SF INS Building Smashed and Trashed!(THUGS DESTROY PROPERTY MEDIA REFUSES TO REPORT- PIC ENCLOSED!)

SF.indymedia.org ^ | 1/19/03 | black bloc

[I_Love_My_Husband]

SF INS Building Smashed and Trashed!

by black bloc • Sunday January 19, 2003 at 05:15 AM

The question is: why has it taken this long to smash the f*** out of the INS building? This building should be fucking smashed every day that they assist in disappearing people. To hell with the INS! F*** la Migra!

YAY S.F.! by a fan in Portland, Oregon • Sunday January 19, 2003 at 05:27 AM

Y'all ROCK down there in the Bay Area! We had a radical march here today, and it was pretty cool, and some folks then went out and broke windows at the Military recruiting station (i guess it might've been people from the march, but i don't really know), but we didn't do any of the GREAT shit y'all did down there. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! SMASH CAPITALISM!

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audio located here by ziggy • Sunday January 19, 2003 at 05:36 AM

Audio of the thugs

There's a clip of the INS scene in that mp3

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by ins by cp • Sunday January 19, 2003 at 05:48 AM

[putupon]

INS Building Smashed

Well, at least it wasn't a gov't. agency building where anyone actually does anything. Half the mob were probably employees. It just shows how stupid the wackos are. The INS are probably the best collaborators to the Hate America Cause the nutcases could hope for.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

The wackos even destroyed their own Leftist newspaper stands that parrot their political views every week. All those great sex ads and anti-American diatribes gone to waste.

They didn't even recycle the paper and glass either!

[csvset]

I read some of the comments at the SFIndymedia site, there isn't any love for the "corporate" media.

[StriperSniper]

and some folks then went out and broke windows at the Military recruiting station (i guess it might've been people from the march, but i don't really know),

Damn wuss won't even take credit for his own crap!

[meyer]

That's terrible. Where were the cops?\

I wish the punks would try something like that around here - we don't take kindly to vandalism in these parts. It would be interesting if these worthless punks were to meet up against a large mob of angry armed citizens, protecting their property.

[freebilly]

Violence is Peace.
Hate is Love.
Hypocrisy is Truth.

[FreedomPoster]

Ping.

[Copernicus]

Well, I have mixed feelings about this one.

They smashed a Starbucks and the INS Building. The perpetrators were terrorized by infiltrators who retaliated immediately with equal and opposite force.

There is no real downside that I can see.

Welcome to the 21st Century.

A review of the rental video "Brazil" might be in order at this point, possibly also that vintage epic "Clockwork Orange"

Best regards,

[ppaul]

[B4Ranch]

"Energy remained high as the crowd redecorated the imposing INS building with images of a world without oppression. This building had recently been the target of angry protests over the mandatory "registration" of many Arab and middle-Eastern men. Marchers chanted "no borders, no nations, fuck deportations" as protesters smashed the windows of the INS and redecorated its façade. One protester said he was "outraged at the way our friends and neighbors are being humiliated and dehumanized. No person should be hauled away to a secret detention, abused, and denied access to their family or lawyer."

These are our friends. We need these people in America. We shouldn't protest their actions. Keep our borders open to all peacelovers. /sick sarcasm

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I read some of the comments at the SFIndymedia site, there isn't any love for the "corporate" media.

I was referring specifically to the weekly tabloids that are 501(c). They are managed by one of two parent organizations of Communist weeklies proliferate in the SF Bay area, Santa Cruz and all across the country. The SFIndymedia is probably part of the same group of Leftists like the SantaCruzIndymedia. They all hoist separate banners to make themselves look like a diverse group larger than they really are, but are just sub-units of the same camp.

Powder, ball, pack, elevation 45 degrees, 30 degrees to port, fire!

[lainie]

"I took part in the break away march, and it wasn't some mindless action of property destruction. It targetted institutions which are directly involved in the exploitation and suffering of the world population. The destruction of the front of the INS building, over the yells of "no more borders!" was fucking BRILLIANT, and I think will send a great message of solidarity to those families whose members have been "disappeared" by the capitalist state. In fact, as we marched through the financial district, there were many cheers from sympathizers. The only negative thing I could say about the march was that few instances of graffiti on parked cars, but for the most part all property vandalism was targetted at the banks which profit from war and exploitation, and the INS building which has been involved in deportation and dententions of thousands of proletarian immigrants. As long as these direct actions maintain coherent political messages, targeting the basis of capitalist power, then I support them completely and will participate in them."

Yeah. Families whose members have been "disappeared by the capitalist state" are gathered 'round their newsprint this morning, embracing each other, tears flowing, overjoyed, secure in the knowledge that finally, finally!, you fixed everything with your spray paint and Doc Martens.

And this person named his comments "Naive Pacifists."

[madfly]

More news from http://news.google.com

All I could find was a broken window at Starbucks and broken windows and doors at INS.

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http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-prot19.htm_________________

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/01/19/MN196663.DTL

Huge protests for peace
Tens of thousands in S.F. demand Bush abandon war plans
Suzanne Herel, Zachary Coile, Chronicle Staff Writers

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/19/MN126125.DTL

A splinter group of more than 200 black-clad protesters broke off from Saturday's peaceful rally and went on a brief romp through the Financial District, smashing windows and news racks before melting away before the eyes of frustrated police.

A police spokesman said officers made two arrests.

The angry demonstration began about 4:40 p.m. when a group of demonstrators beating drums and waving black-and-red flags blocked traffic at Fifth and Mission streets.

The mostly young activists, some with handkerchiefs covering their mouths and noses, turned onto Market Street, followed by police on bicycles.

The protest escalated to vandalism as the group turned up Sansome Street, spray-painting anti-war messages on the Citicorp Building.

Demonstrators used news racks and iron bars to smash a glass door at the Immigration and Naturalization Service building. As police rushed forward to protect the entry, the march turned south on Battery, smashing a window in a Starbucks coffee shop.

Dozens of police officers followed, some on horseback and motorcycles. The tactical squad, riding in vans, poured out in an effort to protect the plate- glass windows of stores and banks.

At Market Street the group took over the westbound traffic lane before heading into the Powell Street BART station, where they jumped turnstiles and left police smacking their palms with batons.

"I've been to a couple of rallies in San Francisco, but this is the most intense stuff I've seen," said Andrew Thompson, 27, a graduate student from Arcata in Humboldt County.

E-mail the writers at tabate@sfchronicle.com and thendricks@sfchronicle.com

[I_Love_My_Husband]

That's why we call your type LIBERALtarians here.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

check out post #34

[lainie]

The answer to your question is yes. We want it on the FNC or CNN or anywhere other than local coverage in S.F.

[lainie]

The large number of FReepers with no love lost for libertarians is well-documented around here. Just be a true libertarian and move on. Live and let live, right?