Utah Congressman Chris Cannon and some friends have put the squeeze on Berkeley — you know, Hippyland, Calif.

Berkeley's city council declared Marine recruiters "uninvited and unwelcome intruders." Boy, are they sorry now.

If you recall, Cannon send out a press release bragging about a bill to divert $2.3 million in federal funding from Berkeley to the Marines. The bill's sponsor, Rep. Ted Poe of Texas complained the city had a " '60s peacenik, hippie mentality [right] that world peace can occur by sitting around smoking dope and banging on the tambourine."

In the last 10 days, city officials have gotten 26,000 e-mails, 15 to 1 from people who agree with Cannon and Poe. Several council members have received death threats — not, as far as we know, a Cannon recommendation.

Councilman Gordon Wozniak, one of the dissenters on the declaration, says the emails "have run the gamut from being very thoughtful to dismissing Berkeley citizens as liberal scum."

Others said they were opposed to the Iraq war, but the council had gone beyond protesting the war to demonizing service members.