P1|Antifascist hypocrisy and stupidity...

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name='Antifascist' date='Thursday, 3 April 2008, 5:09 pm' post='129999'> The Army and Veterans groups were the two key organizations that gave Hitler his chance. They provided him with an audience, money, training, and a network of hight level contacts that launched his political career. Otherwise, Hitler would have remained a bookish Vienna vagabond. And so here we have the same pattern. The patriotic counter protesters are also a motorcycle gang and ex-military personnel--veterans. So they can provide the "muscle" if needed as sort of a quasi-security force if things get out of hand. Gangs are Okay if they show their "colors" and "roar" for the state. The gang theme is a psychops technique designed to intimidate political dissidents. The press does its part by presenting the motorcycle gang as a just ordinary citizens expressing there political views. Most Americans total missing the similarity to the role veterans groups played in pre-Nazi Germany forming a spectrum of political groups of which Hilter's faction was only one.

The title link is to the full version to Antifascist post that is truly a masterful work of Machiavellian techniques.

First Anti, introduces the dreaded Hitler and how he rose his SOCIALIST party to power in Germany. So he is trying to set the framework and mindset that anything by Hitler must be bad a priori.

He uses some vague passage of Hitler gaining some recognition for "His anti-Semitic harangue" that his superior officers were pleased. Well ain't that special? So we only take the word of Hitler that even the event happened and no names or ranks to even try to tie his self boasting into an actual political gain.

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And so here we have the same pattern. The patriotic counter protesters are also a motorcycle gang and ex-military personnel--veterans. So they can provide the "muscle" if needed as sort of a quasi-security force if things get out of hand. Gangs are Okay if they show their "colors" and "roar" for the state. The gang theme is a psychops technique designed to intimidate political dissidents.

Yes some had some T-shirts of USMC and Marine Corps, but nothing in the article or the pictures indicated that any protesters were actually former Military. And what was the demands they asked for:

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The demonstrators said they plan to boycott Berkeley businesses until the council is recalled, apologizes or grants free permits to a pro-troop group. The group that organized the protest, Eagles Up, had to pay for their permit. The gathering outnumbered Wednesday's anti-war demonstration at the center, marking the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war.

So basically the counter protesters are asking for the same privileges that Code Pink have already received. But seriously where is the same pattern?

But know let us look at his most damning piece of information, as noted in the picture of the man appearing to shout at a code pink person and maybe already pushing the old man to the ground. First notice that it looks like the old man has his legs wrapped around the young man's one leg. Also note all the chains on the Code Pink protesters.

So after looking at the article and pictures this picture was not related to this article. I first found one related picture of this event at: Calls renewed to fix Berkeley's citizen boards.

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A donnybrook ensued over Berkeley's Marine Corps recruitment center - resulting in a scuffle with protesters on Feb. 1 - after a city commission declared it unwelcome. Chronicle photo by Paul Chinn

The editor placed the picture in the article presumably because:

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Berkeley is finding that having its own foreign policy isn't cheap. The city's recent dustup with the U.S. Marine Corps has so far cost the city more than $200,000, while businesses say they've been slammed by related protests.

Doesn't sound like the city is being very careful with the publics financing. Must be liberal meme. Take from everyone so a few get to have their views crammed down the rest of the citizens.

Now we are getting closer to the truth but we need to see the original article about this orange jump suit wackos.

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BERKELEY Facing off over Marine Corps 3 war opponents chain selves to door of recruiting station, and right-wing blogosphere goes ballistic As the right-wing blogosphere railed and a U.S. senator vowed financial retaliation against the Berkeley City Council for its effort to boot the Marine Corps out of town, three war protesters ratcheted up pressure from the left by chaining themselves Friday to the front door of the downtown Marine recruiting office. The demonstrators snapped their locks shut at 7 a.m. and spent the next 7 1/2 hours blocking the door, waving and chanting as hundreds of cars driving by honked in support. Finally, at 2:30 p.m., police snipped the chains and arrested them. Two of the three were cited for blocking a business and released, and the third was booked into jail on an unrelated traffic warrant, police said. The demonstrators promptly said they will keep protesting outside the recruiting station at 64 Shattuck Square until the Marines leave Berkeley - which is what the City Council advised the service to do in a vote Tuesday night that called the Marines "unwelcome intruders." The council also voted to allow members of Code Pink, the protest group that helped organize Friday's blockade, to park at a designated space in front of the recruiting office every Wednesday afternoon and operate a loudspeaker. The council's action apparently made Berkeley the first city in the nation to call for the ouster of a military recruiting station from its borders. "We made really great statements by blocking the door," said one of the three blockaders, 64-year-old Mary Ann Thomas of Oakland. "It's time we became more articulate about what we're doing." Conservative bloggers and Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., also believe more articulation is necessary - from the opposite side of the political spectrum. DeMint began drafting legislation Friday to cut $2.1 million in federal funding to Berkeley in a current congressional budget bill and transfer the money to the Marine Corps. The funding would include $750,000 for prospective ferry service, $87,000 for the Berkeley Unified School District nutrition education fund and $243,000 for the Chez Panisse Foundation, which promotes nutritional awareness in school lunch programs. "The First Amendment gives the city of Berkeley the right to be idiotic, but from now on they should do it with their own money," DeMint said in a statement. He called the council's vote "a slap in the face to all brave servicemen and women and their families." Conservative blogs blasted the council and Berkeley in general all day with comments such as one on "Gathering of Eagles": "These cretins disgust me." Members of the council who voted to condemn the Marine Corps station were unbowed. "I guess they've never heard of free speech," Councilwoman Dona Spring said. "I've had a lot of nasty phone messages today, threatening me with things like saying, 'I'll take you out.' But they can go ahead. I don't feel scared." Code Pink said it has begun to circulate a petition calling for a Berkeley ballot measure that would make it more difficult to open and operate recruiting stations. The measure would be modeled after anti-pornography laws, organizers said, mandating that - like porn shops - new recruiting offices be subject to public hearings before they would be allowed to locate near homes or schools. The Marines, meanwhile, were not ready to back down. "It's just another protest," said Marine Corps Capt. Richard Lund, head of the recruiting office. As he spoke in the early afternoon, with the protesters still chained to his door, a small band of demonstrators on the sidewalk shouted at passing cars and students at Shattuck Square: "Marines out of Berkeley! Marines out of Iraq!" Heated words were exchanged whenever people tried to enter or leave the office, but the protest was peaceful. "You guys are just cannon fodder!" the chained protesters shouted at three teenage boys who walked past the office and said they wanted to go inside. "They want to train you to kill babies!" The teenagers turned around and left. At one point, UC Berkeley student Kyrolos El Giheny walked up to the front door and tried to go inside to talk to Lund about a possible Marine career. He was unable to get past the chained protesters. "They told me, 'No business as usual today,' " El Giheny said. "It's kind of nutty. It's really an infringement on my rights."

OK, so who are the fascist in this story (aside from Antifascist)? Yes we can really say this is the same pattern as Nazis used to intimidate political dissidents and true patriots that want to serve the USA. I guess Code Pink and orange suits are the gangs that are acceptable now days for Fascists-like Antifascist. Also note that Antifascist also did not link to the true story of the protests and the violence. Machiavellian!!!

I end with some real pictures of the "peaceful protesters"...

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The door is held open for Weston Hoover, who pushes his way past protesters trying to block the recruitment office at 64 Shattuck Square. Chronicle photo by Paul Chinn

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Dressed in a suit, Weston Hoover tries to force his way through anti-war protesters who chained themselves together in an attempt to block the entrance to a Marine Corps. recruitment office in Berkeley. Chronicle photo by Paul Chinn

Yes sir, that was some peaceful demonstrators. Imagine what would happen if an abortion clinic had been blocked like that?