Maybe they don't want the Marine core Soldiers to go to the Iraq and such as?

On one hand I have the utmost respect for Marines. My parents and uncles were Marines. I know marine corps history. On the other hand my childhhod was so many levels of farked up that I won't even have a child. A D.I. dad with PTSD does not a happy childhood make.

/end of rant

Lay off the Marines. People who couldn't get into the Navy should be allowed to serve their country too.

40below: Lay off the Marines. People who couldn't get into the Navy should be allowed to serve their country too.

/high-fives

Don't know what the jailing was for. Seems like only half the story is being covered here.

/meh

You thought protesting was all just puppies and rainbows and nobody gets hassled, didn't you, subby? Now back to your Free Speech Zone^tm!

Someone find the Daily show clip of Rob Riggle pnwing this group of filthy hippies.

/anti-war
//anti-stupid people as well.

40below: Lay off the Marines. People who couldn't get into the Navy should be allowed to serve their country too.

If there are any Marines in this thread, please know that I did not laugh at that. Much.

King Something: Maybe they don't want the Marine core Soldiers to go to the Iraq and such as?

Wife like protesting?

what_now: Someone find the Daily show clip of Rob Riggle pnwing this group of filthy hippies.

/anti-war
//anti-stupid people as well.

They interupted their own interview. How did he manage not to start hitting them with some kind of news bat? I'm a hippy myself and I just wanted to start beating people when I saw that.

So the CodePink douchebags act like anti-abortion activists by barricading the doors to recruiting offices, and act suprised at the consequences.

/small violin.

Geez, could this article have given any less detail? What were the charges? If all they were doing was "exercising their constitutional rights", then the details should support that, rather than make it look like there is something to hide.

My guess, the CodePINKers threatened the lives of these Marines and their family members. I'd think little else would've gotten such a strong response, particularly since CodePINK has, ironically, a pretty militant mindset.

CodePink is like the Westboro baptist church. They're happiest making trouble so that they get more media attention for their cause.

Ron Paul Revere: more than 80 percent of U.S. Americans think our occupation of Iraq is wrong!

She shouldn't be protesting. Her skills obviously lie in pageantry.

To be fair, when the term "Americans" is used, I often see it accompanied by "OMG Canada is in North America, too, you self-centered asshole!"

Maybe she was just trying to be specific :)

JQPublic: So the CodePink douchebags act like anti-abortion activists by barricading the doors to recruiting offices, and act suprised at the consequences.

/small violin.

I'm guessing that actions such as these led to the arrests and charges

06Wahoo: What were the charges?

They've got nothing. But since they'll try to make whatever flimsy "charge" stick, depends on how much these women are willing to put their lives on the line for their 1st Amendment rights.

The mothers were the ones arrested while the war criminals and perpetrators remain free to continue the heinous business of foreign troop occupation, torture, rape, murder, mayhem, and the horrific destruction of the sovereign nation of Iraq

The truth's a b*tch. I know it's like STILL uncool to state it these days.

Vanetia: To be fair, when the term "Americans" is used, I often see it accompanied by "OMG Canada is in North America, too, you self-centered asshole!"

What. The. Hell.

I have NEVER heard that, and if I ever did, I would punch the person.

Ron Paul Revere: more than 80 percent of U.S. Americans think our occupation of Iraq is wrong!

She shouldn't be protesting. Her skills obviously lie in pageantry.

In her defense, there are a lot of people in South, Central, and North America. I'm not sure where the U.S.A. got to think they only they are "Americans". Those in Brazil, Canada, Argentina, or other country in South or North America may beg to differ. Of course, given the view of the U.S.A. across the world right now, maybe they don't want to be labeled as Americans.

/ U.S. citizen
// USAian?

40below: Lay off the Marines. People who couldn't get into the Navy should be allowed to serve their country too.

I just showed your quote to the former Marine sitting on the couch, just for the fun of watching his head explode.

So thanks for that.

Ron Paul Revere: more than 80 percent of U.S. Americans think our occupation of Iraq is wrong!

She shouldn't be protesting. Her skills obviously lie in pageantry.

...more than 80 percent of U.S. Americans think our occupation of the Iraq is wrong!

FTFH.

what_now: Someone find the Daily show clip of Rob Riggle pnwing this group of filthy hippies.

/anti-war
//anti-stupid people as well.

You're Welcome (new window)

what_now: Vanetia: To be fair, when the term "Americans" is used, I often see it accompanied by "OMG Canada is in North America, too, you self-centered asshole!"

What. The. Hell.

I have NEVER heard that, and if I ever did, I would punch the person.

I know. It's really stupid. Apparently, the fact that we're the United States of America doesn't give us the right to call ourselves Americans. We're supposed to stick with "U.S. citizens" or even "Yankees."

I've just gotten used to saying I'm "from the States" rather than "an American" to avoid it.

What the hell is a NewsBlaze?

I think the war we're in is wrong on many levels, but I will always deeply respect the men and women of our armed forces (aside from a choice few in the upper echelons.) They're not the ones who put us in this mess.

So, in that regard, these CodePINK c*nts, and anyone else who is retarded enough to pin the blame on soldiers rather than politicians can take a long walk of a short pier, for all I care.

Ron Paul Revere: WxGuy1: In her defense

Vanetia: To be fair

Watch this video to get my joke

Oh I've been on Fark long enough to have seen that video. I'm just sayin' :P

The Beacon Man: There's no hate like liberal hateTM.

Funny you keep saying that, when it's obvious there isn't anyone more hateful in any thread than you. How do you justify that paradox?

Well, no, actually it isn't funny, it's inane and busted. Also like you.

Now it gets back to its Free Speech Zone or it gets the hose. Stoddlemeyer.

Why is it always US Americans versus THEM Americans? Can't we all just get a nickname?

1. Article didn't really say what these protesters were accused of specifically, which really doesn't tell anyone anything useful. Trespassing on a person's lawn versus a courthouse, for example, or threatening to stab someone versus saying "You should be shot."

2. What the hell kind of organization calls themselves "Code Pink"? That's either a lesbian euphemism or a strawberry Mountain Dew.

Article seems a bit... Odd. Why did the writer describe every Code Pink member has a mother in every paragraph?

Who was that alt that referred to the marine corps as the marine core?

"Leave the USMC alone, godammit!"

I'm not sure where the U.S.A. got to think they only they are "Americans".

Mostly by default. Canadians usually refer to themselves as "Canadians", and you better be sure who you call a "Mexican" and who you call a "Salvadoran" down here in LA if you don't want your throat cut. Anywhere else in the world, if someone refers to an "American", it's a pretty safe bet they AREN'T talking about a North American from Canada or a South American from Brazil. They mean one of us imperialist Yankee scum from the USA.

The Beacon Man: There's no hate like liberal hateTM.

Yeah, just ask Matthew Shepard. Oops, too late!

I've only known one person who could intimidate a marine.
That marine was my cousin.
The woman was my aunt, his mother.

So I guess what I'm asking is HOW THE HELL DO YOU INTIMIDATE A MARINE?!?!?

Here's forty shillings on the drum
To those who volunteer to come,
To 'list and fight the foe today
Over the Hills and far away.
Through smoke and fire and shot and shell,
And to the very walls of hell,
But we shall stand and we shall stay
Over the hills and far away

Semper Fi!!

SilentStrider: So I guess what I'm asking is HOW THE HELL DO YOU INTIMIDATE A MARINE?!?!?

By being openly gay.

what_now: Someone find the Daily show clip of Rob Riggle pnwing this group of filthy hippies.

HIPPIES!!! BOARDS. AHH!!!!!!

If only there was an organization sworn to protect free speech...

FTFA:

"The mothers were the ones arrested while the war criminals and perpetrators remain free to continue the heinous business of foreign troop occupation, torture, rape, murder, mayhem, and the horrific destruction of the sovereign nation of Iraq" said CodePINK mother Toby Blome.

She forgot baby killers. These people need to get out of the 1960's. The Grateful Dead is not coming back.

Gyrfalcon: I'm not sure where the U.S.A. got to think they only they are "Americans".

Mostly by default. Canadians usually refer to themselves as "Canadians", and you better be sure who you call a "Mexican" and who you call a "Salvadoran" down here in LA if you don't want your throat cut. Anywhere else in the world, if someone refers to an "American", it's a pretty safe bet they AREN'T talking about a North American from Canada or a South American from Brazil. They mean one of us imperialist Yankee scum from the USA.

It used to be true that even Spanish newscasts would refer to Americans as Americanos or Norte Americanos but the latest trend refers to them as Estado Unidenses, literally United Statians or whichever form that passes for. Kinda hard on the tongue in English though.

muck4doo: FTFA:

"The mothers were the ones arrested while the war criminals and perpetrators remain free to continue the heinous business of foreign troop occupation, torture, rape, murder, mayhem, and the horrific destruction of the sovereign nation of Iraq" said CodePINK mother Toby Blome.

She forgot baby killers. These people need to get out of the 1960's. The Grateful Dead is not coming back.

While it's true that the boots-on-the-ground soldiers are the ones who actually do all the occupying, torturing, raping, murdering, mayheming, and horrifying destroying of sovereign nations (and, yes, baby killing, dog-abusing, and Bible-stealing); they didn't get there all by themselves, and they don't cut their own orders. Aren't these CodePINK mommies protesting at the wrong war office? Or is it too hard to protest at the Pentagon?

scruffy1: Gyrfalcon: I'm not sure where the U.S.A. got to think they only they are "Americans".

Mostly by default. Canadians usually refer to themselves as "Canadians", and you better be sure who you call a "Mexican" and who you call a "Salvadoran" down here in LA if you don't want your throat cut. Anywhere else in the world, if someone refers to an "American", it's a pretty safe bet they AREN'T talking about a North American from Canada or a South American from Brazil. They mean one of us imperialist Yankee scum from the USA.

It used to be true that even Spanish newscasts would refer to Americans as Americanos or Norte Americanos but the latest trend refers to them as Estado Unidenses, literally United Statians or whichever form that passes for. Kinda hard on the tongue in English though.

That doesn't make any sense for Mexicans. Their country's name is "The United States of Mexico". If they wanted America in their name they should have called it "The Mexican States of America".

I'm guessing that people here read the article and then concluded that it lacked enough information to make an informed judgment on the issue.

And rational discussion of the issues ensued.

yeah, that's it, yeah

muck4doo: That doesn't make any sense for Mexicans. Their country's name is "The United States of Mexico". If they wanted America in their name they should have called it "The Mexican States of America".

Actually as of last year or the year before they officially dropped the Estados Unidos part, they are simply Mexico now.

Gyrfalcon:

While it's true that the boots-on-the-ground soldiers are the ones who actually do all the occupying, torturing, raping, murdering, mayheming, and horrifying destroying of sovereign nations (and, yes, baby killing, dog-abusing, and Bible-stealing); they didn't get there all by themselves, and they don't cut their own orders.

The Marines are the ones who get there first, and cause whatever initial mayhem the invaded country endures.

Aren't these CodePINK mommies protesting at the wrong war office? Or is it too hard to protest at the Pentagon?

Berkeley's already had a history this. I'm guessing they're going after the Marines because they're the first line of fire.

Military recruiters are salespeople known to lie to and seduce minors and young adults into contracting themselves into military service with false promises regarding jobs, job training, education and other benefits

Doing their part to selling "war" to a public that doesn't want it.

Sailor uniforms suck. Who wants to look like Popeye?

They were flashing their leathery saggies, freaking everyone out.

scruffy1: muck4doo: That doesn't make any sense for Mexicans. Their country's name is "The United States of Mexico". If they wanted America in their name they should have called it "The Mexican States of America".

Actually as of last year or the year before they officially dropped the Estados Unidos part, they are simply Mexico now.

Really? I guess I learned something new today. Thank you.

As a person in the military who was forced into recruiting I am not getting the requisite kick out of these replies. These code pink people suck. I am actually against the war but the way they go about it hurts their cause more than it helps it.