San Francisco Olympic Torch Protests

A terrific photo essay at PajamasMedia:

I arrived over an hour before the scheduled relay start time only to find, to my initial surprise, supporters of the Beijing Olympics lining the route. The fact that they all had identical oversized Chinese flags, souvenir t-shirts, and even little paper American flags led me to believe that the Chinese government had organized the whole scene.

Despite that, it looks like protesters (which included a "Hands Off Taiwan" contingent) outnumbered China's well-wishers.

(Later, things got interesting when it became clear that city authorities deliberately LIED to citizens about the relay route, and the torch was nowhere to be seen . . .)

(Hat tip to Instapundit)