Was explosion at Times Square recruiting station a call to action by CodePink?

Was the early morning explosion that rocked the military recruiting station at New York’s Times Square a call to action by CodePink? “CodePink, an anti-war group that gave more than $600,000 to terrorists’ families in Iraq, is calling for anti-military agitators to escalate attacks on U.S. Government offices where the military work with potential recruits on their futures. UPDATE: Surveillance Camera Video Reveals Bicyclist Sought in Big Apple Bombing The group outlines ways for followers to terrorize recruiters, shut down recruiting stations and stop people from exercising the Constitutional rights to pursue their life’s goals.” ( www.moveamericaforward.org).

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“An explosive device caused minor damage to an empty military recruiting station in Times Square early Thursday, shaking guests in hotel rooms high above,” reports Fox News. Witnesses staying at a Marriott hotel four blocks away said they could feel the building shake with the blast--even up to the 44th floor. “If it is something that’s directed toward American troops then it’s something that’s taken very seriously and is pretty unfortunate,” said Army Capt. Charlie Jaquillard, who is the commander of Army recruiting in Manhattan. For the past 50 years, the station has been the armed forces’ busiest recruiting center. It has set national records for enlistment, averaging about 10,000 volunteers a year. The explosion at the Times Square recruiting office happened as the CodePink blockade remains in front of the recruiting station in Berkeley, Calif. In addition to the Berkeley blockade, anti-war and anarchist groups have already attacked military recruiting centers in Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, Minn.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Santa Monica, Calif.; Toledo, Ohio’ Murfressboron, Tenn.; Pittsburgh, Penn.; Haverhill, Mass, and New York, N.Y. And the above list is incomplete. “Actions by these hateful groups should remind Americans that we have a well-defined enemy living here at home,” says Move America Forward (MAF) Chairman Melanie Morgan. “This is a danger to our homeland security, and the federal government must take actions to stop the violence. Patriots are standing up to the anarchists, but it is the government’s duty to ensure the safety of its citizens and to end the mayhem.” Typically, attackers at recruiting centers throw rocks, chain themselves to doors, punch and kick, spray paint graffiti, break windows, yell, and generally vandalize recruiting centers across the nation in repeated attacks. Like ELF (Earth Liberation Front), which left a large banner at the scene of three luxury homes in a northeast Seattle suburb in an apparent arson and a possible act of domestic terrorism earlier this week, anti-war activists sometimes work in autonomous cells, which the FBI identifies as “much like many international terrorist operatives”. “One of the most effective forms of industrial or military sabotage limits itself to damage that can never be thoroughly proven—or even proven at all—to be anything deliberate,” states MAF on its Website. “It is like an invisible political movement; perhaps it isn’t there at all. If a bomb is wired to a car’s ignition, then obviously there is an enemy; if (a) public building or political headquarters is blown up, then there is a political enemy. But if an accident, or a series of accidents, occurs, if equipment merely fails to function, if it appears faulty, especially in a slow fashion over a period of natural time, with numerous small failures and misfirings—then the victim, whether a person or a country, can never marshal itself to defend itself.” Since Berkeley council continues to ignore the blockade at the Shattuck Avenue recruiting office and provide free parking for CodePink, some anarchists have become emboldened. From a post at the Website from “Anarchi” chiding those who didn’t participate in an attack: “So for all of you naysayers: Where were you last night??? Sds went a (sic) trashed a recruiting station what did you do? “For Sds: Awesome action, I must say it got escalated and it was pretty rad, a bunch of students who actually give a s—t about something going and doing what was right to the government or should I say taxpayer funded offices of child predators in army costumes or as some might know them military recruiters! I hope Sds does more stuff like this in the future or even better stuff. “Hopefully those dumbass recruiters will get ready to leave, after a smashed window in ’07 and a trashed inside in ’08 (and hopefully many more trashings). If they don’t want a nice friendly warning: Pack up your crap and leave and there will be no problems but if you stay know these people don’t like you they don’t want you in their communities and they will make sure you leave one way or another!” Meanwhile, it is past time for leaders in the Senate and House to demand an investigation into the nationwide epidemic of attacks on recruiting stations.