If I lived in Berkeley, I'd move.
From Move America Forward:
The City of Berkeley, California has passed two resolutions attacking the United States Marine Corps, calling the Marines, “uninvited and unwelcome intruders in the city.”
The Berkeley City Council voted to condemn the Marines on Tuesday night (January 29th) as part of a campaign by anti-war activists to shut down a U.S. Marine Recruiting Center located in the city of Berkeley.
The votes by the Berkeley City Council were immediately condemned by Move America Forward (website: www.moveamericaforward.org), the nation’s largest grassroots pro-troop organization.
“It is disgraceful that in the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, anti-military activists would attempt to silence the same military men and women who serve this country and give their lives to protect the free speech rights of all Americans, including these ungrateful and despicable people on the Berkeley City Council,” said Melanie Morgan, Chairman of Move America Forward.
The actions by the Berkeley City Council followed continuous protests by Code Pink and other anti-military organizations that vandalized and defaced the U.S. Marine Recruiting Center in September 2007.
One of the two resolutions passed by the Berkeley City Council last night granted a parking spot in front of the Marine Recruiting Center to be used by anti-military activists to harass Marine recruiters. The anti-military activists would not need to apply for a sound permit for the next six months – allowing them free reign to disrupt the day-to-day operations by the Marines.
Move America Forward organized a counter-protest in support of the Marines last October that attracted over 400 pro-troop supporters who stood in solidarity of the Marine Recruiting Center.
“We have hundreds of thousands of military men and women serving honorably overseas to protect our freedoms. Imagine how they feel when they go to turn on the news and see that they are being stabbed in the back by shameful people here at home, it’s disgraceful!” said Catherine Moy, Executive Director of Move America Forward.
The Berkeley City Council is a disgrace.
Supporters of the council's actions are disgraceful.
Enough said.
5 comments:
If I lived in Berkeley,
I would demand equal time to show support for the USMC.
If the demand was refused I would sue the city in Federal Court for denying me equal rights.
Good idea.
That's much better than moving.
If Berkeley does not want the Marines in their city, then fine.
But then you should not ask for ANY federal support such as FUNDING for your schools, Roads, taxes and such.
You cannot have the best of both worlds. So think about that before you ask to kick out the people that protect you.
The Berkeley City Council obviously doesn't think at all.
Really disgraceful.
Berkeley City Council members, in league with Berkeley's haughty mayor, have argued that there's no place for the Marine Corps within their fair city. Trouble is, at least for Berkeley's free-thinking, do-it-if-it-feels-good crowd, the Corps has maintained posts in and around the SF Bay Area since the dawn of our republic, while Berkeley city council members, at least one of them a transplant from out-of-state, are in fact the genuine "new arrivals." It's ironic, too, that the mayor himself in May 2007--or at least someone near him--declared Berkeley "...the most all-inclusive city in the U.S." Should any genuinely honest and open-minded person doubt or dismiss the insanity of Berkeley City Council members to this point, do remember that perhaps the majority of them are products of the "...tune in, drop out, and get high" culture so beloved and espoused by absent-minded Timothy Leary, whose atoms now aimlessly float somewhere in the cosmos. The inane decision to 'throw out' U.S. Marines from Berkeley represents yet another goofy instance of what the abuse of illicit drugs have done to those who once argued that they merely wanted to 'save the world.' Mighty hard to save the world once you've lost your mind, I'd say. Forty years ago, we warned our children not to cohabitate without marriage decree, to stay off drugs, and to employ at least a modicum of reason when making important decisions. We're now reaping the bitter fruits of those disastrously failed years, and the future indeed appears bleak for this country should people of this caliber retain a lock on the minds of our dangerously formative, all-too-impressionable young.
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