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Protect Military recruiters in Berkeley, California

Posted on 04/18/2005 9:37:47 PM PDT by Thunder90

From the Protestwarrior Website:

This Thursday the "Berkeley stop the war coalition" and other on-campus anti-war whiners are holding an anti-military protest in an effort to kick recruiters off campus. The local college republicans need your help to show our support for our troops!

The protest begins at 10:30 am in Sproul Plaza, the main square on campus, and our rally begins at 11 am. Please bring signs, American flags, wear patriotic t-shirts, etc and lets show them how it's done.

There will be media presence including conservative filmmaker Evan Maloney (creator of "brainwashing 101").

"You sleep under the blanket of protection which I provide, and then question the manner in which I provide it" -Col. Nathan R. Jessep, A Few Good Men


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; US: California
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To: rogue yam

Oh -- I meant to add that living in Bezerkely in the 1960s and attending Cal pushed both of us to the right of Attila the Hun! Chaos will do that to you.


21 posted on 04/22/2005 2:35:48 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Thunder90; Cool Guy; CounterCounterCulture; Arkat Kingtroll; bayareablues; pbear8; Jerez2; ...
I was there and so was SeenTheLight's Mom and RogueYam, plus a few PW's and a rowdy group of Berkeley college Repubs! They almost didn't need us there, they were so pumped up, but I was glad to do my bit. I just got fed up with the lefty thugs attacking our military and being the fascists that they are.

It was the usual hate-America, hate-the military crowd and I think there were more of us than them. I'm bad at estimating crowds, but I'd guess we had 45-50 people or so and they had 25-30.

As usual, they tried to pretend that they "Support the Troops" (always followed by "Bring Them Home") but signs like "U.S. Out of Berkeley" and "ROTC Out of UC" said otherwise. We were upbeat and optimistic, with chants (my favorite: "Treason, Treason, What's Your Reason?") and singing. We sang the National Anthem several times and God Bless America, which must have irritated them to no end ;-)

They looked visibly flustered at times and in the end, their big plan to "rush" the ROTC table never materialized. No doubt the cops at the front door and our presence made them think twice. So I guess we did "protect" the ROTC after all. I just hope they knew we were there.

22 posted on 04/22/2005 10:44:51 PM PDT by SeenTheLight
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To: Thunder90

Dang! Sounds like fun,but business takes me out of town next week!


23 posted on 04/22/2005 11:06:00 PM PDT by Michael.SF.
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To: SeenTheLight

Thanks for the ping & great job countering the commies in Commietown!


24 posted on 04/23/2005 11:06:11 AM PDT by stratman1969 (End Judicial Tyranny)
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To: SeenTheLight

Understand when you see demonstrators after the recruiters, they are concerned about disturbances of their supposedly quaranteed rights to complacency, comfort, and self-actualization through receiving enabling behaviors.



In this country people are unfamiliar with the concepts of peace and freedom, except those few who volunteer to leave our shores and fight on behalf of others. The Iraqi’s demonstrated understanding of these concept’s by defying terrorism to achieve a voter turnout equaling our recent presidential election. In Lebanon 500,000 demonstrated for their nation’s freedom knowing they risked re-igniting a civil war, which took 1,000,000 lives.



In the western democracies, we desire intellectual comfort food supporting serenity and apathy, spiced with selective moral exhibitionism. Elegant foreign policy models defining necessity, proportional response, multi-lateralism, and exit strategy ensure we turn a blind eye, agonize over the body count, or cut and run.



We no longer remember an urgent desire for freedom, and no longer regard peace as a prize worthy of terrible sacrifice. The events of 9/11 are no more relevant than Pearl Harbor. If the demonstrators speak loudly enough, they think they will not hear, and therefore not need to confront forces promising their eradication. I often wonder what must happen before we understand a horribly dangerous world is seeking to overtake us?



25 posted on 04/23/2005 8:44:00 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: SeenTheLight

Yes, folks, it's just like the lady said; we FReeped 'em rotten in Berzerkeley!

In truth, we were just the icing on the cake. Berkeley has a great bunch of Young Republicans. They seemed like some rising young stars with great futures ahead of them. The opposition looked like just what you'd expect; unkempt and confused.

Honorable mention goes to Jim, S.F. Chapter head for ProtestWarrior. The guy cracks me up every time! He had a fold-out sign that he held aloft, pointing to the lefties that said simply: IRRELEVANT-->

LOL!

T'was a beautiful day on a beautiful campus, where there exists a thriving diversity of perspectives and opinions.


- rogue yam


P.S. The leftie idiot who most rang my chimes that day was the shrill chippie who had emblazoned her shirt with the slogan "ROTC Off OUR Campus!" Having just days before paid my not-at-all-insubstantial California state taxes, I was quite irked at the proprietary tone of her presumption. Cute though.


26 posted on 04/23/2005 9:31:00 PM PDT by rogue yam
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