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Y’know, I used to feel that Berkeley was an American city first and foremost, and therefore anything more than plainly wry, joking expression of a desire to see them targeted for terrorist attack — hoist on their own antiwar and antiAmerican petard, as it were, so they could at last reap the real-world reward for their halfwit folly — was unacceptable and, in fact, unAmerican.
I’m beginning to reconsider that position a little now.
If passed by a majority of Berkeley voters, a proposed initiative would require military recruiting offices and private military companies in Berkeley to first acquire a special use permit.
If the initiative passes, recruitment offices could not be opened within 600 feet of residential districts, public parks, public health clinics, public libraries, schools or churches.
Currently, a recruiting office is held to the same standards as most other businesses, which do not require a public hearing or have limits on where offices can be established.
The author of the initiative, Berkeley-based lawyer Sharon Adams, modeled the initiative after current zoning law that restricts the location of adult-oriented businesses.
“In the same way that many communities limit the location of pornographic stores, that’s the same way we feel about the military recruiting stations,” said PhoeBe sorgen, an initiative proponent and a member of the city’s Peace and Justice Commission. “Teenagers that really want to find them will be able to seek them out and find them, but we don’t want them in our face.”
Daylight barking moonbattery. There’s no other phrase for it. Let ‘em try facing down the Islamofascists with body paint, patchouli, love, and understanding — and pull everything with a US military logo stenciled or sewn on it right the hell out.
Bryan says:
These activists not only don’t support the military, they actively hate the military. Or they “loathe” it, as Bill Clinton infamously said. His saying that didn’t cost him any liberal votes. This initiative in Berkeley probably won’t cause a single liberal anywhere to reconsider just what values they support either directly or by alliance. In fact, this thing has the support of at least one member of the Berkeley city council.
Looks like we’re gonna need another fence, besides the imaginary one on the Mexican border.
Hazel says:
But seriously, how does one equate pornography with military recruiting? Are the chirrens in Berkeley such delicate snowflakes that the sight of a man in uniform might cause them to wee in their hemp drawers
Oh, I’d guess we all already know the answer to that. Notwithstanding those of them being taught by their radical parents about how essential a rag-stopped Coke bottle filled with jellied gasoline is to proper “dissent,” that is.
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Au contraire, it's just the opposite.
The hippie parents of Berkeley are terrified to the point of catatonia that their kids will see that soldier, sailor, airman or marine walking tall, decked out in his or her uniform with ribbons and medals, redolent of honor, patriotism, adventure, and a dedication to something other than the mindless pursuit of pleasure, and think "that's pretty cool. I want to do that. I'm tired of living a safe, sheltered, meaningless life."
These are the visions that fill the nightmares of the oh-so-politically correct mums and dads in Berkeley town.
I sometimes wish you could zap these people with a "truth ray." And under that ray's harsh glare, ask them straight up: Would you rather have a daughter who was a porn actress or a son who was a soldier?
I think we all know what their answers would be, even without the "truth ray." And that tells you everything you need to know about Berkeley.