Berkeley tells the United States Marine Corps to take a hike.
I'm so damned angry about this I could chew razor blades and spit out nails. These traitorous, seditious scum have the nerve to tell the USMC they're not welcome and are intruders. I'm fine with people protesting or disagreeing with the war. No problem. But to tell the USMC to take a hike? OUTRAGEOUS!!!
I've got a better idea. Every dime of federal money should be cut to this cesspool of filth until they build a nice monument to the dead of the Corps and a nice, new, recruiting station. And all future protesters are to be kept at a distance of a hundred yards.
These candy-assed pieces of garbage should remember something, it's NOT the Marine Corps that makes the decision to go to war. They go where the government tells them to go, because they're Marines and that's the contract they made. And they bleed, and they suffer, and sometimes they die. And some of them that make it back are never the same. And these unAmerican pukes tell them they're not welcome there?
You filthy anti-American scum. Go to Hell.
Hey-hey, ho-ho, the Marines in Berkeley have got to go.
That's the message from the Berkeley City Council, which voted 6-3, with Gordon Wozniak, Betty Olds and Kriss Worthington dissenting, to tell the Marines that its Shattuck Avenue recruiting station "is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders."
It also voted 7-2, with Wozniak and Olds dissenting, to explore enforcing its law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation against the Marines and to encourage the women's peace group Code Pink to protest in front of the station.
In a separate item, the council voted 8-1 to give Code Pink a designated parking space in front of the recruiting station once a week for six months and a free sound permit for protesting once a week from noon to 4 p.m.
Councilman Gordon Wozniak opposed both items.
The Marines have been in Berkeley for a little more than a year, having moved from Alameda in December 2006. For about the past four months, Code Pink has been protesting in front of the station.
"I believe in the Code Pink cause. The Marines don't belong here, they shouldn't have come here, and they should leave," Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates said after votes were cast.
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I've already fired off a few emails, to my 2 Senators and 1 Congressman. And I'm pretty sure my Congressman is a former Army Ranger so I don't think he'll feel all warm and fuzzy about this either.
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