Warning! The Whacked Out Leftist Accounting Of Recent Berkeley Events
Our friend Melanie Morgan of Move America Forward sent this along, and the whole time I was reading it I kept thinking it was written by some tweaked out anorexic teenage girl wearing a beret with a Cuban Flag hat pin and a Che shirt. Oily black hair, acne face, hairy armpits, and a tweaked out chip-on-the-shoulder disposition of someone who reads too many graphic novels.
You are about to read a page from the website of The Party For Socialism And Liberation, the actual definition of “Leftist Drivel”…try not to spew your drink all over your keyboard from the belly laughs:
The Berkeley City Council’s passed a resolution on Jan. 29 calling U.S. Marine recruiters in downtown Berkeley “uninvited and unwanted intruders.” The unequivocal statement set off a firestorm in right-wing media circles, including a call to rescind more than $2 million dollars in federal aid for Berkeley school lunch programs.
The item on the Marines had been introduced by anti-war forces, which have held daily picket lines at the recruitment center since it opened in late 2006. Throughout their history, the Marines have been used to secure the first beachheads in foreign countries in the expansion of U.S. imperialism. Their purpose has nothing to do with the security of the United States and everything to do with brutal invasions from one continent to the next.
The right wing group Move Forward America, led by KSFO host Melanie Morgan, called for people all over the country to come and defend the Marines when the item was revisited at the Feb. 12 council meeting.
Fox News and other corporate media outlets around the country called for people to descend on Berkeley in the name of “God and country.” Internet, radio and TV warmongers picked up its cue, whipping up reactionaries everywhere to go to defend the Marine recruiting station.
What they did not anticipate was one of the largest anti-war protests that the city of Berkeley had seen in years—one that would last for over 24 hours with sporadic clashes pitching the Berkeley police and pro-war reactionaries against the anti-war movement.
Code Pink and the World Can’t Wait, the organizations who have been organizing the daily picket lines called for a 24-hour vigil on the lawn of City Hall, with scores of people spending the night. Corporate media vans camped out lining Martin Luther King Jr. Park across from City Hall.
The pro-war forces strategically planned to be at the park at 5 a.m. to get coverage of their flag-waving fed back to morning shows on the East Coast. The ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) one-upped the right-wingers, however. ANSWER activists arrived 4 a.m. and began chanting as soon as the first car of pro-war elements arrived.
Feeling entitled because of their permit to be in the park—which, ironically, is named after a Civil Rights movement leader who staunchly opposed the Vietnam War—the reactionaries were taken off guard as protestors confronted them.
But the two-hour skirmish would be only the first in a day of intense struggle.
Over 3,000 students attend Berkeley High School just next to the park. Some students arrived before school to skateboard in the park as they often do. The pro-military forces who were yelling out “cut federal funding to Berkeley” immediately confronted the youth.
Recognizing unwelcome intruders in their neighborhood, the students started to crowd around and demand that they leave. By lunch time, the word had spread throughout Berkeley High and several hundred came out to confront the pro-war occupiers in their park.
Black, Asian, Latino and white students as young as 13-years-old faced off against them. The students seemed well aware of the intentions of recruiters as they chanted for them to leave their city.
Tensions soon escalated as police in riot gear were called on the scene. It was clear to all that the police were there to protect the pro-war demonstrators as they pushed and beat the crowd of youth. Over and over, the students and the anti-war forces outflanked the police to get in the right-wingers’ faces.
Clearly frustrated, the police arrested three students aged 13, 15 and 18, hoping to subdue the crowd. Their attempt at intimidation quickly backfired. With intensified courage and presence, the youth headed to the police station to demand the release of their fellow students.
Protestors stayed in the streets while the beleaguered Berkeley Police Department summoned backup from the notorious Oakland Police Department. None of this curbed the crowd’s militancy. Students sang and danced to revolutionary hiphop, denouncing the war and the racist police well into the night.
After stalling on other matters for hours, the City Council had no choice but to finally address the matter at hand. Dozens of Berkeley residents and their supporters addressed the council and urged it to not waver from its original position. Outside, hundreds listening through loudspeakers cheered in support well past midnight.
Not surprisingly, the Berkeley City Council toned down their statement with sterile wording in opposition to the war but in “support” of the troops. Their decision hardly can be said to represent the sentiment of the people of Berkeley, who cast the struggle’s real defining vote in the park and in the streets.
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(stomach explodes from laughter) BWHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
February 15th, 2008 at 2:03 pmOh man, it’d be even funnier if these kooks didn’t believe this crap for real. Kinda scary, now that I think of it.
Holy crap these people are stupid. The police protected them. They can’t even be thankful of police who let them do whatever they wanted, let alone soldiers who uphold thier right to be peices of crap.
I say we go to berkley and preform some very late term abortions, I know those people love abortion.
February 15th, 2008 at 2:04 pmWhere do you even start with this article?
“including a call to rescind more than $2 million dollars in federal aid for Berkeley school lunch programs”.
Berkeley school lunch program? wtf is this whacko smoking?
“one that would last for over 24 hours with sporadic clashes pitching the Berkeley police and pro-war reactionaries against the anti-war movement”
Wow this is just crazy talk! i think the Berkeley police department was clearly on the side of the Pinkos considering they wouldnt even respond when the pro-military groups called them
February 15th, 2008 at 2:06 pmWell, they are aborting themselves out of existence, aren’t they?
February 15th, 2008 at 2:15 pmNot fast enough as far as im concerned
February 15th, 2008 at 2:20 pmwww.zombietime.com has a great photo essay on the matter
February 15th, 2008 at 2:23 pmSamir speaks!
February 15th, 2008 at 2:35 pmI wish someone would start a web site detailing buisinesses based out of Berkely so I can start Boycotting……and futhermore I don’t ever want to see a Berkley Grad apply for a job.
February 15th, 2008 at 2:49 pmMaybe we should abandon our pacifist ways, and use Extreme Violence, after all, isn’t that how they describe us ?
Back in the 60’s, when you got back to the “World”,…. the question was ….”Why are we fighting for these people ?”….
How about kicking ass here, for a while… Didn’t we swear an oath to defend against enemies “foreign and domestic” ?
February 15th, 2008 at 2:56 pmold11B:
Absofuckinlutely!!!
February 15th, 2008 at 3:04 pmSupplement:
We can get large knitting needles to deflate the fat ones , and flypaper and rat traps for the rest
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February 15th, 2008 at 3:23 pmSupplement2:
Really Kick ass on the ones who need it.
February 15th, 2008 at 3:32 pmRight-wing reactionaries? LOL And what these weirdos be? Lemme see….Marxists perhaps? Maybe facists? Anarchists? These people need a job and some SERIOUS therapy.
February 15th, 2008 at 4:21 pmHippies, nothing but actors in need of a stage.
The author condones the breaking of so many laws I stopped counting. He/she admits to confrontations, attempts to deny civil rights and minors wandering the streets instead of having their asses enlightened in school, where they belonged. And, do their asses need some enlightenment.
One of my professors went to Berkeley and often glorifies the school, telling us about all the ‘free thinking’ that goes on there. I asked him, at what point does reality come into the thought process? He has not said a word to me since.
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February 15th, 2008 at 5:32 pmGAWD these people are insane. I am ashamed to be a liberal if it means being associated with them. I would rather be conservative or moderate, and give thanks for Marines rather than be associated with these self rightous kooks.
February 15th, 2008 at 5:53 pmMindy, you’re getting well.
Associating with the realists here is curing you of the mental disorder known as Liberalism.
Welcome to Earth.
February 15th, 2008 at 6:41 pmIt would be a waste of my time to comment on these leftists, to me they are guilty of treason and, honestly, I would like to just open fire and solve the difference of opinion.
February 15th, 2008 at 7:08 pmi’m ashamed to be an american if these are my fellow americans
February 15th, 2008 at 7:13 pmthese people have no clue if it wasnt for the marines those ugly bitches would have to cover their faces….hey…. we on to something here….
February 15th, 2008 at 7:31 pmHere is the link to the city of Berkley. Just a little shortcut for those who would like to boycott this city:
February 15th, 2008 at 7:58 pmhttp://www.4-city-information.com/California/berkeley-city-hall.htm