Posted on 02/16/2008 4:28:26 AM PST by TexasCajun
You get what you deserve. If you don’t like it, I suggest business owners ban together and vote out the 5th column.
Ted Garrett sounds like a liberal politician trying hard not to offend anyone while at the same time saying people who boycott Berkeley's business are the ones doing the harm. News flash for you, Ted. Berkeley is not, as you claim, a tremendous gift to America and the rest of the country is telling you why.
Gee, Ted, that'll help waaayyy down the road IF your hard working business owners are still in business and still in Berkeley. My guess is boycotters will continue to boycott until they see some change and a sufficiently groveling apology.
So, Ted, maybe you should organize up a short term, right now confrontation en mass of your business owners with the scummy, belly crawling, little twits who are responsible for their ongoing distress and possible demise.
Perhaps, in addition to no longer donating to the twits' campaigns, the business people could organize to financially support a recall.
It's small and local and wouldn't cost much to get on the ballot for November. If the citizens who DO vote these doodoos in understand that their favorite restaurants, dry cleaners, stores etc. won't be there anymore...
This can be accomplished very cheaply with signs prominently posted near the entrances to the various businesses. Petitions could be signed right on site without having to hire professionals.
That assumes of course that the business owners really are good, hard working Americans who wouldn't have approved of what the dimwits brought down on their heads.
Tolerance has become a disease.
They should be suing the city for this this damage.
Protests Cost Berkeley $100,000 As Action Continues
BERKELEY, Calif. — A clash by pro-military supporters and anti-war protests in Berkeley over a city resolution denouncing Marines on Tuesday cost the city about $100,000 in police and service fees.
On Friday anti-war demonstrators were back in front of the Marine Recruiting Center blocking the doorway and vowing to keep the recruiting office closed.
One activist from the group the World Can’t Wait told NBC11’s Christie Smith that the group planned to continue protests at the office next week.
Scores of activists began pouring into the city last week as the Berkley City Council considered rescinding a letter it drafted last month to a Marines recruiting center telling the Marines they were not welcome in the city.
People were also upset that the anti-war group Code Pink was issued a permit by the city to demonstrate outside of the Marines’ office.
The letter said the Marines at the recruiting office were “uninvited and unwelcome guests” but it was never sent.
On Friday Smith said she did not see any Marine recruiters in the office and Berkeley City Hall did not respond to a request for an interview because it was closed for the Presidents Day holiday.
On Tuesday night the city council acknowledged the recruiters’ right to be in Berkeley and toned down the language of the letter after national outrage and threats of the withholding of federal funds from Congressional leaders.
But the city did not apologize for approving a letter stating that the Marines were “unwelcome intruders” and they remained firmly opposed to the war in Iraq.
On Friday one father of a Marine drove from Orange County to hold a counter protest to the anti-war activists.
Sgt. Mary Kusmiss, with the Berkeley Police Department, said the city had received “six or so complaints” from local businesses about the protestors. She said Berkeley was considering its options to deal with the protestors after their permit expires.
“The group was issued a special events permit from the city of Berkeley to demonstrate in front of the Marine recruiting...from 10-2 p.m.,” Kusmiss said in a written statement. “There have been a fluctuating 50 or so in the group, many of whom are teens (and) young adults. There have been no arrests as of this writing. The group marched to UC and returned.”
http://www.nbc11.com/newsarchive/15315647/detail.html
The Free Speech Movement had long-lasting effects at the Berkeley campus and was a pivotal moment for the civil liberties movement in The Sixties.
It was seen as the beginning of the famous student activism that existed on the campus in the 1960's, and continues to a lesser degree today.
There was a substantial voter backlash against the players involved in the Free Speech Movement.
Ronald Reagan won an unexpected victory in the fall of 1966 and was elected Governor; the newly elected governor directed the UC Board of Regents to dismiss UC President Clark Kerr because of the perception that he had been too soft on the protestors. The FBI had kept a secret file on Kerr.
Re: your #9. I pointed out to a leftie, using stats, figures, surveys, etc. that if the economy is terrible NOW, we must have been in a depression during Clinton’s tenure.
I didn’t see anything wrong with this piece—this guys is trying to chide the city council without burning too many bridges. On the other hand, I think business owners should see the writing on the wall and desert Berkeley. But as long as UC Berekeley is there, they’ll have a fairly good base.
“a chocolate mousse wrapped in a croissant
and covered with powdered sugar.” on Spam!
-they are preparing the way for the dem candidate in the fall.
Yup. We’re going about it all wrong. FReepers should stop taking baths, grow their hair out and start protesting with code pink if they really want to bring conservatism back to American. The backlash will cause a conservative tidal wave.
There is an easy way to solve this. Bush needs to sequester all federal funding designated for Berkeley and issue a statement that Berkeley is outside the United States perimeter of defense.
berkely demonstrators; scumb*ags in action. (just like their democrat comrades in the u.s. congress.)
Not sure if you caught this a few days ago on FR but here’s a nice commentary by Drew Carey on today’s middle class.
http://reason.tv/video/show/61.html
Free speech was gained by the death of millions of Americans wearing the uniform of the American military and the scum of Berkeley had NOTHING to do with it. Without the military there would be NO free speech or any other freedom.
So you have made yourself clear in that you like your scum city are a total idiot.
“I’m still looking for this “weak” economy that the lefties are talking about...’
The weak economy is centered in liberal states and cities where the thieving bureaucrats and politciains destroy business, ignore the crumbling infrastructure, tax everything that moves, harass the citizens with needless rules and nurture crime and pessimism. May I present Detroit, Michigan as example No. 1.
Berkeley-Speak translation:
'F-off you rednecks! It is unfair of you to chastise us and hurt our local economy for expressing our free speech that you hillbillies supposedly cherish so much.'
You ask too much. Get in control of the un American scum on the council. They are YOUR problem NOT ours.
http://www.berkeleychamber.com/calendar/listing.php?PHPSESSID=9ac8edd21439421215cbe1dd23582d34
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