Posted on 11/27/2007 5:06:23 PM PST by Baladas
BERKELEY, Calif. University of California officials have won the legal right to oust a band of tree-sitters who've taken up residence in an oak grove standing in the way of a planned sports center.
But how do you uproot a tree-sitter in Berkeley, one of America's most politically correct cities?
"Extremely difficult," acknowledges campus spokesman Dan Mogulof.
As the protest nears its one-year anniversary, plenty of people have suggestions: Fire hoses, skunk spray and tranquilizer darts are among the thorny ideas Internet posters have planted.
So far, the university has moved cautiously.
The university wants to remove dozens of the picturesque trees, called evergreen coast live oaks, to build a $125 million training facility for its Golden Bears athletic teams.
There have been scuffles between police and tree-sitters; and campus officials have put up chain-link fences around the grove. University lawyers have told a judge they are considering pruning lower branches to make it harder to ferry supplies up to the protesters.
Both sides say they don't want a treetop confrontation.
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Run a bunch of hungry bobcats or something like that up those trees and see who comes down first.
Yeah and she probably looks and smells like one too.
One of the nicest traditions started by the so-called Civil rights Movement of the 1960s, that we all so worship to be politically correct and eracist, has been the disobeyance of law, the courts, the police, and the civil order. Yes, you might say that red light running was legitimized in the 1960s South by the self righteous Northerners who invaded it to seek “social justice” or whatever the euphemism was at the time for anarchy. We were a law abiding nation before then, not far behind the Swiss in our civility.
Rotate with the song “Just a Swangin”. That would even make country fans come down out of the trees.
Ooooow. LOL, you are making my stomach hurt!!
The university is reaping what it has sown.
Capitalism wins over stupid tree hugger.
Contract the IDF
Girdle the trees. There will be nothing to save.
Whatever the method (and I see a lot of good ones here!), I hope the final act involves a hickory shampoo for each and every miscreant.
Just cut the tree down with the sitters in it. Job done.
I was thinking rabid howler monkeys.
That works for me. That ought to bring some folks out of the trees. Or they would (like the old Jerry Clower joke) be begging someone to shoot up amoungst them so that one of them would have some relief.
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