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March 22, 2009
Vandals Target U.S. Marine Corps Center in Berkeley on Eve of Iraq War Anniversary
Vandals target U.S. Marine Corps center in Berkeley on eve of Iraq war anniversary
The United States Marine Corps Officer Selection Office in downtown Berkeley came under attack once again Wednesday night when a group of vandals broke the building’s windows with sledgehammers and splashed them with red paint.
Officers at the recruiting center at 64 Shattuck Square were not able to say whether the incident was related to protests taking place throughout the rest of the country on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Iraq war.
Berkeley Police Department spokesperson Officer Andrew Frankel said the police received a call at 8:54 p.m. Wednesday from an eyewitness who reported that three suspects were breaking the Marine Corps office’s plate-glass windows and splashing them with red paint.
Captain John-Paul Wheatcroft, who has been in charge of the Marine recruiting center since Captain Richard Lund left about a year ago, confirmed that the office had been vandalized but directed all queries to Staff Sergeant Matt Deboard.
Deboard said that, according to eyewitness accounts, a group of vandals attacked the recruiting station around 8 p.m., hitting its windows with sledgehammers and “slopping gooey thick red paint on them.”
He said police arrived immediately after they were called.
“We boarded up the windows as best as we could to prevent further damage,” he said. “The landlord is in the process of cleaning them up. He is paying for it.”
Deboard said nobody was present at the office when it was vandalized.
Wild Thing's comment......
Does Pelosi think these vandals are patriotic too?
What would be great is if they let the Marines take care of these jerks...find them and punish them, no questions asked. ......heh heh
Posted by Wild Thing at March 22, 2009 04:40 AM
Comments
How tragically sad. These idiots voted away the constitution, which was basically written in blood by soldiers to give them the freedom to trash someone else's property! It breaks my heart. These people have no morals, no feelings for anything! I suppose they whine when their car insurance rates go up after having an accident and blame the agent, too. Or yell at the check out girl when the hamburger is 3.97 a pound! They are placing blame where blame doesn't belong. Remember, freedom of speech works both ways. It's time we got a bit less cordial than these idiots wish us to be. I've seen the expressions on their faces when someone fights back and it's a look of surprise, like "oh my God, they're fighting back! Now what do we do?"
Posted by: Lynn at March 22, 2009 07:51 AM
Of course the vandals struck at night, they wouldn't have the stones to attack during the day.
Gutless just like their leader O'vomit.
Posted by: Mark at March 22, 2009 11:52 AM
It's a shame. These people attack the very people that are putting their lives on the line to protect their freedom to be A%^holes.
Bob A.
Posted by: Bob A at March 22, 2009 02:42 PM
Lynn, thanks for sharing that and it is so true.
"I've seen the expressions on their faces when someone fights back and it's a look of surprise, like "oh my God, they're fighting back! Now what do we do?"
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 22, 2009 07:43 PM
Mark, they are all cowards, your right they would never try this kind of thing with the Marines right there.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 22, 2009 07:45 PM
Bob A., yes it really is stupid among other things.
I guess if they were drowning and a lifeguard wanted to save them they would protest that too, that is how stupid this is to be like this to our troops.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 22, 2009 07:48 PM
