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| Berkeley council tells Marines to leave |
| 2008-01-30 |
| Hey-hey, ho-ho, the Marines in Berkeley have got to go. That's the message from the Berkeley City Council, which voted 8-1 Tuesday night to tell the Marines that its Shattuck Avenue recruiting station "is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders." In addition, the council voted to explore enforcing its law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation against the Marines, and 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. In a separate council item, the council voted 8-1 to give Code Pink a designated parking space in front of the recruiting station once a week for six months and a free sound permit for protesting once a week from noon to 4 p.m. Councilman Gordon Wozniak voted no on both items. The Marines have been in Berkeley for a little more than a year, having moved from Alameda in December of 2006. For about the past four months, Code Pink has been protesting in front of the station. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #13 Gorb, just lucky w/my use of terrain features I guess. ;) |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2008-01-30 23:52 |
| #12 The Few. The Proud. The Marines. Semper Fidelis; Always Faithful Even to the unfaithful. Broadhead6: PACIFISM MEANS NEVER HAVING TO APOLOGIZE FOR BEING A COWARD. Are you a sniper, Broadhead? Given the caps I almost didn't see you hiding between Joe's two comments there! :-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-01-30 23:14 |
| #11 I still can not believe it. The only thing Berkely can do to fight these grunts is to send in Code Pink. ROTFLMAO!!! |
| Posted by: www 2008-01-30 23:09 |
| #10 Code Pink: former college girls so heinous that even drunk frat boys wouldn't screw them. (If I was to make a biosketch of the avg code pinky I'd say they are latently heterosexual women w/lots of pent up sexual frustration w/the deep dark fantasy of doing military guys in uniform - prolly whey they're really hanging out at the RS once a week. Good hunting my fellow Marines - though I'd suggest you bring a razor) |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2008-01-30 22:26 |
| #9 MONTY PYTHON'S HOLY GRAIL > D *** NG IT MEN, RUN, RUN AWAY FROM THE RABBIT - THE WOMEN ARE ATTACKING AND THEY'VE GOT RUSS TANKS + CHINESE COPYRIGHT BEHIND THEM! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-01-30 22:20 |
| #8 PACIFISM MEANS NEVER HAVING TO APOLOGIZE FOR BEING A COWARD. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2008-01-30 22:18 |
| #7 Sanctuary City? IFF I'm reading RIAN, etc correctly, PUTIN's anti-Nuke Terror FLEXIBLE RESPONSE DOCTRINE only requires that a [major/catastrophic]Nuke-WMD Terror event in Russ be proven to orginate from BERKELEY, CA USA, etc. via any [legit]Terror cell, thus requiring a RUSS RESPONSE = ATTACK VIA MISSLES +OR MOTHERLY COMMIE AIRBORNE/RR SPEC UNITS. RED DAWN > now PINK DAWN??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-01-30 22:17 |
| #6 Mayor and Council members email addresses. Be courteous, but be faithfull to our brave young marines. mayor@ci.berkeley.ca.us, lmaio@ci.berkeley.ca.us, dmoore@ci.berkeley.ca.us, manderson@ci.berkeley.ca.us, spring@ci.berkeley.ca.us, lcapitelli@ci.berkeley.ca.us, olds@ci.berkeley.ca.us, kworthington@ci.berkeley.ca.us, gwozniak@ci.berkeley.ca.us |
| Posted by: www 2008-01-30 21:45 |
| #5 memo to the Berkley council: "Mess with the best, die like the rest!" |
| Posted by: usmc6743 2008-01-30 21:34 |
| #4 "is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders." uninvited? Too late. The marines go where the Command tells them to go. So, go ahead, try to get in thier way. intruders? No one is an intruder when they are at home (Americans go anywhere they want to in America). Code Pink? You expect these grunts to be shaking in thier boots from Code Pink? Too bad the Marines can not do to Code Pink what Iran did to Code Pink. The Marines are not going any where, Berkely, because of thier motto: The Few. The Proud. The Marines. Semper Fidelis; Always Faithful |
| Posted by: www 2008-01-30 21:30 |
| #3 Code Pink is there every day? That's one way to identify the address for those seeking it... and encouragement to susceptible individuals to walk past them and in the door. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-01-30 21:04 |
| #2 Is this scrappleface? If not then these f*cking idiots in berkeley need to protest the U.S. congress - not the Corps. We didn't make the DA-DT policy - it's a fed mandate. Not that I personally think it's a bad policy. "if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders." -what you gonna do berkeley? Try to put us jarheads in the county hooskow & give us some sensitivity training? LOL. "Free people sleep peacebly in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -Orwell (IIRC) |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2008-01-30 20:58 |
| #1 I vote that Berkeley "is not welcome in the country, and if the moonbats choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders." |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-01-30 20:55 |