They are becoming a self-parody:
Berkeley’s public library will face a showdown with the city’s Peace and Justice Commission tonight over whether a service contract for the book check-out system violates the city’s nuclear-free ordinance.
The dispute centers on a five-year, $63,000 contract the library wants to sign with 3M, an international technology company based in Minnesota, to service five scanner machines library patrons use to check out books.
But 3M, a company with operations in 60 countries, refused to sign Berkeley’s nuclear-free disclosure form as required by the Nuclear Free Berkeley Act passed by voters in 1986.
As a result, the library’s self-checkout machines have not been serviced in about six months. Library officials say 3M is the only company authorized by the manufacturer to fix the machines, which were purchased in 2004.
The library asked the Peace and Justice Commission for a waiver, but at its Jan. 5 meeting the commission voted 7-1, with two abstentions, to reject the request.
Some of you younger people won’t realize what happened here – back in 1986, in order to stick to Ronald Ray-Gun (as our loving, tolerant liberals called him – when they weren’t using obscenities), Berkeley passed its utterly worthless nuclear free act…but given the way liberals work, even stupid things are continued on as if they made sense. Reagan is dead, the USSR is no more, the nuclear threat which ultimately cause the ruckus has faded (we no longer fear mutually assured destruction, but rogue weapons, instead…for which we don’t need nuclear weapons in Berkeley to defend ourselves)…but the liberal idiocy goes on, and now is hamstringing the library because a corporation doesn’t want to open itself up to lawsuits by signing the absurd disclosure…
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