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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.

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Here is what I posted on Another Thread:

This guy...

...is the head of the Chamber of Commerce of Berkeley.

I was standing across the street from the Marine Office and he started talking to me.

About how these kind of events are ruining the businesses in Berkeley.

And that they are very damaging to the city.

I asked him if he lived in Berkeley, and he said no.

It was then that he told me he was head of the C of C.

He kept pretty much saying the same thing over and over while I tried to tell him why we came today.

And told him it wasn't us, but the code pink, ANSWER, World Can't Wait and various other commie groups that have disrupted his (his?) little town.

When I tried to impress upon him that it was the antagonizers of the Marine Office that he needs to have stop their subersive actions, he would interrupt me every time.

He would not entertain the thought of stopping code pink, etc, but was very negative about a Positive Support Rally for the Marine Office.

He would have none of it, and would only focus on our very Positive Troop Support Rally that is and has been ruining business in Berkeley. A true slimy politician.

When I mentioned that the news is out that he and the Mayor have mended fences and are united in purpose, he said Oh, that's what the media says, not what is really true.

So I asked him (he had that camera pointed at him all this time) what is the truth then, and he waffled and said that he had talked to the leaders of the rally a little earlier and I could ask them.

I told him, why not tell me with this camera here so we can know the truth.

He didn't want to go on record with any statement at all.

I backed away, and he did start talking to the camerawoman and I watched for a minute of so, and then the speakers started so I left him with the lady with the camera.

Her is A Link to an article from the Contra Costa Times about the Chamber's meeting with the Mayor.

Oh, so now the war cost $ 3 trillion and we killed 1,000,000 Iraqis?

Why stop there? Why not $ 5 trillion and 2 million Iraqis?

And where we these bleeding hearts when Saddam Hussein was committing mass murder and filling trenches with hundreds of thousands of his own citizens?

Oh, that’s right. Only the US commits large scale murder of innocents.

Watch these statistics( $ 3 trillion and 1,000,000 Iraqis dead) get more and mre play until they become accepted fact.

Libs always like round numbers like 100,000 and 1,000,000 to describe anything they are poushing. They don’t have a clue and they know it is a lie, but it’s OK—the end justifies the means.

Here is the interesting thing...spring and summer are coming...and likely more protests. Each all-day episode on a weekend is costing the city $100,000 in police overtime. By October....the city council will meet to discuss a problem with the budget (yep, they will finally change the topics of the council meeting). Basically...they need to increase property taxes on the rich...and maybe another quarter cent on the sales tax. This will stir up folks and quickly make protests of any sort a very threatening topic. There isn’t a city this size in America...that can afford $500,000 a month on police overtime. If I were the mayor or council...I’d wake and realize the light at the end of this tunnel...and it won’t be a pretty situation to get out of.

"We approach the (Marines) issue from different aspects, but at the end of the day, we all want what's good for Berkeley," Garrett said.
"I think this has strengthened the relationship with the mayor. We were disappointed (about actions against the Marines); however, it is fostering an understanding between the City Council and the business community."

And it looks like what is "good" for the City is for the C of C to rescind their reprimand of the Council for their desire to boot the Marines from town.

Notice the "were disappointed." Which can only mean they aren't anymore.

That is what I told him without even being aware of his words, but just had learned what the outcome of the meeting was. He denied his own words when I gave them back to him on the street.

This guy when I talked to him yesterday, this article is close to what I told him, and he said the media reported it wrong.

Well, it seems he is perfectly happy to have "an understanding between the City Council and the business community."

I think he is referring to his org, the C of C as the business community.They just don't seem to get the fact that if they allow (and support) a group to harass one of their businesses, all of them will suffer.