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Marines Unwelcome In Berkeley
Berkeley is living up to its hard-earned moniker. Berzerkeley. The City council has voted 8-1 branding the U.S. Marine Corps recruitment center as "uninvited and unwelcome intruders." It also voted 8-1 to grant the hard-left organization Code Pink a designated parking space in front of the USMC office and sound permit for protesting the Marine Recruitment Center.
Also, from the insidebatarea.com:
In addition, the council voted to explore enforcing its law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation against the Marines because of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. And it officially encouraged the women's peace group Code Pink to impede the work of the Marines in the city by protesting in front of the station.
Here we have a set of publicly elected officials who are explicitly encouraging a leftist organization to impede recruitment functions of the Armed forces.
Okay, we are talking Berkeley here, and it has been about as far left as one can imagine for decades. It is doubtful that the eight city council members will be voted out; more than likely the lone descanter will get the axe at the ballot box.
The Federal Government should respond in kind by eliminating all Federal funding to Berkeley. All of it. Whether it is for city administration, schools (including higher education) health and welfare services, and so on, cut it off. The State of California should also step in and do likewise to any and all State level funding.
"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.
And this is from a guy who asserts his priorities as mayor include restoring civility to Berkeley government.
(City councilman Max) Anderson, a former Marine who said he was "drummed out" of the corps when he took a stand against the Vietnam War, said he'd love to see the Marines high-tail it out of town."We are confronted with an organization that can spend billions of dollars on propaganda," Anderson said. "This is not Okinawa here; we're involved in a naked act of aggression. If we can provide a space for ordinary people to express themselves against this kind of barbarity, then we should be doing it."
Anderson is one of the two council members who pushed hard to get special treatment for the Code Pinkos, thus infringing on the free-speech rights of the USMC. Although he is right that Berkeley is not Okinawa, a Marine Recruitment office does not constitute "naked aggression." It would be more accurate to say that the acts of the Berkeley City Council is an "act of naked aggression" in league with hard-left, pro-terrorist organizations.
The City of Berkeley needs to hang a new sign out in front: Terrorists Welcome!
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