Posted on 10/19/2007 6:21:43 AM PDT by kellynla
A showdown between anti-war activists who last month defaced a Marine recruiting office and flag-carrying patriots took over a street in Berkeley on Wednesday with noise levels that reached a half-mile away at the University of California in town.
Berkeley police officers kept the Code Pink contingent of about 150 separated from the group of about 500 led by Move America Forward, the nation’s largest pro-troop organization. The incidents of abhorrent behavior were rare, but included an anti-war demonstrator trying to knife a pro-troop supporter and two code Pink followers burning flags.
A group of Code Pink protesters surrounded a woman and pushed her around after she said that her brother and other family members were protecting the United States in Iraq. The young woman shook with fear and wept.
“It makes me sick,” said Megan, whose last name is withheld to protect her from harassment. “Code Pink is out here every week protesting in front of the Marine center. These people (Marines) are just trying to do their jobs.”
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“The incidents of abhorrent behavior were rare, but included an anti-war demonstrator trying to knife a pro-troop supporter”
This one is my favorite...”We hate war so we’re going to kill you!”
The streets of the convention cities next summer are going to be dangerous.
yep...who says communism is dead...these POS have been alive & well on our colleges & universities for decades, indoctrinating our children while American taxpayers pick up the tab!
Why don't we call it like it is?
"A showdown between communists who last month defaced a Marine recruiting office..."
“The streets of the convention cities next summer are going to be dangerous.”
Democratic convention maybe. But the patriot counterprotestors will outnumber the anti-American “Code Pink” types five or six to one at the Republican Convention. The anti-American anarchist types will be too intimidated to do anything violent, especially if the Patriot Riders are there.
International Answer and their thugs realize that the general public does not have the same restrictions on their actions that the police do, and will therefore be a lot more careful about inciting violence when there is a real chance that that violence will rebound on them.
Doesn’t it just make you feel warm and cuddly when a peacenik knifes a peaceful protester?
It should corectly be named as Pro-Victory vs Anti-Victory
See the problem is that these nutjobs really are anti-war...for any reason.
No sane person could possibly ever expect that war, no matter how ugly or unwanted, should never be an option.
Interestingly, the best I’ve *EVER* heard a crowd sing the Star Spangled Banner was at a free opera concert in San Francisco, at Delores Park (on the edge, if not in the Castro). To hear an audience that must have been 30% or more queer/transgendered/gay/whatever put serious hurt on quality and quantity of voices at any White Sox or Cowboys game was actually a hopeful thing, to me - there’s more patriotism out there than the most strident of either polarity believe.
Just my .02
You sure said a mouthful there.
I live in MPLS and can imagine what will happen up here when the REPs come for their convention.
I doubt it will be pretty!
How about if I made it simpler still, and even more accurate?
Traitors vs Patriots
“The streets of the convention cities next summer are going to be dangerous.”
I’d call it a target-rich environment.
“but included an anti-war demonstrator trying to knife a pro-troop supporter”
And if I read the article correctly, there were NO arrests? It’s been a long time since I’ve attended Cal, but jeez, I didn’t think enforcement of the laws on attempted murder had changed.
What a sick croup of cowards these LIBERALS are.
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On a positive note. At least we are seeing more of the silent majority coming out and apposing the liberal groups. For to long, these libs felt in control. Now they see there are Americans willing to counter their most often un-patriotic demonstrations.
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