Berkeley vs. the Marines
A bunch of left-wing crazies showed up at the Marine Corps recruiting office in Berkeley on Friday and protested. The pseudonymous photographer/operative known only as Zombie took some pictures of the lunatics which you can find here.
What I found most interesting, however, was in this San Francisco Chronicle report.
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.
The demonstrators snapped their locks shut at 7 a.m. and spent the next 7 1/2 hours blocking the door, waving and chanting as hundreds of cars driving by honked in support. Finally, at 2:30 p.m., police snipped the chains and arrested them. [emphasis added]
I hate to tell the cops how to do their jobs, but I'm going to by way of a thought experiment.
Can I see a show of hands from how many of you think that the Berkeley P.D. would wait 7 1/2 hours before cutting the chains and removing the protesters if the place being targeted was an abortion clinic?
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Zombie is a valuable blogger and photographer who has been all over this story from the beginning. Here at http://www.MoveAmericaForward.org we got involved in October when we showed up with about 300 fiercely patriotic troop supporters and stood between the CodePinkos and that office. We'll be back on the 12th to hand deliver petitions to the next city council meeting that people from accross the country are signing online. Please drop by and sign, then join us if you can.