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Code Pink To Use The Nuclear Option

UPDATE May 9th, 2008:  Watch the fun!  Fox News has a Protest cam up and running 24/7 aimed at the Marine Recruiter's Office!  Go here and click on the link beside the picture.

UPDATE II May 9th, 2008:  This seems appropriate.

The Berserkeley chapter of Code Pink is at war with the US Marines.  Quite possibly, The USMC is a group of people that no one with any brains would want to pick a fight with.  OK, we are talking about Code Pink so I suppose that brains are not included in the equation by default.  Despite the fact that if the collective brain power of this group was dynamite, they wouldn't have enough to blow their noses, they are fighting the Marines on the streets of Berkeley.  And as you might expect, the gals of Code Pink are losing and the Marines haven't even fired a shot.  As a matter of fact, the Marines really haven't done a thing.  They've just sat by patiently and watched the circus while signing up more candidates than they'd originally hoped.

From Fox News:

"Ironically, it's actually helped us by putting our name out. We're now well known. And people know who we are, and where we are, and they come in to talk to us about enlisting. They've gotten us the publicity that we could've never afforded to pay for ourselves," Wheatcroft told FOXNews.com.

"Just in the last three weeks, 10 people came in looking to apply, looking to become Marine officers, and that's much higher than normal," he said.

Obviously, the Marines are winning and that fact hasn't gone unnoticed by the  Code Pink Brain Trust.  They are now going to bring in their big guns.  They've tried using grannies, daughters, noise and blocking the office, all with the effect of a fart in a hurricane.   They are now going to bring this to an end.  The Marines were given a chance to surrender, but now they've  hit the big red button.  That's right folks, Code Pink is about to  use their nuclear option!  They are going to use witchcraft!!  Oh the humanity!

Code Pink is now resorting to witchcraft to beef up the number of its supporters protesting Berkeley's controversial Marine Corps Recruiting Center.

The women's anti-war group has told ralliers to come equipped with spells and pointy hats Friday for "Witches, clowns and sirens day," the last of the group's weeklong homage to Mother's Day.

"Women are coming to cast spells and do rituals and to impart wisdom to figure out how we're going to end war," Zanne Sam Joi of Bay Area Code Pink told FOXNews.com.

I can see those Marines cringing in the corner out of shear terror right now.  OK, may be not cringing - cowering...no, that's not it ...Standing and shuddering a little...no, that just doesn't seem right.

Oh!  Laughing their asses off!  That's what they will be doing!

Memo to the Code Pink Nutballs:

Good luck with that!

VW

Cage The Recruiters

I've been warning you that things are ratcheting up in the radical whacko community.  This is another in a series and this time we go to Pittsburgh.

A collection of radical nitwits calling themselves the "Pittsburgh Organizing Group", or POG, has this on their website:

On Wednesday, March 19, POG will be holding a torch-lit march to a modern day castle of abominations—our local military recruiting station. If the station remains open, we intend to evict it and everything inside of it, occupy the location, and transform it into something useful for the community. We'll also be bringing a movable cage in which to confine military recruiters until they no longer pose a danger to our friends and neighbors. (Emphasis added)

They plan to raid the office, destroy (and steal) everything in it and cage the recruiters.  Of course, that's what they say they are going to do.  I'm not sure if they are really dumb  enough to ransack the office, kidnap, and imprison the recruiters.  It isn't going to happen.

First, they are going to do this at 6:30 PM.  They already know the recruiters will most likely not be there.  They also more than likely understand that kidnapping and false imprisonment of a government official are federal felonies and if they are convicted of such an offense, they will be very old men and women when they are eventually let out of prison. 

They know that and pretty much admit it as you read on:

Of course, the station may be closed and recruiters may flee or hide behind the police apparatus that enables the war to continue. That is often the case, and we've seen in the past the overwhelming resources the state directs against these anniversary events because of their importance as a symbol of dissent. We believe in acting effectively, in confronting the war, at times and places of our choosing. When the state brings the resources necessary to suppress direct action against the war, it makes sense to hold a symbolic protest, and we still consider that a success, as it exposes the reality that it is ultimately on the local level that our countries war policy will be decided.

They know that if they do carry out such an act, they will go to jail.  So when they rally and the police are there because they, in effect, telling the police what they plan on doing, they still claim victory because after all, its the symbolism that counts.  It's called symbolism over substance.  It's not actually doing the deed, but willingness to carry it out if there is no real danger to themselves.  Loosely translated, they are your typical coward commies.

Starting this week, things are going to get warmer and I don't necessarily mean the weather.

Michelle Malkin and Yankeemom is tracking a a bunch of upcoming protests.  Check in with them often.  I do.

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Denver Danger

By now, you've all heard of the bomb blast at the recruiting station in Times Square.  Most folks were fairly certain that it was most likely the work of some kind of anti-war and anti-military group or individual.  The fact that some Congresscitters received photos of the building, a picture of someone standing in front of the building with arms outstretched and a 10 page political manifesto seems to bear that idea out. 

This is, of course, the inevitable result of Code Pink's antics in Berserkeley.  Not that Code Pink openly advocates such illegal activities, but you know someone or some group was eventually going to take it to the next level.  Peaceful protests and singing "Kumbaya" is nice, but some folks will eventually think they aren't getting the desired results as fast as they would like.

Back in the 60's and early 70's, the radicals that eventually formed the "Weather Underground" started out peaceful and they started bombing unpopulated buildings to get attention and then they finally started outright targeting cops and others in authority.

I've been saying for the last several months that this summer is going to be violent and I predict that 2008 will make 1968 look absolutely Gandhi-esque!.  Obviously I hope I'm dead wrong and everything is as peaceful as an ice cream social.  Obviously that is too much to probably hope for when you read things like this Huffpo article and some of the comments (Don't if you have a week stomach) and you tell me what you think.

Add to that the neo-hippies that are organizing "Recreate 68" and you'll get a real sense that Denver is going to get ugly.

Today's incident is, unfortunately, just a harbinger of a violent political season to come.

VW

Hat Tip:  Hot Air

Berkeley - Anti-American Sons Of Bitches

Rarely do I resort to profanity on this blog.  I'm afraid that sometimes my speech at work is a bit more "colorful" then it should be, but for the most part, I try to keep the language clean here on the blog.  Ass hat is usually as strong as it gets.  Well, the Berserkeley city council and their vomit licking comrades Code Pink are beyond asshat.  They are probably even beyond being Anti-American Sons of Bitches, but I'm not going to start dropping the F-bomb here. 

If anyone is worthy of derision and being called a few choice names, it is indeed the self-absorbed residents of Berkeley. As a matter of fact, they are just plain beyond contempt. 

BERKELEY — Hey-hey, ho-ho, the Marines in Berkeley have got to go.

That's the message from the Berkeley City Council, which voted 6-3, with Gordon Wozniak, Betty Olds and Kriss Worthington dissenting, to tell the 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."

It also voted 7-2, with Wozniak and Olds dissenting, to explore enforcing its law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation against the Marines and to encourage the women's peace group Code Pink to protest in front of the station.

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.

Every cent of every federal dollar that goes into that despicable  city should be held back.  The city should be boycotted and the mayor and his idiotic council should be fired.

Anti-American sons of bitches!

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The Left And The Military

Over the past couple of years, I've noted several times that liberals do not understand the military and its role in national policy.

Check the sign out above.  "No War-Mongering Recruiters In Our Town!"  Think about that statement for a few minutes.

If we are to understand the message, it is important to understand the words.  So, let's define the big word (misspelled by Our Ladies of Perpetual Outrage, by the way.  There is no hyphen.):

Warmonger:  One who advocates or attempts to stir up war

Now that we know the definition, we can now attempt to decipher the message. 

Are military recruiters warmongers?  It would surprise me greatly if any of them advocate war.  Although military people train to wage war, the vast majority of them understand that war is not the preferred way to settle disputes.  The soldier, more than anyone, understand the horrors of war.  What the soldier understands is the necessity of national defense.  The soldiers understand that he does not make national policy; he is merely an instrument thereof.  In America, Generals do not start wars.  Their duty is to see that wars are waged when ordered.  Most of the military personnel staffing recruiting offices are noncommissioned officers and company grade officers.  NCOs, Lieutenants and Captains are certainly in no position to stir up a war, nor do they advocate war. 

Code Pink doesn't support our soldiers.  How can you call them predators, baby-killers and warmongers one minute and say you support them the next?

Code Pink is nothing more than a radical left-wing group bent on destroying this country.

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Code Pink Calls The Marines Traitors

The Defeatocrats went into absolute full tilt when they thought their main broadcast nemesis, Rush Limbaugh, categorized the small minority of soldiers against the war as "phony soldiers".  He didn't, but that hasn't stopped the Democrat slander machine from running in high gear.  They got stung with Moveron.org's Petraeus/Betray us ad and this presented them with what they thought was an opportunity to strike back at Conservatives and maybe as a bonus, either get Rush off the air, or marginalize him with his fellow Conservatives.  So far their efforts have been futile, but they are still trying.

Code Pink recently discovered that a Marine Officer Recruitment Office magically sprung up near UC Berkeley.  Never mind that it has been there since January, they just discovered it and they are determined to rid their (un)fair city of this spot of capitalist cancer.

From the Berserkely Daily Planet:

Code Pink took to the streets of Berkeley Wednesday to try to drive the U.S. Marine Recruitment Center out of the city.

Donning pink hats, T-shirts and badges, a group of 10 braved rush-hour traffic on Shattuck Avenue to protest against the recruitment office located at 64 Shattuck Square.

Did you get that?  They "braved" rush hour traffic.  How heroic of them!

"If there are to be no wars, there can be no warriors," said Dianne Budd, one of the organizers.

MS. Budd obviously has no clue about war and who usually starts them. 

"We found out a few days ago and decided to make their lives miserable," she said, pinning up "RECRUITERS LIE, CHILDREN DIE" posters on the office windows. "We want people to know that it's here and we want to shut them down. If people had been in there we were ready to hand out information about GI rights. We just want to speak the truth."

And the truth is not in her.  I'm sure that some recruiters have gone beyond ethical bounds.  It is inevitable in a quota based system, but you can't paint every one of them with the same brush.  Aren't liberals the ones saying you can't stereo type?  Does she know for a fact that this particular recruiter lies?  If she has proof, the officer can be charged with an offense through the UCMJ.  She doesn't know and her only purpose is to slander the military.  In fact, I would submit that she is the liar here.

As Budd and her fellow organizers held a pink banner with "No military predators in our town" written on it, hundreds of cars, buses and trucks honked their support and waved. (emphasis added, vw)

Where is Harry Reid?  Where is Tom Harkin (a phony hero, by the way)? 

Where is the Democrats and why aren't they drafting a resolution condemning Code Pink?? 

Captain Richard Lund, USMC, is the officer who runs the office there in Berserkely.  Captain Lund responded to Code Pink's attempt to smear him and his service with an open letter published in the Daily Planet.

Here is part of his retort:

Next, scrawled across the doorway to my office, you wrote, "Recruiters are Traitors." Please explain this one. How exactly am I a traitor? Was I a traitor when I joined the Marine Corps all those years ago? Is every Marine, therefore, a traitor? Was I a traitor during my two stints in Iraq? Was I a traitor when I was delivering humanitarian aid to the victims of the tsunami in Sumatra? Or do you only consider me a traitor while I am on this job? The fact is, recruitment is and always has been a part of maintaining any military organization. In fact, recruitment is a necessity of any large organization. Large corporations have employees that recruit full-time. Even you, I'm sure, must expend some effort to recruit for Code Pink. So what, exactly, is it that makes me a traitor?

Of course Code Pink won't answer that.  They can't.  And in answer to Ms. Budd's ignorant statement, "If there are to be no wars, there can be no warriors," Captain Lund gives Ms. Budd a lesson in civics:

Finally, I believe that your efforts in protesting my office are misdirected. I agree that your stated goals of peace and social justice are worthy ones. War is a terrible thing that should only be undertaken in the most dire, extreme, and necessary of circumstances. However, war is made by politicians. The conflict in Iraq was ordered by the president and authorized by Congress. They are the ones who have the power to change the policy in Iraq, not members of the military. We execute policy to the best of our ability and to the best of our human capacity. Protesting in front of my office may be an easy way to get your organization in the headlines of local papers, but it doesn't further any of your stated goals.

Code Pink has a right to protest.  And as I've stated in the past in a recent post,  I think Congress should not be condemning anyone for their political views.  That includes Moveron.org and Rush Limbaugh. 

I do think that individuals in Congress can voice their opinions and I'm wondering why Code Pink hasn't been denounced by individuals in Congress for their patently un-American beliefs and wholesale disrespect of those who wear this country's uniform.

VW

Hat Tip:  Michelle Malkin