my mouth, tried to hold it in and it came out my nose…
http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/files/2010/03/IMG_3014.jpg
Interestingly, some of the pictures supposedly depicting Israeli holocaust against the Fakestinians are in fact images of Israeli army evicting Jewish settlements.
Israel is Nazi for evicting settlements? I can live with that.
Did I miss the Judean Peoples Front
Looks like we found the part of the electorate which actually wanted the healthcare reform bill.
Noticing the Love the Middle East sign and the holder I am willing to bet virtually any amount of money that the holder of that sign has NEVER visited let alone lived in any one of those cesspits named. In fact I am just as certain she has never even left the USA at any time. Ignorance truly is BLISS.
# 35 Poor Citizen: asks “dont you agree” short answer NO not a chance would any sane individual agree with your woolly minded moonbat rambling.
# 26 Lefty: writes “Remove the Truhers, bring in the Birthers”
Apart from the fact that LEFTY cant spell lets examine the TWO movements.
‘Truthers” despite ALL the overwhelming EVIDENCE including video of the aircraft actually hitting the Towers ignore the facts and deal in RIDICULOUS PREPOSTEROUS convoluted Conspiracy theories.
‘Birthers” are simply asking QUESTIONS such as where is your REAL Birth Certificate, School and College Records, Name Change Documents, Passport Records, Illinois Bar records etc,etc,etc, The BC question the BOGUS POTUS could resolve by paying $20 for a copy and producing it yet he is paying MILLIONS of Dollars to Lawyers NOT to produce it along with virtually ALL his other historical documentation they are HIDDEN. So yes you may be right BOTH cases have CONSPIRACIES in them the ‘Truthers’ laughable conspiracy theories but in the case of the ‘Birthers’ there is a REAL CONSPIRACY and it is on behalf of Obama and his handlers HIDING all the information about the USURPER. So just ask this one question WHY???????????????????????????????????
Seeing the nonsense posted by “lefty” and many other moonbats I am prompted to post this:-
An open CHALLENGE to all the loyal Obamanation worshipers who post on here in his defense. I notice that in doing so not ONE of you attempts to challenge the FACT that all of those documents listed below are HIDDEN. So take the list of documents that he is HIDING and give us a point by point explanation why each one is being HIDDEN or alternatively show WHERE that information is AVAILABLE for scrutiny. Only when you have done that can you then throw out your wild accusations of conspiracy nut against anyone. The ones who ARE CONSPIRING are the ones who are HIDING the documents not those merely asking to see them and only a blind worshiper would have the reverse morality to see it any other way. So lets see what you are made of.
Oh and just in case you want to pretend you dont know what is missing here is a list .
Here apart from his Vault Birth Certificate are just some but my no means ALL of the OTHER documents and information the Obamanation is HIDING.
There is a lifetime of “missing” documentation — but it must a coincidence — it has to be a coincidence — just keep telling yourself, “it’s a coincidence.”
Obama/Dunham divorce — Released (by independent investigators)
Soetoro/Dunham marriage license — Not released
Soetoro adoption records — Not released
Punahou School records — Not released
Soetoro/Dunham divorce — Released (by independent investigators)
Soetero/Obama name change documentation – Not released
Selective Service Registration — Released — Probable counterfeit
Occidental College records — Not released and vigorously defended
Passport records — Not released and official government passport files scrubbed clean by John O. Brennan — now Obama’s terrorism and intelligence czar
Just a coincidence???????????
Columbia College records — Not released
Columbia thesis — “Soviet Nuclear Disarmament” — Not released
Harvard College records — Not released
Harvard Law Review articles — None Illinois Bar Records — Not released
Baptism certificate — None Medical records — Not released (unless you count a one-pager from his personal physician saying Obama’s healthy)
Just a coincidence????????
Law practice client list — Not released
University of Chicago scholarly articles — None
Annenberg Challenge Board Minutes — None
Illinois State Senate records — None
Illinois State Senate schedule — Lost
Almost 50 years old and there’s no paper trail — coincidence, Would you hire someone with this curriculum vitae? The man is completely undocumented. You don’t know anything about Obama — operative word, KNOW. None of us really do because he and his life are undocumented — an impossible coincidence — and Obama fiercely defends the release of what documentation is available. Some of us believe that something isn’t on the level and that we are entitled as United States citizens to ask any damned politician who he is, what his politics are, what his agenda is, where he came from and who sent him. You do know Obama could end all of this with a single phone call — why doesn’t he press the button?
One can only hope that the next Big One puts The Bay Area underwater once and for all. Nothing like a good flood to cleanse us.
Ah, I love the smell of Petiole Oil in the Morning…smells like……napalm??.
One word…leave
# 6 Terry:
“You neglect to mention that the mainstream media aids & abets these looney-leftists, misfits, & wackos by giving them serious coverage & conveniently ignoring how screwy they are, in effect, giving them a degree of credibility.”
Yeah, you’re right, Terry, that’s what’s happened here in the US with both the looney-leftists and the Tea Party movement looney-rightists. Two sides of the same coin.
They would make great human shields. When’s the next flight to Gaza? Better make that the next barge.
This was an excellent piece of work. Shows just how amazingly ignorant some people can be in this country. Also, thanks for showing that upside down flag. I’ve seen it a couple of times on Facebook as a profile pic. Now I know what it is all about. Thanks.
“I have noted that some of the views of the looney.s are sometimes adopted by one (or more) of the mainstream parties. Whether that be the progressive income tax or even universal health care”
Yet remain looney; and, when given legislative effect, abominations.
Some of those groups signs are enough to make you wince…Both at their grammar and sheer ignorance behind them.
And good lord what a flock loons…Although I do wonder is the proper term for a flock of loons a “Lunacy of Loons”?
The people that destroyed WTC at New york said we will not sit down and let Muslims kill us rather we will kill and it will be like them who are Islam that did it and they rolled the dream.Mr. Jere Longman and his friend were the hijackers that realized Nostradamus dream made in France when they told a big lie about 9/11/2001 attack on twin towers.
Osama Bin Laden and Ayeman Alzawahiri did not know the attackers of new York World Trade Center. Because Al-qud means Al-queada which is like Biamos called Biafra Mobile Telephone Service that is Biafra Mobile Service.
Alqueada was a product of Al-Qud Brigade a group which they said exist in Palestine university Al-qud that is an Islamic fundamentalist union.
He Osama bin laden believe that USA government was among people the people who called and stimulated a virtual organization that is a mirage in known as Al-qud brigade.
Osama Bin Laden and other Taliban chief at Afghanistan was surprise when they heard that twin tower called WTC was destroyed because they do not know who was Mohamed Attah and the other hijackers.
NB:Osama Bin Laden died on 25th Ekeh-11th Orie/2001 Afor,November Nkwor with Ayeman Alzawahiri and other Taliban chief after their female colleague detonated a bomb during a meal session.
If you actually believe this, I feel sorry for you.
If you don’t, give the devil my regards when you see him in hell.
Being one of the “…younger activists who deemed it wise to parade around with a Soviet flag.” It’s pretty fun to see just the kind of reactionary fervor that me and my associates always aim to stir up. Also I’d prefer you didn’t lump me in with such liberal pussies as Nancy Pelosi and Obama, as I’d much rather spend time with you fun people then them. You kids take’r easy now
Why is it that women from the Left side of the political isle are so butt ugly? I guess they had to join a group that would take them.
What a bunch of losers.
Osita:
Your rambling post makes no sense. Why don’t you try to learn English before you write something so moronic? No wonder you’re a 911 truther: Stupid is as stupid does.
These fools will miss freedom only when they lose it, the while taking consolation in the fact that they are ‘doing their bit’ towards a perfect world. Pass me the beads…!
Still, let’s hope traces of freedom remain, enough for their offspring to compare what was with what is, and curse their memory.
I was 15 when it happened. I was sitting in my English class, first hour, and we were taking a test. There were some shouts from the teachers’ office down the hall, and a few minutes later someone rolled a TV in and turned it on.
Initially I thought it was a movie. I didn’t think it was real. I still didn’t, hours later.
It wasn’t until the next day that it finally hit me.
Some of my classmates had family in NYC. People were wandering all over the school (classes had essentially been cancelled). Lots of people were in a daze. So was I, truth be told (heh). That’s where my memory always stops. I don’t remember the next day. I don’t remember the rest of the week. But I doubt I will ever forget when they turned the TV on and we watched (with most of the country) the second plane hit.
If I thought it would do any good, I would kill these people who believe that Bush was responsible. Bush was many things. Most of them were not good. And there are plenty of politicians who regularly put career ahead of country. But to imagine that -Bush-, of all people, would not just allow something like that but actually PLAN it… Bush wasn’t Osama. He is nothing like Osama now, and wasn’t then. Bush was many things, but a terrorist wasn’t one of them.
Obama cant even win a Senate seat in Massachusetts. But he wants to lose! Sheesh. Wake up. The Obama dam has burst.