To: Syncro
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 7:19 AM
Subject: Anti-War Protestors Close Another Recruiting Center
It's the kind of scene you'd expect to see in a foreign land where there was great hostility towards America, but instead it actually happened right here in the United States: a military office is forced to close its doors - security personnel stationed at the gated entrance - to protect the facility from angry demonstrators.
On Wednesday, militant anti-war radicals managed to close the Marine Recruiting Office in Berkeley, CA yet again... it's happened so many times that we've lost count of the number of days that the office has been forced to shut down in the face of anti-military protests.
ABC-San Francisco covered the story, and they included the response by Move America Forward's Melanie Morgan. Melanie explained that MAF has made the strategic decision to avoid large pro-troop events in front of the beleaguered recruiting office, because we don't wish to add to the chaos or cause further disruption to the important work of the recruiters there.
Instead, we at Move America Forward will continue to focus our street demonstrations outside the offices of the Berkeley City Council, who called upon citizens to "impede" the work of military recruiters - a resolution that they have refused to rescind.
WATCH THE ABC REPORT HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrvzGdELaCc You can help us keep up our pushback, including the airing of this television ad that's been on the airwaves nationwide:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMEWflz-L8I&
When I watched the interview in the ABC link above, it seemed to convey that MAF would not counter-protest when the anti-American crazies stage an event in front of a Military Recruiting Office in order to not incense the mentally deficient crazies to more foaming at the mouth spewing.
I do believe the office could be normally closed on Saturdays, but I don't know.
If it is open, the rally tomorrow should make it easier for people to go in and enlist.
This is one of several offices in the Bay Area, and sometimes it is closed on a normal business day as the recruiters are at another office.
Thanks for the info!