THE NEO-MARXIST AGENDA OF THE ANTI-MILITARY LEFT
On January 29 of this year, the Berkeley City Council called the US Marines "unwelcome", "uninvited", and told them to get out of their city. They authorized the radical group, Code Pink, to harass the local recruiting station by granting them a preferred parking space in front of the office and waiving any permits they might need for 6 months of 'activity'.
This sort of floridly anti-military and anti-American behavior on the part of the nut clusters on the political left seems to be a fairly frequent occurrance in this day and age. Berkeley happens to be one of the main players in these little psychodramas, but you can find the same sort of moral insanity wherever the species academicus pseudointellectualis runs rampant, i.e., in most university towns.
The same manics who espouse the "military oppresses and victimizes our children" theme--which was the Berkeley City Council's righteous explanation of their scurrilous behavior--will often rapidly shift into a somber depressive mode at a moment's notice and, as evidence of their devout "support of the troops", will tut tut about the terrible victimization of the poor, oppressed and helpless 'children' who serve in the U.S. military. The U.S. military - which our Constitution specifically directs us to have and why the government was formed in the first place. Instead of the Liberal teachers in our public schools teaching what is right and correct, they in turn teach our children to use drugs, have all the sex they want, becky has two mommies, gay day is the way, and how to be good little bambuskas to their Commie agendas...