Berkeley begins to feel the cost of being anti Military
When logic and values fail, the best way to hit these people is in the wallet.
Via Michelle Malkin:
Via Poligazette, here’s an analysis by Susan Duclos of the taxpayer hit that Berkeley is taking over its anti-troops’ stance.
In the last six weeks alone, the city of Berkeley has spent over $210,000 in police overtime to keep peace during these protests and counter protests, according to police.
The Berkeley police department has 186 officers on duty and in a statement from police spokeswoman Sgt. Mary Kusmiss, they usually spend between $2,500 and $3,500 per week on overtime during a normal week.
She further states that from Feb. 12 to March 22, that rose to $210,814.13 and that the city spent approximately $93,000 Feb. 12 during an all-day protest at Old City Hall that drew about 2,000 anti-war and military supporters.
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And that’s not all. The civilian counterinsurgency against Berkeley (see Zombietime’s latest photo essay) is having an impact, too:
The Lafayette War Veterans Golf Committee has moved their third annual fundraising golf tournament outside of the Berkeley. Their stated reason is ” due to the cities hostile attitude toward the Marine Corps.”
They have raised over $60,000 the last two years to help people who have been wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan and are being treated at the Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center at the Veterans Administration hospital in Palo Alto.
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Left-wing bigotry has consequences. Feel it, Berkeley.
Indeed.
The fact is that only when the city is hurt to a significant level will they change.
The sad thing is that in the warped perspective of the Berkeley Council and their Code Pink Puppet Masters Mistresses, this is not their fault for being extreme and unhinged, it is the Marine Corps fault for not leaving.
Only Liberals are allowed to blame the victim…
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