Berkeley vs. America, again

[DesertFox]

Michelle Malkin

But this time, America has defended our troops.

The troop-bashers in Berkeley are at it once more. But this time, the rest of America lashed back. Message to the Left Coast: It’s not the 1960s anymore.

On January 29, the Berkeley city council passed several measures targeting the lone Marine recruitment office in town. The anti-war harridans at Code Pink have been picketing the center for months. Last fall, they defaced the building by slapping a sign that read “assasination” (sic) in the military office window. Instead of rising to defend the recruiters’ property rights, the city council and mayor voted to sabotage them further. They granted Code Pink special parking privileges directly in front of the Marines’ workplace to facilitate their protests — and also offered them a free sound permit for six months. ...

In another decade, Berkeley would have gotten away with this intolerant, illiberal, un-American power trip. But in the age of the Internet, talk radio, and YouTube, word of the siege at Berkeley spread like lightning. And citizens across the country weren’t willing to look the other way. The San Francisco-based Move America Forward, led by talk show host/conservative activist Melanie Morgan, launched an online petition protesting the city council measures. Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina moved to strip Berkeley of pork barrel spending worth $2 million.

More (http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGU5NDljOWNhZjc1NDhiYmU3MDJiMjI1ZWNlOWFjYzc=)

[DoctorDoom]

It seems a little light bulb went off in Councilwoman Betty Olds’ head: “I think we shouldn’t be seen across the country as hating the Marines.”No one outside of Mexifagia considers Berkeley as anything other than as Treason Central. The city needs a nuking.

[Timberwolf]

:claps::claps::claps:

Maybe America IS gonna take its' country back from the leftist pusbuckets...electing McCain ain't such a good start, though...well, time will tell.

[DeclinetoState]

Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina moved to strip Berkeley of pork barrel spending worth $2 million.It's unfortunate that it takes something like this to strip a city of money it should never have been getting in the first place.

Assuming DeMint's effort is successful.

[RogerFGay]

... moved to strip Berkeley of pork barrel spending worth $2 million.

Pork barrel spending, eh? This raises an interesting question. Has the actual meaning of "pork barrel spending" been forgotten, or is this money part of a much larger problem that needs to be fixed anyway?