Comments on: Berkeley wars: The hippies strike back

By: Bryant

Bryant — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:09:24 +0000

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”

By: Jonking

Jonking — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:11:53 +0000

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.

By: Jonking

Jonking — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:43:35 +0000

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.