Berkeley libs fight over nuclear-free-zone law
Having cut and run from their unsuccessful drive to evict the Marines from Berkeley, Code Pink is setting its sights on a new evil:
The Berkeley Library!
Seems the library wants to do business with 3M, but the Pinkos protest that it will violate the city’s nuclear-free law.
Bay Area blogger/photojournalist ProtestShooter forwarded me a miffed missive from the Pinkos about the spat:
Code Pink’s very upset about it and forwarded it around. The key bit is that the Berkeley Public Library wants a waiver to get around the Berkeley Nuclear Free Zone laws (because they can’t do business with 3M otherwise).
It’s amusing in its own way…
Hi Berkeley People!
Who would ever have believed that this law that has been on the City of Berkeley books for 22 years in our town is now in jeopardy! Not only that but it[']s because of our beloved Berkeley Public Library! This is a situation that would make Kafka, himself, shudder!
The present dilemma starts with the Radio Frequency Identification D’s (RFID)-these are the chips now in all library books to track them AND you when you carry said book. They were purchased from the company, “Checkpoint” who then turned the (expired) contract over to 3M.
Since 3M is a manufacturer of munitions and depleted uranium with connections to Honeywell and Boeing, it is against the law for Berkeley to do business with them because of the Nuclear Free Status Law.
That’s why the library is requesting Berkeley to institute a 2 year waiver to rescind our Nuclear Free Status.
This waiver, which is now before the Berk. Peace & Justice Commission of the Berkeley City Council, could allow nuclear material to be transported through our town. In Berkeley we also have an important reputation as a peace city-this obviously would be in tatters.
The library doesn’t want to go to a bar-code system; it’s easier for them to keep the status quo even though the cost is $70,000/year to maintain this invasive of privacy system that also requires the waiver of the above mentioned law.
The Nuclear Free Law is more relevant now than ever!
PLEASE call/write your council person to take action on this matter. The Peace & Justice Comm has tabled the issue until its next meting in Jan. as no decision could be made at the Dec 1 meeting.
I believe the next meeting will be on Jan 5th. 2009.
Yes, indeed, Berzerkely is always “amusing in its own way.”
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Wow, and I though 3M only made tape and post-it notes.
Good for them.
It must be a Post-It free zone…
dumb de dumb dumb dumb!!!
The library doesn’t carry any books on nuclear physics does it? In amongst the Druidic masonry titles perhaps…
GAH! Depleted uranium shells aren’t even nuclear weapons! They just use non-radioactive uranium because it punches through armor well.
However, I must agree with Attica that 3M seems just a little more awesome now.
Since the University of California operates Los Alomos and Lawrence Livermore labs, it is probably illegal for any business in the City of Berkeley to do any business with the University.
“The model example of military university collaborative research is the inception, design, and creation of the atomic bomb. Conceived and developed by University of California, the creation of the most deadly device ever made was a product of research funded by the military and conducted by an elite group of Americaís university scientists, professors and graduate students.
Since the Los Alamos Laboratory opened its doors in 1943, every single nuclear weapon built for the United States arsenal was designed at a University of California managed weapons laboratory. The history of the development of Los Alamos and the second National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore laid the foundation for the last fifty years of military research and development conducted on Americaís college campuses.”
Nuclear Engineering at UC Berkeley:
1939: Physicist Ernest O. Lawrence first UC Berkeley professor to receive Nobel Prize
February 1941: Glenn Seaborg discovers plutonium in Gilman Hall
February 1942: Seaborg and colleagues discover fissionable nature of uranium-233
“August 1966: Training Research Isotope General Atomic (TRIGA) reactor becomes operational, achieves sustained nuclear chain reaction”
That’s right, there was an operating nuclear reactor on campus.
lol! I can almost hear you reading the above in your best, tiny little Cindy Sheehan diet voice…
I wonder what it was doing there?
The link to the Moonbat fast/Cindy Sheehan diet plan.
Will it be nuclear free if the Jihad drops a suitcase nuke in their lap?What will they say then?Will the plead for the Marines help?
‘make Kafka himself shudder’?!
Hey look at me!!! If I spout esoteric authors’ names I’ll sound important and urgent!
The irony would impress Milan Kundera.
Of all the problems we are facing now days, is this the biggest thing they can find to worry about?
As Forrest Gump’s momma used to say, “Stupid is as Stupid does”.
Good one. The local moonbat remants of the 60’s think they have a say over the University research, including biotech, biofuels, nuclear research, everything. They don’t.
It’s like S.F. Mayor Gavin Newsome believing his city has the right to over-rule state laws regarding gay marriage. He doesn’t.
I don’t know what is about these local communities that think they are the arbiters of statewide issues. Useless idiots.
Berkelyy needs to make sure our nation’s enemies know that they’re nuclear free so if/when the next time we come under attack by the world’s psychos, they’re not nuked . I’m sure that will save their pathetic sniveling coward loser butts.
Code Pink is a Thought Free Zone.
And . . . I heard that the brother of a Berkeley city council member’s spirit-guide was once married to a woman who drinks Pepsi, which everyone knows uses 3M Post-It notes at its HQ, which are made from uranium by child slaves in China.
Put that in yer peace pipe and smoke it!
Faux News Alert:
Code Pink also protested the rampant use of 3M Spray Adhesive at UC Berkeley, the result of a little known “Inhalant Exclusion” in the Free Zone regulations. Code Pink, however, found little support among the student body to amend the law.
Shouldnt they protest ‘Romy and Michelle’ since everyone knows they really invented Post-It Notes and not 3M…
There, that’s a little better. Can’t claim I fixed it, there’s too much wrong.
I can neither confirm nor deny that someone was stoned or tripping and forgot they left it there one night at about 1:37 AM. Do you know how many years I worried about that…. or so I heard.
Nothing more comical and embarrassing than people who invoke Kafka concerning things that are most definately not about kafka, relating to Kafka or are in anyway Kafka-esque. But if that was not enough to demonstrate the idiocy and pure childishness of this little post, let the rest of their paranoid delusions and failed attempts at grammar do it for them.
Such as, “to maintain this invasive of privacy system”
Or my PERSONAL favorite, “…these are the chips now in all library books to track them AND you when you carry said book…”
That’s right, you little troglodytes. The Library is really nothing more than a cover for the CIA so that they can track your every move.
If these guys were not real, you would have to write whatever comic book editor it was who thought that such creatures could ever be believable enough even to be used in a comic book.
Wouldn’t it be fun to tell the Berkeleyites that 3M has bought Birkenstock? Or that the dyes in tie-dyed clothes were made by 3M?
We can wreak havoc with their liberal ecosystem with a few well-placed rumors.
Niiiiice job, Bezerkley! Just when we think you can’t be bigger schmucks, you outdo yourselves again! What do you do when you need an x-ray? Are area hospitals prohibited in practicing nuclear medicine?
Please get over yourselves already.
*out*
There’s no telling what this person believes.
Sadly, I live just north of Berkeley. Today, the “Peace and Justice” Commission is voting on whether to “demand” that the US government charge John Yoo with “war crimes” for his legal opinions on waterboarding that he presented to his former boss, Alberto Gonzalez, when he was AG. Yoo currently teaches law at UC Berkeley’s law school.
This is hilarious. The city of Berkeley is also “demanding” that the law school not require anyone to take John Yoo’s courses at the law school, since he’s a “war criminal”.
The law school’s response was “BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA”.
Or something like that.
When are they going to grow up and get lives?
Hey Code Pink. Watch out for the evil office supplies and remember don’t get sick.
This is a small sampling of 3M products and services.
Office supplies
* Binding & Laminating
* Boards & Easels
* Breakroom Supplies
* Glue & Adhesives
* Janitorial Supplies
* Mailroom & Shipping
* Presentation Equipment & Supplies
* Sticky Notes
* Tape
Health Care
* Animal Care
* Dental (3M ESPE)
* Drug Delivery Systems (Worldwide, English)
* Health Information Systems
* Infection Prevention
* Medical Device & Diagnostic Fabrication
* Medical Diagnostics Solutions
* Medical Specialties & OEM
* Microbiology
* OMNI Preventive Care, A 3M ESPE Company
* Orthodontics (3M Unitek)
* Personal Care Industry
* Skin Health
* Stethoscopes (Littmann™)
I didn’t know that city councils had jurisdiction over war crimes. Then again, I’m more familiar with East Coast Liberals.
Including just those three companies would mean no use of airlines, or automobiles or food or clothing, or much of anything else.
In Berkley, you can legally walk the streets naked, but that’s about it. Freedom in Berkely is limited to freedom to make a fool of yourself. They have a very high compliance rate.
Naked Code Pink women.
Bad image of the day.
3M manufactures depleted uranium.
So all we need to make Code Pink run for cover on site is to have this in a highly visible place on our persons?
Berzerkely manufactures depleted brain cells.
I call that even.
Quit griping, just wrap the books in foil; I’m sure there’s an ample supply available in Berzerkeley…
These Berkeley Pinkos seem to have taken a page from noxious Islam. If you can’t find anybody around to hate, turn your hatred inward on yourselves.
Can you imagine what this world would be like if everyone were this venomous.
Looks like Berkeley already has it’s share of toxic waste. And this waste dump is going to take several super-funds to clean up.
I bet Kevin Bacon is related to 3M in 5 degress or less…
Where’s Nabokov when you need him?
I wonder if Berkley get any of its power from Nuc power …..if so someone should point that out to them
My gads what kind of drugs are these fools on…or not…which ever case applies.
I tell ya, these people have to be some of the most miserable lunatics in the world and they have the right to the “pursuit of happiness”…what a waste.
Have you seen these people(?) their well beyond that stage physically and mentally. As I said above…’”what a waste”.
The kids have way too much time on their hands and not nearly enough toys.
It’s worse than they think! Not only does 3M (re)manufacture depleted Uranium, not only do they do business with Honeywell and Boeing, I also discovered that 3M is located on the exact same continent as…
HALLIBURTON!!!
How much more suffering can these people take?
I rode nuclear subs for 20 years. I worked on Polaris and Trident missiles.
Is it okay for me to drive through Berkeley on the freeway, or do I have to bypass it and go through Sacremento?
I say tag all of them with an RFID. Makes it easier to track the moonbats when they escape from their cages.
Libraries have security systems because people steal. If they don’t want these systems, then they should stop stealing. (Liberals stealing? Does not compute.) Soon this will all be a moot point anyway, because everyone knows that libraries only exist to provide free internet porn access to the dregs of society.
Michelle: I thought you would like that.
Southpaw: As you might imagine, the city and UC Berkeley don’t exactly get along. But since UC is state owned they’ve pretty much declared themselves above local law. This was a key element in the recent tree sit since you can’t cut down an oak tree in Berkeley without a permit and UC just cut down 44 of them.
Boy are these people stupid. RFID technology doesn’t allow someone to “follow” you. Libraries that are using this technology are basically replacing the paper card catalog system with an electronic one, or managing inventory. It only READS the RFID and transmits the information from the book to the reader to the database.
So, if you’re out somewhere doing something illegal (and you just happen to have your library book with you), it won’t beam that information back to the cops or anything.
Now I’m going to need the industrial strength brain cleanser.
The US government maintains a large arsenal of nuclear weapons and purchases a lot of ammo with depleted uranium components.
So, does the City of Berkeley eschew any federal dollars? Go it alone on the money people make selling ribbons and poster boards for use on picket lines?
Screwballs!
Well, the real worst part of this story is this kind of thing is snowballing in this ultra-green whales & windmills muclear-is-Darth Vadar Oh-Obama eco climate. Check out your elementary schools and see.
James Greenidge
Queens New York
Does NOT want windmills lining New York Thruway and looming the horizons of Grand Canyon.
These people must live useless lives without a cause. It is always something they are protesting, in order to stay in the camera lens and on news sites. Once the msm gets bored with them, they move on to a new cause. They think they’re important but, in reality, they are used and are wasting their lives away.
Just out of idle curiosity – Do they have any microwave ovens in Berkeley?
Do they know how microwave ovens work?
Do they know who makes microwave ovens?
OMG!!
Where is Dumpster Muffin in all this?
Also made by 3M!!!!!
Just to take the discourse deep into the underbrush….
The Sun is a nuclear furnace. Does Berkeley still allow sunlight to shine on the city? Or does all the tinfoil block that radiation too.
BTW libs… dont come skiing in Colorado. The ski passes now have RFID embedded in them (WITH YOUR PICTURE)! And the police ARE cracking down on everyone smoking the Ganja this year. They can track you anywhere on the mountains AND the CIA knows when you show up!!!!
Stark! Raving! Lunatics!
So RFID’s mean transporting nuclear material through the city?
“invasive of privacy”?
These people need some invasive of brain cells.
Exactly how does one bypass Berkeley by going through Sacramento? I cannot think of a single place you would travel to where this could ever make sense.
Those rascally physics grad students!
But I do have a periodic table signed by Glenn Seaborg himself, acquired by my son when he was a physics student at Cal and went to a guest lecture by Seaborg. There are a lot of loonies around there, but a lot of top-notch science is done there.
Or dentists, or nuclear medicine departments, or smoke detectors…
I always make sarcastic comments to my students about towns that are “nuclear free” zones, telling them how utterly impossible–not to mention pretentious–it is to say such a ridiculous thing.
Always trying to get my 2 cents worth in.
Iowa City is also a “nuclear-weapon free” zone, although they had enough sense to specify they meant weapons, so they can still operate the U of Iowa School of Medicine.
I’ve always wondered how they enforce it. If I had a small warhead or even a suitcase nuke, what are they going to do to stop me?
Likewise, what’s Berkeley going to do if North Korea’s Dear Leader sends a nuclear missile their way? Write him a citation?
Bob’s Kid, I bet they even REQUIRE the installation if those nasty nuclear powered smoke detectors chock full of Americiumm-241. It was discovered there at UC Berkeley by Glen Seaborg too.
Betcha they also mandate the use of CFL’s. GE is a major manufacturer of CFL’s and fluorescent bulbs. GE is also a major manufacturer of Nuclear reactor systems and controls. They also are a major manufacturer of Nuclear medical systems and radioisotopes.
I bet they have air conditioners with Honeywell thermostats and HVAC equipment in them.
Bet they love those fuel cell powered cars too. those fuel cells use a proton exchange membrane manufactured by 3M to generate the power.
Let’s hope that the mayor gets cancer and needs radiation treatment to survive, the irony would kill them.
Let’s not even go into the small amount of nuclear material used in the manufacture of watches and clocks. After watching the way things are done there, I doubt anyone uses them anyway.
Nuclear free? How will they reconcile the latest findings that simple scotch tape releases radiation when dispensed.
Or, how bout radium in watch faces?
The ignorance of the educated is so very hard to surpass.
Does this mean if Berkeley is invaded by China or someone else we don’t have to defend them?
Nuclear free zone? Does this mean that xrays are out? Radiation Tx is gone?
Just where does stupidity draw a line?
Nuke Code Pink
Back in my BOFH–>SysAdmin days we had a saying about (UC) Berkeley:
Two things of note came out of Berkeley; LSD and UNIX. This is *NOT* a coincidence.
To this day, I use BSD but never the other…
Timothy Leary anyone?
Peet
AHHHAHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAH I was just about to comment on this thread and say “Jeez… didnt we already cover this topic? Cant we just link to what we already wrote before???”
Then I saw that I had mis-linked and was actually IN the old thread!!!!!!!
It was like totally Vuja De (you’ve been there before but you DONT remember it)
Have they outlawed smoke detectors in Berkeley?