Bastards: Vandals strike at Berkeley Marine recruiting center again
It’s never over. Bush is out of office. Obama is moving to withdraw troops from Iraq. Last October, Code Pink gave up on its daily harangues against the Marines who staff a recruiting office in Berkeley after a counterinsurgency of pro-troops groups stood their ground.
But it’s never over.
Yesterday, thugs smashed the windows of the Marine recruiting office and defaced the Marine logo. The masked vandals caused an estimated $5,000 in damage. (You may recall that in 2007, Code Pink defaced the Marine recruiting office by pasting the misspelled word “Assasination” on the window.)
Bastards:
Police are looking for the vandals who damaged a Marine recruiting center in Berkeley that’s been the target of ongoing war protests.
The attack shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday was caught of tape by a surveillance camera. About a half-dozen people wearing dark clothing with their faces covered are seen breaking windows and defacing the Marine Corps logo.
The property owner says they caused as much as $5,000 in damage.
Police have not made any arrests in the case, but say they’ve arrested a “person of interest” on an unrelated warrant.
The recruiting center has angered anti-war activists and some local residents, who say military recruiting is unwelcome in this liberal-leaning city. But the Marines have said they have no intention of moving out before their lease is up at the end of the year.
More from KCBS:
Police Sgt. Mary Kusmiss says it happened Wednesday just before 9 p.m.
Kusmiss says police received several calls from witnesses in the area that a group of 3 to 4 males were smashing the windows of the recruiting center.
“In the history of our experience at the recruiting center this is the most expensive damage ever committed there,” said Kusmiss.
She says although the office has been the target of several anti-war protests over the years, this is the first that’s totaled over $5,000 damage.
The suspects are facing felony vandalism charges.
Kusmiss says they don’t know for certain whether the vandalism was in response to today’s 6th anniversary of the Iraq War.
No, it’s no coincidence. IndyMedia extremists gloat about the vandalism:
At 9PM on March 18th, the eve of the 6th anniversary of the war in Iraq, a group of persons wearing masks smashed the windows and splattered red paint at the U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Center in Berkeley, California.
The center has been the target of protests for the last 18 months, and stands as a symbol of U.S. militarism and imperialist wars. The act of property distruction stands alone as the embodyment of frustration of a people whos government does not listen to or care about them.
Police have not made any arrests but are reviewing the tape, said Sgt. Mary Kusmiss. A sledgehammer and a crowbar were found in a nearby garbage can nearby, and are being reviewing as evidence. After breaking windows and improving the Marine Corps logo at the center, the group wearing masks and dark clothing scattered in three different directions, police said.
As of the time of this posting, no one involved has been arrested. The act was easy. You and a few friends could have pulled it off any day.
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NO MORE GOVERNMENT!!!
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I did my graduate work at Berkley . Weird would put it nicely. One of their endless A Day Of Rage the hippie sobs thought they were going to keep me and a few fellows away from the computer lab (different generation here). The freaks got injured you might say.
We were paying full freight and were not about to let a bunch of sissies get in the way. I like to consider it vermin control.
We were the dudes with the haircut and showered even when it did not rain.
Good Bye America-you will be missed.
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Keep the change-I’ll keep my guns
imjustsaying and chappie, i classify people in terms of did they take a stand, or not. i’m o.k. with muhammad ali, i’m ok with people who served in the peace corps, the air national guard, the coast guard, and even the folks who went to canada and stayed there. i’m o.k. with deferments for medical reasons, and even to get through college, if you then served as an officer. i’m semi ok with school deferments which allowed you to postpone military service, and the war ran out while you were in europe smoking dope instead of attending college. what i’m not ok with is people who wouldn’t and didn’t serve in any form of the military berating and condemning it because their personal cowardly guilt makes them ashamed. i never hear cheney or limbaugh denegrate or service or our service people. only liberals, and the more liberal the more they do crap like this. and as many in this thread have said, in san fran it’s ok to have broad daylight deviant sex in the streets of san francisco, but not wear the uniform of the military of the u.s.a. i find that sick on so many levels i can’t tell you how p.o.ed i am. i was there in 73 while these degenerate bags of crap were spitting on us and calling us baby killers for doing our duty to this country as generations before have proudly done. so point out who didn’t serve, i don’t care, until they berate the brave men and women who did go, did serve, did die, did get hurt, in all the previous wars whether you think they were justified or not. i’m sure you feel we should go to darfur to help the poor folks being killed by an evil thug not from their tribe. look up how we got into vietnam. look at how we got into korea, look at how we got into iraq 1. in every case you will find bleeding hearts who never serve demanding the u.s. military protect and help some underdog group being attacked by a stron neighbor.
J S Ragman:
I think we are in general agreement, I do want to respond to one small bit though:
Yes, I am not sure I like to use the term “less valuable” but I can’t think of a better way to describe the frustration or annoyance I feel when I see a senior person (officer or enlisted) with no combat patch (and I have seen plenty in Korea). For every year they managed to not get deployed it is one more tour for some other guy or gal who may have done a tour in the past. In my mind, every servicemember should have down at least one tour by now.
I think you follow me though.
PS. I think most of us can agree with cheapseat in #98, I know I do.
Have a good weekend all.
*done at least one tour
typos…
Laree, StepMom is a head flight surgeon. Let me tell what she said a month ago:
So, thank you for tracking this! And, please keep vigilant!
It isn’t about Bush or Iraq nor has it ever been. It is about their mistaken and dangerous belief that if only the United States would get rid of her military and all her weapons, then and only then will everyone else do the same and this planet will be one big commune, with free love, vegan food and hairy women everywhere.
It is their belief that the rest of the world only keeps weapons and armies to keep America and her imperialistc goals at bay. We are the root of all evil. We incite these evil dictators and rulers towards violence, thus the only way to bring about world peace is to get rid of it all.
Forget for a moment the fact that should some whack-a-do Obama-on-steroids actually does such a thing, disbands the military and gets rid of all the weaponry in this country that we would be taken over by any number of countries who despise us, making this nation a battleground between them all to see who gets what. That never enters their minds, simply because they are just that deluded in thought. There is no reasoning with them. There is no reasoning with anyone who would view their own country with such deranged thoughts and beliefs. The only way to deal with them is to stop laughing them off and stop mollycoddling them and throw the book at each and every one of them for the slightest offense. No more letting them go home after a couple of hours in the tank or with merely a citation. Show them there really are consequences for treason and sedition. Maybe then they can at least be contained.
Chap, #77:
I niether like GWB nor do I like his non-Conservative Conservatism.
But yes, I would consider him a figher pilot.
BTW:
So was I until I was mb-ed into another line of work.
If I had been a man and was drafted to fight in that particular war, I would probably have fled to Canada, so I can’t judge anyone else for what they did. Seriously, how many hundreds of thousands of young men and women died in that hell-hole? And for what? The war was not fought to win. Our guys were sent over there to be slaughtered. Viet Nam was the biggest mistake in this country’s history. Anyone who fought over there will tell you the same thing. My brother was one of them. Sadly, he came home safe only to die in a car accident 6 weeks later!
So now that President Obama is Commander in Chief, do you think he will speak out against actions like this?
Okay never mind I will go have another beer.
Then I will forever drop it.
When you have talked to EVERYONE who was over there get back to me.
No, I am afraid we topped that last November. Allowing muslims unfettered access to this country was a biggie.
Terribly sorry about your brother-we lost quite a few in car crashes. Somehow upon returning from there I became almost paranoid about dying in a car crash-actually started using a seat belt. I guess I paid too dear a price to come home. But to this day I will go to war against a GD left over old hippie. I owe it to myself.
But then I only talk about VN with men I know were there–it is my Stolen Valor contribution.
Good Bye America-you will be missed.
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Keep the change-I’ll keep my guns
happyscrapper:
You will find many viewpoints contrary to yours even on this forum. However, I am not going to entertain a discussion about whether or not Vietnam was right or wrong.
In any case, if you are going to make the argument that GW avoided service in Vietnam out of principle then that might be a bit more admirable. It still won’t make his military service a glaring beacon of pride for soldiers to emulate. At best, it would have been a lukewarm act of protest where he got to learn how to fly. In fact, a more “noble” act of protest might have been to run to Canada and become Canadian (as you indicated) if you really felt the Vietnam War was “wrong.” If you were just running to Canada out of fear, well that’s different.
ArizonaNeaderthal, thank you for standing up for the ideals the men/women of that generation still hold. And, thank you for your serice.
I lost a cousin that was a young naval pilot, another was a Green Beret, plus the rest of my cousins (3 Marines, 2 Army, 2 Navy) that returned home but were forever changed. This while I was a teenager and hardly knew where Viet Nam was on the world map. I soon learned with every phone call. Toward the end of the so-called “conflict” one of my classmates returned home and was killed in a head-on collision. He wasn’t drinking or under any influence they could tell.
Years later, I visited an old school friend teaching in Canada. Low and behold she was married to a defector from the U.S.. He looked like a shell of what had once been a human – no color, wasted, and few real principles remained. Ten years after it all ended he was still spewing the same vitriol he had in 1970.
The draft dodger couldn’t move on with life, but the soldier’s that served did. God Bless And Keep You All.
Oh slap me – serice should be service! MM has preview for a reason.
I did 2 tours as a marine and after
TET in 1968 the norths back was broken
but the MSM said we were losing. read
a little history and the biography by
the head general of the north, he said
they were ready to sue for peace but
when they say the support from the
american left they held on. so much
for our losing on the battlefield.
It all came down to a table. When the North realized that we would cowtow to them over the sive and type of table they wanted for the negotiations, they knew right then that they had won. They new that we no longer had it in us to stick it out and all they need do was to bide their time.
These swine! These subhuman pieces of reprehensible filth! These craven examples of amphibian fecal matter!
Improved the Marine Corps logo? These wretched vermin, who have not the courage of their convictions to do this in the light of day and without masks, improved the Marines sacred Eagle, Globe, and Anchor?
These cowards, none of which have ever earned the honor of marching accross God’s country at MCRD San Diego or MCRD Parris Island, don’t deserve to even look at the Eagle, Globe and Anchor. The only thing these slime are qualified to “improve” is the gene pool. And then only by removing themselves from it.
Oops! My bad. Yes it was the B-26. Also remember problems with anothe US bomber, the B-24: the wings could fall off in-flight on early versionsas they were structurally deficient.
Makes me wonder whty such aircraft were pressed into service. Seesm to me the engineer would have nown of the limitations.
However we view it Viet Nam did start this assault on the military, military people, the vandalism of military facilities and recruiting stations and such. I have mentioned Stolen Valor before-visit the site and if it interest you you might enjoy the book by B.G. Burkett-a Viet Nam veteran himself- and Glenna Whitley.
The treatment of returning veterans, their families and other military people during that time was shameful-and we hate the Left for it. But Mr. Burkett’s REAL hate is for the phony veterans running around in combat fatigues that did not even exist at the time, wearing more medals than some battalions earned; hate #2 is for Sylvester Stallone and his movie Rambo.
I do believe Sylvester Stallone meant the movie to help-but it painted a picture of us that merely reinforced the view that we were a bunch of whacked out helpless fools running around doing damage. And now we see fools doing exactly that; how many are real veterans I do not know but no veterans I know do Rambo. Maybe John Kerry-may he burn in hell.
We won that war in the Tet Offensive of 1968-we destroyed the Viet Cong and the NVA in the South. Then that Great Traitor Lyndon Johnson stopped bombing the North-we had the sobs ready to quit but we stopped. We lost. The whole rest of the war was nonsense. The fall of Saigon April 30, 1975 was a forgone conclusion – just fill in a date-they did.Then we won the First Gulf War and quit-losing had become a habit.
Now the traitors of the Viet Nam era and their spawn run government, the schools, media. There is nothing left to love. We can’t even protect a Marine Corp recruiting station from these people nor do we try. Does anyone think Eric Holder and He Whose Middle Name is Hussein will be all over this? Thankfully no Marines were hurt-Obama would want to make them pay for their medical expenses.
Good Bye America-you will be missed.
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Keep the change-I’ll keep my guns
ArizonaNeanderthal, you have correctly identified the real cowards. Now that they have survived, they now attempt to justify their ideology.
The journalists such as Walters lied, smeared and fooled many people. For what? Their egos.
I am throwing in support for ArizonaNeanderthal here.
As I said earlier, there are so many misconceptions of our military men and women that really are shameful.
There are many factors involved; the fact that we are an all-volunteer force; liberal hatred of the military dating back to Vietnam; the media; Hollywood reinforcing stereotypes; etc. The end result is generally fairly negative and overall a shame.
If things were different it is entirely possible that Vietnam would have ended up a prosperous and wealthy nation like South Korea (in contrast to a place like North Korea).
Let me get this straight …
and not a single one of these people had the balls to try and stop those scumbags or hold them for the cops? And what took them so long to get to the scene of a reported crime in progress anyway?
If the callers were women or seasoned citizens, confronting armed young men would have been a really bad idea. Unless they were packing heat. Probably even then.
Ref Post 57 by chapoutier:
I flew fighters, two of them, actually, and my comments are based upon that insight and experience.
Getting into the Air National Guard to be a pilot has always been hard and many that do get in come from very experienced backgrounds. Those that didn’t have experience are hired for their aptitude and desire. Of course, if someone you know can help, that influence is sought–much like any plum assignment.
Now, getting to the real point. Flying fighters is something you can’t do just because of who your daddy is or who you know. Period. No waivers.
Getting through pilot training is tough and everyone is performance ranked and evaluated by the instructors, not just the leadership, as to who is “fighter qualified” and who is not. Those that rank the highest are fighter rated. No points for who your daddy is or who you know, or if you are slated for a fighter unit. If you don’t have the “right stuff,” you don’t fly fighters.
Many a time when I was an instructor I saw guys come through, headed to fly fighters in the Guard or Reserve. And a few times I saw some of them fall short of being fighter rated and they lost their Guard or Reserve flying slot. For sure, if they went on and gradated flight school and were not fighter rated, there were other Guard or Reserve units that usually agreed to take them as a pilot, but no fighter units.
If you are fighter pilot you have an intuitive grasp of the environment, 3-dimensional and at hyper-speeds, and yes, you think fast. You also have that warrior edge that makes all the difference because it is a fact that in a fighter, especially a single-seat fighter, there is no one that can save you from yourself.
Bush flew a century series fighter (F-102, single-seat, day-night, all weather intercepter), and those things were not forgiving at all. He did face real risk each and every time he lit the after-burners.
As far as is voluteering to go to Vietnam, Bush volunteered, as many of his peers did, fighter pilot peers, warriors, men that seek the ultimate challenge to fly their fighters to the edge of the envelope and survive. All fighter pilots are like that and wish to do what they can in the service of their nation.
This is not surprising, as an F-4 fighter pilot said in response to a reporters question back in the early, early 80’s when asked why he was excited to be going remote to Korea: “Ma’am, I’d go anywhere to fly F-4’s.” That is the fighter spirit.
The fact is that Bush had not enough hours logged and could not go. The fact the Guard had a requirement that was in place that prohibited his and his peers deployment is of no matter. He had no say in the tactical deployment of his aircraft and unit. He served his country, honorably, well, and in a very risky enviroment– in peacetime, let alone wartime.
In one regard the movies have it right; fighter pilots are an elite group of people and you become a member of the brotherhood because of who you are, not who you know. President Bush is a member of the brotherhood of fighter pilots, combat or not, and that makes him my brother in arms, and to diminish his service is to diminish all of us.
I suggest caution when attacking his service, as you know nothing of the world in which he served.
Respectfully submitted.
Whether or not Bush’s father arranged a special place for GW in the air national guard unit is a separate question. I think you need to look at what stage of the war the US was in at that point. There were many people in units not being called up, not just Bush’s. That doesn’t mean he didn’t “serve” in any way, shape, or form.
There are many segments of the military that no longer serve overseas. Take the Space Command of the US Air Force. It doesn’t have much if any overseas assignments anymore. Are they deliberately not serving?
Arizona…I just came back on this thread and I want to clarify something for you. I apologize if I sounded like I thought the soldiers in Viet Nam wasted their service. That is not what I meant. What I was trying to say was…the war was so micro managed by the government that it was pretty much unwinnable. And when it ended, there was a massacre. I admire the men and women who served over there and I always give my business FIRST to a Viet Nam Veteran before anyone else. They get my thanks and my business. I don’t want you to think you are not appreciated!! I just know that my brother and his buddies all said the same thing…it was hell, and they weren’t able to fight to win! I guess I was just coming from that perspective and didn’t realize I may have offended some vets here. I do apologize!
Good God man that was some fine reading. I’d buy you a drink anytime, anywhere.
And where exactly does it say anything about these 3 or 4 clowns being armed?
Hulka, that was an educational and eloquent study on what it takes to be a fighter pilot.
Too bad it’s lost on Chapoutier. He is too dishonest to ever consider it.
emjem24:
That is not what I said. Further, serving in “Space Command” is a far, far different thing then trying to avoid overseas deployments.
Hi sweetie. It’s too bad you apparently missed post #107 where, in response to another fighter pilot, I conceded the point.
So either you 1) just have your head up your a$$ or 2) are a disingenuous piece of trash. Care to tell us which?
But Hulka’s post was indeed an eloquent defense.
Thanks, all, for the kind words.
Neither. And everyone on this board knows that you’re the resident lying POS.
On every thread on this site where you comment, someone always finds you out for your dishonesty.
Your parents did a stellar job raising you. /sarc.
Yet you have yet to point out one lie, you trash. Blah blah blah such a liar is chapoutier. But when you are called out and asked to provide an instance of a lie you mysteriously shut the hell up. About the only time too, you twit.
And I have yet to see you call out RetFireman for his 5 verifiable lies. So that makes you hypocritical trash as well.
To all. I apologize for all the psychodrama atheling seems to drag with her wherever I post. I know it is pathetic. But really, when this board and an Alan Keyes blow up doll are your only sources of socialization, it tends to mess you up a bit. So take pity on her.
Yeah, everyone believes you.
would these code pink morons have us put our hands behind our backs as terrorists lob our heads off? If it weren’t for all the soldiers, sailors, and airman who have bravely served and protected this country If we hadn’t protected this country, they most likely wouldn’t have the freedom to speak out without being hauled off to some gulag or just plain disappear….hope they’ve been studying the koran….
One of the scum-suckers on IndyMedia tracked me down and posted a comment to my blog.
I responded on IndyMedia as my comment shows. Anyone want to make book on how long my comment will stay up?
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. IndyMedia is a cowardly, anti-1st Amendment site. The resistance is here; the resistance is now. RESIST!!!!!
ECS
CPT, Armor
US Army (Ret.)
I’m with ya brother!
ECS–that’s the first time I’ve read your blog. That said, I’m actually a little scared with the ‘favorite movies’ similarities U & I share…
I would simply add ‘Breaker Morant’.
wighttrasch – We are truly brothers. I forgot to list Breaker Morant!
ECS
zeroangel – Our comments both seem to have been misplaced by those misbegotten sons of women of questionable morals and good taste.
ECS
ECS:
Yup… all gone. Didn’t take long, about an hour for mine.
lol ECS–
guard: ‘do you want the padre?’
Harry Morant: ‘no thank you. I’m a pagan.’
Peter: ‘what’s a pagan?’
Harry: ‘it’s somebody who doesn’t believe there’s a divine being dispensing justice to mankind.’
Peter: ‘I’m a pagan too.’
Horse Soldiers is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy across mountainous terrain and, after a series of intense battles, captured the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, which was strategically essential if they were to defeat the Taliban.
http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/03/horse-soldiers-by-doug-stanton.html
The cowards are back on my blog defending the indefensible. Unlike them, I don’t delete their comments, preferring to let others see their stupidity at work.
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. The resistance is here; the resistance is now. RESIST!!!!
ECS