bring in the big guns!
Posted on 02/01/2008 7:55:54 PM PST by SmithL
BERKELEY - As the right-wing blogosphere railed and a U.S. senator vowed financial retaliation against the Berkeley City Council for its effort to boot the Marine Corps out of town, three anti-war protesters ratcheted up pressure from the left by chaining themselves Friday to the front door of the downtown Marine recruiting office.
The demonstrators snapped their locks shut at 7 a.m. and spent the next 7 1/2 hours blocking the door, waving and chanting as hundreds of cars driving by honked in support. Finally, at 2:30 p.m., police snipped the chains and arrested them.
Two of the three were cited for blocking a business and released, and the third was booked into jail on an unrelated traffic warrant, police said.
The demonstrators promptly said they would keep protesting outside the recruiting station at 64 Shattuck Square until the Marines leave Berkeley - which is what the City Council advised the service to do in a vote Tuesday night that called the Marines "unwelcome intruders."
The council also voted to allow members of Code Pink, the protest group that helped organize Friday's blockade, to park at a designated space in front of the recruiting office every Wednesday afternoon and operate a loudspeaker.
The council's action apparently made Berkeley the first city in the nation to call for the ouster of a military recruiting station from its borders.
"We made really great statements by blocking the door," said one of the three blockaders, 64-year-old Mary Ann Thomas of Oakland. "It's time we became more articulate about what we're doing."
Conservative bloggers and Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., also believed more articulation is necessary - from the opposite political spectrum.
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There’s no such thing as bad publicity, especially for the Marine Corps. I think the actions of these social crab lice will boost enlistments.
I think the Corps should station an M-1A at the entrance to the recruiting office. Problem solved!
bring in the big guns!
Contact Senator DeMint and thank him for representing our views!
Suggest to several thousand Marines, that Berkley would be a great place to spend a weekend. Would end this sh$t in a hurry.
The answer is gallows on wheels.
Better yet … to prove a point … suggest that two or fewer marines invade Berkley … end of problem.
Men of character will always beat as$ats.
BTTT! America’s finest!
Grant Berkely their independence, then send in the Marines and reconquer them - put on trial their city council for war crimes and exterminate the lot of them. Berkely is full of the oldest group of left over 60’s hippies known to mankind. Shame shame shame on these adults for acting like petulant stoned out teenagers.
Why would it have taken 7.5 hours for the cops to cut those chains?
I propose that the officer in charge at that office buy a set of bolt cutters.
Why would it have taken 7.5 hours for the cops to cut those chains?
I propose that the officer in charge at that office buy a set of bolt cutters.
after reading a few of the comments to the article in the paper, my Lord, I have never been go glad i DO NOT LIVE anywhere near this nutty state. I’m ashamed they are included in the United States, can’t we vote them off the island????
Don Spark falls to the ground when he and other anti-war protesters tried to prevent an unidentified man, right, from entering a Marine Corps. recruitment office in Berkeley. 
There are appropriate punishments for such crimes. But, we can wait for the trials while the troops, big guns and cruise missiles are brought to bear on this problem. No doubt Defense Department has the coordinates of the City Council meeting room should its members be stupid enough to continue hanging around our country.
It’s time for us to ask the muslim terrorists to do as they please in Berkeley.
That shirt appears to say 82Airborne (according to my Marine)
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