CodePink should be turning red. That seems to be the consensus of many who were on the receiving end of a bogus announcement Tuesday by the radical anti-war group that the embattled U.S. Marine Corps recruiting center in Berkeley was caving to the pressure of weekly protests and leaving town. "If you want to be taken seriously as an organization of serious protest, then you don't play jokes -- even on April Fools' Day," said Robin Lakoff, a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, who has written about the politics of language.

The city of Berkley should finally distance themselves from these kooks and charge them all with trespassing, disturbing the peace, and disorderly conduct. All these people want to do is besmirch the honor of our fighting men and women. What would you do if you were the mayor of Berkley?

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