Bay Area National Anarchists Protest Government-Sanctioned Child Abuse and Endangerment in San Francisco

Editor’s Note: The following text from the Bay Area National Anarchists explains why they are protesting the Folsom Street Fair, an annual gay S&M event being held in San Francisco on Sunday, September 27th. For more information, visit the BANA website: http://www.bayareanationalanarchists.com/blog/.

Every year, children as young as infants and toddlers are brought to the Folsom Street Fair and Up Your Alley gay S&M events.

At these events, children witness public sex of the kinkiest sort, involving bondage, humiliation, torture, and urination.

Some of these children are dressed up in kiddie bondage gear, such as miniature dog collars.

This raises the obvious question: Are these children not just witnesses, but unwilling participants?

This is child abuse.

Is it unreasonable to think that people who get off on abusing one another might also get off on abusing children?

We have REPEATEDLY brought this child abuse to the attention of the San Francisco Mayor, the San Francisco Police, Governor Schwarzenegger, Representative Pelosi, and Senator Feinstein.

They have done nothing. They have not even acknowledged our concerns.

Thus we have to conclude: This is government-sponsored child abuse.

That is why we are here. That is why we are asking you to help.

Please contact Mayor Gavin Newsom at gavin.newsom@sfgov.org. Please contact Representative Pelosi at nancy@mail.house.gov. Please contact Senator Feinstein at http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/. Please contact Governor Schwarzenegger at http://www.gov.ca.gov/interact.

Ask them why they approve of exposing children to public sex. Ask them why they are afraid to protect the children of this community. Let them know that this does not represent the values of San Francisco and the countless people who visit our city every year.

Together, we can make a difference!