Berkeley wars: Code Pink bust

The pettiness continues in Berkeley, with about 40 members of Code Pink and a group called The World Can’t Wait — Drive Out the Bush Regime — or as friends know them, TWCWDOBR (whew, someone was hitting the Hippie Helper when they thought of that one) — conducting their weekly bitch session outside the Marine recruiting center.

Not content with annoying locals, and dearly missing the spotlight they had a few weeks ago, a couple of the biddies from Code Pink went and got themselves arrested Friday after they invaded the recruiting center and splayed themselves out on the floor. Police gave the pair every opportunity to get up and leave, having made their point, but the women, ages 52 and 45 (or as parents used to say, “old enough to know better”) decided they really wanted a chance to grab soap in the big house.

Prior to Butch and Cassidy’s shenanigans, the weekly protesters outside had done their part to stir up trouble by plastering the recruiting center windows with stickers and signs.

When Marine Capt. Richard Lund stepped outside to remove the signs, he was accosted by the protesters, one of whom slapped a bumper sticker on his back.

When a Berkeley police officer, who took his job seriously, forced the protesters to back off from Lund, the hippies turned to confront the officer. Lund, a man of admirable restraint in the best Marine tradition, declined to prosecute.

The punchline of this week’s Berkeley City Council puppet show, however, is that joining the Code Pinkies and TWCWDOBRers (erers?) were members of yet another group (liberal pack mentality in action) called Cop Watch (or “copwatch,” as libs don’t believe in capital letters or spaces). Cop Watch was there because of their “concerns” about police crowd control tactics at the rallies. (Apparently, the phrase “stop that” is hate speech.)

Bright light in Berkeley: Also on Friday, at the campus, a group calling itself Students Against Hippies in Trees protested against some idiot calling himself “Fresh,” who has been living in a tree on the edge of campus for two weeks to protest a laundry list of things that seems to change whenever he’s asked. “Fresh” left the tree and was cited by police. Even in the darkness there is hope. …