The eviction began on Monday and has cost the Scottish Executive £600,000 so far, or £100,000 per day.
Obviously, if they just cut down the trees the protesters would come out pretty quick. In fact, if they'd fire up the chain saws, they'd probably come out voluntarily. But £100,000 per day seems unreasonably high.
To: SittinYonder
I noticed that too..
Talk about bureaucracy! Wonder how many certified naturalists, etc.. they have to have on hand?
2 posted on
01/24/2006 7:27:21 AM PST by
Pessimist
To: SittinYonder
Eight of the 'eco-warriors' left voluntarily after the eviction notice was read out at the Pickle Dirt woods. Theres a great joke here somewhere...
3 posted on
01/24/2006 7:28:34 AM PST by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: SittinYonder
You have the same idea I do. Just cut. Worse that'll happen is they become a Rachel Corrie-like martyr.
5 posted on
01/24/2006 7:30:18 AM PST by
Hoodlum91
To: SittinYonder
The National Eviction Team
Just how many tree huggers do they have in this country?
8 posted on
01/24/2006 7:34:08 AM PST by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: SittinYonder
I would think fire hoses would be useful for this kind of scum, especially in winter.
-ccm
9 posted on
01/24/2006 7:39:46 AM PST by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order)
To: SittinYonder
Look at that natural skill in the treetops. And they say we aren't descended from monkeys. But who would have suspected that the Scotts would come along and prove them wrong?
12 posted on
01/24/2006 8:50:11 AM PST by
NaughtiusMaximus
(DO NOT read to the end of this tagline . . . Oh, $#@%^, there you went and did it.)
To: SittinYonder
Set up some nets below; tell them to get down. If they don't budge, snipe 'em with tranquilizer darts.
It's the only humane thing to do. :)
14 posted on
01/24/2006 10:53:32 AM PST by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: SittinYonder
The desire to curtail "individual transport" is their underlying motivation. They claim that doing so will reduce global warming and promote public transportation. This is typical of socialist idiots - how did past ice ages manage to come and go in the absence automobile exhaust? Stupid. Anyway, here's one link in which some tree humpers talk about the Dalkeith Bypass and climate change.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/12/329610.html
18 posted on
01/24/2006 12:04:48 PM PST by
Jaysun
(The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides.)
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