May I copy your post to give to my son and his friends? They, in turn, might use it in discussion with Code PINK at the USMC Office. You can contact me at berkeleymarinesanctuary@yahoo.com to discuss this further, if you wish.

Also, Congress should cut off all federal funding to the town, and any other city, university or organization which opposes the legal recruitment of US citizens into the US military. US citizens need to remind our Congress of their duties assigned them by the Constitution and insist that they fulfill those duties:
Reminder #1 Our Constitution:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The Constitution lists as a role of the federal government to insure domestic tranquility:
“One of the concerns of the Framers was that the government prior to that under the Constitution was unable, by force or persuasion, to quell rebellion or quarrels amongst the states… One of the main goals of the Convention, then, was to ensure the federal government had powers to squash rebellion and to smooth tensions between states.” http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am10

Reminder #2 Article. I, Section 8 – Powers of Congress
“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions…”
Article 1, Section 8 gives Congress the Constitutional authority to provide for the common defense, which means that defense is defense of everyone, not just some. Whether Berkley likes it or not, the military is serving for the defense of their town as much as any other American community. Therefore, Berkely has a vested interest in the military and must suppport it as every other community does. Article 1, Section 8 gives the federal government he power to raise and support the military uniformally throughout the United States, in other words, all payment of debts, taxes and support for defense are to be uniform throughout the US. Support for defense would include the authority to recruit military members from all communities.
Article 1, Section 8 also gives the Federal Government the authority to suppress the insurrection of a state, which means when a state (or a community within a state,) is not abiding by the rules of law, or usurping the powers of the federal government the federal government has the Constitutional authority to intervene. The Preamble states that the Federal Government will insure domestic Tranquility and provide for the common defense.
Contact your Congressional representatives and remind them of their Constitutional duty to support the military and suppress this insurrection in California. If you don’t know who your congressmen are, or how to contact them, you can easily find them by visiting: http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/index.htm

My son’s affect is cheerful and he tries to ask good questions. At one point he admitted he enjoys doing so because the Pink Ladies are so taken aback by courtesy; the responsibility is then theirs to respond with real answers, not sound bites.

As you know, having stood close enough to the Code PINK regulars to have been mistaken for one, real answers are not easily obtained from them. Most of them mean well, of course, and my son and I wish them no harm.

One side-effect of the WCW protests has been to make Code PINK look reasonable again. Pity it came to that.