"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." John F. Kennedy, June 24, 1963 Showdown in Berkeley To summarize, in January of 2007 the United States Marine Corps Recruiting Division opened an Officer Selection office at 64 Shattuck Square in Berkeley, California. In September (eight months later) a group calling itself code pink finally noticed the Marines and began protesting in front of the Recruiting Center using homemade signs and banners. Their numbers were few, usually only a handful of protesters here and there and things might have died down naturally had it not been for the Berkeley City Council who fanned the flames by writing a letter to the United States Marine Corps Recruiting Center in late January of 2008 telling them they were
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