Thursday, February 14th 2008
The Liberation of Berkeley
Tuesday should have been called “How un-Berkeley can you be?” day. Thanks to Move America Forward, Berkeley Civic Center Plaza was filled with normal, decent patriot Americans. Led by KSFO talk-radio host Melanie Morgan, members of Move America Forward rallied in support of the besieged Marine recruiting center. Combat vets, families with sons and daughters serving in Iraq, and members of the Berkeley College Republicans were on the scene to face off against Code Pinko, truant Berkeley High School brats, and a slew of Berkeley regulars who have never seen an American flag that wasn’t on fire. Take a look:
Pro-troop demonstrators line MLK.
A message to the Berkeley City Council:
The opposition- students from Berkeley High School. I asked many of them if they could name at least one country that neighbored Iraq, and none of them could. They could, however, recite the evidence that suggested 9/11 was an inside job.
And check out this video of the BHS students providing the most articulate defense of their anti-war stance.
Still not convinced? Well how about story time, or a game of duck-duck-goose for peace!
Berkeley Police in riot gear hold back the anti-war crowd. The word “pig” was thrown around so many times, I had to grab a ham sandwich after the rally.
Members of Code Pink finally decide to become Human Shields in the middle of Martin Luther King Boulevard.
This was the most inspiring scene of the day. The Veterans suspended their heated exchanges with Code Pink to salute the flag as the National Anthem was played over the loudspeaker. Meanwhile, the Berkeley High students continued to curse America over the crescendo of the Star Spangled Banner.
And our flag was still there…
[…] The Cal Patriot has a follow-up report and video of Berkeley High School moonbats–the next generation of troop-haters: […]
Pingback by Michelle Malkin » What’s the matter with Toledo and Berkeley? — 2/14/2008 @ 9:26 am
Ad video illustrating the Berkeley insanity….
(Via Michelle Malkin) This new ad by the National Republican Senatorial Committee is actually very good. I don’t know how you can watch it and not want to dish out some dough to combat stupidity like this.
Eugh.
Update 12:00PM CST: I didn’…
Trackback by Neocon News — 2/14/2008 @ 11:03 am
So this is how Berkeley and its City Council “support” the troops.
With “friends” like Berkeley, who needs Al Queda?
Comment by JEC — 2/15/2008 @ 6:41 am
Proud to say that most of the speakers at the Council meeting, the majority, and the vast majority of Berkeley residents who testified during the 2 hours of public comment period at that meeting, expressed pride in the Council for its action in calling out this country’s obscene continuation of the Iraq war; and expressed appreciation for creating a much needed angry dialogue about this war; which absent having a draft, nobody has much cared about, not really. I am very proud of my son, 14, and of the other Berkeley High students who stood in the face of the right wing jerks who descended on our town. They did a great job on Tuesday.
Personally I don’t think that you can be against the war and “support the troops.” Can you be against Hitler and support the Nazis? That’s just absurd. They need to be brought home now.
The great irony of course is that the anti-war people have more compassion for the hundreds of thousands of US military men and women who have come home physically and psychologically maimed, than the pro-war people who are just all the more willing to throw more and more lives into that endlessly futile meat-grinder; somehow living in peace with the insane logic that if many more thousands die in vain, that that will somehow mean that their child didn’t.
Sick.
Comment by Anonymous — 2/16/2008 @ 12:25 am
We kept score during the public commentary part of the 2/12/08 Berkeley City Council Meeting. Comments were divided into 4 categories: Pink, Red/White/Blue, Attention Seekers, and Those who commented on the Council without ever addressing the issue at hand.
We also broke the numbers down before and after the 11 o’clock meeting extension time because we’d totalled the tallies before the extension was passed.
Pink: 15 + 5 = 20
R/W/B: 31 + 17 = 48
Drama: 17 + 21 = 38
Council: 7 + 12 = 19
Even were every non R/W/B speaker to be anti-Marines (they weren’t) the totals would be 48 pro to 77 anti.
We didn’t separate the voices that seemed confused or never got around to the topic at hand.
I’d encourage everyone to go read the item on “Kitchen Democracy” (see Berkeley, “Should the City Council Affirm….”) Numbers there are similar, only going the opposite direction. If the commenter above calls one display a “vast majority”, I trust she’ll call the other one one as well.
Comment by MondegreenMom — 2/21/2008 @ 12:59 pm