About 50 unmasked people stood on Polk Street in front of San Francisco City Hall last Saturday from noon to 2PM while a small contingent of masked police officers stood in a line on the other side of the street. We were on our way for a bit of exercise when we bumped into one of the protestors at the corner of Polk and McAllister waving a "FREEDOM IS ESSENTIAL" sign, and I could not contain my anger. "Where do you live, asshole?" I yelled at him. "I want to visit and infect you and your neighbors because that's what you're doing in mine."
The protest was organized by a slick right-wing website called
wehaverights.com. It not only advises how to construct signage with LARGE TYPE and dark magic markers, but suggests the word-for-word messages. There is also an online store where you can purchase LIVE FREE T-shirts and caps for $25-$30.
The California protests were scheduled for Los Angeles, Huntington Beach, Sacramento, Ventura, San Diego and San Francisco. Besides Sacramento, all the targets are coastal cities, which is odd since you would think their message might be better received in the Central Valley cities of Fresno, Bakersfield, Redding, and so on. This is probably because it is all theater and there is more press coverage if they stick to the more liberal areas of the state. Since they are not adhering to safe distancing guidelines, I wish the police would arrest them and book them at the Hall of Justice above.
That will never happen, partly because the prison system doesn't need the extra burden right now in the middle of a pandemic, but it is past time to start issuing fines to these yokels, not for their ignorant, dangerous message but for endangering the public safety of others.
The Death Cult of ignorant Americans led by the Orange Mussolini is astonishing and disturbing, a surrealist sideshow to the actual war between the novel coronavirus and humanity.
Americans are not going to be allowed into the rest of the world for at least a couple of years because we are demonstrably diseased.
May knowledge win in the end.
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