"Support the troops" is not a universal sentiment in this country:
Hey-hey, ho-ho, the Marines in Berkeley have got to go.
That's the message from the Berkeley City Council, which voted 8-1 Tuesday night to tell the U.S. Marines that its Shattuck Avenue recruiting station "is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders."
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In a separate item, the council voted 8-1 to give Code Pink a designated parking space in front of the recruiting station once a week for six months and a free sound permit for protesting once a week from noon to 4 p.m.
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"I believe in the Code Pink cause. The Marines don't belong here, they shouldn't have come here, and they should leave," said Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates after votes were cast.
Code Pink, a "peace and justice" group and apparently a darling of city government, wants to even put the military in same category as sex offenders:
Code Pink on Wednesday started circulating petitions to put a measure on the November ballot in Berkeley that would make it more difficult to open military recruiting offices near homes, parks, schools, churches libraries or health clinics. The group needs 5,000 signatures to make the ballot.
Retrograde hippie nuts can be amusing when they pop up here and there. But they should not be encouraged to congregate.
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...Or to BREED!
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B.G.
"Retrograde hippie nuts can be amusing when they pop up here and there. But they should not be encouraged to congregate."
As opposed to pseudo-fascist theorcrats. They should be elected to the highest levels of government, right Leo?
Hmmmmm
pseudo...: being apparently rather than actually as stated
fascist...: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
theocracy...: government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided
Now Craig, I know you love to toss around those terms as though you are living in a "pseudo-fascist theocracy, (as a guest I might add) but one need only read the definitions of those terms to realize how ridiculous an assumption that is.
Granted, it's dramatic to equate The United States with World War II Germany, or Italy but it's really more obvious you are either really a poor student of history, you have not the ability to comprehend simple definitions, or, you are simply obfuscating for your own self aggrandizing hippie horseshit agenda.
Of course there is always the possibility that you really aren't a snarky, petty, self important, over emotional fake intellectual, and that you're really just an idiot.
Tough call.
FYI...
I've been a naturalized citizen since 1987 three years after immigrating to this fine country legally. I have never paid income taxes or voted in any other country. If this doesn't make me an American, and not a "guest", then I don't what does.
My mistake, I had no idea you voluntarily joined the oppressive theocracy despised by all those who are of pure heart and mind.
It's okay Tim. Kindly point to the phrase in which I referred to America as a "theocracy" please.
No problem.. you said:
"As opposed to pseudo-fascist theorcrats. They should be elected to the highest levels of government, right Leo?"
Call me presumptuous, but it's my theory you were referring to the current administration of these here United States.
When used by hackneyed liberals, this is called an "inference".