Hang Right Politics

Posted by Stephanie on February 2nd, 2008 in Freedom of Speech, Hate, Hypocrisy, Injustice, Liberals, Loony Left, Opinion, Outrage, Political Correctness, Stupid Democrat Ideas, Thugs, Traitors

This is discrimination and hate speech perpetuated by an entire city:

City Council Passes Motions Criticizing Marines Office

[...] “By taking a stand against recruitment we are protecting the health and safety of our youth,” said PhoeBe sorgen, a member of the Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission. “I see the protest as taking a proud and courageous stand.” [...]

Code Pink, a national anti-war grassroots organization, will be granted a parking spot for their regular Wednesday afternoon protests and will not need to apply for a sound permit for the next six months, under one resolution.

The other resolution more directly criticizes the presence of the center in Berkeley. The city manager was directed to send a letter to the U.S. Marine Corps saying they are “uninvited and unwelcome intruders” in the city.

In addition, the city attorney has been directed to investigate whether the city’s anti-discrimination laws can be enforced at the center, based on the military’s consideration of sexual orientation in hiring.  [...]

Bring the recruiting center up on anti-discrimination charges? How about bringing yourselves up on the same anti-discrimination laws?  

First, I’d cut off their outside funding. I know Berkeley enjoys largesse from the federal government. Then, I’d remove all recruiting stations. Then I’d remove the police, the fire department, and ambulances unless they are fully funded by the city itself. Refuse them help by the National Guard as well. They did say the military is uninvited and unwelcome there, didn’t they?

I suppose it’s only hate speech when it’s the other side?

Update: Gotta love Senator DeMint. I wish he was one of my Senators, there are so few like him.

DeMint was angered after learning that the Berkeley City Council voted this week to tell the U.S. Marine Corps to remove its recruiting station from the city’s downtown.

“This is a slap in the face to all brave service men and women and their families,” DeMint said in a prepared statement. “The First Amendment gives the City of Berkeley the right to be idiotic, but from now on they should do it with their own money.”

“If the city can’t show respect for the Marines that have fought, bled and died for their freedom, Berkeley should not be receiving special taxpayer-funded handouts,” he added. [...]

DeMint further talked about legislation to block special earmarks for the city to the tune of at least $2.1 million, including these items:

— $975,000 for the University of California at Berkeley, for the Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service, which may include establishing an endowment, and for cataloguing the papers of Congressman Robert Matsui.

— $750,000 for the Berkeley/Albana ferry service.

— $243,000 for the Chez Panisse Foundation, for a school lunch initiative to integrate lessons about wellness, sustainability and nutrition into the academic curriculum.

— $94,000 for a Berkeley public safety interoperability program.

— $87,000 for the Berkeley Unified School District, nutrition education program.

Berkeley could always ask Code Pink to support them financially when the federal dole dries up, not that its likely to happen because Congress will not vote it in.

Now this is a man who should be President. He is fighting an uphill battle with a liberal Congress but still continues to fight for what is right.

I’m disappointed they are staying away from calling Berkeley’s actions what they really are, which is hate speech and discrimination, but they have the right idea. I suppose telling Berkeley that wouldn’t really help the situation, anyway. They’re obviously too dumb to recognize the fact.

Update II: 3 war opponents chain selves to door of recruiting station, and right-wing blogosphere goes ballistic

As the right-wing blogosphere railed and a U.S. senator vowed financial retaliation against the Berkeley City Council for its effort to boot the Marine Corps out of town, three war protesters ratcheted up pressure from the left by chaining themselves Friday to the front door of the downtown Marine recruiting office.

Demint’s legisation:

Conservative bloggers and Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., also believe more articulation is necessary – from the opposite side of the political spectrum.

DeMint began drafting legislation Friday to cut $2.1 million in federal funding to Berkeley in a current congressional budget bill and transfer the money to the Marine Corps. The funding would include $750,000 for prospective ferry service, $87,000 for the Berkeley Unified School District nutrition education fund and $243,000 for the Chez Panisse Foundation, which promotes nutritional awareness in school lunch programs.

Berkeley’s repsonse via Councilwoman Dona Spring:

“I guess they’ve never heard of free speech,” Councilwoman Dona Spring said. “I’ve had a lot of nasty phone messages today, threatening me with things like saying, ‘I’ll take you out.’ But they can go ahead. I don’t feel scared.”

Code Pink said it has begun to circulate a petition calling for a Berkeley ballot measure that would make it more difficult to open and operate recruiting stations. The measure would be modeled after anti-pornography laws, organizers said, mandating that – like porn shops – new recruiting offices be subject to public hearings before they would be allowed to locate near homes or schools.

Other responses close to the incident:

“It’s just another protest,” said Marine Corps Capt. Richard Lund, head of the recruiting office.

As he spoke in the early afternoon, with the protesters still chained to his door, a small band of demonstrators on the sidewalk shouted at passing cars and students at Shattuck Square: “Marines out of Berkeley! Marines out of Iraq!”

Heated words were exchanged whenever people tried to enter or leave the office, but the protest was peaceful.

“You guys are just cannon fodder!” the chained protesters shouted at three teenage boys who walked past the office and said they wanted to go inside. “They want to train you to kill babies!” (Emphasis mine.)

The teenagers turned around and left.

At one point, UC Berkeley student Kyrolos El Giheny walked up to the front door and tried to go inside to talk to Lund about a possible Marine career. He was unable to get past the chained protesters.

“They told me, ‘No business as usual today,’ ” El Giheny said. “It’s kind of nutty. It’s really an infringement on my rights.”

I love it when they fall into that baby killer litany. I’d say the left and their pro-choice doctrine have killed more babies than all the wars of the 20th century and the Iraq War put together have killed, unintentionally. I believe the number of abortions total approximately 48,000,000 (48 million) since 1973. While some extremely small percentage of those were probably medically necessary, the vast majority of those are intentional. Who are the baby killers?

What’s more they are indeed infringing upon others’ rights as that last young man pointed out but the right wing are the fascists? Those idiots have the right to free speech but as long as they can manage it, nobody else will have the same right.

As much as I cut and pasted here, I left out a whole section of the arrest of the “chainees” and their responses. Read the whole thing.