ACLU Seeks Information from City on Torch Route Planning and Crowd Control

This front for one of the loudest supporters of the CIA-anti-China crowd, namely the Democratic Party, has the unmitigated gall to say in the above statement that the massive display of anti-Chinese racism was "overwhemingly peaceful" when in fact it was overwhelmingly racist, with many vicious arguments and provocative actions by the anti-China hoodlums, most of whom were young middle class white kids, treated with kid gloves by white cops. There were lots of anti-China provocateurs at Justin Herman Plaza between 12 and 1 p.m. The photos on this website are ample evidence of anti-China crowds among the spectators and the videos show them in action. The high level of financing of these CIA sponsored groups was evident in the previous provocations in Europe, demonstrating that this was a CIA job. The City of San Francisco has a duty to avoid violence whenver possible, and the City Attorney should read out loud basic liability law to the ACLU since they are clearly too busy singing the CIA's tune to do so. Some of the anti-China crowd, including Democratic Supervisor Chris Daly, sat down in front of buses they thought carried the torchbearers and there was a report that one bus had its windows smashed by the anti-China crowd. Several torchbearers dropped out in the face of the obvious violence threatened by the anti-China crowd. One columnist in the Chronicle on the morning of the event called for the event to be cancelled as the terrrorism experienced in San Francisco and Europe by the anti-China crowd the previous week was ominous, which would have been necessary if an alternative route was not designed. The ACLU needs to be reminded of the basic principle regarding free speech that no one has a right to falsely yell fire in a crowded theater; that is, no one has a right to cause grief and in the face of obvious danger, the City had a duty to avoid violence, and the resultant inevitable police brutality lawsuits. In Buenos Aires, the next stop on the torch tour, the government provided 3,000 police and military to prevent violence by the anti-China crowd, something the City simply did not have the forces to do, and still a water balloon was thrown at a torchbearer, according to KPFA news, 6 p.m., 4/11/08. The City saved lots of our tax dollars in choosing an alternate route and the world press still got to photograph the anti-Chinese racism of the CIA provocateurs, mostly white, among the tens of thousands of Chinese Americans who had come to show pride that what was known as the sick man of Asia before 1949 finally had developed the strength to host the Olympic Games. Many of us remember the ACLU as the organization that supported having the Nazis march through Skokie, Illinois, a predominately Jewish area, in 1977-1978. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skokie,_Illinois) That was unforgettable and unforgiveable. For the first time ever, Mayor Newsom did something right in changing the route of this torch run, avoiding serious violence and lots of police brutality lawsuits which would have cost the City hundred of thousands of dollars each. Perhaps the lawyer friends of the ACLU are sorry they did not profit from these police brutality lawsuits.

The anti-China politics of the ACLU has a base in the anti-Communist history of the ACLU. One of its founders, labor organizer and feminist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964), was kicked out of the ACLU in 1940 for having joined the Communist Party in 1936. She became the Communist Party's chairperson in 1961. For more and references, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gurley_Flynn