This is proof positive that some people can convince themselves of anything. The Berkeley City Council has not only made it against the law for Marine Recruiters to recruit in Berkeley, but has allowed and encouraged the organization called “Code Pink” to actively impede the Marines from doing so.

…The council also voted 8-1 to give the anti-war Code Pink organization a designated parking space directly in front of the U.S. Marine Corps’ 64 Shattuck Ave. recruiting office and encouraged Code Pink to “impede” Marine recruitment. It’s pretty clear that Spring has heard of free speech, but she has no idea what it is.

It’s one thing for Berkeley to pronounce U.S. troops, who put their lives on the line every day to defend America, as unwelcome. That’s protected speech — that signals Berkeley residents’ disdain for U.S. troops. It’s also the sort of rude, we’re-better-than-the-rest-of-America action that invites outsiders to wonder if a city that tries to divorce itself from military recruitment deserves the benefits that the federal government bestows.

Further evidence that in the bizarro world of the radical left, free speech only applies to those who agree with the radical left point of view.

Public gagged at city’s homosexual festival
St. Petersburg, FL officials are sticking with plans to limit free speech at the city’s homosexual festival this weekend after fighting off complaints they are creating unconstitutional “free speech zones.”
Instead, the city will limit some signs and banners to an area “adjacent to the Permitted Street Closure Area.”
The issue is that generally, court opinions have held “free speech zones” do not meet requirements of the First Amendment. So the city is no longer calling the area a “free speech zone,” although it still is marked as the “FSZ” location on an event map.
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