The perps should be given their own public platform from which to speak before we have them "drop" out of our society. Permanently.
Posted on 03/06/2008 9:51:24 AM PST by fight_truth_decay
Attacks against military recruiters and their offices are growing around the United States, spurred by anti-American anarchists who thrash the centers, assault and batter people, and intimidate those who want to serve their country.
Attackers throw rocks, chain themselves to doors, punch and kick, spray paint graffiti, break windows, yell, and generally vandalize recruiting centers across the nation in repeated attacks.
"Counter Recruitment" UNC Video-02/05/08
Code Pink, an anti-war group that gave more than $600,000 to terrorists’ families in Iraq, is calling for anti-military agitators to escalate attacks on U.S. Government offices where the military work with potential recruits on their futures. The group outlines ways for followers to terrorize recruiters, shut down recruiting stations and stop people from exercising the Constitutional rights to pursue their life’s goals.
Anti-war and anarchists groups have already attacked military recruiting centers in Washington, D.C., Berkeley, Calif.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Santa Monica, Calif.; Toledo, Ohio; Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Pittsburgh, Penn.; Haverhill, Mass., and New York, N.Y. This is a partial list.
“Actions by these hateful groups should remind Americans that we have a well-defined enemy living here at home,” said MAF Chairman Melanie Morgan. “This is a danger to our homeland security, and the federal government must take actions to stop the violence. Patriots are standing up to the anarchists, but it is the government’s duty to ensure the safety of its citizens and to end the mayhem.”
The anarchists are heightening violence and feed off their mob hits. They use terrorist tactics to intimidate without leaving prosecutable evidence. Here is a piece linked to the recent vandalism of a south Minneapolis recruiting center, at which two 40-pound rocks were hurled through the windows.
“One of the most effective forms of industrial or military sabotage limits itself to damage that can never be thoroughly proven – or even proven at all – to be anything deliberate. It is like an invisible political movement; perhaps it isn’t there at all. If a bomb is wired to a car’s ignition, then obviously there is an enemy; if public building or a political headquarters is blown up, then there is a political enemy. But if an accident, or a series of accidents, occurs, if equipment merely fails to function, if it appears faulty, especially in a slow fashion, over a period of natural time, with numerous small failures and misfirings- then the victim, whether a person or a party or a country, can never marshal itself to defend itself.”
Though they pride themselves on being “anarchists,” these groups are well organized and disciplined in their attacks. Once an action begins, the fervor of destruction feeds on itself and others join in. The events are not unlike attacks from packs of rabid dogs. In a recent attack on a Washington, D.C., recruiters’ office, a group called Funk the War broke into the office using guerilla tactics. They claim to have outnumbered peace officers while vandalizing the office until “it looked like a tornado had swept through the lobby,” as they said in their own words.
This is how they described their own actions:
After many previous protests had found the 14th st recruiter “closed” at 5PM, Funk the War found them open, and the door unlocked at nearer to 6Pm and promptly exploited the situation by demonstrating to them first hand how an occupying force behaves.
After a loud commotion inside while outnumbered cops watched, recruiters finally managed to get protesters to leave-but not before literature and full-body length cardboard displays in the street window area were destroyed. In addition, hundreds more “Funk the War” stickers were plastered all over just about everything that would take them. By the time everyone was out it looked like a tornado had swept through the lobby.
One recruiter tried to grab an activist but found himself overpowered by SDS’s superior strength and numbers and had no choice but to give up!
A post at the Website from “Anarchi “ chides those who didn’t participate in the mob attack:
“So for all of you naysayers: Where where you last night??? SDS went a trashed a recruiting station what did you do? For SdS: Awesome action, I must say it got escalated and it was pretty rad, a bunch of students who actually give a shit about something going and doing what was right to the government or should I say taxpayer funded offices of child predators in army costumes or as some might know them military recruiters! I hope SdS does more stuff like this in the future or even better stuff.
”Hopefully those dumbass recruiters will get ready to leave, after a smashed window in ‘07 and a trashed inside in ‘08 (and hopefully many more trashings) If they don’t a nice friendly warning: Pack up your crap and leave and there will be no problems but if you stay know this people don’t like you they don’t want you in their communities and they will make sure you leave one way or another!”
The most infamous attacks have occurred in Berkeley, Calif., where Move America Forward and other patriots have pushed back. The Berkeley City Council instigated further actions at the Berkeley Marine recruiting station by issuing free parking permits and noise permits to Code Pink, and passing a resolution encouraging anti-war forces to close down the offices.
The Berkeley City Council refuses to apologize to the Marines and now faces millions of dollars of lost city revenue from nationwide boycotts pushed by powerful businesspeople. Pending legislation would also take away millions of taxpayer dollars from the city for its attack on the Marines. Move America Forward will not stop pressure until the city council rescinds all three of its anti-military resolutions and apologizes to the Marines.
It is past time for leaders in the Senate and House to demand an investigation into the nationwide epidemic of attacks on recruiting stations. U.S. Attorneys should prosecute the agitators. The Constitution provides that the federal government be able to raise an Army during wartime. The escalation in attacks is not only costing taxpayers money, but they could cripple the country’s ability to defend herself. If this isn’t treason, what is?
For more information on what to do about the attacks, go to www.moveamericaforward.org.
Come to think about it...They can’t hide behind the First Amendment anymore...
So our exercising our rights per the Second Amendment could possibly come into play...
I bet the kicking and biting, throwing hard things at people would stop, if a few deadly assaults by them were answered with the appropriate and legal means of force...
Lots of state laws support this kind of thing...
But I guess its up to the individual, and their own personal line in the sand...
I don’t have any reason to go to e recruiting station anymore...But if I had a kid who wanted to go and take a look at what the military has to offer...I suppose if I lived in a freakshow like Berkeley, I’d be accompaning my kid, just because...
Straight up. Chains and metal pipes my friend. Would have been glad to show them how it’s done blue collar style.
Those who oppose military recruiters need to be sent to “reeducation” camps where they can learn that their right to protest military recruiting centers is protected by the same military they are protesting.
After that, they should be placed on a waiting list to have an actual brain transplnted in their heads because, clearly, they have none.
They might understand more if they were to actually have to walk a mile in a soldier’s moccasins.
I’d laugh my ass off if some of these guys tried one of their “occupations” only to find out that they’d stumbled into a recruiting office manned with ex-Rangers, Special Forces, Force Recon, or SEALs.
}:-)4
Government should nip this in the bud before it becomes even more widespread.
If not these creeps will be given something to really protest about......................a draft.
Absolutely right.
Sick, isn't it?
The perps should be given their own public platform from which to speak before we have them "drop" out of our society. Permanently.
Those photos make me proud to be a neighbor of Pittsburgh.
My own feeling is no.
CODE PINK has had a new slogan in regard to Recruiters, of late:
These "Pink" people are antiwar, anti-Bush, true; and hold protests, etc; but they are not, in my belief, the ones that heavily camp out on the more militant sites aforementioned above. That video at UNC was a Veterans Against the War group (looked more college age, however), so would hope a Veteran would not go that route either.
The recruitment center in NYC (03/06/08) was hit before 4AM, so it is about the symbol of what they think is an unjust war. As the militant sounding blogger, in the comments, says it is more difficult for authorities to catch those doing smaller scale anti-establishment acts of violence, on property the blogger emphasizes; which keeps the their mission and their political statements alive and well.
Perhaps the NYC recruitment center had that black powdered "emptied out" grenade tossed at the front door, described in an earlier media story on RC bombings.
Perhaps, a message to the candidates, as they waver on the troop withdrawal process. Obama's newly announced military adviser, General McPeak, in a video (1 yr ago) where he did not blame Bush alone for going into Iraq. He had after all supported efforts by his Bush Sr whom the Gen served under. He specifically blamed experienced leaders who should have known better. He blamed himself and all of those who voted for the sitting President. The General said Bush came into this as an innocent. The General says he favors withdrawal, but with no time line announced. Hillary wants "gradual withdrawal", McCain is what they consider another Bush;so these more fanatical antiwar people might be sending a message to the candidates as they are not hearing from them, what they want to hear.
Just my guess.
It’s “deja vu” all over again—first attack the war, then the warrior.
Just as it did some 40 years ago, the “peace” movement is showing it’s true color—Red! As in the blood they draw from our men and women in the military who have to fight harder and harder, not just against a foreign enemy given strength and encouragement by anti-war sentiment, but against citizens who assume their freedom to march against a war is guaranteed by a piece of paper—and not the flesh and blood sacrificed by those who protect the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.
Next time Code Pink marches, someone might want to remind them that if the lived in Nazi Germany, Communist Russia, Red China or North Korea, they would be marching all right—right into a death camp!
” My own feeling is no.”
Maybe, maybe not. The article leads me to believe otherwise.
Outnumbered? Were these police armed? Did they even fire over the heads of the vandals? Did they even try tear gas? Seems like police ought to at least keep paintball guns available for just this use, if they'd prefer not to use rubber bullets.
That will happen ONLY if conservatives allow their anger at John McCain to take priority over the lives of the members of our Armed Forces.
Not Pink's MO.
Short time ago it was reported they are revisiting info on suspects seen running away at the entrance to the NY/Canadian Border, thereabouts, a while back--not terrorists but authorities called anarchists (trying to inflict emotional terror, nevertheless). An example is like in that commentary above I offered-that type of MO. Those revisited left behind a backpack with photos of various New York City locations including Times Square, according to sources speaking on condition of anonymity said the report.
Seems, in my opinion, a lot of work and planning if related to the Canadian incident, just to toss a small explosive at a door--especially at the time Clinton would receive the phone call (3am-ish) ;)
Don't know how to phrase this, but Pink is filled with old hippies types (not necessarily age based, however) "that probably couldn't ride a bike, chew gum and throw any object with accuracy at the same time; and would never trade their pinks (think of them the Red Hats gone anarchist!) for black anarchist gear. Pink is visible with signs for the media and know how to get under your skin for a verbal fisticuff. They count on the media to get their word out. The ones carrying out these acts seem more Left and Underground (via the net).
But, then I can always be 100% wrong!
Ironically, dissidents are all protected by those that are risking and giving their lives in order that they can protest and be protected in doing so.
No one actually felt threatened-was being filmed and or orchestrated for protest purposes-I suspect authorities thought no lives were in danger and let it play out.
“It is past time for leaders in the Senate and House to demand an investigation into the nationwide epidemic of attacks on recruiting stations”
Unfortunately, they are preoccupied with minimum wage and steroids in baseball.
And encouraging sedition by their supporters.
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