From the recent pro-troop gathering in front of a Marine Recruiting Station in Berkley.

A showdown between anti-war activists who last month defaced a Marine recruiting office and flag-carrying patriots took over a street in Berkeley on Wednesday with noise levels that reached a half-mile away at the University of California in town.

Berkeley police officers kept the Code Pink contingent of about 150 separated from the group of about 500 led by Move America Forward, the nationÂ’s largest pro-troop organization. The incidents of abhorrent behavior were rare, but included an anti-war demonstrator trying to knife a pro-troop supporter and two code Pink followers burning flags.

A group of Code Pink protesters surrounded a woman and pushed her around after she said that her brother and other family members were protecting the United States in Iraq. The young woman shook with fear and wept.

Well, we know that violence is the stock in trade of the Left, both here and abroad.

But this is the part that I find particularly disturbing.

There were no arrests, and numerous police officers stood watch, including Berkeley Police Chief Doug Hambleton at one point. "As long as people stay peaceful, we're as happy as we can be," Hambleton told the San Francisco Chronicle.

No arrests?

Peaceful?

Excuse me, but the opening paragraphs mention two acts of assault, one of them involving a deadly weapon, against the patriots supporting the troops by the terrorist-sympathizing crew that has branded office’s Marine recruiters as “liars,” “traitors,” and “assassins”. And the chief of police wants to describe the activity as peaceful, and his officers did not consider the incidents to merit arrest? Are you kidding me?

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