Reposted, with permission, from Leaning Straight Up.

Michelle Malkin has written a blog tracing in detail a list of the more egregious assaults on Military Recruiters by the Anti War Left.  For those of us pissed off by the Berkeley Council’s attempts to drive them out, this shows that to be a drop int eh bucket.  Here are a few excerpts:

Special report: Tracing the Left’s escalating war on military recruiters  

Ideas have consequences. Inaction has consequences. For the past several years, I’ve chronicled the Left’s escalating war on military recruiters–and the apathetic, weak-kneed response to it. In Unhinged, I devoted a sub-section of my chapter “They Don’t Support Our Troops” to the organized campaign of harassment against recruitment offices on college campuses nationwide. The anti-recruiter thugs have thrived thanks to a combination of public indifference, law enforcement fecklessness, and left-wing ideological apologism. As you may recall, I have personal experience with the anti-recruiter propagandists, who lie through their teeth, exploit media sympathy, and harbor nothing but raw hatred for the men and women who protect and defend their rights to bitch and moan.  

Many observers wanted to shut out any possibility that yesterday’s bombing at the Times Square recruitment center was ideologically motivated.  

But will any on the left and in the Democrat Party raise their voices–loudly and clearly–to condemn the ongoing, militant anti-recruiter campaign?  

Will they urge the Code Pinkos and their ilk to halt their intimidation and obstruction efforts?  

Or will they continue to sit silently and attempt to downplay yesterday’s bombing as an isolated incident– instead of the all-too-predictable symptom of reckless tolerance for dangerous “peace”-peddlers skating on the edge of sedition?  

Context matters. Drawing on my past reporting and blogging, here is a brief history of the anti-military recruitment movement’s mounting acts of vandalism and violence (which is by no means comprehensive and which I’ll continue to amend as commenters and readers remind me of other incidents). Let the apologists and pooh-poohers delude themselves into believing that the Times Square bombing was a “lone” act. The facts speak for themselves:  

March 2003. Ithaca, NY anti-war zealots plot to pour blood on the walls of a recruiting center. On St. Patrick’s Day, wielding cups of their own blood, they entered a Lansing military recruitment office and splashed the human blood over recruiting posters, military cutouts and the American flag. After one mistrial, Daniel Burns, Peter De Mott, Clare Grady and Teresa Grady were convicted in 2005 on two misdemeanor-level counts of trespassing and damaging federal property. All but Burns have been released from prison. The Lansing office had suffered two other attacks involving Molotov cocktails.  

January 20, 2005. At Seattle Central Community College, Army recruiter Sgt. Jeff Due and his colleague, Sgt. 1st Class Douglas Washington were surrounded by an angry mob of 500 anti-war students. The recruiters’ table was destroyed; their handouts torn apart. The protesters threw water bottles and newspapers at the soldiers, shouted profanities, and wielded their fists. The far Left Students Against War had been agitating to kick the recruiters off campus. The college administration refused to punish the mobsters.  

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April 2006. The infamous UC Santa Cruz ambush on military recruiters takes place. The thugs gloated about throwing a rock at the recruiters’ SUV. Recruiters, who had been similarly driven off campus the previous year, reported slashed tires. One employee at the career center
 
was injured in the melee. Photos here. The capitulationist campus administration had known in advance about the ambush plans and did nothing. Instead of condemning the speech-stifling lawlessness of the anti-war mob, unhinged sympathizers attacked me for publishing the public contact information of the thugs’ propaganda officers and also outrageoulsy blamed me for the subsequent suicide of the troubled UC Santa Cruz president, Denice Denton. They continue to lie about what happened.  

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Update: Latest developments have authorities investigating “anarchist-types” who crossed the Canadian border and dismissing links between the bombing and mailings to House Democrats.  

Update: Counterrecruiters plan protest in Tacoma on March 15.  

Update: An anti-war judge prevents foster teenager from joining the Marines. Unbelievable  

And this doesn’t even come close to covering all the abuse recruiters suffer, all the places where there are attempts to ban them from campuses., Recent disparaging comments about the military by prominent Democrats pr even the UW Pappy Boyington memorial debacle that I covered a few years ago.

For the left to say they support the troops, not the war is a pretty sounding rationalization, but the fact is that for years now, long before we suffered the public weariness of the war, the left has held the military in its sights as something to be limited.

I hope we never forget that.

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