Posted on 08/21/2008 5:45:47 PM PDT by SmithL
"If you want me down, you're going to have to take me down dead," a male protester yelled from a platform at least 50 feet up the redwood as workers in two cherry-pickers carved off at least 16 branches from the tree and at least four limbs from two oak trees,
Say, you are a good sport, aren't you?
Cut the trees down NOW. This circus has gone on far too long.
Paintball guns..... Beer and .... well we all know the rest....
When I lived in Berkeley we had a fool-proof method for ending these kinds of shenanigans: Ignore them.
Are the tree sitters liberal?
It’s easy getting a tree-sitter down. Just make a peace sign with one hand, and wave with the other.
Well, I doubt they are listening to Rush Limbaugh up there in the tree every afternoon.
Are the tree sitters liberal?
LOL
It would be fun to crank up the volume on a radio when Rush was on, though. He could play the old “Chainsaw” piece he used to play.
Pure absurdity. Give me the chainsaw, I’ll cut ‘em down in a heartbeat. To me, their deaths are squarely on them and no one should bear any responsibility for whatever means it takes to get them down.
I don’t know for sure but it sure does seem like it is a strong possibility.
Most of the republican tree sitters I know only do it during deer season.
"At least one tree sitter on Tuesday began throwing bags of human waste on the approaching arborists."
http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/news/print.asp?id=25637
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BERKELEY, Calif. (KCBS) -- One woman was arrested Tuesday as authorities removed some of the structures that have housed tree sitting protesters in an oak grove UC Berkeley wants to cut down to make way for a $125 million athletic facility.
The protester was taken into custody after she reportedly bit one of the workers removing her supplies, according to police. Officers cordoned off part of Piedmont Avenue near Memorial Grove and brought in arborists to remove the platforms and gear the tree sitters have used to maintain their perches since December 2006. A university official had earlier said the tree sitters themselves would not be removed yet.
One of the things were most concerned about is safety and security, of our police officers and the people in the trees. Thats the reason were not forcibly removing people from the trees today, said Dan Mogulof, a spokesman for UC Berkeley.
Tuesday was not the first time the university has removed scaffolding built by the protesters, but removing the people has proven more difficult. One witness told KCBS reporter Tim Ryan at the scene that some of the tree sitters threw urine they had collected in buckets at the police and arborists to discourage them from climbing.
http://www.kcbs.com/In-Berkeley--Down-from-the-Trees/2427277
Oh, so they don’t have a transistor radio up there in the tree, listening to Rush?
Maybe they listen to Air America. Is Air America even still on the air?
Don’t cut down the tree, set it on fire.
They could just ring the trees. If you cut off a wide ring of bark all the way around the tree, it kills it. Do it to all 43 trees whether the protesters are up there are not. There’s not much use in trying to save dead trees. A few gallons of Round Up ought to finish the job just in case some pesky arborist comes in and tries to bandage up the trees.
Even if it doesn't cover the gas to get there and back they will be down and ready to become fertilizer for another tree somewhere within minutes!
Well, I doubt they are listening to Rush Limbaugh up there in the tree every afternoon.
Maybe they should help and play their radio’s real loud.
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