How to deal with an Anti-War protest.

---> <--- ghey protester



Mani

 

War protestors ====> <=====Meh

 

pah!

hell with'em

 

Another thing that's fun....

Wait until they've started a chant... Then parade around, yelling at the top of your lungs, "Beans, beans, the magical fruit! The more you eat... " etc. etc. etc. See how many of them you can get to switch chants. Then lead them all down to the grocery store for a pro-bean rally.

 

That was beautiful

 

kickin the shit outta them would feel fun

 

http://latimes.com/news/local/la-00...es-california


BERKELEY -- The city resolution was watered way down by the time it passed, demanding a halt to the bombing in Afghanistan "as soon as possible."

No matter. A week and a half later, America's best-known anti-war town is still being strafed with outrage. More than 1,000 letters and phone messages, many from angry New Yorkers, cover the big oval-shaped conference table in the mayor's office.

"Shame on you," they say. And: "What the hell are you people thinking?" And: "Morons, morons, morons!!!" "Hitler and Yamamoto would have loved to have you guys in office." And lately, alarmingly: "I used to shop and dine in Berkeley, but those days are over." Some of the missives are signed, "Boycottingly yours."

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A clerk at the Gardener, a small furniture and gift shop, called the mayor and council--and, according to store managers, without their permission--to report that a local customer had canceled an order for a $1,500 table because she preferred to pay for shipping from Michigan rather than buy at home in Berkeley.

Dana Goodell of Berkeley-based Homefinders Bulletin complained that she has suffered telephone harassment. "You have put me in a terrible position," she wrote in a letter to Spring. "I prefer to keep my personal political beliefs out of my business, but now I have to respond to customers and strangers who are calling me a traitor and other things."

People Are Taking Business Elsewhere

The Lowenberg Corp., a San Francisco property firm, canceled the purchase of a Berkeley property, writing in a letter to Dean that, "It is not our intention or desire to increase the tax base of a city that shows no loyalty and solidarity to our government."

Dave Thompson, a contractor in nearby Orinda, said he notified his Berkeley lumber suppliers that he's taking his business elsewhere--a loss to the city, he estimates, of "maybe $15,000 a year."

Todd D. Moritz, who works at a San Francisco Internet service provider, informed the city that he and his wife have decided not to make an offer on a $650,000 house in Berkeley they had wanted until the resolution. "I'm not a political person, but it just felt icky," he said in a phone interview this week. "We're going to head for more neutral ground."

"I never expected to be so misconstrued," said Councilwoman Dona Spring, who sponsored the pacifist call that she thought would resonate throughout her city. "All the intentions were good."

If only the same could be said for the fallout, said Mayor Shirley Dean, who opposed the measure.

"In the 20 years I've been involved in Berkeley politics, I've never seen anything like this," Dean said, speaking by phone from Washington, D.C., where, to her relief, colleagues at a U.S. Conference of Mayors summit were too worried to rib her anywhere but in cocktail conversation. "The economy was already in a slump, and now I'm having to ask people not to boycott the city. I'm getting calls from Venezuela, Canada, the BBC. I mean we don't need this."

Since Oct. 16, when the council weighed in on the U.S. military action, the city has been slammed in the national media and peppered with calls from frightened merchants who say business is disappearing as a result of the publicity. By Thursday, the letters to the city included at least 260 threats to dine, buy and invest elsewhere.
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But Berkley has good headshops and.... um... nm

 

You ever notice that those bums like to hang out at the atms.

 

i just read the topic again, it could be a thing against me!!

but then........damn, i read what you said and it made me wanna change my name to.........AntiWarChilde, but thats dumb so i had another beer and all was right with the universe

 

Firewater?