But of course, the left-wing citizens of Berkeley aren't disloyal to America. They just hate the troops.

In response to a Marine Corps recruiting office established in Berkeley last year, local activists are trying to make it more difficult for future recruiting centers to open in the city.

If passed by a majority of Berkeley voters, a proposed initiative would require military recruiting offices and private military companies in Berkeley to first acquire a special use permit.

To obtain this permit, a business must hold public hearings and a public comment period.

If the initiative passes, recruitment offices could not be opened within 600 feet of residential districts, public parks, public health clinics, public libraries, schools or churches.

Currently, a recruiting office is held to the same standards as most other businesses, which do not require a public hearing or have limits on where offices can be established.

The author of the initiative, Berkeley-based lawyer Sharon Adams, modeled the initiative after current zoning law that restricts the location of adult-oriented businesses.

"In the same way that many communities limit the location of pornographic stores, that's the same way we feel about the military recruiting stations," said PhoeBe sorgen, an initiative proponent and a member of the city's Peace and Justice Commission. "Teenagers that really want to find them will be able to seek them out and find them, but we don't want them in our face."

I'm curious -- does the city actually have the legal ability to impose such a restriction upon the location of federal government offices? And if it does actually put such a measure in place, what will be the response of the federal government? Will they withhold federal funds from Berkeley? Perhaps require that all federal offices open in the same zones as the recruiters -- in effect closing all government offices, including post offices, in the city?

But in the end I have to wonder -- has the time come for the United States to secede from Berkeley, and build a border fence around it to keep such undesirables out of the country?

H/T Michelle Malkin

Posted by: Greg at 05:22 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment
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1 Just put the Recruiting offices on Federal Property and let the Berkley Soviet foam at the mouth

Posted by: Dan Kauffman at Mon Jan 28 03:05:48 2008 (BNCg2)

2 I think they're planning to turn it into an ARMY WRONG recruiting office. www.armywrong.net

Posted by: Michelle Malkin at Fri Feb 8 16:04:22 2008 (oS4TH)

3 I see the "Hate America First" activists have dropped by to pollute my site -- and in doing so show their cowardice by posting under the name of a prominent pro-military pundit who has taken the lead against Berkeley. I think the fact that the loser above lacks the guts to associate his or her own name with the sedition promoted in the comment says it all about the level of cowardice we see among these anti-American scum.

Posted by: Rhymes With Right at Sat Feb 9 00:39:35 2008 (rI7s1)

4 Well, I think they are just trying to get recruitment out of the city. They aren't really against Marines living in the city, they just don't want the recruiting officers to target teens. By the way, you'd do a lot better by doing less mud-slinging and actually posting coherent arguments. Reasonable people place restrictions on the recruiting offices and reasonable people disagree. Do remember, this was passed in their CONGRESS. Meaning that trained political officers were the ones who did this, not a bunch of wackos.

Posted by: Connor Lennon at Tue Feb 12 12:58:12 2008 (nv4Zb)

5 Unfortunately for you, Connor, the city council is not in any way, shape or form the equivalent of Congress. On the other hand, the US Constitution places the raising of armed forces in the hands of the ACTUAL Congress -- and therefore under the principle of federalism these morons in Berkeley have far exceeded their authority. That goes all the way back to McCulloch v. Maryland. Oh, yeah, and one other thing -- engaged in an act of sedition, if not treason.

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