Berkeley to Marine Corps: You’re Not Welcome
By JustCool on Feb 22, 2008 in Cool People
First we have the mayor of Toledo acting up, now local officials in the liberal city of Berkekey say it’s time for the U.S. Marines to move out. The City Council has voted to tell the Marines their downtown recruiting station is not welcome and "if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome guests." The measure passed this week by a vote of 8-1. Check out the story on Fox News.
You may be wondering what is so cool about this. Well check this out, here is a letter a businessman wrote to the Mayor of Berkeley. We have checked Snopes and it appears this is true. Is this a great country or what?
Dear Mayor Bates,
In that you and your city have chosen to gravely insult the brave men and women, who have indeed bought you that right with their blood, I am informing you that my company will no longer do business with any of our current suppliers located in the Berkeley,California metro area.
In that my company is in international resort real estate development, and do business with and am associated with, developers and investors worldwide, I am informing all of my contacts, associates and patrons that we will no longer do any business of any sort with anyone living in the Berkeley area.
In that we/MDG Resorts are currently building a state of the art mega-yacht marina, all of the suppliers of Marina equipment, all owners of Yachts , all suppliers of Yacht materials & supplies, all yacht brokers and all tangential yacht business purveyors will likewise be informed that we will not do any business whatsoever with anyone from the Berkeley area.
Likewise all suppliers of building materials, both interior and exterior, currently associated with any of our several resort developments (Brisamar 300+ villas and 200+ condos: Porto Hussong, www.portohussong.com 500+ condos, 180 slip mega-yacht marina) both of which I might add have international recognition by virtue of glowing reports in Robb Report, Wall Street Journal, Yacht World, Forbes.
I will likewise inform all of our investors, most of whom are very wealthy yacht owners, casino owners, high net worth international businessmen, of our decision to essentially boycott all products and providers located in, or associated with in any way whatsoever, Berkeley, Ca.
Trust me when I say that having been in the real estate development business for over 35 years, our list of contacts and associates is long and very, very impressive. We, and I personally, are going to recommend that they ALL along with us boycott your city, its purveyors, suppliers, and businesses and CHARITIES of every kind.
You have every right to choose to take the obnoxious anti-military stance you have taken, and as stated, that right was bought for you with the blood of better men than you.
I too have every right to do all that I can to insure that your city suffers consequences arising from that obnoxious, sickening stance.
Cordially,
Brian G. Dennard
Principal
Director Meridian Development Group, LLC
www.mdgresorts.com www.portohussong.com
In God We Trust!
Contact the city council at Berkeley, CA via email: clerk@ci.berkeley.ca.us
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NickBlogger | Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
Quite possibly the coolest thing ever!!! I love it when nature takes it’s course. Hats off to Brian G. Dennard!
Steve Rich | Feb 23, 2008 | Reply
If I ever have the opportunity to meet Mr. Dennard, I’d like to buy the man dinner.
Sincerely appreciate his stand and guts.
Semper Fi,
Steve Rich
Retired Marine
JustCool | Feb 23, 2008 | Reply
I couldn’t agree more… And I am not a Marine, just a proud US citizen!
Tom | Mar 15, 2008 | Reply
“You may be wondering what is so cool about this. Well check this out, here is a letter a businessman wrote to the Mayor of Berkeley. We have checked Snopes and it appears this is true. Is this a great country or what?”
I checked your Snopes link. It says nothing about this letter. Please be more careful in the future.