Suppose there was trouble in the hood. Suppose you were the head Code Pinker. Who would you call? Who else? You call the Marines.
Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, who can turn the air blue when shouting chants against American Marines called out for the Marines in front of Marine Recruiting offices in Berkeley yesterday.
Eamon Kelley, the young Marine who is featured in Move America Forward’s TV commercial that ran on Fox News earlier this week, could hardly believe his own ears when Benjamin called on the Marines for help.
How about some details?
“While we were at the protest in Berkeley from 12 to 4 p.m., a white Volvo drove by and a man spat upon CodePink,” Kelley wrote in an email to MAF’s Melanie Morgan. “They chased him down the street and got into a verbal altercation. The police were NOWHERE in sight.
“That’s not the best part, ready for this?
“Medea Benjamin yelled and I quote “Marines!” She actually yelled for our help because this man had stepped out of his car. I even asked her if she was yelling Police and she told me, “I said Marines” then put her arm around my friend Allen (the Marine Vet). Ironic?”
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
It is just that some people never knew this and others forget, while some like Ms. Benjamin don’t even want to know despite it being rubbed in their faces.
Semper Fi.
Cross Posted at Power and Control
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13 responses to “Who Ya Gonna Call?”
I call shenanigans.
This story is just too perfect to be believable.
Too good to check, I reckon.
Though, from everything I’ve heard about Ms. Benjamin over the years (she pops up a lot, go figure), it wouldn’t actually surprise me.
I’d sleep better at night if the rough boys came home.
The further right you get, the more you rely on lame sayings?
Yes, makin’ mock o’ uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an’ they’re starvation cheap;
An’ hustlin’ drunken soldiers when they’re goin’ large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin’ in full kit.
Kipling
The Rough Men quote was from Orwell.
Bring the boys home is so 2007.
2008 is “Maintain Stability in Iraq”.
In any case we are in Iraq at the request of the UN and the Iraqi government. I don’t see how we can honorably duck out on our responsibilities.
There’s no honor in staying, either, M.
And one day’s worth of Iraq pork funds your Bussard project…
So the lives of the Iraqi people and defending their self government has no value?
Your sense of honor is not only different from mine, it also does not even comport with the limited sense of honor and obligation of the UN. An organization not well known for acting honorably in such situations.
There is a train wreck which we have in part caused. Is it honorable to leave the scene of the accident before the rescue work is completed? My sense of honor would not allow it. YSOHMV.
BTW at this point the Bussard project is on rails. The WB-7 experiment (an upgraded re-do of WB-6) is progressing:
WB-7 First Plasma
If results warrant, further funds will not be a problem. Government or private sector.
Did I mention that the US Navy is funding the current work?
Your Military in ACTION
I expect Congress to lavish funds on the project if experimental results are positive. In any case pushing it forward as fast as possible would cost us about 10% of the earmark budget for about 5 years.
The war has caused a slash in all but the most urgent research. Sometimes good stuff gets caught up in the slashing. However, just as with bushes: the occasional pruning encourages further growth.
In any case we have the government we deserve. For good or ill it follows the will of the people. Which is – despite the clamor – why we did not pull out of Iraq or cut funding. What ever the press told you – losing Iraq is not a winning campaign proposition.
The will of the people is why Bussard got funded.
Check out the comments in the MSNBC linked article at the above url. Blogs moved WB-7 along. Just as they helped sustain the war effort at a critical point.
Democrats did win Congress in ’06. However, the margin came from pro war Democrats. Dean’s Southern Strategy. You know how those Southerners are. Ever since 1865 they have hated to lose wars.
Our grubby little attempt at Empire isn’t for the benefit of the Iraqi people, M.
The U.S. waving the Turks into Iraq over the objections of the Iraqi “government” should have rid you of any illusions that we are there for anything other than pork ‘n oil.
As I remember it Alphie, the Iraqi government didn’t complain much. Nor did the government of the Kurdish areas involved. Nor did the US complain. If it was serious Iraq would have mounted a military response.
As was reported at the time: it was a punitive expedition aimed at the PKK. You know. Communists.
As to pork and oil. Civilization seems to run on both. If the Democrat controlled US Congress is any guide. We have a few Republicans and no Democrats trying to do something about it.
In case you’re not aware, Alphie is a serial comment troll who pops up on numerous conservative blogs, always spouting the same tired cliches. Attempting to reason with it is futile, because it seeks only attention.
Otto,
Alphie comes here a lot. I argue with him only to present another side to the questions.
Other, wise as you point out, the effort is futile.
Every now and then I catch these guys in a position so devoid of evidence that they have to concede my point. I rather enjoy that. The thing to to is to keep them “talking”. Since their world view is inconsistent with reality they always screw up given enough rope.
Lefties like alphie would prefer the formulation that reality is inconsistant with their worldview.
What’s amaizing is the amount of time, effort and dead bodies (100 million and counting) they’re willing to burn up to change it. Reality, that is.