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BERKELEY, Calif. — Local officials in this liberal city 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.

The council also voted to explore enforcing a city anti-discrimination law, focusing on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

In a separate item, the council voted, also 8-1, to give protest group Code Pink a parking space in front of the recruiting office once a week for six months and a free sound permit for protesting once a week.

Marine Capt. Richard Lund of the recruiting office declined comment on the council action.

The recruiting office opened in Berkeley about a year ago, operating quietly until about four months ago when Code Pink began regular sidewalk protests.

"I believe in the Code Pink cause. The Marines don't belong here, they shouldn't have come here, and they should leave," said Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates.

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This story makes me sick to my stomach, to think that there are people who have a mentality like this is mind boggling. They dont want any guns in their state and now allow a bunch of morons to harass our servicemen? They even give them a parking space right in front of the recruiting station. Some big wig in DC wants to take away their 2 million dollars in federal funding this year, which I hope to God happens, these people dont deserve money from our government. They have a right to practice their 1st amendment rights yes...but to kick out the very people who chose to fight and die for those rights?

It makes me furious they they allow such a gross display, because they are exercising their rights...yet allow such a HUGE amount of gun laws to be passed hampering the 2nd amendment, where the heck is the common sense in the state of California?