Human Events | Robert Maginnis | Feb. 4, 2008
On January 29, the Berkeley city council voted 6-3 to tell the U.S. Marine Corps that it “is not welcome in the city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders.” This is the council’s way of expressing its disagreement with President Bush over the war. But the council went beyond just words by granting Codepink, an anti-war group, special rights to non-violently “impede, passively or actively” the work of the recruiters. [Read more…]