Berkeley to Marines: “You’re Uninvited and Unwelcome Intruders.”
Battle royal brewing at Berkeley council meeting
A protester tangles with an unidentified man outside the Marine recruiting office in Berkeley.
Protesting as if it were their job. For some, it is.
CNN reports: “Berkeley, the famously liberal college town in California, has taken aim at Marine recruiters, saying they are ‘not welcome in our city.’”
Liberal “tolerance”, reserved for only the like-minded.
Republican lawmakers in Washington fired back this week, threatening to take back more than $2 million of federal funding to the city as well as money designated for the University of California-Berkeley, the campus that became a haven of protests during the Vietnam War.
The battle erupted after the Berkeley City Council approved a measure last week urging the Marine recruiters to leave their downtown office.
“If recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders,” the item says.
It goes on to say the council applauds residents and organizations that “volunteer to impede, passively or actively, by nonviolent means, the work of any military recruiting office located in the City of Berkeley.”
Berkeley is joining San Francisco in seceding from the United States. Military protection is no longer required and is unwanted, confirmed by the hostility against the troops.
Take a good, close look at this photo. Consider the implied message: These protesters believe (and are accusing) our military to be murderers. Reminds us of the DailyKos-niks’ righteous indignation over this post and photo.
via Zombietime.com: As noted in an earlier zombietime report, the radical group Code Pink has since September of 2007 been staging protests in front of a U.S. Marine Corps’ “Officer Selection Office” on Shattuck Square in downtown Berkeley, California, in an attempt to force the office to close.
The protests have been scheduled almost daily for over three months continuously, though bad weather (and apathy) have meant minimal (and sometimes nonexistent) attendence at many of these events — which have ranged from “Kiss-Ins” to juggling performances to mass public breastfeedings and beyond. (See the recent photos)
. . .Most significantly, Senator Jim DeMint (R - South Carolina) began proceedings to prevent federal funds from reaching Berkeley; $2.1 million in earmarks for Berkeley are planned to be rescinded and instead given to the Marines.
Let the Republic of Berkely do without federal (tax-payer) money. Let them sell their anti-establishment T-shirts and peace-loving wrist-beads. Let the angry, body-pierced protesters work double-shifts at the local print shops and coffee houses, so they can maybe earn enough to pay taxes. (The photo gallery tells the story. We’re being considerate in our descriptions.)
Are we disgusted? Hell yes. Are we pissed off? You better fucking believe it. Do we care to swear on this blog? Rarely. But the times are a’changin’.
We wholeheartedly support the effort to withhold federal funding from Berkeley, and we hope you will, too.
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Michelle Malkin has more coverage.
UPDATE: (via MoveAmericaForward.org)
Fox News Channel’s Jamie Colby has a new report up talking about the big showdown in Berkeley, CA tomorrow - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH - when patriots from around the nation will hold an all-day pro-troop demonstration and protest against the Berkeley City Council for their reprehensible attacks against our military men and women.
The report is called: “Berkeley Military Bashers Meet Marine Supporters”. We need you to post a comment on this topic and let the Berkeley City Council know how you feel. Read the report and post your comments here.
And finally, we need you to join us tomorrow - anytime between 5:00 AM when we begin our all-day pro-troop demonstration, all the way through 7:00 PM when the Berkeley City Council meeting begins. You can also sign the petition that we will be delivering personally to the City Council.
February 11th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
First, Berkeley is trying to join SanFran in seceding from the union, not succeeding.
Second, I have a hard time believing Berkeley gets only $3 million in fed funds. Without counting all the welfare for the professional protesters, $3 million doesn’t even cover the fed funds paid to a small city with nothing going on, let alone a socialist haven like Berkeley.
Heck, Murtha’s district makes that look like less than pocket change, and look how many people are there!
If the feds are going to get serious about “punishing” military (and U.S.) haters, get serious. Otherwise, they ought to stay off the news and quit trying to get backlash votes.
February 11th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
What a bunch of pathetic sorry ass loosers!.
What I wouldn’t give to kick a spitshined size 11 C up one of their pinko fat good for nothing ass’s.
February 12th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Please, please, please. Let these cities (SF and Berkley secede) from the Union. Let them forage their own ways without support from the rest of us tax-paying citizens. Let them go back to hot dogs for their council meetings. Let the tree huggers live in their trees. That’s where animals belong.
February 13th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
I have a couple of comments re: code PINKOS. First, I find it hilarious that anti-war…i.e.—pro-peace, were the first to initiate violence against the military supporters. Hypocrisy at its finest. I have a brother-in-law that spent several years both in Afganistan and Iraq as a terrorist interrogator for the Special Forces. I used to sometimes question things such as “water torture “, or other forms of questioning that we hear about. ( I never asked what types of questioning my brother-in-law engaged in, nor did he ever tell me”), but an interesting question came to mind. If there was an obvious terrorist attack, “in your own back yard”, that killed say, your small children, would you really be upset with the type(s) of interrogation tactics used to find out first, who perpetrated the act, and second, where it could happen next? Or someone in your family is taken hostage, what tactics would you be okay with to find out where your loved one is? I would like to refer all code PINKOS to the movie “A FEW GOOD MEN”. Jack Nicholson says it best when he tells people that the ones enjoying the freedoms that the armed forces provide and protect, are also the same people that complain about the ways in which they are provided. Just hang your flag high, and spend your time more wisely, like volunteering at a homeless shelter, or a veteran’s home. Take care of your own yard, stop worrying about yards, several thousands of miles away…cause I guarantee that those people are not worrying about you.
Rob