Continuing in their quest to become caricatures of themselves (anyone want to write a Portlandia-like spoof?), the Berkeley City Council is voting next week on another vanity resolution to invite any and all released Guantanamo Bay detainees to come and live in Berkeley -- so long as they've been cleared of guilt. The resolution is intended, it seems, as a raised middle finger toward the Department of Defense and a new federal law that prohibits the U.S. from funding the relocation of cleared detainees.

"Our hearts are with all those people who were never tried, held for years and in some cases tortured," says Wendy Kenin, chairwoman of the city's Peace and Justice Commission. "As a municipality, this is one thing we can do to right some wrongs of our federal government." [Ed. Note: And we ask you, how come the S.F. Board of Supes doesn't have a Peace and Justice and Commission?? Don't we love peace and justice too?]

The idea is to invite the detainees to live with families in Berkeley, exchange-student-like, and feed them Little Gem lettuces and organic grains.

We have to say we kind of like Berkeley City Councilman Gordon Wozniak (no apparent relation to Steve), who tells the Chron, "This seems like grandstanding to me. I'm not sure why the Peace and Justice Commission is taking this up, other than to get on Fox News." Tell it like it is, Gordo.

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