Berkeley Seeks To Cut Off All Escape Routes For Conservatives (Trees And Things)

thefadd: Re: Serious reasons to protest recent recruiting

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:32:31 EST

Or, you know, be more responsible military leadership. Those Berkeleyites should be pushing for everyone they can get from their ranks to infiltrate.

profwhat: Re: Serious reasons to protest recent recruiting

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:45:45 EST

Ironically, shutting the US military off from recruiting Berkeley students will just make those situations worse. Students at elite schools like Berkeley are, um, less likely to have committed felonies, or to have records that require falsification.

thefadd: Re: Dirty Fucking Hippies

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:25:04 EST

keep the faith, brother

WMK: Dirty Fucking Hippies

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:09:13 EST

I believe these sanctimonious flamboyant left-coast dumb-asses do the endless-war-for-profit machine a HUGE favor with their 'protest'. They make themselves out to be such incredibly stupid idiots that they inspire nothing but widespread contempt and

postillion: Serious reasons to protest recent recruiting

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:53:01 EST

As usual, the reason why Berkley's take on national politics is the lack of cohesive thinking.

They share one trait with their nemesis the president: fuzzy thinking.

If Berkley wants to protest the war, protest the war.

But if they want to

PenitenziAgite: Re: at least its a protest eh?

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:30:25 EST

It's somewhat reminiscent of the Vietnam-era train blocking protests. Students sat on the train tracks of the troop trains as they attempted to pass through Oakland. The trains had to stop, the students got their heads dented in by amped-up cop

wetkarma: Re: at least its a protest eh?

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:12:54 EST

I'm not a big joiner or inclined to participate in group dynamics. However were I to engage in group protests, I'd strive for a semblance of effectiveness, rationality and elan.

In short, my problem with these protests is that they lack style. Whether

thefadd: Re: at least its a protest eh?

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:44:55 EST

I'm not sure what the upside of your argument really is. We should crack down harder on protesters to make it more satisfying for them and arrest them in order to help focus their efforts?

profwhat: Civil disobedience

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:37:59 EST

What bothers me about the perversion of modern "civil disobedience" is that protesters are breaking laws that are totally unrelated to their protests. Let's go back to what Martin Luther King Jr.

wetkarma: at least its a protest eh?

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:44:37 EST

When the concept of civil disobedience was proposed - one key element was to be prepared to accept the consequences of breaking the law. You protest and you peacefully go to jail.

Somewhere along the way the way the "go to jail" part got dropped by mode

novy: Re: Berkeley did too much LDS back in the '70s.

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:19:34 EST

Not enough to get anyone they like nominated by Republican Party to run for US President. Even though I don't especially want to see John McCain as next US President, I admit I have been enjoying watching fundamentalist Christians and right-wing "conservat

pO157: Re: Berkeley did too much LDS back in the '70s.

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:14:31 EST

None.

Some.

thefadd: Re: Berkeley did too much LDS back in the '70s.

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:07:24 EST

How much mileage do you think Fox News and Limbaugh got out of this?

None.

Do you think it outweighed any positive attention?

No.

zyxwvutsr: Re: Berkeley did too much LDS back in the '70s.

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:42:15 EST

Also, does Code Pink, et al, really have to be so obnoxious in their protests?

They're liberals. What did you expect - calm, reasoned discussion?

Finally both Berkeley and Code Pink give the anti-war movemen

pO157: Re: Berkeley did too much LDS back in the '70s.

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:31:05 EST
I didn't realise Berkeley had so many Mormons during 1970s.
Or did you mean to suggest that residents of city did too much LSD in 1970s and therefore residents of city in 2008 still experience municipal hallucinations?
It was a reference to

novy: Re: Berkeley did too much LDS back in the '70s.

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:14:30 EST
I didn't realise Berkeley had so many Mormons during 1970s.
Or did you mean to suggest that residents of city did too much LSD in 1970s and therefore residents of city in 2008 still experience municipal hallucinations?
When US went to war against Ira

PenitenziAgite: Re: Berkeley Seeks To Cut Off All Escape Routes Fo

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:01:04 EST
Do those idiotic senators know that UC Berkeley just happens to be located in Berkeley, and that the city of Berkeley is a separate entity, and that cutting off grant funding for UC Berkeley will only hurt students at UCB? Do they know that John "Dr.

PenitenziAgite: Re: Berkeley did too much LDS back in the '70s.

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:54:31 EST
Too much LDS? The intersection between the counterculture of the 60's and total squareness of Mormons is bound to cause all kinds of strange side-effects...

shane: Re: Berkeley did too much LDS back in the '70s.

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:37:11 EST
Gandhi hit the government in the pocketbook, not the other way around.

pO157: Berkeley did too much LDS back in the '70s.

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:32:45 EST
First off, what a bunch of idiots. I could almost respect the city position if they had said "We are against the war, and even though this office is mostly clerical in nature for recruiting officer selectees we are still against the war in any way shape or