Semper Fidelis
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gurdymonkeyhttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/07/berkeley.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText
I don't have a problem with people protesting the war. I don't have a problem with them going through proper channels to get appropriate city permits for peaceful demonstration. What I do have a problem with is the egregious abuse of power and common sense by the City Council. I would dearly love to know just long that recruiting station had been in that location before Code Pink decided to stage a protest in front of it and the City Council decided to throw around words like "uninvited and unwelcome intruders"? In a university town? Years, you think? Anybody going to go do something about the Golden Bears Battallion while they're at it?
This has gotten so embarrassing, a group of Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill to yank funding from the city of Berkeley and give it to the Marine Corps.
In the spirit of free speech and protest, I'm not putting so much as a nickel down a Berkeley city parking meter. I will park on an unmetered street and walk however far it takes to my destination - or I will not go.
I don't have a problem with people protesting the war. I don't have a problem with them going through proper channels to get appropriate city permits for peaceful demonstration. What I do have a problem with is the egregious abuse of power and common sense by the City Council. I would dearly love to know just long that recruiting station had been in that location before Code Pink decided to stage a protest in front of it and the City Council decided to throw around words like "uninvited and unwelcome intruders"? In a university town? Years, you think? Anybody going to go do something about the Golden Bears Battallion while they're at it?
This has gotten so embarrassing, a group of Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill to yank funding from the city of Berkeley and give it to the Marine Corps.
In the spirit of free speech and protest, I'm not putting so much as a nickel down a Berkeley city parking meter. I will park on an unmetered street and walk however far it takes to my destination - or I will not go.
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The Stoopid, It Burns...
Date: 2008-02-10 04:49 am (UTC)It's that kind of half-assed reasoning that prompts suicide bombers to try to change government policies by blowing up buses full of blue-collar workers...
Re: The Stoopid, It Burns...
Date: 2008-02-10 05:33 am (UTC)I'm hoping that the threat is sufficient to make the City Council put on their Big Kid pants and do the right thing.