It just makes a person wanna hurl. I can only shake my head, its the Marine Corp who are making it possible for
these cornflakes to do the things they do. Fools...is all I can say.
The demonstrators promptly said they will keep protesting outside the recruiting station at 64 Shattuck Square until the Marines leave Berkeley - which is what the City Council advised the service to do in a vote Tuesday night that called the Marines "unwelcome intruders."
The council also voted to allow members of Code Pink, the protest group that helped organize Friday's blockade, to park at a designated space in front of the recruiting office every Wednesday afternoon and operate a loudspeaker.
However...one must be very careful what they wish for. There are repercussions.
Conservative bloggers and Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., also believe more articulation is necessary - from the opposite side of the political spectrum.
DeMint began drafting legislation Friday to cut $2.1 million in federal funding to Berkeley in a current congressional budget bill and transfer the money to the Marine Corps. The funding would include $750,000 for prospective ferry service, $87,000 for the Berkeley Unified School District nutrition education fund and $243,000 for the Chez Panisse Foundation, which promotes nutritional awareness in school lunch programs.
"The First Amendment gives the city of Berkeley the right to be idiotic, but from now on they should do it with their own money," DeMint said in a statement.
He called the council's vote "a slap in the face to all brave servicemen and women and their families."
DeMint said on Fox News, "I don't think the Marines will be afraid of anything in Pink."
It just makes a person wanna hurl. I can only shake my head, its the Marine Corp who are making it possible for these cornflakes to do the things they do. Fools...is all I can say.
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"... its the Marine Corp who are enabling these cornflakes to do the things they do."
The Marine Corp is enabling them??
Typo perhaps?
Thanks M for the attention to the typo!! Oh, don't mind me...I'm blaming it on old age....Yeah, thats the ticket...Its old age!
(I don't know how (yet) to draw a line over an error in wording. Sorry I went ahead and just changed it)
punky, thought you might be interested in a couple more links, might give you a little more blog fodder. I found it interesting that the mayor was a former member of the military. And how fast politicians can try to backpedal when things get hot. Nothing new there of course.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_8143578?&nclick_check=1
http://www.zombietime.com/berkeley_marine_corps_2-1-2008/
Thanks for the articles M. I couldn't get into the Mercury news. The other article was interesting indeed. I don't know how the Marines put up with stupidity. But whatcha gonna do....they just do what they gotta do.
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