It’s The First Rule of Holes: When you are in one, stop digging. But by now, the Berkeley City Council and Code Pink have to be hearing people applauding them in Chinese. There’s a spiritual backhoe at work in these Bay area Benedict Arnolds. And no, these ‘holes shant be denied:

Battle royal brewing at Berkeley council meeting
Carolyn Jones, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, February 9, 2008

If you want to get a seat at Tuesday night’s Berkeley City Council meeting, you better start lining up now. And you might want to bring earplugs. And a flak jacket.

Hundreds of protesters from across the country and the political spectrum are expected to descend on City Hall with bullhorns, drums, banners and plenty of vitriol in anticipation of the City Council’s debate over the Marines’ recruiting station in town.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a baked potato as loaded as that intro. Is the San Francisco Chronicle saying that pro-Marine, warmongering barbarians are storming the gates of Liberal Heaven, presumably armed, and that their lives are in danger? To add “vitriol” no less, to the reasoned, tea time debate stylings that the Berkeley City Council and Code Pink have been engaged in by smearing bloody handprints across the recruiting office windows and the Mayor offering to honorably discharge them their lease? It gets better:

Peace groups, disgusted that the council would cave in to pressure from the pro-military groups, plan to host their own rally, an “emergency 24-hour peace-in vigil,” complete with singing, drums and dialogue.

If I thought for a second that Move America Forward was going to descend on the drum circle jerks’ vigil, Expedia would already be confirming my flight. Such are the contradictory accusations of the chicken dove.

On one wing, the threat of losing a couple of million in federal seed has the hens clucking:

On Monday, Councilwomen Betty Olds and Laurie Capitelli introduced an item for this week’s meeting, asking the city to retract its statements about the Marines and clarify that the city is against the war, not against the armed forces.

And on the other wing you have their bird-legged constituency flapping in the complete opposite direction.

“We want to protect our city from the onslaught of the right wing,” said Code Pink spokeswoman Zanne Joi. “We’re facing people who are willing to kill or send other people’s children to kill to get what they want. We understand the reality of that, and we’re prepared to face that in a nonviolent way.”

So says the “57 yr old jewish lesbian anti-racist mother striving radical womonist/feminist; daughter & granddaughter of survivors of the holocaust, mother of a young amazon healer & amazing human being, lover of wimmin”. How’s that for a fractured fairy tale? As long as that “amazon healer” can remedy psychic wounds sustained from a phallophobic billy club beating I’d say you’re in good shape (physically emotionally figuratively psychically cosmically karmically spherically speaking).

Mayor Tom “Master” Bates has applied the soothing balm of his presence by criticizing Code Pink’s tactics while supporting the troops participating in Code Pink rallies.

Even his little pink beret tilts to the left.

They say that sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes two will suffice.

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