Posted on 02/19/2008 1:15:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Since the Marine Recruiting Center in downtown Berkeley was locked Friday morning when the World Can’t Wait protesters arrived around 7:30 a.m. aiming to shut it down and risk arrest, the group and its allies from Code Pink and ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and Racism) went to Plan B.
They held a press conference, demonstrated and called out to passing motorists with chants such as, “murder, rape, torture war, that’s what they’re recruiting for.”
They chanted beyond the time that their 2 p.m. sound permit ran out, as noted in a press release sent out by the Berkeley police.
A dozen or so police watched most the day without intervening. Stephanie Tang of World Can’t Wait said she was in touch with police and it appeared that the protests could continue.
Around 4 p.m., Tang said police told her, “The Marines want your signs off their windows.”
Tang told the Planet that the signs had been there all day, outside the locked office and that she could not make the others take them down.
That’s when a large number of officers moved in, shoving protesters out of the way and removed the signs from the window, according to Tang. The protesters were held briefly in the center of Shattuck Avenue and then the police left, Tang said.
There were no arrests.
Nearby Roger Young of Lake Forest, Calif., retired from the army after 30 years, stood with a sign that read: “U.S. Marine Corps Defending Berkeley’s right to be a Laughing Stock since 1975.”
Police could not be reached for further comment.
Meanwhile in Mountain View, Grandmothers for Peace were at the Armed Services Recruiting Center at noon. “They call it a career center,” organizer Gayle Sredaozic told the Planet, noting that their action is in sympathy with protesters that have been speaking out against the recruiting center in Berkeley.
I suspect there are laws on the books that would apply to people like this. And frankly, I wish our government would get off it’s ass and put them to good use.
Only in the bay area would people consider this anything but the march of the degenerates with half-a-set of teeth.
Grandmothers for Peace....? as opposed to the penguins for peace protest at Fishermans Wharf....
ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and Racism)
Sorry, does not equate. Maybe they are too illiterate to figure that one out.
Act Now to Stop War and End Racism.
Okay, at least that works. rofl
These old left-wing broads are living proof that wisdom does not always come with age.
I wish a few of our congressmen or women would speak out with some plain language directed at Berkley (Sh*ttown); obviously Pelosi won’t. Aren’t there some violations of federal laws involved here, and where is the FBI?
gnip...
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. You DO NOT have to donate at the petition site, there will be a page asking for one for the site after you sign, just back out or exit. Your signature will already be on the petition.
Thank you.
All public funding to both cities should be cut for 10 years.
Done
Signed.
Hopefully doing something more important that stopping idiots in Berkeley from making fools of themselves.
Don't waste tax dollars trying to stop or prosecute these idiots, but cut off ALL federal funds to Berkeley, and forbid the national guard from lending any emergency aid to the city of Berkeley.
Tell banks in Berkeley that after 90 days, the FDIC will no longer insure deposits in their banks and that they must notify all their customers of that within 30 days.
Forbid any federal student aid going to any student at the University of California-Berkeley.
End federal aid to their primary and secondary education as well.
If they want to rebel, let them suffer the financial consequences. Give it six months or so, and then arrest the relatively few protesters that remain and either prosecute them or ship them off to mental institutions where they belong if they aren't deemed fit to stand trial.
I live in Mtn. View and these fools are on major street corners with signs protesting the war. On a side note I was in San Francisco this weekend and passed by a Military Recruiting Center and there was anti-military chalk writing all over the sidewalk in front of it. It said something like “code pink was here.” I used my foot to mess up as much as I could out of respect for our military.
A friend of mine has a high school son that’s joining the Marines. He wants to sign up at the Berkeley Marine recruiting station. His dad said he’ll stand outside and smoke.
From what I understand, the Berkeley USMC recruiting station is for officer recruitment from nearby colleges, universities and college grads.
Berkley: The national septic hole, where Hippie Turds and Pee brained Lefties are flushed to.
Thanks; I’ll forward that info to my buddy.
The reason they have the right to their nut-job opinion is because of the military. And aren’t these the same bastards that complain when people try to block the entrance to abortion clinics?
Congrats to your friend’s son for joining the Marines.
Yet why would the dad want to do something-smoking-that harms his own health?
Its cool to snub your nose at the PC crowd.But not at the price of self abuse,so to speak.
What garbage. These people are despicable. Oh yeah - "They support the troops, just not the war." They are a joke and if they happen to fool anybody with their traitorous antics - then those fooled are stupid sheeple.
God bless our men in uniform! (My son included.)
‘Congrats to your friend’s son for joining the Marines.
Yet why would the dad want to do something-smoking-that harms his own health?
Its cool to snub your nose at the PC crowd.But not at the price of self abuse,so to speak.’
Get a grip.
What in the Hell is that creature next to Medea Benjamin or whatever her name is in the first photo?! Is it human?!!
The one with the black “F*ck Bush” t-shirt and Mohawk.
She’s everywhere Medea is, close by her side, I’ve seen it in many photos. Maybe her assistant, maybe her lover, maybe...?
Unless it’s smoking dope, that’s OK in Berkeley, you can almost smell it in the air. Illegal drugs, fine. Legal cigarettes or cigars, no!
Wow....great photos and commentary.
Looks like a lot of fun!
All good ideas, and I signed the petition yesterday, donated some, our reps should not back down on this,shut their water off and let them stew in their own septic juice.
I looked at the photos and now I’m sick. Glad Im 2oo miles away. These spoonfuls of pond scum should NOT be allowed to vote—there is no reason they should be.
Keep telling me that, at least once a day, so I can lose weight...LOL
I friggin’ love it!
Now the whole world is learning what a bunch of traitors they are in Berkeley.
Thanks Code Pinkos...
Semper Fi,
Kelly
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.”
P.J.O’Rourke
So you think its OK to smoke?
So did my friend’s wife whose funeral I went to in 2003 who died at 53 of lung cancer.
Heavy smoker.
‘So you think its OK to smoke?’
Of course it is if you are an adult.
‘So did my friend’s wife whose funeral I went to in 2003 who died at 53 of lung cancer.
Heavy smoker.’
It was still ‘OK’ for him to smoke, but in his case, smoking didn’t work out for him. I know plenty of people who have smoked beyond 53 and yet still live. Some find the tradeoff acceptable and once they become adults choose to smoke. I don’t believe they need a ‘nanny’ to make that choice for them.
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