Can Berkley CA become more anti-military?

[Dingobat]

The thing that sticks in my craw is the comparison to Adult shops swipe. What an irrational and belligerent comment-


(Swanee you beat me to it)

 

[Flash]

They are persecuting a recruiting office the same way a porn shop or liquor store or tobacco store would be. That's a whole lot of crap.

They can't. Brett was right, hte federal government and its laws trump state and local ones. Berkeley is SOL with a bill that is nothing but propoganda.

 

[Huggy Bear]

"I think we should just go ahead and pass this. We can't take EVERYTHING to the voters"


WHATT???? Is she fvcking serious? So much for democracy, which this idiot probably thinks she is a part of.

I swear to god, next time I am in CA I am going to be tempted to walk through Berkeley in my choker fvcking whites.:icon_rage

No biggie. I did it every week for 4 years (well not always chokers).

 

[invertedflyer]

As a Berkeley (note there are three Es) Alum I will share my insights:

In fact, I would say more students come from more-conservative Southern California...probably to get away from their parents. Cal professors discovered Plutonium, were instrumental in building the Atomic Bomb and continue to run 3 of the 9 DOE National Laboratories.

I've actually heard similar opinions of UC Berkeley, its seems to be more tolerant than everyone makes out. The above, however, depends on which part of southern california you are speaking of. If we're talking pretty much anywhere in San Diego, parts of the OC, and parts of the IE then yes, technically they vote majority republican. Other areas such as LA county and San Bernardino lean heavily liberal democrat. The overall vibe down here seems fairly liberal, not conservative... but again, it depends on where you are. I agree that socal may be more conservative than berkeley however.

 

[shotcalla10]

"I think we should just go ahead and pass this. We can't take EVERYTHING to the voters"


WHATT???? Is she fvcking serious? So much for democracy, which this idiot probably thinks she is a part of.

I swear to god, next time I am in CA I am going to be tempted to walk through Berkeley in my choker fvcking whites.:icon_rage

I'm also a berkeley alum, and I will definitely walk through berkeley in my choker whites after I get commissioned. The students there for the most part though aren't that crazy towards military personel as much as they are toward the war, but of course there are still plenty of those who are just tree huggin haters who are too busy hugging trees and too busy being self-righteous to see the world the way it is.

 

[Goob83]

I'm also a berkeley alum, and I will definitely walk through berkeley in my choker whites after I get commissioned. The students there for the most part though aren't that crazy towards military personel as much as they are toward the war, but of course there are still plenty of those who are just tree huggin haters who are too busy hugging trees and too busy being self-righteous to see the world the way it is.

haha I will go with you maybe i can find the asshole that spit on me and you can beat them down for me . when the hell do you go to OCS?

 

[cisforsmasher]

Unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable. I can at least partially understand Code Pink and other activists' positions, but to hear these words from elected officials is bewildering.

"I do want to do something, whatever we can do, to shut down an agency that offends our public standards," she said. "It's a detriment, it's a danger to the public."

I bet that Marine recruiter smiles whenever he's walking around in uniform knowing he is pissing off far left loonies.

i nearly flipped my desk reading that.

anyway, this relates to this previous thread. Same guy, same situation.

http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php?t=138712&highlight=berkeley

 

[shotcalla10]

haha I will go with you maybe i can find the asshole that spit on me and you can beat them down for me . when the hell do you go to OCS?

haha i'm game. you're gonna have me beat them down so you don't get in trouble? hahaha. what is the Navy's policy on beating down those who spit at you? as long as my flight contract isn't at risk, beat down it is. =)

 

[Goob83]

haha i'm game. you're gonna have me beat them down so you don't get in trouble? hahaha. what is the Navy's policy on beating down those who spit at you? as long as my flight contract isn't at risk, beat down it is. =)

I just thanked them for welcoming me to campus. hell got slapped same day and all i could do was laugh shake my head and go to my car. Got the ol mandatory career fair there the 13 of FEB hopefully it goes well this time and I'll get out alive and with luck one or two wanna beees

 

[shotcalla10]

damn I knew I should've gone to career fairs while I was in college, maybe that way I would already be flying in the Navy. I had a full time job offer waiting for me to graduate in my junior year of college so I didn't bother going to career fairs and such. if anything, I definitely missed out on you getting spat at and slapped, thats for sure haha. I've been doing my share of trying to recruit for the Navy and been telling them all "i know a LT in San Jose that's really good so if you're interested, I'll make the phone call" but as you can tell from no phone calls from me, no luck in that department.
career fair on the 13th? that actually sounds fun, maybe I'll join you next year after I get commissioned, if I can get leave that is.

 

[Brett327]

With friends like Hugo, who needs a Berkley degree?

Great insight Snipe.

Is Chavez wearing an earpiece?

Brett

 

[statesman]

"I think we should just go ahead and pass this. We can't take EVERYTHING to the voters"


WHATT???? Is she fvcking serious? So much for democracy, which this idiot probably thinks she is a part of.

BS I know you're Canadian and come from a Parliamentary system but in the United States we are a republic which democratically elects representatives to carry out the peoples business. The reason we do this is so that the people aren't charged to vote on every little measure which comes up.

Additionally it restricts the power of moonbats like our friend quoted above, and her kind, from trampling over the rights of the minority. Our Constitution is written very specifically to protect minority interests.

Jefferson said it best "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”

I don't Frau Moonbat above, but I do have to agree with her support of republicanism, even if it is for misguided reasons.

 

[cisforsmasher]

and to go with your Reagan signature line

"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves."

Ronald Reagan

 

[Brett327]

BS I know you're Canadian and come from a Parliamentary system but in the United States we are a republic which democratically elects representatives to carry out the peoples business.

So MPs aren't elected to represent the interests of their constituents?

Clue: Canada and the UK are republics, just like the US.

Brett

 

[statesman]

So MPs aren't elected to represent the interests of their constituents?

Clue: Canada and the UK are republics, just like the US.

Brett

/threadjack
I respectfully disagree with the above.

Canada is a federal parliamentary democracy with constitutional monarchy.

While MPs are elected by the people, the senate is appointed by the Governor General. The Prime Minister is the head of the majority party in the House of Commons. The sovereign is still the Queen of England. Canada is hardly the exceedingly liberal republic that is the United States.

/endThreadjack