We Support Hate The Troops
By Mitch Berg
Berkeley not only tries to shut down a Marine recruiting station, it gives Code Pink preferential treatment to carry out their harassment!
[the Berkeley City Council] voted 8-1 to tell the U.S. Marines that its Shattuck Avenue recruiting station “is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders.”
OK, so we’re used to Berkeley (and San Francisco, and Minneapolis for that matter) “sending” stupid “messages”.
But this bit here…
In a separate item, the council voted 8-1 to give Code Pink a designated parking space in front of the recruiting station once a week for six months and a free sound permit for protesting once a week from noon to 4 p.m.
In other words, in parking-strapped Berkeley, the City Council is lending city property to a protest group!
Can every protest group expect that sort of consideration?
Doy…:
“I believe in the Code Pink cause. The Marines don’t belong here, they shouldn’t have come here, and they should leave,” Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates said after votes were cast….The recommendation to give Code Pink a parking space for protesting and a free sound permit was brought by council members Linda Maio and Max Anderson.
Some peoples’ freedom of speech is more important than yours, obviously. At least, it is in Berkeley.
Code Pink on Wednesday started circulating petitions to put a measure on the November ballot in Berkeley that would make it more difficult to open military recruiting offices near homes, parks, schools, churches libraries or health clinics. The group needs 5,000 signatures to make the ballot.
In other words, zoning them like pr0n shops.
But here’s the part I like; it’s not entirely one-sided!
Because not only does the story note (as I did, years ago) that the Pinkers are stupid and ignorant – they’re lousy neighbors!:
Even though the council items passed, not everyone is happy with the work of Code Pink. Some employees and owners of businesses near the Marines office have had enough of the group and its protests.
“My husband’s business is right upstairs, and this (protesting) is bordering on harassment,” Dori Schmidt told the council. “I hope this stops.”
An employee of a nearby business who asked not to be identified said Wednesday the elderly Code Pink protesters are aggressive, take up parking spaces, block the sidewalk with their yoga moves, smoke in the doorways, and are noisy.
“Most of the people around here think they’re a joke,” the woman said.
A joke? Really? Seems a little…
…well, accurate. It seems their Pinkers aren’t any smarter than ours are:
Fran Rachel, 90, a Code Pink protester who spoke at the council meeting, said the group’s request for a parking space and noise permit was especially important because the Marines are recruiting soldiers who may die in an unjust war.
“This is very serious,” Rachel said. “This isn’t a game; it’s mass murder. There’s a sickness of silence of people not speaking out against the war. We have to do this.”
“Our opponents are mentally ill”.
Oh, I’m looking forward to seeing those dimwitted old crones at the RNC.
Really, really, I am.
UPDATE WITH BOOYAH: The American Legion says “Berkeley Delenda Est“. Legion leader Marty Conatser does to the Berkeley Flower Children and the Pinkos what the Marines did to Peleliu (via Michelle):
“Osama bin Laden couldn’t have said it better,” American Legion National Commander Marty Conatser said of the Berkeley City Council Resolution, which tells the Marines that they are not welcome there. “Disgraceful, disloyal, ungrateful. These words are too kind in describing the actions of the public officials in Berkeley, who voted for this disgrace. Nonetheless, our Marines continue to bravely serve and in so doing, allow Americans to spout such foolishness. The American Legion not only strongly condemns this action by the City Council but also believes that a sincere apology is in order to all Marines, past and present.”…“I have been a recruiter in the National Guard and I know that it’s tough duty, with long hours,” Conatser said. “What these recruiters do is essential to our national security. Without recruiters we have no military. And I don’t think we can count on the flower children from Berkeley to protect this nation when it comes under attack. They have to remember that Marines are not the enemy; the terrorists are.”
“Remember”? They have to learn it in the first place.
Remember; if some tinhorn city government can vote to make the Marines (or any other body of government) “unwanted and unwelcome intruders”, they can do it to anyone.
February 1st, 2008 at 8:44 am
Wish I could come up with something witty to say, but can’t. The only thing is that many Democrats try to distance themselves from extremist bigots like these people. But I did see the DFL, codepink and Moveon.org share a fundraising table across the street from the St Paul farmers market in Lowertown a while back.
February 1st, 2008 at 8:45 am
“Oh, I’m looking forward to seeing those dimwitted old crones at the RNC.”
The more I think about it, the more the looney Democratic left doesn’t bothr me. 20 years ago, MSM would only portray them in a good light. Now we can expose what they really are.
February 1st, 2008 at 9:37 am
Ish. I can just see them. “Yoga moves” for God’s sake.
February 1st, 2008 at 10:11 am
“Yoga moves”
bet the big favorite is “downward looking dog”
February 1st, 2008 at 10:16 am
Wait just a minute, here – the Code Pinker’s were SMOKING IN DOORWAYS? Good lord! How did they not get the cops called on them?
February 1st, 2008 at 10:16 am
Clove cigarettes or pot, obviously.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:49 am
Actually the Pink Crud Crew is doing the Marines a favor. Wading through a mob of anti-American supporters of terrorism is good training for recruits.
All that’s missing is the M16A4 service rifle that will clear the way for them in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:52 am
Heh, now that I think of it, if new recruits were issued an M16 on the way to the station they could return the training favor by teaching Pink Crud a new Yoga posture:
Duck under Prius
February 1st, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Senator DeMint just gave a scathing response to the City of Berkenstock:
“The First Amendment gives the City of Berkeley the right to be idiotic, but from now on they should do it with their own money.”
“If the city can’t show respect for the Marines that have fought, bled and died for their freedom, Berkeley should not be receiving special taxpayer-funded handouts,” he added.”
And check Free Republican’s counter-protest signs created in ’06 for the Pinkos:
http://www.freedomdogs.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2602&Itemid=1
February 1st, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Lassie, Fox News shows the earmarks that Berkeley is getting….outside the anti-military issue, it shows what a waste of money gov’t spends. It’s not the fed’l gov’t’s job to fund little local projects.
I wish I could vote for a congressman who says “vote for me and I will bring home very little free money to the district”.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Actually Chuck, you can….if you live in MN CD2. Rep. John Kline has decided that the earmark culture of Washington has gotten silly and has pledged to no longer use them.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Kevin, I live within site of CD2…like 100 yards, but unfortuntely it is Betty “Ruble” McCollum’s area (aka..the person who makes Amy Klobuchar look like a PhD).
I am on the board of directors of a non-profit and somewhat active in a couple of others. We get zero gov’t handouts and do quite well (or at least good enough). Internet searches will show what the fed’l gov’t spends and it’s nuts.
February 2nd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
The only thing I found pleasure in Code Pink was when Hillary Clinton spoke to them pre-Iraq War. Clinton tried to defend her vote to authorize the President to launch the strike in Iraq, when that didnt work she tried to find common ground on blasting the President’s tax cuts. Finally Clinton had to retreat when she couldnt take the challenge from what she thought would be an easy liberal ally. Check it out on youtube, its great to see Hillary for the hypocrite she is.