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I was in St Paul all day Sunday Monday to catch the Take Back Labor Day Concert.  Luckily we got there late enough to miss the more ‘political’ acts.  As we were walking to Harriet Island Tom Morello was continuously yelling “SHUT THE FUCK UP,” I didn’t quite understand the political message behind it, but everyone else did.  Atmosphere put on a great show, and afterwards Slug and Ant were cruising around the island on golf carts.

Mos Def put on a pretty poor show, but Shawn Kemp showed up nonetheless.

The Pharcyde was the last act to play and they actually were not terrible.  Lil Jon might have introduced them.  The guy sounded like Lil Jon, kept screaming “Yeah”, but I’m not sure why Lil Jon would come to St Paul just to introduce a hip-hop group from the 90’s.  The highlight of the Pharcyde was when they busted out Bobby Brown’s “My Prerogative.”

The end of the concert was terribly planned.  We were not allowed to set foot on one of the two bridges that led back to St Paul.  But when we got the the second bridge, we were not allowed to cross it.  So we were stuck on a bridge.  Hippies got mad and some marched around spreading the good word about “Don’t back down to these people, that’s what they want you to do.”  Inspiring.  After about 15 minutes we were allowed to finish crossing.

Earlier in the day we got to witness some of the smaller protesters, and these were terrible.  One group of maybe 80-100 people blocked an intersection, turned up the Green Day on the boombox, dragged newspaper dispensers infront of traffic, and flipped three dumpsters onto the roads.  It sounds like two store-front windows are broken downtown.  I can understand why people are protesting, but I don’t understand how smashing store-front windows and flipping garbage cans over relates to the War or anything else.  It was just abunch of sheep following the herd of morons.

To conclude, I hate hippies.