MELANIE MORGAN: ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE? (Berkeley Mayor - Free Speech Thief)

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ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE?

Written by Melanie Morgan   

Saturday, 02 February 2008

Berkeley Mayor - Free Speech Thief

 BERKELEY – Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates, convicted of stealing 1,000 free newspapers from the Daily Californian newsstands in 2002, is at it again.

The Mayor is attempting to steal the free speech rights of the United States Marine Corps by harassing the recruiting center into abandoning its lease.  

Move America Forward has launched a petition drive denouncing the Mayor and the Council, while demanding an apology to the USMC at its website www.moveamericaforward.com

The response was so overwhelming it crashed the site within minutes after launching, fueled by intense coverage from bloggers, talk radio, Internet, television reports and pro-troops organizations like the American Legion, Vets for Freedom, Gathering of Eagles and EaglesUP. 

Patriots such as Michelle Malkin are reporting this story in depth: 

Talk back to Berkeley: Sign the petition; Update: Troop-bashers go berserk, chain themselves to recruitment center; mayor wants to evacuate Marines

SFGate photo gallery of the siege at the Marine recruitment center.

Update 2/2: The Marine recruitment center in Berkeley is under siege and anti-war zealots are completely unhinged…   Move America Forward plans to deliver the protest petitions at the Berkeley City Council's next regularly scheduled meeting on February 12th.

 “We are looking at all options to stop Berkeley from issuing gifts of public funds, such as free parking spaces, and violating the Constitution,” said Catherine Moy, Executive Director of Move America Forward. “We have contacted all branches of our government to redress these issues, and will explore all legal, legislative and executive avenues to stop the injustice perpetrated by the Berkeley City Council.”   A national backlash erupted last week over Berkeley’s attack on Marines.  Mayor Tom Bates was forced to reconsider resolutions telling America’s heroes they are “intruders.”

Bates has taken a further steps to shutter the doors of the Marine’s recruiting station.

Bates told the Contra Costa Times that he would broker a deal to release the Marine’s from their building lease. But the Marines said they will stay. 

 “Mayor Bates, in his arrogance, has crossed the line by trying to steal the Marine’s First Amendment Rights, and we will not stand for this treasonous behavior. His stunning offer to "broker a deal" to release the Marine's from its building lease shows the depth of his contempt for our military men and women,” said Melanie Morgan, chairman of Move America Forward. “Our group will stand with the Marines until their attackers stop.”

The Berkeley council on Tuesday passed two resolutions condemning the Marines as part of a campaign by anti-war activists to shut down the recruiting center.

The council also gave Code Pink, a leftist group that daily harasses the Marines with hate speech, a free parking place and noise permit.

Move America Forward (Move America Forward), initiated a campaign for people to call and email the rogue City Council. Thousands of e-mails, calls and letters of denunciation have poured into the offices of Bates and other council members who support the efforts to drive the USMC out of town.Move America Forward applauds the proposed legislation by U.S. Senator Jim DeMint to strip Berkeley of all pork barrel spending, amounting to $2.1 million dollars. 

A companion bill in the House is now being prepared.

Call your Congressional representatives first thing on Monday to demand Berkeley is punished for punishing our Marines!  

Berkeley, CA City Council Roster and Contact Information: http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/citycouncil/general/councilroster.html 

UPDATE: Zombietime.com wandered over to the Marine Recruiting Center today and has posted his photos and commentary.

UPDATE: Pat Dollard.com weighs in ... so many blogs are reporting on this story that I could be here all night linking.  Our message has gone viral. I can't cross post to everyone who is reporting because a) I'm not computer proficient enough, and b) I'm trying to live my life with my family. So many, many thanks to everyone who is helping to spread the message. I am grateful to all of you. 

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More comment on the Berkeley fiasco by Melanie Morgan, radio talk show host in Nothern California and co-founder of Move America Forward.

Her website is MelanieMorgan.Com

[GVnana]

Oooh! This is getting good. I hope Bay Area Freepers can make themselves available for a good old-fashioned counter demonstration.

[sierrahome]

We have plans

[boxerblues]

bump for later

[Doctor Raoul]

http://www.bayareanewsgroup.com/multimedia/iba/2008/player/?f=0131_codepink

Disgusting Pinkos and the Berkeley Donut Detection Squad.

[Doctor Raoul]

BERKELEY POLICE MISSION STATEMENT
"We try to be neutral.
We're the Swizerland of Law Enforcement"

[xtinct]

1. Cut off ALL federal funding to the town of Berkeley, CA as well as federal funding to universities and schools in a 20 mi radius - permanently.

2. Arrest and deport the mayor and his family for interfering with the Marines in a time of war.

3. Arrest and deport any activists who are interfering with the Marines in a time of war.

Time for the feds to move in on the traitors.

[navyguy]

Every federal asset, including the FBI and all all other Fed offices, should be pulled out of Berkeley. All Fed funding should be terminated immediately.

After that, wall it off and sell it to North Korea for one dollar.

[Camel Joe]

LISTEN UP MAGGOTS, time to check the address of EVERY COMPANY you do business with and if ANY are located in Berkeley CA then SEVER the relationship. If anyone here can provide a list of companies in Berkeley from perhaps their own Gub’ment site or their Chamber of Commerce then please do so. I believe we can choke off the funds (TAX DOLLARS) of these SOCIALIST PIGS!!!

[rogue yam]

UPDATE: Zombietime.com wandered over to the Marine Recruiting Center today and has posted his photos and commentary.

Point of order: Zombietime is a website run by an individual named Zombie who is a she.

[atomic conspiracy]

There is a precedent for this, another case in which a local government sought the forcible removal of a federal facility in their midst. The year was 1861, the government was the secessionist regime of South Carolina, and the facility was Fort Sumter.

Nowhere in Constitutional or common law is the right of free speech construed to include the right to forcibly prevent others from conducting their lawful business.
In facilitating this outrage, the seditionist regime in Berkeley has abrogated its constitutional duty to protect the conduct of lawful business and it has attempted to annul acts of the Federal government, specifically the various acts that allow the Marine Corps to engage in recruting. In openly attempting to deny use of the facility to the Federal authorities, it has placed itself in the same position as the South Carolina secessionists.

It should be dealt with accordingly.

Berkeley has seceded from the Union. This recruiting office is our Fort Sumter in the showdown with the pop-left and the rebel media.

The federal government must organize a task force of marshalls and, if necessary, troops; march into Berkeley; secure the recruiting office; seize city hall; and arrest every official and police commander involved in this act of rebellion.

[Clock King]

Glad someone called it treason.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Those people are so twisted, that they will take all the protestations as vindication of their views!

[PubliusMM]

And, it couldn’t happen in a better locale than the People’s Republik of Kalifornia, IMO.

At minimum, all Federal funds should be withdrawn. Support Sen. DeMint’s proposal. Call your congress critters. Let them know that this cannot be condoned, even by silence.

Lock and Load.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Several companies are stepping up and telling the berkeley communists that they will no longer do business there.

Mayor Bates,

In that you and your city have chosen to gravely insult the brave men and women, who have indeed bought you that right with their blood, I am informing you that my company will no longer do business with any of our current suppliers located in the Berkeley, California metro area. In that my company is in international resort real estate development, and do business with and am associated with, developers and investors worldwide, I am informing all of my contacts, associates and patrons that we will no longer do any business of any sort with anyone living in the Berkeley area.

In that we/MDG Resorts are currently building a state of the art mega-yacht marina, all of the suppliers of Marina equipment, all owners of Yachts , all suppliers of Yacht materials & supplies, all yacht brokers and all tangential yacht business purveyors will likewise be informed that we will not do any business whatsoever with anyone from the Berkeley area.

Likewise all suppliers of building materials, both interior and exterior, currently associated with any of our several resort developments (Brisamar 300+ villas and 200+ condos: Porto Hussong, www.portohussong.com 500+ condos, 180 slip mega-yacht marina) both of which I might add have international recognition by virtue of glowing reports in Robb Report, Wall Street Journal, Yacht World, Forbes. I will likewise inform all of our investors, most of whom are very wealthy yacht owners, casino owners, high net worth international businessmen, of our decision to essentially boycott all products and providers located in, or associated with in any way whatsoever, Berkeley, Ca.

Trust me when I say that having been in the real estate development business for over 35 years, our list of contacts and associates is long and very, very impressive. We, and I personally, are going to recomend that they ALL along with us boycott your city, its purveyors, suppliers, and businesses and CHARITIES of every kind.

You have every right to choose to take the obnoxious anti-military stance you have taken, and as stated, that right was bought for you with the blood of better men than you.

I too have every right to do all that I can to insure that your city suffers consequences arising from that obnoxious, sickening stance.

Cordially,

Brian G Dennard

Principal

Director

Meridian Development Group, LLC

619 807 2444

www.mdgresorts.com

www.portohussong.com

[Syncro]

Please don’t post a long list of business to boycott in Berkeley on this thread.

And no threats.

A thread was pulled the other day because of those reasons.

Thanks

Thanks for your passionate concern, there is a lot we can do.

[GVnana]

OMG. I just saw the pics on zombietime. Lord give me strength.

Reminds me of the 60s and the Oakland Army Depot. The Hells Angels just came in a beat the crap of the hippies.

In this case the only "men" are in the recruiting office.

[Syncro]

Thanks for that info.

See also This Thread for another boycotter who will deprive Berkeley of over a Million $ in the next 5 years.

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

I saw the photos, and I think it’s time for a hickory shampoo.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I did - I wish we knew the company so we could send thanks!