Catherine Moy: Berkeley Buckling After Attack on Marines

Move America Forward ^ | Thursday, April 03, 2008 | Catherine Moy

[Syncro]

An Oregon Ducks football fan club and a Lafayette golf club are among the groups that have canceled junkets to Berkeley this fall, Wozniak said. A San Diego resort developer said he canceled three contracts with Berkeley suppliers and has persuaded other businesses to follow suit.

[Syncro]

More about Berkeley

[Enterprise]

Hey Bezerkley - fix the potholes and quit smoking the pot ya morons.

[vpintheak]

Couldn’t have happended to a nicer bunch of leftists.

[Leo Carpathian]

Way to go!
Time to stand up to morons!

[Judith Anne]

So, Berkeley is closing firehouses, and not fixing their potholes, but feels that the Marines shouldn't be there.

Fine. I'll never go to Berkeley. And they shouldn't be getting any federal funds, either. I don't want my tax dollars going to ANYbody who wants the Marines to leave town and who encourages Code Pink.

[goldstategop]

Nothing better than to see leftists lose dollars because of their contempt and disdain for our military. Berkeley is learning that has real world consequences.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[A_Former_Democrat]

Indeed it is, as leftists are incapable of self-support.

[penelopesire]

Way to go MAF!!

[navyguy]

Berkeley should be walled off and sold to North Korea for a dollar.

[RandallFlagg]

Berkeley made their choice. Now they’re going to have to live with it.

[Syncro]

Naw, it's part of my country.

We'll just let them continue to self-destruct with their self-rightous City Council, Mayor and Chamber of Commerce.

The more they spin the situation and pat each other on the back with their vacuous platitudes, the ditzier they become and the more money they lose.

Even though the CofC tried to say some positive things, they got tripped up in their own PC words.

[ConfidentConservative]

I love the Ducks! Go Ducks!

Berkeley deserves the bed it has made.

[Purrcival]

Speaking truth to morons, maybe?

[dk88]

Go DUCKS

[SmithL]

Here's a thread about the Chronicle story: Calls renewed to fix Berkeley's citizen boards

[Syncro]

I found this on Melanie Morgan's website, from the end of last month:

Overtime Costs Berkeley, Boycott Hurts Bottom Line

Written by Melanie Morgan   

Saturday, 29 March 2008

Digital Journal and its amazing writer Susan Duclos is reporting on financial woes for the city of Berkeley due to protests, backlash and overtime costs.

(Susan Duclos, Digital Journal, via google) 

Read the latest here.

Oops!

I don't know how I missed this one, but the launch of the new website to Boycott Berkeley www.BrigadeAmerica.com  is featured in the Washington Times.

One of our (former) top spooks at the CIA is pitching in to help punish the Berkeley City Council for calling our Marines 'unwelcome and unvited intruders.'

And now back to Susan Duclos, also known as 'Spree' at her own website called "WakeUpAmerica." Susan has more here on MAF's Monday march to US Attorney's office with demands to investigate and prosecute civil rights violations in Berkeley, Ca. on February 12th.

Here's the beginning of Susan Duclos' report:

Saturday, March 29, 2008

The Financial Cost to Berkeley California For Their Anti-Military Stance

[Update] 4/3/08- Another business leaves Berkeley.

Berkeley California has been the subject of news for months since the City Council of Berkeley issued a resolution calling the Marines "uninvited and unwelcome intruders." They later rescinded that resolution, but what has it cost them?

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"We feel it's important to have some measure of presence at any type of protest or demonstration," Kusmiss said, adding that the department is worried about the "comingling" of CodePink with the groups the World Can't Wait and the ANSWER Coalition, which police say, unlike CodePink, chain themselves to buildings and purposely antagonize police officers.

Code Pink vows to continue their protests every week until the Marine recruitment center leaves town, as stated by the co-founder of Code Pink, Medea Benjamin, who says, "If people are concerned they should put pressure on the (recruiting center) landlord to break the lease. The recruiters are the ones who should have never come in to Berkeley. If whomever in the city wants to stop the protests, they should encourage the recruiters to leave. Democracy comes at a price."

Benjamin is correct about the price and it does not stop with the financial strain on the city of Berkeley for police over time.

Several good links in this post

[Syncro]

Great, thanks SmithL

[SmithL]

For a while, the Chamber of Commerce was saying all the right things about supporting the Marines, and I was sympathetic. Then they made up with Mayor Bates, and I just don’t care what happens to anybody that keeps electing these anti-Americans to speak for them.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Berkeley CA should be federally de-funded

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