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  • The last time I checked, killing Iraqis ≠ fightin' fer yer freedumz.

  • Damn it berkeley has fallen to communist

  • good for them the marine just wanted to brain wash there kids and get them to kill for them. the average u.s. soldiers age is only 19 years old thats still a baby life has just started at 19

  • Anti-military? The Berkeley City Council is against sending young Americans to the Middle East to fight for the wrong reasons. That's what I call pro-military, pro-troops, pro-young men, and pro- let's-stop-borrowing-money-fro­m-China-to-invade-foreign-coun­tries. Are you a fiscal conservative? Then you are on our side. Are you a neo-con? Then I wish you didn't live in my country, because you shame us all.

  • @intoximacated I agree with this statement; unfortunately, the top rated comments on this video all include the word "f*g" or "f*ggot" and insinuate that not wanting to kill Iraqi children = being a tree-loving homosexual anti-American communist hippie.

  • go marines screw hippies

  • You've got the right to say what you want. Understand this: We've got the right to punch you in the FUCKING face if we don't agree.

    semper fidelis

  • @TJkiwiOWEG actually, you don't. that's assault. =P

  • Berkeley is full of faggots

  • @sonatadude Nice homophobic Nazi comment

  • @DrPepperBeatsCoke

    Shut up you yuppie hippy faggot Berkley lover.

  • @killzone321 and what's wrong with being a yuppie, or a hippie, or homosexual*? Or loving a rather fantastic little college town in the San Francisco bay area? ;) Cool your heels and speak politely.

  • @sonatadude and what's wrong with that? there's nothing wrong with homosexuality, and the slur is offensive.

  • dquaranta, I challenge you to name a single profession more honorable than that of service to one's nation. I will stand by patiently and wait for you to fail miserably, because no such profession exists.

    Please refrain from generalizing the USMC as "Thugs from dysfunctional families." This is an overt and flagrantly incorrect generalization about people with far more courage and moral fiber than someone like you could clearly ever have.

    You make me physically ill.

  • Firefighter.

  • political activist

  • @lbopie97 I'm not dq, but I'll take the challenge: foreign aid doctors in war zones, service workers for refugee camps in areas like Darfur, and anyone who would risk their life for a just *cause* without payment. Why is that "more honorable" than serving one's country? One's country isn't always in defense of just causes.

  • they are heros. they have more guts then obama does.

  • i highly doubt someone with the name on a Youtube post of "skateboard4marijuana" would know anything about "a real job". lol thats ok though, please keep smoking weed, i dont need any more competition. by the way: employers love military because we can show up on time and dont oversleep because "we had too much weed". see? i can make stereotype statements too!

  • haha, if everyone smoked weed and was peaceful...or....if everyone joined the military and got paid to kill people and got drunk, hmm, i think smoking pot is just fine for me

  • sk8  I guess you are a pillar to your community aren't you?

  • I don't care about your spelling or grammar, that's totally up to you.

  • yeah your one of those people that leap on the oppurtunity

  • It is your unalienable right to be poor at whatever you choose. If I cared about how you spell and your use of grammar, I would have said something about it. You are totally free to skateboard for marijuana and mistype as many words as you would like as far as I am concerned.

  • It is difficult to trust the statistics that are put forth from anyone who's screen name is skateboard4marijuana. I'm just saying, not making fun of it at all, just it doesn't really set a precedence for trusted facts and statistics.

  • Wow you should talk you can't even spell. By the way it is "go because they are". There you go dumbass. As a matter of fact there are people in the military where thier sole job is to work on Nuclear Reactors. I don't think they are stupid.

  • Has anyone asked why Berkeley kicked the marines out

  • Because Code Pink wanted them out. Code pink is a bunch of crazy women who have no life other than to make comments about US military members.

    They have had signs such as "USMC are war criminals" "We support the murder of US troops" and other anti-troop signs

  • nooo that dosen't sound like a good enought answer to me, has someone asked the city council why, what made them take this course of action

  • Seriously the town is so far left it's crazy. Go look up anything with how the council talks about the Marine recruiters and how they think the Marines shouldn't be in their town. So in my honest opinion I think we should pull the recruiters out of there, pull out the sheriff's and anything that the state pays for. Let them spend more than 2 weeks on their own and see how fast they come crawling back.

  • gosh! RELAX oreily is right when they say berkeley is different. just deal. its un-american to want to force the city council to apologize.

  • @besamefuerte

    Are you stupid? Being Anti-soldier is Un-american, these people are protecting your freedoms and you go out an insult them, stupid ass college kids... commies all over the place.

  • @killzone321 no, being anti-military is being... anti-military. There's no definition of what's "American" and what isn't, but most people would agree that to be an "American" one ought to think for themselves and stand up for the principles they believe in. Pacifism is a legitimate principle to be stood up for.

  • If Berkley is such a communist haven why is the marine corp even bothering recruiting there dont get me wrong I think they should have the right but it seems like a waste of time to me.

  • there is always at least one good citizen in that shithole.

  • I like the idea of boycotting Berkeley. Don't live in Berkeley, don't visit anyone in Berkeley (if you can help it), don't go to school in Berkeley, don't patronize restaurants in Berkeley, and don't drive through Berkeley (drive around it). Just forget Berkeley! I think that it actually might be a good idea to move the USMC recruitment office out of Berkeley simply for the protection of the Marines working there. Who knows what Code Pink is capable of doing? They're crazy and dangerous.

  • Berkley is a socialist heaven.

  • IT'S GREAT TO HEAR ALL THE LEFTIST COME OUT AND WHINE AGAINST THE 'OUTING' OF THE COMMUNIST ORG. -CODE PINK-. If you go to their profile pages, you will get a good idea of how they wish America to be. They have no reverence for the Constitution or anything else inherently historically American. They are all about trying to CHANGE AMERICA and use the constitution by twisting it for their own ideological purpose. THESE PEOPLE ARE THE NEW SOCIALIST-COMMUNIST-MUSLIM LOVING ENEMY IN OUR MIDST.

  • I hope people don't get the UC and the COB mixed up.  If you see the UC is in a dogfight to be able to build a Athletic Center on it's own property.

    This is not the 60's and the radical movement makes up a minority of the student body today.

    I know that a lot of people who support Cal athletics plan to boycott COB if they don't get their way.

  • Thats right , boycott that Naziliberal shithole.

  • IT'S GREAT TO HEAR ALL THE LEFTIST COME OUT AND WHINE AGAINST THE 'OUTING' OF THE COMMUNIST ORG. -CODE PINK-. If you go to their profile pages, you will get a good idea of how they wish America to be. They have no reverence for the Constitution or anything else inherently historically American. They are all about trying to CHANGE AMERICA and use the constitution by twisting it for their own ideological purpose. THESE PEOPLE ARE THE NEW SOCIALIST-COMMUNIST-MUSLIM LOVING ENEMY IN OUR MIDST.

  • oh damn it was a commercial :(

  • i wonder how many auditions o'reilly did for the mean guy in the beginning clip. He even looks like him as well!

  • "you liberals", "you conservatives", "you fascists, communists" - parties and wings mean nothing, we're hardly flying anyway regardless of how much you think you know, so stop dwelling on invisible categories that set us even more apart. Bill O'reilly uses this against people every time he gives an interview and you can see why he supports the catastrophe of the surge, because he's too egotistic to support anything else. like it or not, this is what it comes to, the waving of the fist

  • Mattycnw - SAYS "Bill O'reilly, you can see why he supports the catastrophe of the surge, because he's too egotistic to support anything else."

    WOW ! THAT WAS A REALLY STUPID REMARK 'MATT'... SEEING AS HOW BY NOW IT IS A PROVEN FACT THAT THE 'TROOP SURGE' HAS WORKED REMARKABLY WELL, AND THAT ANYONE OTHER THAT AN AVOWED LEFTIST WOULD NOT TRY TO LIE AND SAY THAT IT HASN'T, OR THAT IT WAS A... LOL...CATASTROPHE? WHAT AN IMBECILE YOU ARE.GO FIND YOU A COMMUNIST COUNTRY TO LIVE IN FREAK!

  • Fuck Nationalism and this Neocon propaganda

  • i support the berkley guys

    wtf were marines doing in a city??

  • finding guys who will defend with their lives your right to say whatever you feel like. Would you do the same?

  • I bet your precious Berkeley would have supported the Nazis during WWII.

  • get out of our fn country all u hippie bitches

  • " BRING THE TROUPS HOME NOW! War is NOT the Answer! War Solves NOTHING! The Republi-crap Era is OVER! John McAncient for President? ...GET REEEEEAL!

  • You Democrats wanted this war and I'll provide the quotes upon request.

  • the University of California, Berkeley and the City of berkeley are *COMPLETELY* at odds.

    The University DOES NOT support the City in any way shape or form. The University has had along standing affiliation and cooperation with the military.

    The University manages and staffs some of the largest military labs in the world....Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Los Alamos, and LBNL.

  • code pink are a bunch of nazis trying to take freedoms from us,haha Berkeley has lost over $200,000 and counting

  • Um...HELLOOOOO. Have you read the fuckin Patriot Act?! Bush and his gents have already  stolen our freedoms. Wake the fuck up

  • Are you really that stupid, the Patriot Act does NOT take anything away from us you idiot. I allows our president to defend us against those who either wish us dead or to change our religion. And if you are NOT a citizen of the United States you still have your freedom. Have you been personally affected by the Patriot Act. I don't you have been.

  • You're the fuckin idiot. Read it again, or more likely, READ IT FOR THE FIRST TIME!! AND READ BETWEEN THE LINES!!! Reading requires thinking. But more importantly, STOP WATCHING FOX!!!

    "Those who are willing to sacrifice liberty for temporary security deserves neither liberty nor security." - Ben Franklin

  • ragenut2112 - THATS THE TROUBLE WITH PEOPLE LIKE YOU... You say "read between the lines" ?? All you paranoid schizophrenics,Troofers, and Bush Haters who "read" things into some document, speech or situation that IS NOT there are the problem. YOU should STOP listening to all the conspiracy idiots on the internet and other leftist news outlets.

  • if you've read the Patriot Act, which seems you haven't, what didn't you understand especially about the destruction of habeus corpus and unlawful surveillance, among other things. it should also bother you that the patriot act doesn't even clearly define what a terrorist or terrorism is, if at all. you really don't see this as abuse of power?

  • ragenut2112 - FIRST, I have read it, destruction of habeas corpus is only in your opinion, where has this been done to an American not involved in outright treason, or for that matter YOU? YOU Bush hater, troofer,conspiracy PEOPLE call any surveillance -unlawful- AND ...NO it is not an abuse of power, only to leftist and anti American socialist-communist who think they will be outed because we now have the tools to do it with.

  • "Bush-Hater, Leftist, Anti-American socialist-communist"

    So you've covered just about all the terms from the Fox News Propaganda Dictionary. don't lie, you haven't read the patriot act cuz you're being breastfed all this misinformation.

  • ragenuts- The one being spoon-fed all the misinformation is YOU dumbass Paranoid schizphrenic Troofer! I've read all of it, and understand what it means unlike YOU who cannot comprhend 'exactly' what it means without trying to read something into it that IS NOT there! GO AHEAD, tell me how YOU and YOUR COMRADES have read "Between the Lines" and figured all this evil sinister stuff out...OK? What a SAD freak YOU and the rest like you are.

  • ragenut2112 - why didn't you answer my questions I asked you? PROVE WHAT YOU SAY! SHOW ME WHERE IT HAS HAPPENED TO YOU, OR TO SOMEONE WHO HASN'T COMMITTED TREASONOUS ACTS AGAINST THE U.S.

    CAN YOU SHOW ME UNLAWFUL SURVEILLANCE? HELL NO! YOU CAN'T...YOU JUST SPEW MORE LEFTIST, LIBERAL, SOCIALIST-COMMUNIST BULLSHIT PROPAGANDA.

  • blah blah blah, dude. Bush admitted to authorizing the NSA, to conduct warrantless wire taps on american citizens. the spying extends to postal mail also. The NSA has also been collecting phone records in an attempt to build a database of every phone call that is made

  • ragenutty - LOL...AND WHAT'S YOUR POINT IMBECILE? SO HE AUTHORIZED WIRETAPS ON PEOPLE CALLING THE MIDDLE-EAST IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NITE ASSWIPE...SO WHAT! IT HELP CATCH PEOPLE SENDING MONEY TO TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS AND PEOPLE PLANNING ATTACKS INSIDE AMERICA YOU IDIOT! SO YEAH,...I'M FUCKIN OK WITH THAT...YOU LEFTIST SOCIALIST-COMMIE BASTARDS ARE THE ONES WHO WANT TO SUBVERT THE RULE OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, AND CHANGE IT TO FIT YOUR PERVERTED LIBERAL ASS IDEOLOGY.I'LL BET YOUR FOR GUN CONTROL 2

  • You do know that due to the time difference between the US and the Middle East, ANYONE ringing the Middle East would have to do so in the middle of the night, don't you?

  • You are right. Forget about the thumbs down man. Only the stupid, lazy, and blind will go with what's popular and not what's right. My brother is a Marine, and I feel that the Marines are doing a job that they signed up for. These are brave men that may disagree with the war just as much as the bulk of America does. The only difference is that they are actually on the front lines risking their lives. Unfortunately, they are being cast to the fire in vain by a corrupt US government.

  • absolutely!

  • you'd have known that if you weren't addicted to fox, comrade! and since "terrorist" conveniently isn't defined in the patriot act, whoever is in power determines what it is. it will effect me soon if people like you who define terrorists and traitors as any person or organization who dissents from the gop, get in power. eat my ass, real patriots won't let the constitution be destroyed.

  • ragenutty - I DON'T WATCH FOX ANYMORE THAN IDO ANY OTHER NEWS,YOU DUMBASS,ALSO FOR YOUR RECORD, I'M NOT YOUR FUCKIN 'COMRADE' EITHER.

    SINCE YOUR SO STUPID AND CAN'T COMPREHEND WHAT IS DEFINED AS TERRORISM, LOOK AT 'TRAITOR' AND YOU GOT A GOOD START. PLUS... SIMPLE MINDED GOOF, IT IS DEFINED IN MANY OTHER DOCUMENTS AS SOMEONE WHO COMMITS ACTS OR DEEDS WITH INTENT TO HARM 'AMERICA', OR ITS CITIZENS. HOW HARD IS THAT? JUST STAY OUT OF TROUBLE AND ACT LIKE A GOOD AMERICAN...DIPSHIT...Bwahahaha­hahaaa

  • Whew...I don't even know where to begin. First, using caps doesn't legitimize your argument, comrade. And yes, "traitor" has been defined, (but the bush administration has consistently implied dissenters of the war are traitors) but not "terrorist". "YOU LEFTIST SOCIALIST-COMMIE BASTARDS ARE THE ONES WHO WANT TO SUBVERT THE RULE OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW". Riiight, it's the liberals, not the neocon fucks in office. like I said before, quit your fox news fix and start informing yourself, comrade

  • ragenut2112 - OK DUMBASS- THERE YOU GO...YOU HAVE YOUR DEFINITIONS YOU SO WHINED FOR! OUT OF YOUR OWN LITTLE MIND. I DON'T NEED THE 'CAPS' TO TRY TO LEGITIMIZE MY FACTS, BUT ONLY USE THEM BECAUSE IT IRRITATES THE PC LEFTIST LIKE YOU! LOL...WELL AT LEAST YOU GOT THE PART RIGHT ABOUT THE LIBERALS BEING THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM TRYING TO CHANGE THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION TO FIT THEIR TWISTED IDEOLOGY AND AGENDA. IF YOU COULD COMPREHEND , YOU MIGHT HAVE CAUGHT WHERE I SAID I DON'T WATCH FOX EXCLUSIVE

  • Don't try to tell me you don't watch fox, it's fuckin obvious by all the labels you're spouting off. As for this...

    "AT LEAST YOU GOT THE PART RIGHT ABOUT THE LIBERALS BEING THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM TRYING TO CHANGE THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION TO FIT THEIR TWISTED IDEOLOGY AND AGENDA" I'm done with you now dude. You have absolutely no clue of what's really going on in our government, it's like I'm arguing with a 12 year old, but maybe you are. PEACE!

  • ragenutty- LOL... I DIDN'T SAY I DIDN'T WATCH FOX NEWS, I SAID NOT EXCLUSIVELY. YOU MORON...YOU CAN'T SEEM TO COMPREHEND ANYTHING, KINDA LIKE THE 12 YEAR OLD YOU SPEAK OF. I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE GOV'T DUMBASS, BECAUSE UNLIKE YOU AND YOUR ILK,(TROOFERS,LIBERAL LEFTIST,& SOCIALIST) ETC.ETC. I DO NOT IMPOSE CONSPIRACY THEORIES, AND FAR OUT LEFTIST LIES AND PROPAGANDA AS THE REALITY OF MY WORLD YOU IMBECILE.

  • daveh69 - you can't reason with these mental defectors, but GOOD answer anyway. heh heh

  • What the city of Berkeley, California is doing should be considered illegal considering the fact that the United States military (any branch) by law has the ability to have presence in any United States city.

    Boycott Berkeley, California and contact Mayor Tom Bates and tell him he owes the military and their families an apology!! 510-981-7100

  • Way to go Berkley.

    Anti-militarism not anti-military. Educate yourself Bill, your stupid is showing.

    Not anti-american, just different opinion.

    It is not an insult to the Marines. It is a choice of a community to not participate in an illegal war of aggression.

    Good work.

  • Berkeley is anti-military.

  • moveamericaforwars is an idiotic warmongering nazi like group. Pre emptive strikes are reserved for people like Hitler, or something like that, this is what Eisenhower said, and he's right, and now we have nazi like shits here in America in the form of moveamericaforward, bunch of nazi trash.

  • Support Move American Forward and donate on their website - whatever you can so they can continue to push back.

    Boycott Berkeley for a city gov't which encourages disruption - this goes far beyond citizen protest!

  • Fuck Berkeley and Code Pink. I wish I can just drop one cluster bomb over them. There are three fronts in the war: Iraq, Afghanistan, and California.

  • speaking of dropping a cluster bomb on your own fellow Americans? That's true anti-Americanism. You'd have done well in the Republican Guard

  • I don't consider traitors like code pink,my fellow Americans,get it straight,if you can lol. You have done well with the far left loons lol.

  • Far left loons, huh? Tell me, did you come up with that all by yourself?

  • And did mommy tell you about the republican guard? lol

  • Riiiiight, by that response I can tell you don't even know what the Republican Guard is. And adding lol to the end of every post does not legitimize your "argument".

    Faux News. Misinforming The Simple-Minded Since 1996. *Thumbs Up*

  • Fox news calling out the far left media and their bias and beating all the other news since 1996,sucks to be you. Double thumbs up!! lol.

  • HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

  • hahaha sucks to have to listen to liberal media that is bias and always comes after Fox News,really must suck to be you lmao!!!!

  • You're clearly delusional and brainwashed by the propaganda machine. You'll wake up, though, when it's too late. Have a nice life :)

  • You're clearly a far left liberal hippie,hope you have a miserable life,oh wait its too late for you,enjoy wearing those rose colored glasses.

  • You fascist liberals hate Fox because they don't donate to the DNC!

  • it's so funny...all you rednecks just use the same labels and terminology (fascist liberals, far left loons, pinheads, etc.). I hope you guys realize that you're just regurgitating Faux News' propaganda and not being original. You guys could really learn something about your country if you gave up your propaganda fix and READ HISTORY

  • What do the CNN watchers know about history? Their idea of a good history book is one that's politically correct and approved by the Berkeley Teachers Union.

  • awful lot of delusional rednecks on this feed

  • Like I've said before: "Berzerkely" has truly run amok, worse than the 1960's! They and the code pink-o's can BITE ME! I am praying for a decent CA earthquake right now; taking Berzerkely OUT entirely!

  • Berkeley 'approves' a disruption, allowing pinkies to intimidate the United States Marines. LOL!!! USMC exists and has lasted 200+ years BECAUSE of disruption and we are trained to handle real intimidation (and it's not the kind resulting from a bunch of asses seated/standing behind microphones in city meetings).

    code pink - check out the meaning of Jihad, yes they will kill you too. al qaeda fanatics will turn your little 'pinks' into red, while you beg for mercy because you are for "peace".

  • Support Move American Forward and donate on their website - whatever you can so they can continue to push back.

    Boycott Berkeley for a city gov't which encourages disruption - this goes far beyond citizen protest!

  • Berkley city council is the scum of America that our brave Marines & other services have fought so bravely for the freedom they ABUSE. Please watch John Adams, HBO.. our country is a nation of warriors mixed with doves and we have created the greatest country on earth thanks to our warriors NOT THE DOVES. Impeach the council... boycott Berkley..

  • f u code pink u r a bunch of hippies. how can you support our troops but call them war criminals at the same time. go bill o' reilly. go marines. go america!!!

  • God bless the US Military!!!

  • MoveAmericaForward supports a political agenda, not the troops.

  • eelzen - thanks Move America Forward for supporting the troops who are put in the middle to carry out Am foreign policy. Those policies can be used by one group or another as "political". What was the invasion of Haiti, but a political agenda payoff.

  • If you want to support the troops, support the troops. If you want to bash liberals, Dems, lefties, or whoever, do that. When you do both, you fail to do either.

  • go to Move America Forward web site and look at the violence the "peace" activists are perpetrating, and let us all stand up to them and let them know we will not tolerate their attacks against our troops here in America.

  • Marines have fought and died for our freedom, and this is how the city council repays their sacifice? It is one thing for the wack job Code Pink, that hides behind the handcuffed Berkley Police department, to protest and look like a bunch of scum, but for a governing body to make the statements they have is disgusting. Not one of these council memebers or Code Pinkos is fit to walk on sand Marines have spilled their blood on for this country.

  • Support Move American Forward and donate on their website - whatever you can so they can continue to push back.

    Boycott Berkeley for a city gov't which encourages disruption - this goes far beyond citizen protest!

  • If elected President, Sen. Obama promises to add 27,000 Marines and 65,000 soldiers (third para on page 58 of his Blueprint for Change). We need these additional military personnel because of present unrealistic reliance (or mismanagement) on reservist. For those who Sen Obama, which I don't - how can he attain this stated goal if gov't like BCC prods codepink (and h.s. students) to impede and disrupt recruitment...??

  • My guess is recruitment will sky rocket if its Obama who wins this fall. That's just my opinion base on what young people I know are saying.

    No doubt the Military will breath a sigh of relief who ever wins.

  • So how will these goals be met if people (e.g. some here) support gov't actions like those taken by Berkeley.

    Although I don't have Bush derangement syndrome like some, yes the military can be better off with a new Pres. But US is NOT leaving Iraq (or middle east) no matter who wins.

  • Toxic, that's a pretty f**'d up assumption that people who join the military are "at risk individuals." The majority of people going in want to do so because they actually WANT to be in the military, which I know is hard for the military haters to understand. 2nd, a lot of the enlisted have at least some college behind them, or take college classes while in. 3rd, vets on average do much better in life than do their civilian counter parts.

  • I don't where you came up with your "facts" eelzen, but it's been against the law to panhandle in SF since 2004. The problem is, the city government of SF won't enforce the law. So get that straight. 2nd, where do get the idea that all of these "vets" are the homeless in SF? Almost all of the homeless there are the dope addicted, runaway leftovers from the 60's who flocked there during the "summer of love" and ruined a once great city.

  • Support Move American Forward and donate on their website - whatever you can so they can continue to push back.

    Boycott Berkeley for a city gov't which encourages disruption - this goes far beyond citizen protest!

  • The City Council's duty, if it feels that too many of it's citizens are joining the military, is to create alternative opportunities for the 'at-risk' individuals, if you will. For instance, offering enticements to local businesses to create more entry-level jobs, so that the high-school seniors--who are, obviously, the most likely recruitment candidates--see plenty of other opportunities besides joining up. If they STILL want to join up, the city has to allow them that freedom and convenience.

  • toxi - the Berkeley Recruitment center is for Officers (because of UC) NOT your described "high-school seniors--who are, obviously, the most likely recruitment candidates"

  • Their view is not "Anti American" but is anti military invasion of other countries. Can't you red necks understand the difference.

  • Here we have a right to be even anti American, so that isn't the issue with Berkeley CC. It is the fascist use of gov't power to prevent peaceful enjoyment of, and authorize disruption to a legal use of private property.

    b/t/w Did you protest when US invaded Haiti?

    We can see that it's your neck which is red. Another right protected by our military.

  • U81 I don't understand why you think I'm a redneck. I see a redneck as an extreme right winger who sees the might of the gun above all else.

  • The only ironic thing going on here are American citizens that have to fight for free speech rights in a city that is supposed to be city of freech speech.

  • It's not ironic b/c it's not true. Vets aren't "flocking" to San Fransicko or The People's Republic of Berkeley. Some vets do live there, but it has nothing to do with "liberal" programs. The weather in CA and the Bay Area happens to be the best in the country, which is a plus for any homless person and b/c of tourism there is a good opportunity to make money from panhandling. SF BTW is a terrible model for how to take care of the homeless.

  • Conservative cities in the sun belt don't put up with homeless vets. Homeless shelters drive down home prices & are bad for the economy. Get real Plutarch69. No decent upstanding Republican would want "those" people living in their community. You are right that no true Reagan conservative would hand out his or her pocket change to help a homeless person. Be it a veteran or not. In fact, panhandling is illegal in most Red State American cities.

    I wonder what Jesus would makes of them.

  • I think all that good weather in california gets their heads and they forget rationalize things like the rest of the country.

  • I personally could less if Berkeley goes broke over this ordeal. Somehow, cities like Berkeley and SF need to get a grip on reality and learn that they ARE NOT the center of the Universe. The overwhleming numbers of Americans see their antics as foolish, ignorant, hateful, criminal and just downright stupid. It's ok though because cities like Berkeley will undertsand what happens when you pass laws to f*** with vets and current military men and women.

  • where is the outrage that the troops don't have the proper body armor? what about the cutbacks in vet benefits by the current administration? Your selective application of who gets to "f*** with vets and current military men and women" is a bit transparent. You mean those who do it and disagree with public policy.

    Also, why do you care less if Berkeley goes broke? So, you only care about like-minded individuals?

  • there has been outrage that the troops don't have the proper body armor

  • From the same people who want to penalize a state university that is in the same city as the Berkeley City Council?

    (I mean, you can find outrage over anything if you look - I seen a guy outraged today that the trash can stopped talking back to him.)

  • Its ironic that homeless vets flock to places like Berkeley and San Francisco because of their liberal outreach programs.

    Ironic that the heartland may be more heartless than the 'left' coast.

  • eelzen who posted as "here for entertainment'' while we discuss a serious matter like war. eelzen getting "entertainment" by languishing over families who's loved ones may not only die or suffer serious injury (or have already), but may find it necessary to kill or injure someone - sick entertainment for eelzen

  • U81thenI812 would never help a homeless vet. He is way to busy entertaining me on YouTube.

    Thank you U81thenI812 for taking the time to care about my enjoyment.

  • Also, the same Senator who put for the Semper Fi act that is being supported by B A F said this, DeMint: "Let's Set Politics Aside and Protect Our Children" - I guess that means selectively. (as the act wants to take money set for organic foods for school lunches and for a State University)

  • Also. the University of California, Berkeley, is a state university, not a city college. The Semper Fi act is designed to financially penalize a state institution for being located in the same city that has a policy some find disagreeable.

    Maybe UC Berkeley will stop designing weapons for the military (if the soldiers get them, as vote vets have pointed out they are not getting necessary equipment.)

  • It's ironic that Melanie Morgan lost her radio job last week while a boycott against her program was going on. lol

  • eelzen who posted as "here for entertainment'' while we discuss a serious matter like war. eelzen getting "entertainment" by languishing over families who's loved ones may not only die or suffer serious injury (or have already), but may find it necessary to kill or injure someone - sick entertainment for eelzen

  • Sighe - for evidence showing how protests encourage the enemy, just google Tet. One refers to No Vietnam "vanquishing superior opponents was not to simply outmaneuver them in the field but to undermine their resolve by inflicting demoralizing political defeats". "Hanoi was perfectly aware of the growing US peace movement and of the deep divisions the war was causing in American society. What Giap needed was a body-blow that would break Washington's will to carry on". I can't post links here

  • Support Move America Forward and donate if you can - every little bit helps them speak out against this city which has a gov't authorizing a campaign to impede and disrupt legal use of private property

    And pass it on - Boycott Berkeley !

  • Despite what you may think, the vast majority of people who join the military don't need to "be recruited." What all of you Code Pink sympethizers seem to forget is that there are a lot people out there who want to serve their country and do so without any "cohersion" or promises of any kind. Your hate for America has clearly blinded you to this fact.

  • Maybe the blind support for the "cause" has caused you to miss the fact I have never endorsed or supported Code Pink or the Berkeley CIty Council.

    Rather, I am somewhat supporting the American legal process and the freedoms set forth by the US Constitution, Constitutional Amendments and Courts.

    As far as recruitment tactics, I was just explaining a view of why one would protest recruiters. I never protested anything, except the movement to silence and the name calling.

  • Its disgusting that so many kids in college now have grown up on hate for America. I know that the professors preach it every chance they get. They make ignorant and stupid staements like "the troops in Iraq aren't fighting for my freedom." That's pure BS. These kids are so removed from reality and when you try to educate them about the real world you get the same crap we see from the Berkeley videos where they shout u down, call you racisit, etc.

  • Anyone who does these kinds of things to ANYBODY should be ashamed of themselves. My husband is in the army, and no, he or any of the other men and women we know who have joined were lied to. And it is even more of an affront to do and say these things to the military because they defend your right to say it. Anybody who thinks wars are unnecessary is not living in the real world. WWI? WWII? And yes, even Vietnam. This whole thing is stupidity, plain and simple.

  • Sighed, what do you know about military recruiting? Ever joined the military? I am sure ony one can find an some horror story with anything we choose to get involved in; however, the vast majority of recruiters do their jobs professionally and accurately.I never met anyone in my 5 yrs in the marines who was lied to or felt betrayed by a recruiter. Additionally, anyone who joins the military without thinking that they might end up in a war is a fool and shouldnt be in the military to begin with

  • The experience I was explaining was my personal experience sitting at a junior college campus about six months ago... I have been privy to listen to many recruiters and find many of the same situations. If I have or have not joined the military makes no difference on my position.

    My debate here is not whether recruiting tactics are acceptable or not - just the freedom to disagree with them.

  • You can disagree all you want, but that doesn't mean your point of view should be given special treatment through legislation that supresses the rights of others. Also, I don't care if you dislike recruiters, but don't ever disrespect their service to our military and all the others who protect the rights and freedoms of all Americans.

  • That is the point I have been trying to make... why should your point of view being given special treatment through legislature? Let the American judicial process run its course. I agree with MAF on one thing, the Constitution will be upheld and the city will not be allowed to remove recruitment centers.

    I also tried to point out that the name calling is counter productive. (on both sides)

  • how many times must it be said (directed at sighed) that the outrage is not about people who merely have a differing opinion on the war, or who dislike recruiters, but is about a city council that allows individuals to break the law and impede the rights of others, while attacking the men and women who serve to protect our country. It's really that simple. Your city crossed an unexceptable bouncy with its antics on Jan 31 and again on Feb 12.

  • Well, I keep seeing the outrage of the "anti-american attitudes" of Berkeley and demonstrators being exemplified (most of whom are students at the school across the street with nothing else to do) - as far as what the City Council did, there is a legal recourse for these tactics. If the Federal Courts decide the city overstepped it's jurisdiction then they can force them to rescind it's decision (which is likely the outcome.) I see people asking to withhold education funds and the like ...

  • Why is it slanderous against soldiers to disagree with recruitment policies?

    Is it wrong to disagree with the ethics involved in delivering empty promises in order to recruit soldiers?

    (I personally have heard recruiters to: promise to cure downe's syndrome; promise a recording contract; and promise recruits they won't be sent into war. These are just lies.)

    If I think it is wrong to lie to people to get them to join the military, do I want American soldiers to die? (i sincerely hope not)

  • sighedeffects - There are major problems with Military recruitment policies.

    Especially now, with two wars and Bush as Commander & Chief.

    Anyone who says otherwise is in deep denial of the facts.

  • Name these "major" problems with recruitment policies.

  • Also, this concept of Anti-Military Berkeley is fallacious. Do any of you know how much military technology is created at UC Berkeley? Hurting the University in Berkeley ultimately hinders the US Military.

  • The City of Berkeley contains a wide range of people. There are people from every part of the spectrum within the city. That's one of the reasons it's been a beacon of democracy for so long. The radical liberals tend to get a lot of attention, and the homeless republicans get almost none... but they are all there.

    I find it is odd that the people who claim America is so great because of it's freedom want to put limits on the freedom.

  • Yes, we agree, it's ridiculous that Berkeley would try to silence the military when the constitution grants the federal government the right to raise armies, but not to City Councils.

  • I honestly do not agree with the city council. (Although, I do believe the tactics recruiters for the military use are a bit unseemly, at best) I was actually commenting on the people who want to silence any protest against the military and military policy.

    What's really sad is that both sides of most of these debates want the same goals, but resort to degrading each other rather than working together. I haven't seen one person say they want Americans harmed in any of these "discourses."

  • Defects - "I ...... do not agree" with BCC, do you mean it is not appropriate for a gov't entity to officially disrupt a legal use of property? Protest is not the issue. And you do not have to say "I want to harm Americans" because actions speak louder, by encouraging an enemy. Read why North Vietnam launched Tet in 1968 in order to test the American public. Codepink/Fonda responded by encouraging the enemy (one who is trying to kill you, is your enemy) to keep killing Americans. That is reality

  • No, I do not agree that the City Council should be attacking straw dogs. They know they will not succeed in this attempt - as pointed out, the Constitution provides the fed. with the right to override local government in regard to what is "necessary and proper" to make the military function.

    This isn't Vietnam and fallacious arguments are wasteful, and wanting the US troops to not be in Iraq is not asking someone to kill them.

  • Since US troops are in Iraq, 'wanting' them out has no power (I wish/hope for a peaceful world, so what). A real effect is Berkeley sending a message to the enemy that if they hang on long enough (kill more), US will leave before more stability is established. Proof of history is not fallacious. Those who support our troops take responsibility for lives lost (& effect on others). Those who protest grow up, take responsibility for encouraging the enemy to hold out. Denial is not a river in Egypt

  • proof of history is one thing, but comparisons that are not comparable are still fallacious. The background and events of the Vietnam War are not the same. What is similar is the futility of fighting a war of opinion with firearms. Even more fallacious is the argument that if you disagree with current policy, you support "enemies."

    Maybe we should utilize the nazi "final solution" to curb criticism as a matter of national security? (not detracting, just comparing attitudes)

  • sighe - the "enemy" for a combat solider is NOT a matter of conflict date, of opinion, or government. The ENEMY is the one trying try to kill you (that moment, the next hour, or tomorrow). Any war that fact does not change. When you exercise your right to protest while troops are in a combat field you encourage that enemy, no matter how much you want to rationalize. No, that does not mean most who protest wish death on anyone, it does show they do not have full comprehension of their actions.

  • I've never seen any evidence that if you protest military action you are encouraging the enemy to kill. (I think the bullets flying at them encourages them more, just a personal aside.)

    If this were logical, then any military action would have to be acceptable until it was complete. Therefore, everyone in Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan who complied with their military were actually acting acceptably and those who protested were wrong?

  • Nododon, luck and thanks to your son! The issue here is not citizen 'protest'. It is a government using its power to prevent use of, and authorize disruption to a legal use of private property. Berkeley did so by granting special government sanctioned parking permits, and allowing use of public sidewalks solely to intimidate. This is Brown shirt fascism! In the past US soldiers found the enemy with supply packets donated by Berkeley residents, so we do not want to see your son in more danger

  • Nice that you hold Berkeley to the letter of the letter while Bush illegally invaded a weak and broken nation half way around the world.

    No doubt you're for small government and you shirt is errrr, earth tone.

  • eelzen - you're making less sense, more often

  • spoken like true authoritarian, communist fascists:

    "Don't disagree with policy or you will be punished."

    The people posting here, and spending so much time elsewhere to "support the troops" to pass acts to punish a city that about 600 people, at most, are acting up ... are you also petitioning the government to give the troops adequate military supplies? are you outraged that the troops come home and get no support in recovering from the horrors of war?

  • Good luck and thanks to your son! However the issue here is not citizen 'protest'. It is a government using its power to prevent use of, and authorize disruption to a legal use of private property. Berkeley did so by granting special government sanctioned parking permits, and allowing use of public sidewalks solely to intimidate. This is Brown shirt fascism! In the past US soldiers found the enemy with supply packets donated by Berkeley residents, so we do not want to see your son in more danger

  • One of the best moments I had ever witnessed at a concert took place in San Fransicko when I saw the Drop Kicked Murphy's. They a played a song dedicated to some fallen troops in Iraq and said something about it not being a just war. Someone in the crowd said "fuck the military!" The band stopped playing and said whoever said that needs to shut the #### up and leave because we don't tolerate bashing the military. I was surprised that a lot of the people there cheered the band. It was awesome

  • The Dropkick Murphy have been known to have an anti-war stance, but it's another thing to slander soldiers.

  • Sighe, you can say all you want that your city council doesn't speak for most people in Berkeley, but actions speak louder than words. Why dont the people of Berkeley demand that the city council reverse its decision? Why do the people of your city feel that it is ok to supress people's rights? It's a lie just like the ones that groups like Code Pink tell us when they say that they "support the troops." The People's Rebublic of Berkeley truly hates America & should be stopped.

  • The behavior of those protestors (Code Pink and World Can't Wait) at Berkeley, was simply disgusting. I hope Berkeley does suffer the consequences of their actions and I hope the Semper Fi Act passes!

  • The conservative "anti-liberal" attitude is just as bad as the patronizing liberal attitude . . . and everyone in between... i hope you all enjoy your little nazi rally of postings on this video.

  • sighedeffects - now here's a bitter attitude that literally covers 'everyone' and speaks volumes about this "sigh DEFECT"

    FASCIST: a government uses its police power to prevent and authorize disruption to a legal use of private property. Berkeley did so by granting special government sanctioned parking permits, and allowing use of public sidewalks solely to intimidate.