Serious Leftist direct-action groups? A sense of humor?
Depends…what’s the average age? If they’re all under 25, they’re dead serious (I remember not-so-fondly my days as a joyless, humorless college activist). If they’re over, then life has shown them enough absurdity done in the name of a political faction/belief that they may actually have a sense of humor about it.
Glorious, just glorious!
Aside to JJ: You got off easy. Trust me on this.
Maybe their hoping that they can catch video of the Marines or Police over-reacting. shrug
Otherwise it’s theatre designed for their own gratification.
Why aren’t they casting their spells on the politicians who order the Marines into harm’s way?
A group of defense contractors led by Lockheed have provided the Marines the latest in twenty sided die technology. They cost $12.7 million each.
Heh. More stuff they don’t need…
A SAW outranges a fireball spell.
So I’m assuming they’re not Open Gaming License…
Perhaps the rule of three means that the spellcasters will end up joining the Marines, and re-upping twice. That’ll teach 'em!
Could’ve they at least do something useful, like levitate the Pentagon?
If the current amount of hot air being generated inside hasn’t lent the building floaty qualities, no amount of magic spell is gonna do it…
It is not a debate.
And they forgot to include the number “8.”
Wouldn’t that tend to suggest a placebo effect is going on?
Are the Code Pinkers ignoring the possibility that the Marines are already using magick? It was President GW Bush himself who telephoned the war widow Roberta Stewart to apologize and say that he had intervened to give her husband’s grave a stone with a Wiccan symbol. She had fought the Department of Defense for many months to get them to respect her husband’s faith. The DoD has bent international law in this war. Why should we assume that they would shun spell-casting? 
The linked article does not mention the Bush call to Mrs. Stewart, but she spoke of it during the nationwide simulcast for www.firstfreedomfirst.org
That’d give a whole new level of meaning to those “Cheney/Voldemort 2008” stickers. Maybe Code Pink should protest at the office of the Secretary of Defense Against the Dark Arts.
Are that many young men & women from Berkeley, of all places, joining the Marine Corps?
To me, having a Marine Corps recruiting station in Berkely is a bit like having a Lutheran church in the Vatican City.
At the risk of injecting a bit of vocabulary… magick is the art of inducing a change in reality in conformity to one’s Will. Magic is hokum. Magick doesn’t have to use anything ‘supernatural’, as a soldier’s bullets are quite capable of effecting magickal change.
So, yeah, the Marines have been using magick for some time. And I’d wager that their magick is quite a bit stronger than Operation Pink’s.
I grew up in Berkeley and one guy I kind of knew in high school did indeed join the Marines. In fact, he came back about a year or two after basic training to work in a recruiting office (IIRC, as more or less a receptionist, not a recruiter). Seem to remember that he actually worked in Alameda, though, which is a 20 minute drive and a million miles away from Berkeley.
You’d think that, but you might be surprised to learn that the first Navy ROTC unit in the country was established at Berkeley. Chester Nimitz himself commanded it.
Berkeley might be enemy territory now, but that wasn’t always the case - and it might not be that way forever. Remember too that at one time the most Republican states in America were Maine and Vermont.
Assuming this story is true…
This is an excellent way for Code Pink to get Americans to take them seriously and to flock to their cause.