Reply #30: You obviously weren't in San Francisco

[Downtown Hound]

We protesters shut that city down when the U.S. attacked Iraq. It was nuts. I'm not disagreeing with you overall. I'm just saying that there were massive protests against the Iraq War, and not just in liberal SF. The media attempted to marginalize them as much as they could, so the full weight and size of them was never really known to many Americans. But if you were there in San Francisco when the war broke out, I guarantee you you would never forget it. Or ever doubt just how effective mass civil disobedience can truly be. The mayor eventually made a public plea with us to stop what we were doing because we were bankrupting the city. LOL.