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The Marines, VS Beserkley

I don’t know if you folks have been following this, but it is worth paying attention to.

As a Southerner, I have watched the Berkeley vs. U.S. Marines brouhaha with a very keen interest. I’m not all that sure those people in Berkeley know what can happen to people who decide to mess around with the United States government.

Somebody really ought to clue those folks in with a little reality check.

This is worth a close read.

It would be hilarious if all PGR riders from across the US would converge on Berkeley and giv’em hell.

Here is some more action you can take.

UPDATE: Berkeley, California city officials met Tuesday night and REFUSED to issue an apology to the Marines!

Additionally, they also neglected to rescind their earlier resolution giving the radical left-wing organization Code Pink a parking space in front of the city’s Marine Recruitment Center and a noise permit.

So it appears that the harassment of our brave men and women in uniform will continue in Berkeley with the tacit blessing of city officials!

The City Council — after hearing criticism from you and tens of thousands of your fellow patriotic Americans — did however vote to rescind the letter they approved a couple of weeks ago calling the Marines “uninvited and unwelcome intruders.”

While this is a small victory, apparently Berkeley city officials think that patriotic Americans like you will simply go away and not bother them anymore based on their half-hearted action.

But if they really supported our troops, why did they VOTE DOWN a motion to apologize to the Marines and why are they continuing to sanction the harassment of our brave men and women in uniform?

Berkeley leaders — and other lefty city officials across America — need to know that half-hearted actions and crocodile tears simply are not enough!

We need to intensify our campaign in support of Senator Jim DeMint’s legislation to cut off Berkeley’s earmarks and give them instead to the Marines.

Use the link below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush, Senator Jim DeMint, and the GOP leadership of the House and the Senate.

Tell them to back Senator DeMint’s bill to strip all the earmarks and boondoggles Nancy Pelosi and other left-wing Congressmen have given Berkeley. Demand that these funds be given instead to the Marines, who have bled and died to protect our freedoms.

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A “Slap In The Face” To Our Brave Service Men and Women

Some of us are old enough to remember how many Marines died at Iwo Jima and gave their lives so the people of Berkeley could wave obscene placards and shout four-letter words.

So when the Berkeley City Council voted to send a letter to U.S. Marine recruiters telling them they were “not welcome in the city, if recruiters choose to stay, they do as uninvited and unwelcome intruders,” it proved once again that city’s blatant disrespect for the brave men and women in uniform who unselfishly protect all of our freedoms.

However, this time the target is unmistakable: It IS the troops they despise, not the Republican Party or George W. Bush or the war.

And, needless to say, patriotic Americans everywhere are outraged.

Senator Jim DeMint expressed that outrage when he said:

“This is a slap in the face to all brave service men and women and their families. The First Amendment gives the City of Berkeley the right to be idiotic, but from now on they should do it with their own money. If the city can’t show respect for the Marines that have fought, bled and died for their freedom, Berkeley should not be receiving special taxpayer funded handouts.”

But Senator DeMint didn’t merely speak his mind. Since Berkeley’s life’s blood is federal handouts, Senator DeMint wants to hit them where it hurts and has introduced the “Semper Fi Act of 2008,” which will specifically take $2.1 million in federal government earmarks and pork from Berkeley and give it directly to the Marines.

“I am currently drafting legislation to ensure that American taxpayers aren’t forced to pay for this insult by rescinding all of the earmarks for Berkeley in the Omnibus Appropriations bill, and to transfer the funds to the Marine Corps.”

Yes, the Berkeley City Council, after hearing from concerned Americans across the country like you, did back down and decided not to send the letter.

However, when some pushed the Council to issue a formal apology to the Marines, the Council rejected the idea.

Use the link below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush, Senator Jim DeMint, and the GOP leadership of the House and the Senate.

Tell them to back Senator DeMint’s bill to strip all the earmarks and boondoggles Nancy Pelosi and other left-wing Congressmen have given Berkeley. Demand that these funds be given instead to the Marines, who have bled and died to protect our freedoms.

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“We Oppose The War But Support The Troops” And Other Liberals Lies…

Council Members Betty Olds and Laurie Capitelli — realizing that the City Council went too far — proposed the motion to rescind the resolution calling the Marines “uninvited and unwelcome intruders.”

Prior to the Council’s vote not to send the letter, Olds told the San Francisco Chronicle, “I think we shouldn’t be seen across the country as hating the Marines. If you make a mistake, like we did, you should admit it and correct it and move on.”

She went on to say: “I’m very much against the war, and I hope the majority of the people in this country are… If you want to blame somebody, blame Bush — don’t blame the individual Marine.”

But does Olds really mean it… is she really sorry?

OF COURSE NOT!

The Chronicle also pointed out:

“However, the item from Olds and Capitelli would leave intact related items that passed two weeks ago: calling on residents to impede the work of any recruiting station in the city, asking the city attorney to find out if the Marines are violating city anti-discrimination laws and giving a parking space and a sound permit to Code Pink.”

Half-hearted measures and crocodile tears simply aren’t going to cut it.

The damage has already been done.

These liberals need to understand that when it comes to supporting our troops, the American people mean business!

Use the link below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush, Senator Jim DeMint, and the GOP leadership of the House and the Senate.

Tell them to back Senator DeMint’s bill to strip all the earmarks and boondoggles Nancy Pelosi and other left-wing Congressmen have given Berkeley. Demand that these funds be given instead to the Marines, who have bled and died to protect our freedoms.

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More Berkeley Radicals…

Members of the City Council aren’t the only radicals in Berkeley.

Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates has appeared proudly in a video with Code Pink, blocking the entrance to the military recruiting station. On the video he screams, “They don’t belong here, they shouldn’t have come here, and they should leave.”

Well guess what Mayor Bates, our federal tax dollars don’t belong there, should not have gone there and should leave.

Lisa Rubens, a historian at the University of California Berkeley’s Bancroft Library apparently thinks that patriotic Americans who are insulted by the actions of the Berkeley City Council are just plain silly.

She flippantly told the media:

“There’s been this wonderfully out-of-proportion, knee-jerk response. It’s clever, inflammatory and symbolic.”

And here — courtesy of the Chronicle — is what an aide to Mayor Bates, Julie Sinai, said about Senator DeMint’s “Semper Fi Act of 2008:”

“But Sinai said the attempts by DeMint… are only ‘a media play’ and won’t go anywhere.

Oh really?

I think it’s time we show these leftists just HOW SERIOUS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE!

Use the link below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush, Senator Jim DeMint, and the GOP leadership of the House and the Senate.

Tell them to back Senator DeMint’s bill to strip all the earmarks and boondoggles Nancy Pelosi and other left-wing Congressmen have given Berkeley. Demand that these funds be given instead to the Marines, who have bled and died to protect our freedoms.

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Yours In Freedom,

Jeff Mazzella
President
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