Facing off over Marine Corps

**ronin** · Associate Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 1

3 war opponents chain selves to door of recruiting station, and right-wing blogosphere goes ballistic

Saturday, February 2, 2008

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.

Two of the three were cited for blocking a business and released, and the third was booked into jail on an unrelated traffic warrant, police said.

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**ronin** · Associate Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 1

Have these people forgotten what country they live in? This disgusts me, and pisses me off. Evil or Very Mad

**Tumbleweed** · Admin Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 4

Yea, it pisses me off too. Laughing

I wish they would have bulldozed the building instead to make a real statement about the lieing bastards inside ruining young peoples lives.

**ronin** · Associate Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 1

Tumbleweed wrote:

Yea, it pisses me off too. Laughing

I wish they would have bulldozed the building instead to make a real statement about the lieing bastards inside ruining young peoples lives.

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They should bulldoze the whole place into the bay. Cool