The cost of being anti-military
This from 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.
Since then, anti-military groups like Code Pink and the World Can’t Wait have continued to hold weekly protests which have required anywhere from three to eighty officers to work overtime, saying that the anti-military groups mentioned above have become “increasingly raucous.”
Last Monday, March 24, 2008, they say that the police had to arrest another four CodePink protesters during a rally.
Photo essay from Zombie: Pro-Troops Rally at Marines Recruiting Office.
Not sure how many of you folks have ever been to one of these liberal protest rallies but after going to the “March on the Pentagon” last year I found that only a small number of participants actually give a shit about the supposed subject of their protest.
I said this in a post awhile back but many of these people, particularly the old liberal fucks only do this shit to have something to do, they believe that by engaging themselves in this meaningless protest crap that their lives have meaning.
Most of the participants in the Pentagon fest last year were protest trolls. Free hot dogs were provides along with soft drinks, and assorted baked goods in exchange for carrying “U.S. out of Iraq” or “Hate Bush” signs.
I swear these leftist fucks are getting exceedingly more irrational and you see more and more of these homeless, or mental institutional type individuals participating in this crazy shit.
For me personally I don’t see the logic in engaging these people or trying to have a rational dialogue with them. They simply are not “wrapped too tight.”
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