Breaking: Melanie Morgan Shocking Update From 15th Hour Of Berkeley Battle
Melanie just popped me this email:
Pro-troop demonstration still going strong –but here is my after action report after 15 hours on the frontlines.
If I were a headline writer I would describe the situation as CHAOS AND ANARCHY IN BERKELEY today.
Not by our side –by the Marine haters and American traitors.
The cops were openly hostile toward the people who showed up at 5:00 a.m., never stepping in to protect the patriots from the assaults that took place against elderly folks, Gold Star parents, Blue Star families and Joe and Jane Citizen who were waving the flags and showing their pride in the Marines. The police allowed hundreds of Berkeley High School kids (accompanied by their teachers) to gather with CodePink, receive their mandatory face masks and F—k Bush t-shirts, and allowed them to mill around our PA where they tried to cut the power cords to the system.
Berkeley police repeatedly allowed CodePink to violate our permits, and never lifted a finger to stop their crowd from interfering with our activities until the very end, after we screamed blue bloody hell.
When Catherine Moy, the Executive Director of MAF called the police to tell them a riot was erupting in the early hours –THEY HUNG UP ON HER.
Cat called the Highway Patrol, who referred her back to the Berkeley police –WHO HUNG UP ON HER.
It was positively shameful.
Move America Forward’s attorney Jim Sweeney took depositions from ten people who were assaulted by CodePink, International A.N.S.W.E.R. and socialists who showed up en masse.
The City Council has been notified by fax that we are filing a federal lawsuit for deprivation of our civil rights.
We didn’t start this fight, but we are damn sure gonna finish it.
The pro-troops demonstration is still going strong at 7:30 p.m. PST, with all streets around the Berkeley City Council closed off as the CodePinkos continue to receive preferential treatment by the Berkeley PD.
Move America Forward’s sound permit was turned off at 5:00 in the afternoon, while the Pinkos were allowed to use their system to sing Kumbaya and other 60’s peace chants.
Berkeley, the birthplace of free speech, is now officially the center of intolerant hatred for anyone who sticks up for the men and women who are fighting and dying to protect THEIR rights.
Before our sound system was nearly sabotaged, a young man posing as a pro-troop supporter asked to speak to the crowd. I allowed him to talk (about his family’s ‘service’, when he started spewing obscenities about the ‘illegal, immoral, unjust war’ . I grabbed the microphone back, and he tried to clobber me with it.
Gold Star Dad Mark Crowley knocked him to the ground, where he found a faceful of dirt to keep him company.
Our side sang God Bless America, America the beautiful and other stirring songs that seemed to enrage the elderly commies.
25,000 petitions were collected by Move America Forward with the help of other pro-troops groups like Gathering of Eagles, EaglesUp, Vets for Freedom and others.
There were Eagles EVERYWHERE today.
And Patriot Guard Riders.
And American Legion vets.
And members of the Military Order of the Purple Heart.
5,000 petition signatures were also collected by an organization in Washington headed by Nicholas Provenzano, who flew out to Berkeley on the red-eye to deliver to the City Council announcing an economic boycott of Berkeley until it reverses it shameful treatment of our Marines.
Red, White and Blue Americans rushed to our side from Atlanta, Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, San Diego, and other parts of the United States.
Our crowds numbered into the thousands throughout the day.
So gratifying. So humbling.
People of all ages, races, and political backgrounds (yes even some incensed liberals) honored our active duty service members serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in other parts around the world.
We spoke of the sacrifice and the nobility of the military families who support their sons and daughters, husbands and wives.
And we gave a HOOO-AWW especially to our Marines, who find themselves prevented from speaking while under assault, not from a evil enemy abroad, but from the insurgents here at home.
We should be proud and exhilarated by the turn-out and passion of so many people who set aside their lives, showed up, and spoke out.
I don’t know what will happen with the Berkeley City Council, but I would be you that dollars to donuts, they’ll issue some mealy-mouthed WE SUPPORT THE TROOPS, JUST NOT THEIR MISSION crap, and then keep in place all the restrictions that make recruiting on Shattuck avenue all but impossible.
I have no idea how the media will portray this historic event –I can only tell you that 3 TV helicopters were overhead almost all day long, every major media outlet in the Bay Area, as well as national TV and print reporters–but OUR people spoke eloquently, passionately, and with conviction about the hateful attitude that the City of Berkeley has displayed toward the USMC.
Warmest,
Melanie
You can also watch a live feed of the Berkeley City Council meeting going on now. They are expected to decide whether or not to back down from their anti-Marine recruiting stance.
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FUCK this.
Road trip to Cali - I can seat 5!
February 12th, 2008 at 9:42 pmThis place is just a 6-hour drive from me. I really can’t afford to miss any school but if this continues, I may go anyway, it is too important.
This bullshit is….bullshit!
“Gold Star Dad Mark Crowley knocked him to the ground, where he found a faceful of dirt to keep him company.”
I did like that part.
February 12th, 2008 at 10:02 pmUs, and them
And after all we’re only ordinary men.
Me, and you.
God only knows it’s not what we would choose to do.
Forward he cried from the rear
and the front rank died.
And the general sat and the lines on the map
moved from side to side.
Black and blue
And who knows which is which and who is who.
Up and down.
But in the end it’s only round and round.
Haven’t you heard it’s a battle of words
The poster bearer cried.
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There’s room for you inside.
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Despicable …
For the ONE and ONLY time this hard-ass will ever admit to her fellow Dollardheads … I honestly feel like crying …
February 12th, 2008 at 10:04 pmIts about 11 hours for me but I guess I’d go
February 12th, 2008 at 10:11 pmSemper Fi Patriots…I am there with you in spirit!!!
February 12th, 2008 at 10:54 pmLet’s round up these bastards and deport them to Saudi Arabia. Just based on how they dress and act, they’ll be thrown in a Saudi prison within hours of arrival. With any luck, a couple of them might even get a hand or head chopped off in Riyadh.
These people have no clue what they’re really doing. They’re being manipulated by a bunch of geriatric old hippies who think they’re God’s greatest gift to civilization since the anal butt-plug. Singing Kumbayah? I thought that was joke. I didn’t think people were really that gay. You’d think they’d be singing something a little hipper…ah…but I forget: this is Gay-lifornia.
February 12th, 2008 at 11:11 pmI was closer to my European Grandmother than I was my Mother. My Mom was/is a very self-centered person. Grandma (Mom’s Mom) was THE most selfless person I have ever known.
I was 12 yrs. old … I remember watching the news on TV of the Kent State University shootings (I refuse to call it “massacre”) with my Grandmother. She was having a hard time understanding exactly what the hell was going on. I explained it as best as I could, that it had been an antiwar protest that had gotten violent. (Little did I know, at the time, it was much more than just some peace loving “hippies” that invaded the KSU campus that day) … anyhow, Grandma, who was a young girl in WWI Hungary, shook her head with that look of dread on her face (she took EVERYTHING to heart) … and told me, “I know war. I hate war. These crazy jackasses don’t know anything about war.” She was talking about the mobs of protesters …
February 12th, 2008 at 11:37 pmI went to two counter demonstrations in DC in March and September. Code Pink was at both. They are gruesome, wretched creatures. The DC police handle these events well, nothing like the Bezerkley Police. The demonstration season should be getting started soon and should be interesting with the election coming up. Maybe I should buy a ten trip ticket for the train, save a little money.
February 13th, 2008 at 12:06 am@Jeff
“Gold Star Dad Mark Crowley knocked him to the ground, where he found a faceful of dirt to keep him company.”
I did like that part.
Absolutely. Me too.
February 13th, 2008 at 2:45 amThose people are psycho.
Would love to have seen that one take the dive!
It’s probably a good thing that I’m in Afghanistan right now, because if I was at home, I’d probably be in Berzerkely right now committing a little ultraviolence. I can only imagine what could be done with a stun gun and a can of pepper spray! I hate all of those anti-American, pro-terrorist, totalitarian supporting trash. I hope they all catch STD’s at their post-riot orgy! There’s a woman here in Afghanistan whose husband cut off her nose and ears, that’s the kind of shit these “anti-war protestors” are supporting.
February 13th, 2008 at 3:16 amDamn these code pink “people’ make me angry
. I’m in NY, so I couldn’t go, but I wish I could have gone to be with the pro Marine side. I really hope something can be done about this.
February 13th, 2008 at 3:31 amThis is why you sane folks wouldn’t allow me to attend these types of patriotic demonstrations.
The first motley f**k who I found cutting a power cord would have found the the remaining cord still plugged into the receptacle with the copper leads wrapped around the pinko’s balls and his head slammed thru the stage. I ain’t waiting around for some lawsuit and much prefer justice prevail immediately.
I have fried the commie’s sorry ass right there and been cheerleading on stage for more to enter the chaos before being handcuffed on my way to some stinkin’ hippie pokie for the remainder of my days.
February 13th, 2008 at 5:57 amY’know for some people who are anti-war they sure are a pushy and violent bunch of dickheads.
Pull their funding. Pull their funding. Pull their funding.
Then sue the f&#k out of them, just like the Westboro clowns.
February 13th, 2008 at 6:35 amDrillan:
I love Pink Floyd, although as Eric Cartmen demonstrated in South Park, hippies hate hardcore music. If we put some Pantera on a megaphone those hippies would disperse like prarie dogs out in the open!
February 13th, 2008 at 6:36 amMan i have never heard of so much bullshit. Its more than clear to me now that the government needs to make the city of Berkeley secede from this country, build a fence around and it and let them sorry fuckers fend for themselves or call in an airstrike. one way or another this little communist shithole town and its backward ass people should not be given the honor of being called AMERICANS.
They blindly go against our military. the ones who leave family, friends and basically their whole life to go thousands of miles away from home and defend strangers lives against some of the most evil people on earth. taking bullets, IEDs, the heat, the cold, fear every day so people like even these assholes in Berkeley dont have to.
God bless the Military and all REAL Americans
February 13th, 2008 at 7:11 amThese twistd code pinkos should be shot and the police officers too. Now, normally, I would not advocate violence unto the police but those officers are not carrying out their duty. They are listening to their pinko city officials instead of doing what is right and just.
February 13th, 2008 at 7:33 amHow is Obama gonna that sickness?
February 13th, 2008 at 7:39 amIn California the abortion rate is 639 abortions each day or 233,373 each year. Someone should point that out to the idiots who belong to Code Pink. It has been 2.086 days since the invasion of Iraq, since then 1,332,945 babies have been aborted. Miniscule when compared to combat deaths in Iraq.
February 13th, 2008 at 8:38 amSamir, samir?! HELLOOOOO?!?!?!?!?!?
What a fucking pussy.
February 13th, 2008 at 8:58 amThere is no more talking to these hippie pot-heads. You don’t reason with crazy people. The way to handle them is the way Gold Star Dad Mark Crowley did. Knock em to the ground. Show ‘em what a curb sandwhich looks like. Fuck the stun guns and pepper spray. Fists and feet only. Time to take back America and show these Code Finko punks and the rest of their anarchist allies what they really are: useless droopy-titted fucktards, the best part of which rolled down their daddy’s legs.
February 13th, 2008 at 9:00 amWho’s the Chief of Police in Bezerkley? His job should be on the line. Yeah, file that federal suit against Bezerkley! A big fat civil rights judgment will hit them in the pocketbooks, where they are looking at budget reductions due to the state’s woeful financial condition.
February 13th, 2008 at 9:47 am