The Marines in Berkley

[zilla]

This little clip speaks for itself. WTG Marines. Keep it up.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=163653&title=marines-in-berkeley

 

[DrDea]

  I wish we could kick Berkly outta the country.This is the same group who's city council vetoed hanging the US flag on rescue vehicles after 911 because it might "offend" someone.
 And the line about having a group to defend free speech to the hippy douchbag and her saying that was a good idea....priceless to the clueless.

[Eagler]

there are pockets of puss everywhere .. berkley is one of them

[FiLtH]

Dam Less Beans

[ZetaNine]

too funny! thanks for the link

[Maverick]

That was nicely done. It really show cased the feeling that they consider themselves more equal than everyone else.  Freaking morons. 

[Bodhi]

It's amazing how stupid people can be.

[Jackal1]

This is the same group who's city council vetoed hanging the US flag on rescue vehicles after 911 because it might "offend" someone.

 

The way I look at that is if the U.S. flag offends anyone here in this country, then they are in the wrong country....and can bite me.
Even our little Podunk FDs have taken to flying the flag from the trucks. Looks too cool.
We also fly the flag from our scoots on PGR missions. If folks don`t like it I am willing to make the first  donation to their plane fare elsewhere.

[indy007]

It's amazing how stupid people can be.

It goes way beyond stupid. Just take a look at one of the demagoges.

It really takes a sick woman to change her name from Susan Benjamin to Medea after the Greek mythological virago who murdered her own children.

*Founder of Global Exchange
*Has said that living in Castro’s Cuba made her feel “like [she] died and went to heaven.”
*Organizer of Iraq Occupation Watch  (support for killers of US troops)
*Sent $600,000 to Iraqi resistance as they fought US marines in Fallujah.

Anti-war activist Medea Benjamin was born in 1952 (with the name Susie Benjamin) and was raised as a self-described "nice Jewish girl from Long Island," New York. During her freshman year at Tufts University, she renamed herself after the Greek mythological character Medea. After one year at Tufts, she dropped out of school and spent some time hitchhiking across Europe and Africa, supporting herself by teaching English, working in African refugee camps, and doing a variety of other odd jobs. She thereafter returned to New York, passed some undergraduate equivalency tests, and went on to receive master’s degrees in public health (from Columbia University) and economics (from the New School for Social Research).

Ms. Benjamin then lived for some time in Fidel Castro’s Communist Cuba with her first husband, who was the coach of that country's national basketball team. (Reflecting later on her years in Cuba, she said she had felt "like I died and went to heaven.") Cuban authorities deported Ms. Benjamin, however, after she wrote an anti-government article in the government-run newspaper for which she worked.

Benjamin moved to San Francisco in 1983 to work for Food First / The Institute for Food and Development Policy.

In 1988 she co-founded (with Kevin Danaher) the activist organization Global Exchange, which devotes its resources and manpower to a variety of leftist causes -- most notably an anti-war, anti-capitalist agenda.

Benjamin was one of the principal architects of the 1999 protests in Seattle where rampaging anti-globalization activists burned cars, smashed windows and generally sowed disorder in a failed bid to shut down a conference of the World Trade Organization. Benjamin hailed the riots, which caused millions of dollars in property damage, as “a battle cry.”

In Benjamin's view, America's declared war on terror is itself a form of terrorism. She asserts that President Bush "has responded to the violent attack of 9/11 with the notion of perpetual war ..."

Late in 2002, Benjamin led a group of Americans, each of whom had lost loved ones in the 9/11 attacks, to Afghanistan to meet people whose relatives had perished in the U.S. bombing campaign there. "We must insist that governments stop taking innocent lives in the name of seeking justice for the loss of other innocent lives," she said.

In November 2002, Benjamin co-founded -- along with Jodie Evans, Diane Wilson, and a radical Wiccan activist calling herself Starhawk -- the anti-war group Code Pink for Peace.

Also in 2002, Ms. Benjamin exhorted Americans to examine "the root causes of resentment against the United States in the Arab world -- from our dependence on Middle Eastern oil to our biased policy towards Israel." "We [she and her fellow activists] are ... determined," she said, "to stop the U.S. government from unilaterally dictating to other people -- be they Palestinian, Iraqi or Venezuelan -- who their leaders should be. This is for the people themselves to decide."

In 2003 Benjamin was a signatory to the widely publicized Not in Our Name (NION) anti-war statement, which asserted that the U.S. war on terror posed "grave dangers to the people of the world" in the form of "[w]ar and repression" that "has been loosed on the world by the Bush Administration ... [in] a spirit of revenge."

In April 2003, Benjamin wrote that "military spending robs our schools, hospitals and housing programs," and she stressed the importance of "making common cause with immigrant and ethnic groups that have found themselves under attack in the wake of September 11 ... [and countering] the erosion of our civil liberties."

In 2004 Benjamin co-founded -- along with Leslie Cagan, the longtime pro-Castro communist who established United for Peace and Justice -- the organization Iraq Occupation Watch, whose express mission is to encourage widespread desertion by "conscientious objectors" in the U.S. military.

During the last week of December 2004, Benjamin announced that Global Exchange, Code Pink, and Families for Peace would be donating a combined $600,000 in medical supplies and cash to the families of the terrorist insurgents who were fighting American troops in Fallujah, Iraq. Said Benjamin, "I don't know of any other case in history in which the parents of fallen soldiers collected medicine ... for the families of the 'other side.' It is a reflection of a growing movement in the United States ... opposed to the unjust nature of this war."

In March 2006, Benjamin and other members of Code Pink brought a delegation of six Iraqi Muslim women to the United Nations in New York and to the Capitol in Washington, DC, where they lobbied senators and congressional representatives, met with the leaders of NGOs and think tanks, and delivered a petition (with more than 100,000 signatures from people around the world) calling for an end to the Iraq War.

In November 2006, Benjamin and Cindy Sheehan together traveled to South Korea on a mission designed to publicly condemn a U.S. government plan for expanding an American military base near Seoul. The Benjamin/Sheehan visit was strongly supported by pro-North Korean groups, hard-Left student movements and labor organizations, and Communist sympathizers.

In January 2007, Benjamin and Sheehan jointly traveled to Cuba to publicly call for the closing of America’s Guantanamo Bay detention center there.

According to Ms. Benjamin, the economic policies of Venezuela's communist President Hugo Chavez have placed his country at "the center of a new, progressive model of socioeconomic development that is shaping Latin America’s future." "There are few countries," she says, "where everyday people actually receive the benefits of cooperation with multinationals: a redistribution of oil profit, a guarantee for healthcare written into the constitution, and record-breaking achievements in education. ... Venezuela has embarked upon some of the most innovative regional programs that Latin America has ever seen."

"When most Americans hear of human rights abuses, they likely think of atrocities in some far-off country in a forgotten corner of the globe," says Benjamin. "…[But] abuses against individuals' basic rights also occur regularly here in the United States, and our money-saturated political system hardly deserves the title 'democracy.'"

Ms. Benjamin is currently married to Kevin Danaher. She has developed a nice capitalist sinecure for herself by running the non-profit Global Exchange at the expense of the US taxpayer.

[moot]

*Organizer of Iraq Occupation Watch  (support for killers of US troops)
*Sent $600,000 to Iraqi resistance as they fought US marines in Fallujah

Is that legal?

[indy007]

Is that legal?

Doubtful, but there's dozens of co-conspirators for 9/11 that never got indicted. This is just a drop in the bucket. Even if the government did press charges, they'd be crucified in the media for picking on an anti-war protester.

Reality very seldom has anything to do with protests in America. That's just how it goes.

[Timofei]

Doubtful, but there's dozens of co-conspirators for 9/11 that never got indicted.

You are paranoid ?

[AKIron]

"Medea Benjamin", a few here probably look up to her as a hero. 

[indy007]

You are paranoid ?

Never heard of CAIR? They're just one of over 300 groups on that list.

People that are paranoid are the 9/11 "Truthers" and sweetheartbags who run around at protests with bandanas on their face because "big brother will come and lock them up!".  

[Gowan]

why don't all of you shut the hell up. I know there are some crazy people in berkeley, but there are also crazy people EVERYWHERE!

why don't you all actually go over there and see what it's like!
its not all a bunch of protestors saying everything is diddlyed up, the show took just one point of view and then just bashed it to death for comedic humor. also if all the news you get is from COMEDY CENTRAL you need to take a good look at yourself and say where the hell did i go wrong!

im disgusted at the fact that all of you just take 1 stance due to something you saw on T.V. and then think it's true. if everything on t.v. is true, then japanese people CAN shoot lasers out of their hands and other roadkill stuff like that is true

go and research the whole story and then talk, until then, Shut the bloody hell up you rightwing nut-jobs