Tea Party and OWS Protest Side-By-Side Against Obama in San Francisco
Over at the Tea Party end of the protest zone, the cops chilled and relaxed. At one point, the Tea Partiers actually started chanting, “We love the cops!”, to counteract the Occupiers’ overt hostility toward the police.
But pot and the budget weren’t the only two issues on the table. A substantial contingent of religious pro-life protesters showed up as well, angry about Obama’s recent assaults on religious freedom as regards to abortions and birth control.
I was particularly amused by this riff on the old feminist pro-abortion slogan, “Keep your hands off my body” (or alternately “Keep your morals off my body”). Two can play at that game!
Meanwhile, at the end of the block, the Presidential Tent awaited the late arrival of His Highness. We’ll see more about how these tents work later in the report. This one in particular reminded me of a Pasha’s tent from the old Ottoman Empire, with an imperious guard crossing his arms to intimidate potential intruders.
The protest rolled on for hours. Sally kept the media entertained with some pithy Tea Party quips.
Meanwhile the Occupiers pleaded with Obama to “stop raping the Earth for profit.”
And the pro-lifers reminded him that “Pregnancy is not a disease.”
But this was just the final scene of a long Obama day. He first arrived in San Francisco many hours earlier, and went straight from the airport to the Intercontinental Hotel where he held an ultra-exclusive $38,500-per-person meeting with twenty 1%ers and granted them a “roundtable” to hear and (presumably) implement their demands orders tit-for-tats concerns.
I was of course there as well. Outside, at least.
Well I’m glad to share Obambus with ATM North, since down here in Los Angles we’ve been cursed with regular Democratic visitations since Clinton daze and I live too danged close to one the Secret Service’s favorite way points.
Speaking of which, I didn’t even hear Marine One approach the other day, have they managed to silence the danged thing? All in all they seem to ferry Obambus around LA fairly efficiently these days. It turns my stomach to see the guest lists, harmless dopey but vastly overpaid entertainers mostly, who thenceforth I don’t really ever want to see again.
Well look, as long as he’s racing around buying Chinese takeout and blocking traffic to Billionaire’s Row, at least he’s not trying to legislate.
Fun and interesting stuff. However, I don’t think media pundits were trying to get the OWS and Tea Party movements to unite. Rather, I think the leftstream media has been trying to create credibility for the OWS folks by comparing them to the Tea Party which, at this point, has been pretty successful.
In their minds only.
JB, my post was inartfully worded (to borrow an Obama term). I meant that the Tea Party has been pretty successful (see 2010 elections), not that the press has been successful in giving credence to OWS.
It’s good to see the wonderful, patriotic Tea Partiers out in full force again. They are a breath of fresh air – literally!
Pjmedia, get Zombie one of them powerful zoom lens cameras.
Innnnnnnncredible! If I really and truly cared, I might have cause to wonder how Carney would pass this off.
Thanks, Oh Omniscient Un-Dead One. This made my day!
gee, I don’t know which side I would have been on. I’m a tea partier, but I also carry a state med mar card!
I personally think there’s no more conservative concept than the right to have control of our own bodies. so I don’t get why so many Republicans are in favor of strong anti-drug laws. I also don’t see why we should continue to spend untold billions on an idiotic “war on drugs” that has only succeeded in making a whole lot of criminals very, very rich.
maybe the TPers should consider adding marijuana decriminalization to their platform.
I’m pretty conservative, but I heartily agree. No one has ever died from marijuana. I’ve never known anyone to steal for it, and people function in society just fine (finer actually than some alcoholics). Why are we spending tax payer dollars on this “drug” which, I believe, is classified as being worse than drugs which ARE worse. How about concentrating on the drugs that actually cause addiction and kill people.
You think cigarettes are bad for your lungs, but you think marijuana is no problem for your lungs. Plus, pot users drive as impaired as any drunk. And don’t try to tell me they aren’t driving as much. There is nothing useful about smoking pot and you know it, I know it, and everyone knows it. So stop the medical nonsense. By the way, I don’t give a whit whether you smoke yourself into oblivion every day, just don’t tell me that stuff is good for you. Only in the sense that it is fun for you to do, is it good for you. You act like all of us old hippies don’t know what a hash pipe is. Just like your parents don’t know about sex, Shaeri.
Peter McWilliams thinks your an idiot. On 2nd thought I think your an idiot, and Peter doesn’t think anything these days since he choked to death on his own vomit because he couldn’t vape THC for the nausea he suffered from chemo. So don’t tell me weed isn’t a useful medicine, or that the FEDs war on some drugs is anything but a failure. A failure that destroys more lives than the direct effects of any of the substances they declare verboten. You know this, I know this, everyone knows this.
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A suggestion: When you submit a post in which you call someone an idiot, spell “you’re” right. Otherwise, most of the Pjmedia readers will think you’re an idiot.
Also, “A failure that destroys more lives than the direct effects of any of the substances they declare verboten.” is a sentence fragment. It’s not all that unusual to have sentence fragments in blog comments, but since one of the usual objections to marijuana legalization is “It makes you stupid”, your grammar is going to be scrutinized more closely than other posters’. Ditto for the typo “vape” (“take”?).
I’m in my extremely late forties so I’ve seen quite a few long-term marijuana users; it makes you stupid. Really.
Only the strongest weed impairs driving and people who smoke it a lot have a high resistance and don’t get that high. Weed doesn’t make people stupid but alcohol makes them stupid, violent and crazy and does impair driving. No one ODs on weed like people from alcohol poisoning.
Medical use for weed is an over rated boondoggle and lying con so phenomenally unconnected aging hippies can smoke it without getting in the way of the law. Try smoking a joint when you’re sea or car sick and see how it helps nausea. Try smoking a joint when you’re nauseous from drinking or with a hangover and see how much it helps. How many different types of nausea are there?
“no one has died from marijuana”? Really?
You need to do some research. Driving under the influence is not just for alcohol.
Oh, and lung cancer is not solely caused by cigarettes. Nor is emphysema. And – weirdly – cigarettes don’t make you stupid, and I guarantee that pot does, particularly with prolonged use.
No one steals for mary jane? Tell that to my wife and her bank. We live in the soviet of Washington, yet her credit card number was used to purchase “medical” marijuana in California. According to the security/fraud guy at the cc company, hers wasn’t the first card to be used by someone not the owner at this particular establishment.
You’re pathetic. With all of the truly serious and often downright horrible issues and problems of the day why the focus on pot? I know a young man in my hometown that pioneered the medical “med mar card” joke locally. His “medical condition” is somewhat akin to the other local guy who used to be seen under a bridge drinking Thunderbird from a bottle in a brown bag. If you truly have a medical need that’s legitimate then why not devote your efforts to exposing the overwhelming number of posers who are taking advantage of the law for one reason only. They want to get stoned. Ron Paul must be your man.
I’m an Arizona Tea Party hearty and I agree with gusto. ALL drugs should be legalized and the cartels would die in about a week. All the billions spent on the total failure of that waste of time called a “drug war” should be spent on education and rehab. And half the people in jail for drug selling and using should be released immediately. Not the violent ones, of course.
Ruth, I’ll agree with your platform on legalization with three additional planks: Anyone who tests positive for any drug that impairs motor skills and judgement (including alcohol)
1. in any event involving those skills (driving, operating equipment, shooting a gun) shall be tried for any harm as though they had premeditated and intended that result.
2. may be refused or terminated from employment at the sole discretion of the employer, and this will be treated as dismissal “for cause” in determining unemployment / workman’s comp eligibility.
3. may be refused treatment by any hospital, physician, etc. unless they can present proof of eligibility to pay. If your group wants to start charity to insure or open a hospital to treat your fellow druggies, cool, and you get the same treatment as any other charity.
In short, if you want to pay for the harm you cause, or wreck your own lives, have at it. But I will not be forced in my public or private capacity to pay for it.
As a Tea Partier I must say that I am shocked by your support for the decriminalization of Hemp. We need to decriminalize ‘ALL’ drugs, and since the Fed’s have been raiding vitamin shops and farmers markets an increasing number of my compatriots are coming to embrace this position, (of course a lot of them were here already=). The only person I want to consult about the chemicals I choose to put into my body is my Doctor. On this issue I’ll listen to lawyers and community organizers after they get a medical degree.
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I, too, am a member of the tea party; and I believe marijuana should be either legalized or decriminalized. I do not use marijuana, so my interest is restricted to public policy implications.
Too many public resources are wasted (no pun intended) on enforcement and prosecution, resources that could be focused on crimes against people and property. If someone wants to smoke pot in the privacy of their own home, that’s their business. The only argument against decriminalizing marijuana that has any merit with me is that the act of decriminalizing it lends a patina of social imprimatur to its use. But in my mind, that argument doesn’t have sufficient weight to balance the destruction wrought via enforcement of this misguided policy.
That said, I do believe other drugs – cocaine and other narcotics – should remain illegal.
And when someone lights up a cigarette, what do you do?
Marijuana makes me feel ill – I’ve got a very mild allergy to it – so I’m honestly curious.
And for those Constitutionalists amongst us Tea Partiers, I will give the Constitutional basis for such a belief. If it took a Constitutional Amendment to both prohibit alcohol and reinstate it, how then can the government do such a thing without a Constitutional Amendment?
For those arguing for the continued prohibition, can you at least do it lawfully by a Constitutional Amendment or are you to be hypocrites like the leftists?
The MSM is going to have an apploplectic nervous breakdown attempting to follow their rules for this one:
1. Don’t report on protests against Obama.
2. Report on Tea Party – snear at them — call them violent, crazy, racist.
3. Report on OWS in a good light only, as angels bathing us in their
loving and peaceful aura.
Oh, the Journolist phones’ll be busy “What are you gonna do?” “I dunno, what
are you gonna do?” “I dunnooooo……”
What I want to know is, was the 12 Galaxies guy there? If so, which group was he with?
Yep, Frank Chu was there. You can see a corner of his sign in the photo with the “Teach” protester.
He wasn’t “with” any group. He just sort of wandered around, as usual.
– Frank and I remember what a wonderful “small City getting smaller” San Francisco used to be.
Love you Zomb!
The FINGER WAG pic is a keeper.
Award winner.
Wish I had taken it! All credit goes to “Larry in SF”.
the foam hands had the wrong finger extended, who overlooks such details!
Even San Francisco has Tea Partiers?
The are the Tea Partiers who probably actually drink tea, too.
must make a poster of the big wagging foam fingers!!
VROOOOM!
Love it!
Lol…Democratic NASCAR! Priceless! Very enjoyable…keep up the great work!
As an avid, and life long, motorcyclist, former Funny Car crew chief and ardent adorer of running performance based internal combustion engins (long live hydro-carbon based fuel) I strongly resent, and excercising my right to be offended, at the referance to Democrap NASCAR! State Senator Fran Pavley(D-Peoples Republic of Santa Monica) has done her damndest to remove all noise from our scooters and end fun as we know it. Having spent 18 years involved in the State’s fight against motorcycling I can attest that Democrap NASCAR would have the same sound as your basement with your ears stuffed with cotten at midnight! The only sound they seem to like is your money falling in their coffers or OWS incoherant chants
Tea Party & OWS – two idiot fringe groups.
So why wasn’t I there? I live in Oakland, yet this is the first I’ve heard of any protest. If the TeaParty was a little better organized this protest would have been three times as large.
The TP has been alive and kicking and very active in the Bay Area since April 2009. WE are on the web (altho our site is temporarily down), we have a yahoo group page, have protested O every time he comes to town, have TP’d every Tax Day and do a lot more. Where are you? Join up. Email me at info@bayareapatriots.com
there was not a peep about the protests on local tv news. the reports were nearly orgasmic about how thrilling it was to have barack in town.
I noticed the Medical Marijauna people were holding mass produced protest signs, which makes me wonder what organization created them. I liked that cause better when it was grass roots types creating their own signs …
It always makes me feel suspicious when mass produced signs come, because you know there’s some kind of shadowy lobby group behind them now … anyone know who it is?
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How are the Tea Partiers “greedy”. It seems to me it’s the filthy Occupiers with their entitlement mentality and covetousness toward other people’s “wealth” that are the greedy ones.
BTW, despite the recent insanity which suggests there needs to be a newer political paradigm other than left vs right or liberal vs conservative is just plain wrong. When you realize that the ossification of Obama-style leftism which combines the worst aspects of crony capitalism with a new brand of national socialism is a result of preservatism and not conservatism, we’re right back to that political Mobius strip where the left believes in big nanny government, the conservatives hold the middle with its embrace of constitutional limited government and the far-right is represented by the no-government anarchists. Of course where the far left meets the far “right” anarchists you have anarcho-socialism … which is essentially what the Obama regime is engaging in, using anti-constitutional economic and social anarchy to establish a new socialist utopian hegemony.
It’s ridiculous to think that left-wing socialists are somehow “conservative” when they seek to preserve their unconstitutional stranglehold on the People.
Just sayin’.
To see why the reality based community is unhappy with Obamanomics, read the interview with Paul Krugman in Playboy.
http://www.playboy.com/magazine/playboy-interview-paul-krugman
Thanks, John. And don’t forget to cruise by Amazon today for your copy of “Krugman and Reich, the Clownishness of Bearded Economists” by Fred Beloit, in 20 most sportive volumes, University of Micronesia Press, 2005.
Zombie, I have a DSLR with a good lens. I’ll be your camera guy if you like.
Thanks for the offer, but a better plan would for you to take that camera and use it to create news of your own, with credit to you.
I always work alone “in the field,” so that I can’t have a second camera person with me. But in the past, many times people have taken pictures on their own steam and sent them to me. Sometimes there were two, three or even four of us at the same event, mutually unknown to each other; and yet the final product contained photos and/or videos taken by all or some of us, because the photographers later sent their best photos to me. Sometimes they request credit, other times not, preferring to work double-anonymously. Yes, that means that in some cases, not all the photos in my report are by me. But if you pay careful attention to my wording, you’ll notice that here and there I’ll use phraseology that sidesteps the question of personal authorship; e.g. I might say “Here’s a photo that shows…” instead of “I took a photo that shows…”. In the first instance, that could mean that the image or video may have been taken by a double anonymous contributor.
And then there’s the second level, such as happened in this report, where a fellow blogger, perhaps less well-known, takes and posts to his or her own blog some great photos, which are then subsequently offered to me as additions to my own photos of the same event. As in today’s example, I’ll usually cite the source, give credit, and link, if the person’s OK with that.
And then there are of course my nationwide and international colleagues, people like Ringo and Urban Infidel and El Marco etc., who have their own full-fledged blogs/careers in other cities, whose work I will occasionally feature.
Whichever way of doing it you choose, go for it! While I can’t offer to go out on photography jaunts together, nor even reveal ahead of time where I plan to be, nothing is stopping you from joining the organically self-forming army of citizen journalists, and heading out into the fray, camera in hand! You never know where it might lead.
As for me, I generally don’t use a big clunky DLSR, because it’s too conspicuous. While I no longer use my earring cam, I try to use the least noticeable cameras possible. Does that cause me to have less-than-stellar photo quality at times? Yes. But it’ a trade-off I’ve learned to accept.
I went to your page you have linked above & noted you said this camera is no longer available. Amazon does have one in stock for anyone who might be interested: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000087HX1/ref=dp_olp_0?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&condition=all
I wouldn’t actually recommend it any more. It was a pretty atrocious camera, quality-wise. It’s only outstanding feature was its size. The resolution of the images was so low, especially compared to modern cameras, that these days it would be considered unusable. Even I only used it for a few reports, then just gave up on it as too low-end.
Agreed. If you google “tiny spy camera” you’ll see links to sites featuring better products. You can still do the crumpled-candy-wrapper thing when you want to be discreet while taking pics.
Zombie, I believe Leica makes a compact camera with equivalent 600 mm zoom. Panasonic has one Lumix with 300 mm equivalent zoom. You are right that it is too obvious with a DSLR…and although the Nokia N8 has one of the best camera for cell phone, the very bright RED LIGHT is probably not the best idea for shooting pictures as it looks like a laser mark which you know it does not look good for the security people…
Why do you think they call it dope?
I find it hard to believe there is a Tea Party in SF. Will wonders never cease?
The fact that the Bailouts of Wall Street and other 1% cronies are ongoing and will remain so are a stark reminder of how far down the road of “useful idiocy” the Hopium pipe addicts of OWS have managed to travel.
When they occupy the White House or Congress then I will be willing to give them the time of day.
The fact that the Bailouts of Wall Street and other 1% cronies are ongoing and will remain so are a stark reminder of how far down the road of “useful idiocy” the Hopium pipe addicts of OWS have managed to travel.
When they occupy the White House or Congress then I will be willing to give them the time of day.
As for cannabis, decriminalise it and be done with it. The fact of the matter is the most abused drug in the United States is anti-depressant medication and ADD meds given to children to zombify them (and cook there frontal lobes into mush).
But hey, as long as shareholders and big pharma are pulling it in…
Fascinating stuff Zombie and thanks to you the rest of us can see some of what went on. I love your pictorial essays. And you are so right about Obama’s stunning hypocrisy which by the way includes most politicians Democrats and Republicans both.
OWS calls for the government to take other peoples money and buy them free stuff. The people who actually worked for and earned that money are “greedy” according to OWS anyways.
Thats like a thief calling the homeowner he just tried to rob “greedy” for stopping him.
You’re beginning to catch on. That example of the homeowner you gave is not a demonstration of how absurd the Occupy world view is. To them, they’d say, “Yeah, exactly — that homeowner IS greedy for not sharing his home and possessions.” In Mao’s China, that exact thing happened: people who up until 1949 had been living in large homes were forced to share them with 5, or 10, or even 15 new “roommates,” often peasants or slum-dwellers. The owners were then berated publicly for being so “greedy” by simply owning a large home.
That’s where we are heading with this Occupy thing.
Where can we get nobama fingers? I want one! The Tea Party should be selling them to raise money!
If you’d like to order the fingers, contact info@bayareapatriots.com
There are a lot of unthinakables these days: http://pjmedia.com/michaeltotten/2012/02/18/actually-that-was-a-bad-idea/#comment-49930
I hope that wagging finger idea goes viral.
I love your work, Zombie. Keep it up.
If it weren’t for the f-bomb, the third sign would be appropriate for either end of the street.
our county is on FIRE…pot..gay marriage..abortion. immigration.blah blah is not going to matter..if we do not turn this ship around and fast..we will be talking about horrific economic news..food and gas prices sky high..i could give a rats you know what about all these issues..frankly..im just scared and see no way out….sigh
One question, one comment:
1. “We, the people” are no longer permitted to even see our President?
1. The foam mits have the wrong finger raised.
True, true, true on the finger thing, but I still want one (but alas, they don’t seem to be available to all of us just yet).
If you’d like to order a finger or more, contact info@bayareapatriots.com
As a weed smoking conservative, living in CA., I give this article a thumbs up. It is fair and balanced, even with all the pot remarks.
The motorcade ran by my office building on Montgomery. Later in the day, when trying to reach 6th street and head home, Howard was (at 3:30!) still closed off!
So we turned around and tried to get to the Embarcadero, and were overtaken by the motorcade going who the heck knows where!
The worst thing? I discovered that my assistant – my minion, my apprentice evil henchperson! – has a celebrity crush on Obama. How I shall bear this knowledge, I do not know.
zombie, as always, you are a treasure! I’m just pleased he didn’t go to the Cult of Beauty reception at the Palace of the Legion of Honor on Thursday.
I like the sign that reads “Pregnancy is not a disease.” I agree. And it burns me that supplying contraception, to say nothing of sterilization and abortion, is called by the White House “preventive care.” Only thing it prevents is delivery of a live baby. Hardly the same as getting a shot to prevent measles, eh?
well to add a little more fuel. never mind weed, weed get it? not able to relate to your health care. but up herein da nord. what would i give for some opiates.(likly not spelled right) me wife has had a very bad attact on the siatica nerve. and the hassel of try to get some simple meds. come on. we know what we(i) need. not the feds thats for sure.
The Capitalist on Wall Street are doing better now with the Socialist in the White House than with the moron who occupied it before.
But of course the tea drinkers wouldn’t know that by watching Fox news. (sic)
Listen, everyone who wants TRUE, RELIABLE, FACTS! Please read “Throw Them All Out,” by Peter Schweizer, for where all that $14 trillion stimulus debt (that didn’t produce enough jobs) went to: Obama’s pockets, those of his donors, supporters, fund raisers, and butt kissers. Also, read the TRUE story of Obama’s sleazy rise to power backed by back door kickback deals, etc., in “Culture of Corruption,” by Michelle Malkin, and “The Case Against Barack Obama,” by Fedorroso. Check out my FACTS and I’ll check out yours.
Well he came up to La La North on Friday (oops Seattle) stopped by Boeing as his requisite non-Campaign stop so the taxpayers cover the 6 Marine 1 helo’s and that small 747 business jet he flies (Did FLOUTUS fly ahead this time?).
As he touted the advances and innovation of American Industry at the Everett 787 plant, readers may recall that the 2nd 787 plant was the one his NLRB was trying to close. He didn’t seem to mention that it is the innovation of the Union Movement that he touts.
Marxism and Christianity both look forward to a time in the future when everyone will know the truth and disagreement will end. Both, in their day, put people on trial and executed them for their beliefs.
Jesus Marx, Karl Christ, Mohammed–they’re all the same.
A question for zombie-
You said no one else shared your view…did that include security, as in no one knew you were where you were with a direct line of sight?
I see a shoulder with an insignia on the R in some of the frames, but I’m not sure just where that is in relation to where the picture was taken.
ronpaulthirdparty.com
a site for occupiers to support ron paul.
because, sooner or later, they are going to support him.
Great pics and comments as usual!
1. I noticed that the typos were spread around on all sides: “Margret”, “signiture”, “but luck with with me”, “conversatios”, “Billioaires”. Fortunately, you can correct yours, but the protesters can’t.
2. “the only snapshot I got of Obama … shows him in the back of his passing limo.” –> Well, it could’ve been a lookalike.
3. One correction, I think: “Of all the people there, only one had an overtly political message: the event’s lone Obama supporter.” –> Wasn’t the middle fellow in the very first picture also an Obama supporter?
1. Thanks for catching those three typos! I have now corrected them. Whenever I have to rush to get a story online because it is time-senstive (such as this time), a few typos always leak through.
2. True, it could have been a body-double. But various rubberneckers later were all saying they were sure that was him. Then again, the entire motorcade could have been a fake-out, as the real Obama snuck in through a backdoor dressed as a washerwoman. Anything is possible.
3. By “there” I mean “there at the intersection near the Intercontinental Hotel.” Obviously later in the day there were all the supporters filing in to see him at the Masonic Auditorium. The guy in the very first picture was at that later event.
Hey zombie, if you would of gotten a pic of the One, he would of been naked anyway and it would of been unpublishable here.
Here’s a video that I produced about the event:
Obama gets the Finger!! …from the San Francisco Tea Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw98lW5U-Dk