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.
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The Semper Fi act is a thoughtless attempt to “punish” an entire city for the momentary recklessness of some elected officials. It would deprive schoolchildren of a program designed to teach them about growing food, defund a program designed to help disabled children, and eliminate badly needed ferry service to help reduce commuter traffic. It would accomplish, meanwhile, absolutely nothing, unless you value (as you appear to) the thrill you get from “punishing hippies.”
And by the way: you could spend a great deal of time in Berkeley, my home town, without ever running into what you call a “communist.” I happen to support Code Pink and oppose the Marines, but I’m nobody’s idea of a collectivist … much more of a libertarian, in the Ron Paul mode. Berkeley is full of free thinkers, which no doubt offends you purebred patriots almost as much as your vision of lesbian communists, or however you imagine us … and free thinkers, whether they tilt left or right, prefer to actually analyze issues and come to their own conclusions … not just simply Salute the Flag and put their brains in neutral.
And there we have liberal “tolerance” in a nutshell: “We’ll tolerate anyone so long as they agree with the liberal party line. Anyone who doesn’t agree is dishonest or confused.”
Berkeley “libertarians” and “freethinkers” (like the longtime protester and intellectual giant who calls himself Dr. Boogerfinger) elected the City Council to represent them. If Berkeley rejects the Marines, then as far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t deserve any of our federal or state taxpayer money, either. Berkeleyites can just volunteer their time like real parents if they want to teach children how marijuana grows. (Berkeley being a marijuana sanctuary city.) As for the “badly needed” ferry service, shouldn’t you all be commuting on foot and in canoes to cut CO2 emissions?
I’ve spent plenty of time in Berkeley, and you can’t swing a cat without hitting some sort of socialist, lesbian or otherwise. If you really were a libertarian, then you wouldn’t want federal government funding of Berkeley projects, and you certainly would not favor government financially backing a private group like Code Pink.
Well, just for you, I’ve even taken my brain out of “neutral” and analyzed the situation, and here’s my very own conclusion: The people in the Marines and other branches of the military are among the finest and SMARTEST people on the planet, deserving of all honor, and Code Pink and their ilk are a bunch of addlepated ingrates who deserve nothing but scorn.
Comment by Jonking — February 15, 2008 @ 9:43 am
Do note that all of us marijuana growing lesbians have paid an estimated $56 million in taxes to support the Iraq incursion since before that mission was “accomplished” … I think that pretty much dismisses any notion of how we “deserve” to lose federal funding (unless George and Dick want to give us our $56 million back, that is).
Actually made you shoulder your share of the burden, eh? Bummer.
Berkeley still doesn’t deserve any federal or state perks after this shameful display of childishness toward the Marines.
You could always secede. … I don’t think anyone would try to stop you at this point.
Comment by Jonking — February 15, 2008 @ 4:11 pm
So let me get this straight. The Code Pink people have the ability to stand in front of the Marine center and look like a cross between a feminist movement and a gay pride parade? I want to go protest in front of their places of work…..oh wait, they don’t work. I forgot. Maybe their homes then. I get so tired of these people saying “We support the troops” I was in the Army and I sure as hell didn’t want this kind of support. This kind of support is like a jockstrap 10 sizes too small. I told my Dad who was in Vietnam “Dad at least in Vietnam the hippies said they hate you. Now they act like they like the troops so they dont get an ass beating”
Comment by Bryant — February 17, 2008 @ 3:09 am