Berkeley blowback
Bryan says it doesn’t go far enough, and I couldn’t agree more:
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) released the following statement in response to the decision by the City Council of Berkeley, California to evict the U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Station from the city.
“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. 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.”
Cut the officious, sanctimonious cretins off without a cent, says I. Unilaterally rescinding the social contract ought not to come cheap. This image from Matt Sanchez is just too good not to pilfer myself:
Now don’t you feel a lot safer knowing the useless little oxygen thief on the left is out there walking a post?
Good grief. Sometimes I feel like the whole damned country has jumped headlong down the rabbit hole.
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Send the Marine Silent Drill Team to Berkley. Have them march down whatever the main drag is in that disgrace to the union.
Oh, and have them escorted by a full battalion of Marines in full battle dress, with all the sundry armor and heavy units, under orders to protect the Drill Team with extreme prejudice.
Parade permit? We don't need no stink'n parade permit!
And film the whole thing for use in the next Marine recruitment video.
It would be an awesome vid though, wouldn't it?
Tanks, Bradly's, choppers providing air support, heavily armed Marines advancing down the strip providing cover at intersections. All while the best damned drill team in the world marches down the center of the road doing what they do so well.
As they say over at Ace's place, I'll be in my bunk.
These cretins deserve to live in the kind of country they think they're living in. If they were, they'd be in some basement cell or lying in a shallow grave. And they'll never, ever realize how fortunate they are to be so wrong. Thanks, in large part, to these Marines they hate so much.
It's a nearly universal trait of cowards everywhere to hate the brave.
I didn't say I thought they needed a battalion with air and Armor. I just think it would be a nice touch. The video would be so much more enjoyable, too.
Hell, for that matter I doubt the Drill Team would need any support. They do their thing with fixed bayonets. I doubt they'd even need ammunition.
But, if we're going to violate someone's territory, let's do it right.