Berkeley $2M to the Marines?
One giant sign said, "No Military Predators in Our Town." Another message on a pink placard read, "Join the Marines. Travel to Exotic Lands. Meet Exciting and Unusual People -- And Kill Them."
This is what protesters in Berkeley are writing on their signs. And now, lawmakers in DC introduced the Semper Fi Act of 2008 - which would take $2M rom Berkeley funds and transfer it to the Marines. And I say- more power to them!
What kind of morons are these protesters? (Rhetorical question!) Do they think that the Marines are some kind of lawless militia that just decided to go to Iraq and kill people? That they are not a branch of the US military, which takes order from the US Government? Do they teach basic government in California public schools?
Thank God that we live in a country where if you have a beef against our foreign policy you have the ability to influence it. Write your government officials, but don't go out there verbally abusing young men and women that are only doing their duty.
posted by e-kvetcher at 10:08 AM
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My father is a Viet Nam vet. When he came home, he was on his way through the airport when a college-age blond airhead spat on him and yelled "baby killer" at him.
Did you notice the things said four years ago by the Howard Dean campaign and supporters about President Bush?
The left has a long long history of loopy, loony, and downright nasty hatred towards those they disagree with and a lack of resistance to digging into the depths of it and spewing it out. They are still the strongest bastion of the moronic idea that September 11th was engineered by the Republicans to put this country under martial law.
I too am all for this transfer of funds. American secular higher education is easily far and ahead in silliness and peccadilloes of any religious institution and long past being brought to heel by the society they are supposed to serve, not the other way around.
The left has a long long history of loopy, loony, and downright nasty hatred towards those they disagree with and a lack of resistance to digging into the depths of it and spewing it out. They are still the strongest bastion of the moronic idea that September 11th was engineered by the Republicans to put this country under martial law.
Well, to be fair, there is no shortage of conspiracy theorists on the right side of the political spectrum.
I'm glad to see that Berkeley may be two million poorer because of their foreign policy.
The Berkeley city council has no business advocating harassment. That is not a valid form of political expression. Who are they going to encourage their residents to chase out of town next?
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