The cost of being anti-military

The Cost of Being Berkeley Part II - San Francisco Chronicle:

Berkeley is finding that having its own foreign policy isn’t cheap. The city’s recent dustup with the U.S. Marine Corps has so far cost the city more than $200,000, while businesses say they’ve been slammed by related protests.

And that’s on top of the $1 million the city spends annually on domestic and foreign policy matters hatched by its 45 citizen commissions, which outnumber those in virtually every other city in America and debate everything from regime change in Iran to the plight of nonneutered dogs.

They don’t seem to understand that when you attack the military, you attack ALL OF US.

But some business owners, residents and officials say the Marines dispute, which brought international headlines and boycotts, is a perfect illustration of why Berkeley should spend less money on foreign policy and more on filling potholes.

duh. It’s high time Code Pink was put in their place…they should receive consequences for aiding and abetting the enemy in a time of war, and we should stop fooling ourselves into thinking that what they’re doing is ‘free speech’. What they’re doing isn’t ‘free’. Obviously.