Talk back to Berkeley: Sign the petition; Update: Troop-bashers go berserk, chain themselves to recruitment center; mayor wants to evacuate Marines
By Michelle Malkin • February 1, 2008 04:40 PM Update 2/2 .

Internet undercover photojournalist Zombie has fresh photos (several great photos illustrating the insanity are here: http://www.zombietime.com/berkeley_mari ... _2-1-2008/ ) of the Berkeley siege. Here’s how the anti-troop loons defaced the Marine recruitment center this time: http://michellemalkin.com/2008/02/01/ta ... -petition/

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SFGate photo gallery of the siege at the Marine recruitment center: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/ar ... OE.DTL&o=4

Update 2/2: The Marine recruitment center in Berkeley is under siege and anti-war zealots are completely unhinged…

[quote]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.â€