Posted on 02/12/2008 8:02:15 AM PST by Gopher Broke
Fury Builds in Berkeley Over City's Anti-Military Resolutions
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
February 12, 2008
(CNSNews.com) - It will be another noisy day in Berkeley, Calif., as pro-military and anti-war protesters gather outside the city council chamber to weigh in on three anti-military resolutions the council passed last month.
Move America Forward, a pro-troop group, is leading a contingent of pro-military and veterans' groups in what it describes as a "giant, all-day, protest."
The controversy involves a Marine Corps recruiting station that moved to the liberal bastion of Berkeley in December 2006.
At its Jan. 29, 2008 meeting, the Berkeley City Council passed three controversial resolutions: One said the Marine recruiting station "is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders."
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BTTT!!!!
Keep it up Berkeley City Council. If you’ve been paying attention you may have noticed that anti-war fever isn’t shaping up to be the campaign issue you twits had expected it to be. Just keep reminding voters all across the country what kind of people will be further empowered by a vote for the Dims.
Reading stories in and around the Bay Area on this subject, it’s annoying how many times mayor tom bates is referred to as a former “Army captain,” as if that grants his anti-Americanism some legitimacy. Face it, Benedict Arnold was an Army general, but it didn’t make him any less treasonous or contemptible a human being.
bates gets no cachet from the term; rather it only serves to magnify his crime.
Without the military, the berzerkly city council would not be free to pass these gutless resolutions.
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