While we were at the protest in Berkeley from 12 to 4 p.m., a white Volvo drove by and a man spat upon CodePink. They chased him down the street and got into a verbal altercation. The police were NOWHERE in sight.
That’s not the best part, ready for this?
Medea Benjamin yelled and I quote “Marines!” She actually yelled for our help because this man had stepped out of his car. I even asked her if she was yelling Police and she told me, “I said Marines” then put her arm around my friend Allen (the Marine Vet). Ironic?
– Eamon Kelley, USMC, in an email to Move America Forward’s Melanie Morgan
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February 28th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
We’ve seen this scene thousands of times. The US military (What ever Branch) treated like dirt until someone needs protection that no one else will give;
then it’s “Marines” till the threat is gone. Then it’s back to treating the military like dirt.
February 28th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
And it says something about the character of our military that even in the face of that treatment, they will STILL step up to the defense of any American, regardless of how noxious they are.