This was clearly much more serious and while it sounds like a typical “gang-banger” thing, I cannot quite disconnect the link to the singing of the national anthem. However….

Last week, I was in San Francisco and except for a formal occasion where I wore a suit, I openly wore a bright red United States Marine Corps hat, complete with the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor logo. I wore that hat every day, just like I wear it every day here at home. On the flights out and back, in the SF International airport, while shopping in San Ramon and Alamo (liberal hotbeds), while wine tasting in Napa Valley (which went 3 to 1 for Kerry in the 2004 election). And on the streets and to some of the trendy restraurants.

I got EXACTLY the same response that I get here at home. ‘

NOTHING.

No slurs.

No insults.

No nasty comments.

No “baby killer warmonger”

Nothing.

So, I’m not quite prepared to equate this incident with a bunch of SF leftist Brownshirters going after people who sing the national anthem. I am prepared, however, to call it what it was — felony aggravated assault — and to call shame on the San Francisco police for NOT doing their duty. As usual.

Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong.
O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,
To Communism’s triumph lead us on!

But all they got was the ol’ “Star Spangled Banner.” I guess that might be enough to push those “San Francisco” values folks over the edge. How dare those “conservative dressed” Yale boys sing an American nationalist song in San Francisco!

Buck, you don’t really see that kind of nonsense in a CC state, do you?Florida Statute 776, Bitches!Kid from Brooklyn on January 10, 2007 at 3:06 PM

Yeah KB, actually, we do have glee clubs here too. And they might be packin’.

By the way, the singing of the Anthem was not necessarily motivated by patriotism (though I would like to think it was), but rather might have been because there are some truly beautiful arrangements out there and they had one they were a)truly proud of and b)knew VERY well from constant repetition. My High School choir had one of those and it was the FIRST song we learned and we subsequently preformed it about once a week (or so it felt). It was the one song we could sing well tired, worn out, drunk, high, or even (quite possibly) three days dead. If their choice of music WAS patriotically motivated, it’s a lousy situation to get pummeled for loving your own country (but the martyr thing makes it bearable). If it was because it was a song they could sing while the entire bass section was three sheets to the wind… well, sorry folks, but that’s San Francisco.

Although, I must admit it’s funnier this way, I want my “k”.

:(

That is so typical and so repugnant.

I was born in San Francisco, but on my 14th Birthday my parents gave me the greatest present ever. We moved our Family to San Jose.

I have never looked back.

I would not drop one tear if that festering slimepit of a city was swallowed up by the bay. That is, of course, after we move the 49ers to San Jose.

:)

“I’m 20 deep, my boys are coming.”

Only you (or Ace) would pick that quote out of the article… I actually read that earlier when I first followed the link at Drudge and just found the “my boys” part annoying… but not in a gay way, and never where you took it.

* It seems an elite that can’t fight isn’t elite in the crucial sense.

* It seems parents who neglect training for their children to enable them to beat an assailant have left their children’s treatment up to an assailant.

Even against choirboys they don’t have the cojones for a man to man fight.

Hope the better dressed rich kids got some licks in, too.

RW Wacko on January 10, 2007 at 4:19 PM

No mention at all of them defending themselves, what’s up with that? Just because you’re musical doesn’t mean you have to be a wuss. Just ask Lynyrd Skynyrd or Motley Crue.

Witnesses say a few local young men didn’t appreciate the attention the Yale students were getting

Does this really sound like a witness comment? More like a professional mouthpiece. I don’t believe this story can be unlinked from the National Anthem. Dollars to donuts a real investigation shows that the taunts and threats began after they sang it.

I wonder, which group would Peace Mother Sheehan side with, the victims of physical violence, or those poor Frannys subjected to a disturbing display of raw patriotism?

Witnesses say a few local young men didn’t appreciate the attention the Yale students were getting, made fun of their conservative lack of dresses and began taunting them and making threats.

There, that’s better, and far more believable.

Update: Now that’s a gang.

That’s pretty scary, but hey, it’s all part of the Socialist revolution, right??

INvesti mo gation…my Aunt FANNY.

Oh…and GREAT national news coverage, eh?

One FRANNY with his lipstick smudged and he’d be ALL UP OUR @$$e$ about “his civil rights”!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Well dressed
2. Rich (go to yale after-all)
3. White
4. Male
5. Same university as President Bush
6. Getting girls because they don’t look like dirty hippies

Maybe THAT is the retailiation this gang is yearning for? ;)