Posted on 02/09/2008 12:43:45 AM PST by JohnHuang2
February 9, 2008 The troop-bashers in Berkeley, Calif., are at it once more. But this time, the rest of America lashed back. Message to the Left Coast: It's not the 1960s anymore.
On Jan. 29, the Berkeley City Council passed several measures targeting the lone Marine recruitment office in town. The antiwar harridans at Code Pink have been picketing the center for months. Last fall, they defaced the building by slapping a sign that read "assasination" (sic) in the military office window. Instead of rising to defend the recruiters' property rights, the city council and mayor voted to sabotage them further. They granted Code Pink special parking privileges directly in front of the Marines' workplace to facilitate their protests — and also offered them a free sound permit for six months.
In the home of the free speech movement, the peace and love mob abused the power of government to help drive the Marines out of the city. They proceeded with zoning changes to treat recruiting centers like porn shops. They encouraged residents to continue to impede the recruiters' work. Never mind federal law making it a crime to willfully obstruct the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States. If that weren't blood-boiling enough, the Berkeleyites put the troops under further siege by voting to send a letter to the U.S. Marine Corps calling them "uninvited and unwelcome intruders."
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The petition
We, the undersigned condemn the Berkeley City Council’s treasonous attack on US Marine Recruiters stationed in their city. We ask that Congress cut off funds from any and all municipal entity within the confines of the city of Berkeley, California, until such time as the city council withdraws it’s action.
The City Council has voted to tell the Marines their downtown recruiting station is not welcome and “if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome guests.”
The measure passed last week by a vote of 8-1.
The council also voted to explore enforcing a city anti-discrimination law, focusing on the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
In a separate item, the council voted, also 8-1, to give the Marxist protest group Code Pink a parking space in front of the recruiting office once a week for six months and a free sound permit for protesting once a week.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/cutoffberkeleynow
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This is great. It is no longer the 60’s, and it’s great to see the anti-Americans on the run.
Is Berkeley in France?
Never mind federal law making it a crime to willfully obstruct the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States.
Is there a lawyer in the house?
The Berkeley Police, Mayor and City Council all need to be brought up on charges.
Evidence abounds.
And code pink should be allowed to go to Cuba again. To Gitmo. Inside this time.
Fox showed the elderly hags in their hippie rags strumming guitars in front of the Marine recruitment center. Hilarious.
Well, at least they aren’t at a nursing home, sopping up taxpayer money with free medical care. Instead, they are providing entertainment for the Marines inside, who are probably laughing their heads off.
Jim DeMint ping too!!!!
Sounds like Hitler calling Bush an evil Nazi......
Which isn't to say they don't hate the Marines. They do, just as lefties have always hated the Marines (because the Marines epitomize martial excellence). What they don't want is to be seen as hating the Marines.
As usual, everything about the Left is a lie.
This is a direct result of lowering the voting age to 18.
http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Home.aspx
Don’t forget to give them a call, it works!
At least one South Carolina senator has work to do in DC--Little Lord Lindsey just trots around the McCain path, always ready to offer him a footrub.
Actually, it’s a direct result of letting those vote who have an IQ of 18. Not to mention hold office in Berkeley.
Isn’t there a rule?
Berkely should be stripped of its Community Development Block Grants and any other federal grants that assist businesses, housing, and infrastructure as well.
Are you sure that’s all Little Lord Lindsey is offering? ;0)
My point was that most of the voters in Berkeley are students (between 18 and early 20s). They outnumber the long term (and taxpaying) residence of Berkeley. The college students vote for Socialist but do not have to live in the mess they create.
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