Sweet Jebus on a pogo stick….The Bush idjits WILL make me stand up for Code Pink and the Berkeley City Council won’t they? I HATE this badly; Code Pink makes me want to puke on their pink shoelaces because ————SKREEEEEECH!!  The sound you hear is an embarrassed me putting on the brakes.  Apparently, the picture I posted at my earlier (now deleted) post was a mean hoax to do to the Pink and piss people off and I fell for it hook. line, and sinker!  CODE PINK DOES NOT SUPPORT MURDERING US TROOPS.  I AM A FREAKING IDIOT FROM TIME TO TIME.

BUT, BACK TO THE TOPIC of THIS post :  for the City Council to be punished for saying “We don’t want the recruiters here.” by having federal funding revoked is pretty outrageous.

This is like the high schools and colleges round the nation having money pulled for suggesting that the aggressive recruiters stay out of their hallways. The Bush Administration stands hard upon its right to quash dissent over the war. The Administration is punishing the city and the college in Berkeley for the Code Pink success at motivating people.  Why not do it smarter instead of the financial strong arm?

Code Pink has as much right to march as the KKK. The Feds never threatened to pull funds when various cities told the KKK to get off the doorstep of the city library, etc…or even if they didn’t !  So why the selectivity now, guys? Oh, yeah….riiiiight the war on terra MUST go on. Such selective prosecution, my my my….this puts me between a rock and a hard place. And it makes me ask, how much proto-fascist militarism can a city, state or nation be asked to endure? Cities and other municipalities have rights to decide what they can refuse, so long as it doesn’t violate civil rights of any group? Apparently, the military is now a special group of its own. And the city of Berkeley may NOT act at the behest of Code Pink or its own citizens in what it may misguidedly view as protecting the youth without big financial consequences.  How is this good or responsive democratic government?

It would seem to me a better approach would be to simply see that nobody wanted to sign up in Berkeley, paying rent and getting nothing to show for it would make the recruiters leave sooner than a big deal .  Or, stand outside with signs about how the Marines REALLY treat their Semper Fi buddies when they are broken and of no further use. (http://tinyurl.com/25×28q )
But here you go: go read about the biggest kerflubble in Berkeley since Viet Nam:

+++ Republican lawmakers in Washington fired back this week, threatening to take back more than $2 million of federal funding to the city as well as money designated for the University of California-Berkeley, the campus that became a haven of protests during the Vietnam War.

The battle erupted after the Berkeley City Council approved a measure last week urging the Marine recruiters to leave their downtown office.

“If recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders,” the item says. +++
http://tinyurl.com/36ome6