Berkeley wars: The hippies strike back

Proving again that you can lead a hippie to logic but you can’t make him think, Berkeley’s protest crowd has announced plans for another daylong confrontation in front of the Marines recruiting center today.

This despite already costing the city $93,500 for police overtime, supplies and other costs related to Tuesday’s Pinko-Palooza event as the council met to reconsider the wording on its letter telling the Marines to get out of town, according to preliminary figures.

Thursday saw the Code Pink harridans using their city-sponsored parking space and noise permit to stage a “kiss-in,” in which they offered themselves to passers-by as some sort of war protest, as seen in these photos by Doug Oakley of the MediaNews Group:

The pink pixies sang love songs, made Valentines for their fellow communists, and hugged and kissed each other and anyone who cared to join in. Seemingly, the plan was to gross-out the Marines into leaving.

Today, Code Pink, World Can’t Wait — Drive Out the Bush Regime and other leftists are planning to try to shut down the recruitment center.

Said Giovanni Jackson, a student organizer with World Can’t Wait, “We are definitely vowing to shut it down (today) and we are determined to continue this struggle until it’s shut down (permanently).”

City officials, meanwhile, are apparently quite pleased with the ruckus they’ve encouraged, and they are getting tacit support from liberal lawmakers in D.C.

Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), who touts himself as a big supporter of veterans, withdrew his own amendment to the Indian Health Care bill rather than allow Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) to piggyback the Semper Fi Act on it in an effort to overcome the anonymous hold the Democrats have cravenly put on the legislation.

Obviously, Berkeley officials have money to burn and plenty of allies in Congress to help them avoid responsibility. Supporters of the Marine Corps have a long fight ahead.