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1. #233734
   On February 2nd, 2008 at 1:08 am, mjk said:

   Dear Mr. Conservative Cat;
   If I ain’t afraid of Palestinian terrorists or any other terrorists who may hit Israel whilst I’m there, I am bloody sure that I am not afraid of a bunch of degenerate hippies from one of the ickiest cities in America.
   Bring it on, Berkley hippies. I ain’t afraid of you and your computer viruses.
   P.S. This means I signed the petition. I challenge them to show up at my front door in Montana. 10 to 1 says they wouldn’t have the b@((s.

2. #233742
   On February 2nd, 2008 at 1:51 am, jcjones717 said:

   I have never posted but this subject has just outraged me. This is the email that I sent to the Mayor of Berkeley and I hope that each of you will do they same. Email your Senators and Reps and the Presidential Candidate of your choice. Let’s have our voice in this.

   Dear Mr. Mayor,
   You are correct in your assertions that the wording of your new resolutions were “not clear” and that they give the impression that the Berkeley city government has nothing but disdain for the military. That seemed very clear to me. You, dear Mayor and Council, have forgotten that it is against a FEDERAL LAW to not allow the military to recruit in your city. So, if this was only about peaceful protests, then why give a parking place “in front of the recruiting office”, this more than tinges on harassment. If you want law abiding citizens in your city then your City Council (with your approval) shouldn’t break laws and harass the very people that will be there for your city in case of a disaster and whose brave men and women will help even those that have spit, scorned, screamed, defaced property,and hurled profanities at them.

   Personal opinions of only a few of the people on City Council and you yourself should not dictate, nor keep a whole city hostage. This is an all volunteer military, Mr. Mayor, which makes your disdain of them more or less personal. If each individual decides to be in the American Military then they have made an informed choice of their own to do so. They are not being coerced or forced to join, therefore, you are basically telling each individual that they are “unwanted, uninvited guests.” So your statement that you are not insulting or demeaning the men and women of the military is a false statement under any logical argument.

   I, as a citizen of the United States will continue to voice my opinion against your new lawbreaking, inconsiderate, unfair “rules” to every Senator, Representative, Presidential Candidate and anyone else who will listen. I will also expect that when I come to Berkeley to protest that I will be afforded my right to have a front place parking spot in front of the City Council buildings, the recruiting office, the Mayor’s office, and the Code Pink headquarters and “free of charge for six months” of sound protesting in front of each. If it is Code Pinks “freedom of speech” rights than it is also mine and every other American born citizen to be given those rights in equal increments.

   Also, one last dent in your argument Mr. Mayor, if you and the City Council feel so strongly about your disagreements with the administration and the Military, instead of punishing the individuals who are only serving, why don’t you take those arguments to Congress, to the Pentagon, to the people who can actually change the policies (People, Mr. Mayor, like the Clintons—considering that if was Mr. Bill Clinton that devised the “don’t ask, don’t tell” fiasco)? Do you and the City Council consider it fair to attack people in the low level positions to make your points? People who cannot change policy if they wanted to. This is what makes these “rules” or “resolutions” particularly demeaning to me, sir.

   Fair protest is one thing, giving a parking spot to one particular point of view and then sending a horrible message to these BRAVE MEN and WOMEN that they are not welcome is not only not fair, it is beyond the pale.

3. #233758
   On February 2nd, 2008 at 2:37 am, donnab13 said:

   One guy is bringing his local recruiters lunch next week. I am going to join in and bring lunch to my local recruiters as well. Just a little token of appreciation in light of these nitwits. Just think …if because of them across the country recruiters got appreciation instead. Their plan would have backfired in a way.

4. #233761
   On February 2nd, 2008 at 2:42 am, traveler49 said:

   BORNIN58, Happy 50th birthday this year!

   From a fellow 1958er. I will have to change my name to traveler50 this year I guess.

   I do business several times a year in the bay area as an artist. You can imagine the crowd I have to run with there. I usually try to keep my politics to myself when doing business but it is hard at times, and when fellow artists find out I’m conservative they are always shocked. They can’t seem to wrap their heads around the fact that I can be level headed, courteous, friendly, well spoken and artistic. They live their lives in a blue bubble and don’t come into contact with our kind, believing every bad thing they hear about “republicans”. I often view how intolerant they can be while believing they themselves are the tolerant. How can they be so clueless I ask myself. I hope I am not the clueless one. What if they are right and I am the intolerant, war mongering polluter they accuse me of. It is all so clear to me yet it is all so clear to them as well. I think it is very much like a mental disease on their part as Michael Savage espouses. Two view points can’t be at such polar opposites and both be right. And the middle seems to be not able to take a clear stand and have any kind of consistent convictions.

   I will now try to get back on topic. Does anyone else notice how good looking all Marines are. Maybe it’s the dress blues or the air they take on when they are in uniform but I have never seen an ugly Marine. How proud and honored I would be to have a Marine recruiting office in my town. I can imagine that at this very moment there is a squad somewhere in the mountains of Afghanistan huddled in the freezing cold, on ambush detail. Ready to lay down their lives at any moment for the protection of us here at home. Even for those ungrateful hippies in Berkeley. What Berkeley doesn’t realize is, they are in the presence of greatness.

5. #233775
   On February 2nd, 2008 at 3:29 am, Mr_Conservative_Cat said:

   To those with activist minds who signed the petition, you may want to e-mail Chris Wallace TODAY at Fox News dot com about his upcoming interview with McCain. Details in a post at the bottom of this page:

   http://michellemalkin.com/2008/02/01/mccain-ill-rely-on-people-to-judge-me-by-the-company-that-i-keep/#comments

   or the thread entitled:

   McCain: “I’ll rely on people to judge me by the company that I keep.”

   mjk,

   You’re a patriot, and I won’t argue your decision for a minute. My post was not meant to talk people out of signing the petition, but to give them food for thought on the percentages involved, that’s all.

   traveler49

   As someone in the media longer than I wish and in constant contact with all manner of creatives, I’m struck in recent years by 2 things: How unfair it is that conservatives have to “go underground” and hide their affiliations for fear of being like true evil by their liberal counterparts and how much better conservative creatives are then the liberal ones. It’s getting to the point where I can tell a conservative right away: they’re the highly prolific and enormously talented, polite and thoughtful ones. The more to the opposite the individual goes to being the opposite of those collective traits, the more I know that person is probably reading the Daily KOS every day. And I’m almost always right. Think about it.

6. #233803
   On February 2nd, 2008 at 6:59 am, trailortrash said:

   ha i got thru this morning np,

   as far as being on those loons hatelist i hope im on top
   i was not a marine just an army leg.
   I :salute: all branches of the service, all the males in every generation of my family were ARMY all the way back to George Washington (have a relative that was given 200 acres in Surry, Va. for fighting along side him) so thats where i went, my son is expressing an interest in being a marine tho, and i would proudly have him as a Marine

7. #233805
   On February 2nd, 2008 at 7:05 am, RetFireman said:

   The thing is, they don’t care. They don’t care about anything “outsiders” have to say about how they are running their city. They don’t care about what they look like to the rest of the country or to the world. The mass delusion that the entire City has, especially the “City Fathers” is one where they all believe en masse that they are better than everyone else.

   It is one huge narcissistic problem that they all share. No one can tell them anything, no one can show them where they are wrong, no one can change their ways.

   To actually believe that the Marines and other militar are violating anything by being there, by recruiting there…by acting the way they are, telling the Marines that they are not wanted, not welcome etc., is something so unprecedented that I truly think that the only reason nothing has been done about it is two fold:

   1. The people who would normally deal with something like this are in a sort of stunned silence, not believing what they are seeing and hearing. They basically may be thinking it is some sort of put on as no one could POSSIBLY be serious about this, especially the entire City Council enough to pass resolutions, laws, etc., in order to get entire branches of the Armed Forces removed from a major Bay Area city during a time of war.

   2. It is something so unheard of and unprecedented that there is no rules written, no laws or any other guidelines for anyone to follow because no one throughout history could have ever imagined something like this ever happening. Think about it, before this happened, who would have ever thought, especially after being attacked the way we were on 9-11-01, that ANY American city, especially one so close to San Francisco, a Global Landmark, a guaranteed target for terrorists, in a city which itself is famous enough to garner enough attention to be a possible target, let alone the natural disasters of earthquakes and fires for which the military has assisted in large numbers in the past, would ever even THINK of doing something of this nature.

   People would have thought the very idea to be insane, and laughable. It would have been nothing more than pot talk by dread-locked patchouli soaked dope heads in People’s Park during some “Breasts Not bombs” androgenous demonstration, and that would be about it.

   So the fact that it has becomne a reality, and to have it become a reality so quickly, I think, has just plain left people who deal with it scratching their heads, still asking each other…”Are they really serious? Are they really still going through with this?”

   There really is no easy answer to how to deal with this City. It’s long and tired reputation for Anti-Americanism and breeding people who hate this country, believe in the failed policies and principles of Communism and Socialism, of developing women that hate men and are against children, families, and the natural and traditional way that humans procreate, of treating winos and drug addicts better than they treat their policemen and firemen, is far beyond the help of any protest or petition from any Right-Wing group.

   What is needed is some serious legislation from Washington and from Sacramento in order to fix what is severely broken in that city…and in the various other enclaves of uber-Liberalism, COmmunism and Socialism in California. What was once seen as esoteric and rebellious, something to be treated as a curiosity has now turned into something entirely dangerous. The precedents going on in this country over the last 6-7 years have set in motion events that will echo for many years, and our enemies have long memories and have been watching very, very closely.

   And that is the biggest problem with Liberals. They believe what they do occurs in a cement bunker, and no one notices outside of their own little world. They still do not realize that their actions and words are being studied and used against us on a daily basis by those attempting to destroy us. Even when the leaders of our enemies parrot them verbatim, they are proud of it and not repulsed as they should be. The longer this goes on, the longer Berkeley and other Cities of their kind are permitted to get away with such things without retribution from Washington, the worse off all of us will be, and the weaker our defenses and military become until finally, one day, our butts will be hanging wide open in the breeze to get shot clean off.

8. #233806
   On February 2nd, 2008 at 7:11 am, JohnnyD said:

   Signed and delivered. Plus, I passed it on to my sibs whom I will be seeing on Sunday. I’ll be pressing them to sign the petition.

   ACHefty – I’d sign that petition, if you would allow this simple civvy to join in. I work with and have great respect for the Marine Corps because of these relationships. I’m not dissing the other branches either. All service branches are the best just by the very nature that you have to volunteer to be a part of the best damned military in the world.

9. #233811
   On February 2nd, 2008 at 8:18 am, Ocracoke said:

   Yesterday was unsuccessful even with all info submitted on Firefox. Today was successful on Firefox. It may have been a browser problem…

10. #233814
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 8:28 am, ArmywifeArmymom said:

    First, thank you MM for such good coverage of this and helping MAF get the word out. I will certainly sign and petition!

    I was reading the recollections of a Vietnam Veteran yesterday. He told of being bussed in vehicles with painted windows when he came home (only to find out later that it was to shield the Vets coming home from the angry and vulgar gestures from the protesters they were sure to encounter). He told of being jumped and beat up to the point of having broken bones by demonstrators. This all happened in the San Francisco area.

    The actions in Berkeley of today are nothing new. This has been their mantra for a very long time. My mother always used to tell me to be careful for what I asked for — I may just get it only to find it was the worst thing I could have ever wished on myself. Maybe it’s time for Berkeley to learn that lesson.

    I don’t think that anything will ever change their minds though. They have embraced hatred and “bigotry” toward all armed service members. They are close minded and have a value system that dictates their need to remain ignorant and rebellious. It’s their identity.

    Any actions we do take are for our beloved Marines, and them alone. We can’t correct Berkeley, but we can show our Marines that they do not stand alone — not only do they promise no Marine is left behind, but there are civilians who pledge the same.

11. #233816
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 8:32 am, navywife91 said:

    I signed the petition last night and forwarded it to family members.

    #91
    TK-421, Why aren’t you at your post?

    Sorry, it’s the SW dork in me.:)

12. #233821
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 9:21 am, TU Owls said:

    After many months of oberving here, I am finally making my first post.

    As someone who has a libertarian conservative view on issues, I realize that I may be in agreement with many of you on certain issues. That being said this is one issue on that we can all agree.

    Bezerkeley is one crazy town and I am so angry I thought my head would explode. Those carbon-based life forms sicken me and are an affront to all decent Americans.

    I proudly signed the petition and also sent a letter to my Congressman(left-wing kook Rush Holt D-NJ). The first time I have undertaken either of those actions.

    Thanks Michelle and the other bloggers for finally inspiring me to get off my butt and doing something.

13. #233822
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 9:22 am, ajmontana said:

    next 7 1/2 hours blocking the door

    this seems a bit long for them to be there, i say max 7 1/2 minutes, whats up with that? all day? geez.

14. #233823
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 9:23 am, ex-expat said:

    Has it crossed anyone’s mind that this all may be a put up job? That the Code Pikers, do there thing, the municiplaity casts it as a public nuisance/danger and offers to be the ‘honest brioker’ to resolve the issue?

15. #233824
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 9:24 am, TU Owls said:

    doh!!!

    Paragraph 2
    *it should say “I may not be”

    First post jitters

16. #233825
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 9:33 am, twiggman said:

    Signed it…

17. #233826
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 9:36 am, et said:

    In cases like this I am always in favor of police restraint. My philosophy is best described as let them rot on the sidewalk. No food, no water, no sleep, period. You chained yourselves to the door. OK its your choice. Now stay there until you unchain yourselves. What these pantloads deserve is a pantload of aromatic bliss and no police rescue.

    Question: With similar circumstances under sharia law what do the police cut? A perfectly good chain or something else.

18. #233827
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 9:38 am, WarTip said:

    Now if the Right would mount a counter-offensive every time these whackos started up their Shenanigans I may even come back to the US for a while just so I could take part and be part of a Proud America rather than a lone voice in the desert winds!

    I doubt my signing the petition would do any good but it looks like we are on the right track (No pun intended) and a course of action instead of capitulating silence.

    Thanks Guys!

    Sign me a Proud American

19. #233828
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 9:38 am, ajmontana said:

    I’d like to get just out of chains reach and take a wee wee on em…..

20. #233830
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 9:45 am, USMCgramma said:

    I LOVE being called part of the right wing (have the same last name of a crazy woman)! God bless our troops – past and present.

21. #233831
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 9:47 am, ex-expat said:

    Looking the pictures, and other pictures of nutroot protesters, I am struck by just how old they are. Flower Children who have never grown up. Wonder how younger people see them?

22. #233842
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 am, nyc123me said:

    I looked at the photos.. and the police just stand there? Personally I’d be coming with a baseball bat if they denied my access like that, but that’s just me I guess. How can they not see that what they are doing is denying the rights of anyone who isn’t one of them, yet they use this exact premise to legitimize what they are doing. I’ve had more than enough with these scum. I dare them to come over to Brooklyn and try that crap, I DARE THEM.. they would be leaving in ambulances.

23. #233845
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 am, Ricco said:

    Sorry, but these petitions to the city council have little effect other than allowing people the opportunity to vent spleens.

    Cutting off business with national companies HQ-ed there might be more effective.

    Saw someplace else the suggestion the the Commandant of the Marine Corps show pp to voice his “displeasure” would be an interesting approach.

24. #233849
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 10:26 am, atxcowgirl said:

    I noticed one picture of a woman setting on a blanket on the sidewalk with a stroller behind her. She has a toddler in her arms. A front row seat to all the action putting a child in danger.

25. #233851
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 10:29 am, Milwaukee Mike said:

    Start a rumor that Cheney is planning his next terror attack in Berkley. I think a huge percentage of the kooks would leave town and the Marines can get back to business defending their sorry asses.

26. #233853
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 10:34 am, DesertLover said:

    The Marines have shown restraint and class from the beginning of these idiotic demonstrations.

    They will not lower themselves to the level of the Code Pink miscreants and will remain the adults in the conflict.

    I would expect nothing less of my fellow Marines.

    That being said, I can assure you that if these clowns get out of control, (which will most likely happen at some point when some nut on drugs thinks he is Superman and gets violent and attacks one of these Marines), they will not back down.

    Remember this … that office is being used for an official US Government function and is occupied by the military … that makes it US Government property … and the sworn duty of those Marines is to defend and protect that government facility and the government property that it contains.

    Any resulting criminal charges would be Federal, not civil.

27. #233854
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 10:35 am, Milwaukee Mike said:

    Finally, at 2:30 p.m., police snipped the chains and arrested them.

    Most other places, getting arrested at this time on a Friday would insure a nice weekend in the klink. But I’m sure there a plenty of judges in Jerkley would wouldn’t mind coming in late night or on a Saturday to release these (profanity)s.

28. #233865
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 10:53 am, backwoods conservative said:

    I’ve noticed a few comments on this thread giving DeMint consideration for the presidency. I was thinking the same thing. I haven’t been paying a whole lot of attention to him up until now, except to notice he always votes the right way. But here lately he seems to be speaking up more and actively trying to make good things happen.

    Maybe DeMint could become the first president from South Carolina. Andrew Jackson was born in SC, but was a resident of Tennessee when elected president.

    And as far as to why a senator from SC is getting involved in a situation in California, I think what’s going on in Berkeley should be of concern to all US citizens, and especially those holding elected office in the federal government.

29. #233871
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 11:04 am, reptevye said:

    From reading the rest of the story at the SF Chronicle, I am just struck by some of this:

    “We made really great statements by blocking the door,” said one of the three blockaders, 64-year-old Mary Ann Thomas of Oakland. “It’s time we became more articulate about what we’re doing.”

    Yeah – real articulate…

    Members of the council who voted to condemn the Marine Corps station were unbowed.
    “I guess they’ve never heard of free speech,” Councilwoman Dona Spring said. “I’ve had a lot of nasty phone messages today, threatening me with things like saying, ‘I’ll take you out.’ But they can go ahead. I don’t feel scared.”

    Free speech – what about the free speech rights of the military?!?

    “You guys are just cannon fodder!” the chained protesters shouted at three teenage boys who walked past the office and said they wanted to go inside. “They want to train you to kill babies!”

    Right then and there – somebody should have hauled off and hit this guy.

    The teenagers turned around and left. At one point, UC Berkeley student Kyrolos El Giheny walked up to the front door and tried to go inside to talk to Lund about a possible Marine career. He was unable to get past the chained protesters.

    Yeah, so much for the rights of assembly of others (another 1st amendment right that these morons seem to have forgotten)

    These guys are off their rockers, and the fact that they are backed by the City Council is just astonishing to me. Petitions, marches, everything – we need to not let this go.

30. #233878
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 11:11 am, Hannibal said:

    2.7 Million Gallons of untreated crap flowed into San Francisco harbor yesterday. Investigators report that the disaster came after everyone in Berkeley flushed their toilets at the same time. One unnamed investigator said, “the population of Berkeley is not that large, but there is a lot of crap per citizen here”.

31. #233889
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 11:34 am, DesertLover said:

    Too bad that college student hadn’t just come from baseball practice and still had a bat in his hand … I don’t know whether it shows his restraint or that he isn’t Marine officer material … time will tell …

    Sorry … they would not have stopped me from entering the office … they would have had to physically stop me and I guarantee they would have come out on the short end of that stick …

32. #233890
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 11:40 am, Regulus said:

    On February 2nd, 2008 at 9:38 am, WarTip said:

    Now if the Right would mount a counter-offensive every time these whackos started up their Shenanigans I may even come back to the US for a while just so I could take part and be part of a Proud America rather than a lone voice in the desert winds!

    Ah, but there’s a difference: when they engage in “direct action” style behavior it’s “Free Speech,” but when you engage in it, it’s “Hate Speech.” Best thing to do is just what Michelle is doing, hold ‘em up before society and let them convict themselves in the court of public opinion. Q.E.D.

    On February 2nd, 2008 at 9:47 am, ex-expat said:

    Looking the pictures, and other pictures of nutroot protesters, I am struck by just how old they are. Flower Children who have never grown up.

    Excellent observation. These people are repeating the same error of judgment they made in the 1960s: blaming the soldier for the war, then declaring war on the soldier.

    Yet they’ll insist on calling us “reactionaries.”

33. #233891
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 11:43 am, Army said:

    I think I’m fighting the wrong enemy of the USA….

34. #233892
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 11:49 am, MrVIBEMAN said:

    I noticed a few things in those pictures.

    One older male protester had his white hair in a pony tail, the older woman appears to be well over 60 and has orange dyed hair and tinted sunglasses, and the young woman has a beautiful nose ring adorning her shnozzola. While their appearance definitely doesn’t mean that every white-haired ponytail wearing man is liberal, or nose-ring wearer is a whackjob, I thought it was funny to see so many stereotype hippy adornments on these stereotype hippies.

    If I lived in the Bay Area (God Forbid!)I would have been happy to use my new-found Ryukyu-Kempo disabling grappling techniques on these seditious turds.

    Those cops looked disgusted that they weren’t allowed to take those jokers out right away. They probably got orders from the city council to wait until all the photo ops were done.

35. #233893
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 11:49 am, drfredc said:

    This is the sort of thing one should expect when political bigotry becomes the accepted norm in the Democrat party. It’s the same bigotted behavior that used to be racially motivated. Only focused onn other segments of our society. The party that is home to the likes of kkk sheets Byrd has taken bigotry to new heights with no end in sight since these nutroots are a huge part of Hillary’s and Obama’s core.

36. #233894
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 11:51 am, Dersu said:

    Is this not war that has been declared on us?

    What shall our response be?

    Traitors should be hung, after a trial of course if we must.

    Where is the law, who did we elect to uphold and enforce it?

    Let them step forward, or get out of the way.

37. #233895
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 11:54 am, Blind_Mule said:

    ajmontana said:
    I’d like to get just out of chains reach and take a wee wee on em…..

    The police standing their allowing these people to block the door, essentialy assaulting the people trying to go in would have arrested you for indecent exposure.

38. #233896
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 11:57 am, vickisoup said:

    This, from the same genre that won a multi-million judgment (overturned, thank God) against pro-life protesters who dared to pray for and exhort women who were going into abortion clinics. Unbelievable.
    These domestic terrorists have to be stopped!

39. #233899
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 12:05 pm, nraendowment said:

    “The demonstrators snapped their locks shut at 7 a.m. and spent the next 7 1/2 hours blocking the door, waving and chanting as hundreds of cars driving by honked in support.”
    How can they say people driving by were honking in support of those twits? I would have honked too, but if they looked they would seen that it was tied to a single finger salute.

40. #233904
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 12:27 pm, greenfairie said:

    I’m considering “adopting” Jim DeMint as my Senator since I’m blessed with the gruesome twosome here in CA .

    Actually, Sen. Feinstein is somewhat sympathetic to the military. Maybe those of us here ought to turn the pressure up on our pols to do something about this insanity.

    I’ve signed the petition and I may actually drop a line to the Berkeley gov’t to give them a piece of my mind.

    Subversion and treason have gone on far too long in this country.

41. #233909
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 12:32 pm, Sailor said:

    It’s time to get tough with the Berkeley nuts! How many years has our nation already put up with these California crazies revolting against our military.
    While in uniform, I remember the harrassment of these loons that I received at the San Francisco airport upon my return from Vietnam. Either jail them or deport them!!

42. #233911
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 12:35 pm, Bigurn said:

    I am a veteran, as in almost every male member of my family.

    Specifically, I have an uncle who is a Marine (there are NO “former” Marines), and who fought through Korea with distinction and honor. He was a Prisoner of War, and was shot twice leading an escape from the POW camp. He survived and lived as a missionary in Indonesia throughout his adult life. He is a hero to everyone he knows.

    Though I seethe with anger over these twits, the better response is action. I’ve contacted my Senators to support Senator DeMint. You should do the same.

    (A Barely Controlled) Bigurn

43. #233912
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 12:37 pm, Chief RZ said:

    Can I chain myself to baby killing abortion clinics?

44. #233913
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 12:38 pm, Laree said:

    Sailor,

    Jail them and perform drug test on every last one of them. These folks are sniffing, licking, swallowing some foreign substance? I am not convinced that this behavior is coming from an organic citizen activist place

45. #233914
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 12:40 pm, JoAnn in VA said:

    One of the photos shows someone trying to enter whose legs are held by another persons legs in a sort of scissor grip- isn’t this assault? Shouldn’t he have been charged for laying hands on another person?
    I wonder how hard it would be to make a neon-pink burka and show up in it, wearing a sign saying “Code Pinko future manditory Sharia gown”.

46. #233919
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 1:00 pm, MrVIBEMAN said:

    I’d like to see these ‘people’ (and I use that term loosely) try this stunt in El Presidente Hugo Chavez’s venezeula. I wonder if they’d still give him the great big Cindy Sheehan hug and Sean Penn handshake after he had them beaten and tortured for even questioning his military rule.

    How easy it is to protest something when there are no real, lasting consequences (besides a night in jail or a monetary fine.)

47. #233921
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 1:04 pm, William Teach said:

    Let’s see: protesters for peace getting violent. I Heart Irony.

48. #233924
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 1:11 pm, fourstringfuror said:

    In an interview Friday, Bates said he has received more than 1,000 e-mails on the resolution, mostly from “the right wing that has really seized up on this and mobilized to pound us.”

    What a crock. This guy doesn’t have the brass to answer those emails, but he’s happy to go on record smearing us for exercisinng our First Amendment rights.

49. #233926
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 1:15 pm, fourstringfuror said:

    On Fox News now.

50. #233934
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 1:32 pm, Christian Soldier said:

    NEVER GIVE UP –
    The socialists never do.

    WE MUST CARRY ON.

    Our calls and e-mails must continue.
    We’re making a difference.
    Councilwoman Olds stated that she was embarrassed about her vote and that was only after a few hours of action.

    We have other Senators (thank you Sen.DeMint)coming on board.

    Berkeley’s 2.1 millon $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
    will be NO More!

51. #233946
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 1:50 pm, Azygos said:

    I think I would have chosen this time to power wash the front of the building. Standing wet and cold in 40 degree temps changes minds quickly. Though this is nothing new. I went to a commissioning ceremony for a Marine Officer at the Bezerkley ROCT in the early 70’s. One could still see the burned entrance from the fire bombs that had been thrown at the building.

    I would have loved to be there and try to enter the building. Any protester that touched me would quickly find their wrist and shoulder broken and dislocated.

52. #233965
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 2:10 pm, right_on said:

    Who would we prefer? Immigrants who have waited in line for years to become American Citizens, or these anti-American socialist neer-do-wells, who will never live the American dream?

53. #233970
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 2:14 pm, ArmywifeArmymom said:

    First, *waves* to TU Owls! You did splendid in your first post, jitters and all! Nice to ‘meet’ you.

    Second, as far as these protesters go… stupid is as stupid does, and this is a lot of stupid.

    They will be arrested, get their little adrenaline high, pat themselves on the back, fool themselves into thinking they actually accomplished squat today, and finally go home and take their psychotropic drugs like they do every day.

    A life void of truly meaningful work and an understanding of being a good neighbor is a sad thing to have to witness. These Marines deserve a lot of show of support.

    I think we should all send the Recruiters some delivery pizza or anything else in the area that is good and delivers — shoot maybe we can all take turns and take care of our guys all week long. Is anyone familiar with that area? Next time their doors are accosted they can at least have something hot and gooey to eat or accidentally drop on protesters.

54. #233979
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 2:33 pm, Lifeofthemind said:

    The Berkley City Council passed a Local Act which conflicts with a Federal Act regarding an essential function of the National Government. They can be charged with Impeding a Government Function, see
    http://books.google.com/books?id=J5jsg0GC9C0C&pg=RA1-PA392&lpg=RA1-PA392&dq=impeding+a+government+function+federal+law&source=web&ots=3u-BY0dXho&sig=FTo7m7jT1RZPuoA2EtcXRlR0iCQ#PRA1-PA391,M1
    The Democrats tried this before with the Nullification Acts of South Carolina. We had a Civil War, guess who won?

55. #233982
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 2:39 pm, gunslingerpatriot said:

    hhhmmm….

    Did anyone else notice the mom and her tot at this protest? Hint-she is in the lower left side of the photo where the “ballistic” moonbats are holding a picture of abu garib.

    Dissent is one thing, physically assualting someone else is completely diffrent. A hat tip to the gentlemen who forced their way into the recruiters office. If they’re on the way to becoming US Marines-then the Corps is going to be fine.

    OT-there is no such thing as an ex-Marine. I beg to differ; john murtha is an ex-Marine because of his conduct to the Corps and false accusations to the Haditha Marines!

    In short—murtha isn’t worthy enough to polish the boots of any Marine, much less any honorably discharged veteran of any service

    GSP

56. #234006
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 3:17 pm, normsrevenge said:

    Put the Bezerkeley city leaders in jail until they come to their senses.. put ‘em on a ‘pork’ and tofu diet..

    what a bunch of f’n idiots.. and all those who keep electing numbnuts like this.

    semper fi

57. #234007
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 3:19 pm, Kini said:

    Sign the petition to stop Berzerkly.

58. #234012
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 3:33 pm, Laree said:

    Following up on my last suspicion we know that Chavez chews coca leaves, we know code pinkers love their Hugo Chavez…I’m just saying I would be performing random drug test on these folks. Back in the 60s Hippys liked to get high, what do you suppose old hippys like to do? Although I don’t think this is the legalize Mary Jane crowd, they are alot mellower!

59. #234028
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 3:58 pm, CC said:

    I don’t know why it’s always the right wing that has to jump in to defend this kind of thing. I’ve seen democrat senators who have served in the military who should also be joining in the outrage, and hopefully they will.

    I have democrat friends who are furious about this bunch of stupid little communists trying to shut down our marines.

    This is all driven by the far left. And isn’t it frightening that Obama was voted the most liberal senator in 2007 and has been endorsed by the moveon crowd? Frightening.

60. #234030
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 3:59 pm, Bornin58 said:

    Hi traveler49,

    Happy Birthday to you too !

    I am reminded of a saying that I heard somewhere , I have no idea who wrote it or when or what context , it went something like this :

    ” It is easier for most people to belive a simple lie , than it is for them to understand the complex truth ”

    Perhaps this with the interaction of human emotion contributes in dificulity of meeting in the middle ?When people are at opposites end of the poles it takes along way to reach the middle.

61. #234057
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 4:45 pm, nyc123me said:

    IMPEACH BERKELEY COUNCIL MEMBERS!

    IMPEACH BERKELEY COUNCIL MEMBERS!

    IMPEACH BERKELEY COUNCIL MEMBERS!

    IMPEACH BERKELEY COUNCIL MEMBERS!

62. #234073
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 5:11 pm, RetFireman said:

    I am proud of those young men who braved this collection of drug addled geriatric throw-backs. to think that they will not be returning at a later time when these 1969 left-overs are all back at the hippy retirement home collecting their prescription marijuana and government checks, slapping each other on the back for what a great job they did is just laughable. The fact that they showed up, walked through them at all shows that they were committed, just could not move these wastes of human flesh to get in.

    this was nothing more than an inconvinience, and ultimately will not have changed anyone’s mine who wishes to become a marine, or a Soldier, a Sailor, an Airman, a Coastie…anyone who wants and feels the burning desire of public service will not be swayed.

    That is definately what these horrible individuals do not understand, nor will ever understand. See, they are the epitome of selfishness. They have no idea what the term “Sacrifice” means. People who serve in the Military…from the cook or computer technician to the most skilled Special Forces Operator, people who become a Law Enforcement Officer, a Firefighter, Paramedic, EMT, Nurse, Doctor,…hese people know what it means to sacrifice. They know what it means to use their lives, to SACRIFICE themselves, to offer their time and lose days that they could spend with their wives, husbands, children doing other things, better things, to give to their fellow man.

    These scumbags have delluded themselves into thinking that chaining themselves to buildings, yelling foul insults, throwing rocks, paint, in some cases animal blood, urine, threats, taking money and services from the government they disdain, from the hard working Americans that they threaten and call horrible names and despise, and offer up all the help and allegiance to every single one of the enemies of this Nation just oout of spite if not misguided beliefs and lack of morals, is somehow a form of “sacrifice”. Their narcissism will not allow them to see just how wrong and sick that form of thinkng is. Their is truly the way of the coward, the way of the one who runs from the real danger. They would never offer themselves for the sake of their fellow man. They would not know how. They think that they are doing that by keeping some kid fromm speaking to a recruiter, yet what they may be doing by eliminating the Military is leading the nation into certain death and destruction. Their actions lead to the deaths and murders of coumtless Americans and others in countries far away when our enemies see that they have support from these aged hippy freaks.

    Our enemies tell their own people, “look, the Americans cannot get together and get behind their President. They sit in front of their Military bases and tell them that we are right and they are wrong. Come my brothers…let us kill more people in the name of Allah, let us show them that their efforts are not wasted.”

    It is not that they use Bush. It is not Bush that is creating more Al Qaeda recruits. It is these treasonous scum that shows the enemy that all they need do is keep doing what they have been doing a little longer and soon, this country will capitulate, will elect a coward as President and turn tail, tail between it’s legs, and allow the Terrorists and Islamic Neo-nazis to run roughshod over the Middle-East, Europe, Africa and stretching beyond into the Pacific Rim and outer reaches.

    Sacrifice? Morals? They have none. Treason and sedition. Criminals. Horrible human beings that have been misguided due to being spoiled since birth by parents that fought hard, lived through a depression, saw evil that never before walked earth as it had and defeated it and swore that their children would never have to see such evil again. The baby boomers were spoiled rotten brats, that have done more harm to this country in their time than the good that their parents ever did.

    I worship the parents of the Baby Boomers. They are an incredible generation the likes of which this world has never seen. If only we had the likes of them now to kick the butts of these Baby Boomers who are still children…who never grew up and need that spanking they never got. Shame on them. Shame on every single Liberal in this country. You are all working your hardest to destroy what your fathers and mothers fought so hard to create and defend for you…and I and my children do NOT appreciate it.

63. #234075
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 5:16 pm, secondsight said:

    Solution is simple, economically sound: Not one federal dollar for anything in Berkeley. Nothing for schools, universities, colleges, hud, welfare, etc, etc, etc, etc.

64. #234088
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 5:34 pm, Christian Soldier said:

    #147 Thank you-not only can we continue our backing of Sen. DeMint’s proposal to rescind Berkeley’s 2.1 millon $ Fed funding — We can call our Senators and Representatives and demand that they start legal proceedings against the city!
    That will really make the council sit up and take notice.

65. #234091
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 5:39 pm, nyc123me said:

    I wonder how many of these self-righteous idiots are receiving welfare checks? Those should be stopped immediately.

66. #234101
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 5:54 pm, BrianG1979 said:

    Signed.

67. #234103
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 5:58 pm, mulelady said:

    Just wanted to let you know, I signed the petition but didn’t put my phone number in and it successfully took it ok. I went to the petition through the website: http://www.bocottberkeley.net from one of the comments above. I got the “thank you for signing message” after I submitted my info scans ph number.

68. #234107
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 5:59 pm, Mr_Conservative_Cat said:

    While you’re all phoning and e-mailing, don’t forget to e-mail Chris Wallace at Fox News Sunday RIGHT NOW and ask him this list of questions, composed originally by me but nicely revised by Blind Mule. We’re getting some good feedback on e-mailers at a couple of other sites. This battle isn’t over by a long shot. Indeed, as Michelle reports, Mitt and Sheriff OpenBoarders are in a statistical dead heat. NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT. RIGHT THIS MOMENT, BEFORE SOMETHING ELSE COMES UP:

    The e-mail for Fox news Sunday is

    FNS@foxnews.com

    *************************************

    Dear Chris Wallace,

    As you know, many conservative Republican’s are dismayed at the thought that as the Reagan conservitive’s of our party, all our hard work has been rewarded by a possible standard-bearer in the form of John McCain.

    In order to let the truth be heard, I respectfully insist as a loyal Fox News Channel viewer that you ask Mr. McCain the following questions and hold him to task for not being the straight talker he claim’s to be.

    1. How can you claim to have the Straight Talk Express when in Florida and California you misrepresented Mitt Romney statment’s on Iraq withdrawal timetables?

    2. You said at the Republican debate on Wednesday ” I’ll rely on people to judge me by the company that I keep.” It has become well-known throughout the country over the last week that among your staff is a man named Juan Hernandez, well-known to Fox News viewers as a man who has called for the dismantling of virtually all US immigration law in an effort to essentially remove all restrictions to illegal immigration from Mexico. Why would you have a man like that on your staff if you claim to have heard the will of the American people to stop illegal immigration?

    3. It’s a matter of record that you were one of two senators who actually voted against the Bush tax cuts, tax cuts widely recognized as saving the US economy the last time a recession was at hand. Why did you do that and given that record, why should the American people trust you to keep taxes low and manage the U.S. economy and are you willing to pledge to the conservative base right here and now that you will under no circumstances raise taxes or sign into law a bill that does?

    4. What is your executive experience that qualifies you to be hired for the job of President of the United States? Not senatorial leadership qualifications, but executive leadership qualifications on your resume by which the American people can decide to hire you as President of the United States?

    5. Only a few years back as senator you almost changed party affiliations and became a Democrat. Given your personal closeness to extreme left wing Democrat senators like Ted Kennedy, why should Republican voters believe that you wouldn’t follow through and change party affiliation and become a Democrat as President?

    Many people are aware of John McCain’s record and this list of question’s. We will be watching closely to see that Fox News Channel continue’s to be fair and balanced by submitting these questions respectfully but forcefully to Senator McCain.

    Respectfuly,

69. #234114
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 6:05 pm, nyc123me said:

    Maybe a similar list should be sent to Mitt – seems he could do with a bit more prodding too.

70. #234166
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 7:39 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    The mayor wants to evacuate the Marines and is casting the city as the victim:

    ROFLMAO

    Evacuate the MARINES??? I agree. Why in hell would anybody that runs Toys-for-Tots be in Berkley?

    /sarc off

    Marines do not lose battles.

    Semper Fi

71. #234172
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 7:48 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    They are concerned that their kids will be killed if they join the Marines.

    There is an abortion mill killing babies down the road. Go chain yourself to those doors.

    Oh, they are on the left so killing babies is okay.

    I just can’t keep up with what being a liberal is all about – sorry.

72. #234173
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 7:52 pm, magicky said:

    that may volunteer to impede, passively or actively, by nonviolent means, the work of any military recruiting office located in the City of Berkeley.

    From some of the same people who brought you the legislation that made it a law to disallow impedance, passively or actively, against entrance to abortion clinics. This is a good example of a law I say, and deserves a look with application to such as Code Pink and all fellow travlers…

73. #234179
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 8:05 pm, Django said:

    I love the photo of the guy with the Airborne shirt on yelling at the nutroot laying on the ground. LOL.

74. #234201
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 9:04 pm, zorro said:

    Great coverage Michelle! The cowards of Berkeley have just given you enough material for a 300 page book! What a bunch of democraps…

75. #234202
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 9:08 pm, fourstringfuror said:

    What’s the latest on this? I haven’t seen any updates since this morning.

76. #234205
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 9:11 pm, rightisright said:

    This what you get with McAmnesty:

    1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens
    each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77%20

    2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
    such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
    http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

    3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
    http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

    4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
    education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of
    English!
    http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

    5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
    American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
    http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

    6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
    http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

    7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
    http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

    8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
    social services by the American taxpayers.
    http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

    9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are
    caused by the illegal aliens.
    http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

    10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s
    two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,
    their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in
    the US
    http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

    11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
    that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal
    aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine,
    meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U.S. from the Southern
    border.
    Homeland Security Report:
    http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

    12. The National Policy Institute, ‘estimated that the total cost of
    mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average
    cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.’
    http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

    13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back
    to their countries of origin.
    http://www.rensecom/general75/niht.htm

    14. ‘The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex
    Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ‘.
    http://www.drdskcom/articleshtml

    The total cost is a whopping: $ 338.3 BILLION dollars a
    year.

    Are we THAT stupid???

77. #234212
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 9:20 pm, Lilycat said:

    I emailed every one of the Berkeley council members this morning to express my exasperation and disgust with their actions. I did, however, commend the lone councilman who at least had the guts to go against the flow. I then tried to connect to the homepage of Berkeley ciy government and found the site down. I wondered if they had taken it down, or if it crashed from the traffic from outraged citizens. I am encouraging my congressmen to withhold federal money from that city. They don’t seem to have any qualms about harassing a federal entity so I don’t see why the federal government should feel obliged to fund them in any way.

78. #234222
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 9:40 pm, Greyman said:

    “Major sewage spill sullies bay waters near San Francisco”. The idea is sound but the enema should have been given to Berkley rather than San Francisco (this time).

79. #234230
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 9:50 pm, KCK said:

    Unbelievable hubris on the part of berkley (spelling intentional).

80. #234256
    On February 2nd, 2008 at 11:34 pm, right_on said:

    Wouldn’t it be great to have someone like, oh, I don’t know, maybe Brock Legner (sp?) try and walk into the recruiting office? Can’t you see it now, Brock grabs the guy by the face, lifts him off the ground, then throws him towards the sidewalk. Suddenly, the chain wrapped around the Code Pinko, snaps taut. He rolls around a little bit, whinning, “You can’t do this to me…I’m an American…waaaaa!”

    One can dream…

81. #234291
    On February 3rd, 2008 at 1:23 am, islandman78 said:

    How old are these loons? Honestly, are any of them in their twenties?

    The 1960s are over, man!

    The decade that will not go away.

82. #234293
    On February 3rd, 2008 at 1:24 am, Christian Soldier said:

    Our Marines.com

    I rest well after viewing THE AD.

    God keep His angels around you:
    Marines
    Army
    Navy
    AF
    Coast Guard

83. #234294
    On February 3rd, 2008 at 1:25 am, old trooper said:

    I sent Mayor Tom Bates an email yesterday on the very sad state of afairs in his sorry slice of what I consider to be the bunghole of America.

    No response so far. No response from Pelosi, Boxer or Feinstein on this ugly business either in print or any other media.

    I remember an oath that I foresworn back in 1969…defend the Constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic.

    I reckon that the domestic ones are identified now…

84. #234354
    On February 3rd, 2008 at 7:26 am, Mach1Duck said:

    Is this the same group that got naked with the trees?

85. #234366
    On February 3rd, 2008 at 8:27 am, Boomer said:

    My thanks to Michelle for the hat tip to our operative Zombie may he/she maintain his/her cover living amongst the loonies in the Bay Area. I have been a big fan of his/her photo essays on the many anti-American happenings that remind me of watching the hippies as a kid in the 60s. My dad was an Air Force Recruiter 64 – 67 stationed in San Francisco and had no problem filling his quotes back then. I remember seeing the flower children and being raised as a military brat I never could understand their BS and never will.

    This family supports our troops! May God bless them and watch over them as they risk their lives over there so the rest of us can go on with our own over here.