U.S. Senator Wants to Revoke Funding From City of Berkeley, Calif., for Vote to Boot Marines

Fox News ^ | February 1, 2008 | Justin Fishel and Trish Turner contributed to this report.

[mrmargaritaville]

can a conservative please stage a counter protest this summer-I have some frequent flyer miles (to go and join the protest) and I’m not afraid to use them.
Do they feel lucky today?, well do they?

[Mark was here]

It would be real unfortunate if a bee hive was accidentally dropped in front of chained up hippies.

[Wyatt K]

I called by Connecticut Senators and Congressman and asked them to support the Demint legislation!

[Wyatt K]

Don’t worry though, if we fail to support our candidate in the fall, our friends in Berkeley will be running the country!

[nicmarlo]

U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., says the City of Berkeley, Calif., no longer deserves federal money.

d@mn straight they dont!

[Steve_Seattle]

I think Wozniak was the only one to vote AGAINST the anti-military policy.

[matthew fuller]

This Senator (Jim DeMint) needs to be our VP choice! Our most conservative lifetime senator! Thank you Sen. DeMint!

[Wyatt K]

Supposedly, the media got it wrong and the vote was 6-3. I received an e-mail from one of the City Councilors and I thought that was pretty cool that there are a few more sane people on the Berkeley City Council. The E-mail text is here: Subject:RE: Marines Issue - I Called my Fed Reps. Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:32:39 -0800 From: "Worthington, Kriss" To: "Wyatt Kopp" Thanks for your email. Contrary to several newspaper reports, the City Council vote was 6-3 not 8-1. I was one of the NO votes. I expect a correction to appear soon. Kriss W From: Wyatt Kopp [mailto:wyattkopp@yahoo.com] Sent: Fri 2/1/2008 9:32 AM To: Moore, Darryl; Maio, Linda; Anderson, Maxwell; Spring, Dona; Capitelli, Laurie; Olds, Betty; Worthington, Kriss; Wozniak, Gordon Subject: Marines Issue - I Called my Fed Reps. I wanted all of you to know that I have asked my two Connecticut Sentaors and Congressman to support Sen. DeMint's efforts to insure that no federal money is allocated to Berkeley. It is not right to try and drive out or make it difficult for federal operations to take place in your town. You are not experts on foreign policy and are not privy to any special information that makes you qualified to make you sophomoric and arrogant pronouncements on how our foreign policy should be conducted or how federal business should occur. Until I see you consulting with military leaders and receiving the same access to information that the president and members of Congress gets you should stay out of your idiotic attempts to interfere with federal military recruiting and your attempts to advise the federal government from your position of ignorance. Wyatt Kopp Ledyard, CT

[Wyatt K]

If anyone out there does some research you will see that the World Can’t Wait is also protesting the Marines in Berkeley. You will see that the World can’t Wait is a front for some whack job Revolutionary Maoist group.

[sergeantdave]

They can sit there and smoke their dope and think the whole thing is groovy until the organic coops run out of patchouli scented candles and the dead heads and freedom parasites within the walls are beating each other to death with their birkenstocks over the last granola bar.

I have a dream.

LOL! That is hilarious!

[2ndDivisionVet]

The petition

We, the undersigned condemn the Berkeley City Council’s treasonous attack on US Marine Recruiters stationed in their city. We ask that Congress cut off funds from any and all municipal entity within the confines of the city of Berkeley, California, until such time as the city council withdraws it’s action.

The City Council has voted to tell the Marines their downtown recruiting station is not welcome and “if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome guests.”

The measure passed last week by a vote of 8-1.

The council also voted to explore enforcing a city anti-discrimination law, focusing on the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

In a separate item, the council voted, also 8-1, to give the Marxist protest group Code Pink a parking space in front of the recruiting office once a week for six months and a free sound permit for protesting once a week.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/cutoffberkeleynow

If you wish to, please share with your friends or e-mail to your address books.

[davisfh]

Thank you, and I will pass this link on to my group of e-mail correspondents.

Sounds as though those people have erected themselves a new country, doesn't it. Perhaps, at some point in time, they will reflect on their actions and repent. Some are probably already doing that, and I say that because I believe that there are good, patriotic folks everywhere in this country. Sadly, there is an overabundance of fools as well.