Code Pink Defaces Marine Recruiting Station

Another day in California and another recruiting station vandalized:

Why aren’t these people arrested? These people should be arrested and at least fined for defacing private property. The Code Pink loons are probably in a state of shock right now and had to act out because the US military met their recruiting goals again this year.

I like what the Marine Captain in charge of the recruiting station had to say in response:

…Next, scrawled across the doorway to my office, you wrote, “Recruiters are Traitors.” Please explain this one. How exactly am I a traitor? Was I a traitor when I joined the Marine Corps all those years ago? Is every Marine, therefore, a traitor? Was I a traitor during my two stints in Iraq? Was I a traitor when I was delivering humanitarian aid to the victims of the tsunami in Sumatra? Or do you only consider me a traitor while I am on this job? The fact is, recruitment is and always has been a part of maintaining any military organization. In fact, recruitment is a necessity of any large organization. Large corporations have employees that recruit full-time. Even you, I’m sure, must expend some effort to recruit for Code Pink. So what, exactly, is it that makes me a traitor?

The fact is this: any independent nation must maintain a military (or be allied with those who do) to ensure the safety and security of its citizens. Regardless of what your opinions are of the current administration or the current conflict in Iraq, the U.S. military will be needed again in the future. If your counter-recruitment efforts are ultimately successful, who will defend us if we are directly attacked again as we were at Pearl Harbor? Who would respond if a future terrorist attack targets the Golden Gate Bridge, the BART system, or the UC Berkeley clock tower? And, to address the most hypocritical stance that your organization takes on its website, where would the peace keeping force come from that you advocate sending to Darfur? [CPT Richard Lund]

Maybe Code Pink can do us all a favor and deploy to Darfur and deface Janjaweed recruiting stations there? If military recruiters keep getting attacked by the rabid leftists the Pentagon may need to start authorizing them combat pay.

Anyway make sure to go to Gateway Pundit who has more pictures and news of this latest attack on recruiters by the left.