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Berkeley tree-sitters refuse to come down
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 8/21/8 | Charles Burress, Chronicle Staff Writer

Posted on 08/21/2008 5:45:47 PM PDT by SmithL

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"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?

1 posted on 08/21/2008 5:45:47 PM PDT by SmithL
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Cut the trees down NOW. This circus has gone on far too long.


2 posted on 08/21/2008 5:47:42 PM PDT by Enchante (Obama-cons: Trying to fool America, one media dupe at a time!)
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To: SmithL

3 posted on 08/21/2008 5:47:49 PM PDT by cmsgop ( Axis of Evil = Iran , North Korea , Midget Mac)
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4 posted on 08/21/2008 5:49:15 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (This election is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if McCain wins, we're still retarded.)
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To: Enchante

Paintball guns..... Beer and .... well we all know the rest....


5 posted on 08/21/2008 5:50:31 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: SmithL

When I lived in Berkeley we had a fool-proof method for ending these kinds of shenanigans: Ignore them.


6 posted on 08/21/2008 5:53:25 PM PDT by Rudder
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Are the tree sitters liberal?


7 posted on 08/21/2008 5:53:42 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SmithL

It’s easy getting a tree-sitter down. Just make a peace sign with one hand, and wave with the other.


8 posted on 08/21/2008 5:56:50 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Barack Obama--the first black Jimmy Carter.)
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Are the tree sitters liberal?

Well, I doubt they are listening to Rush Limbaugh up there in the tree every afternoon.

9 posted on 08/21/2008 5:59:31 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Are the tree sitters liberal?


Naaaah.


10 posted on 08/21/2008 6:00:37 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Zack Nguyen

LOL


11 posted on 08/21/2008 6:01:07 PM PDT by unkus
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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.


12 posted on 08/21/2008 6:02:30 PM PDT by unkus
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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.


13 posted on 08/21/2008 6:04:56 PM PDT by Arkansas Toothpick
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To: Dilbert San Diego

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.


14 posted on 08/21/2008 6:05:06 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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These two excerpts are from June 2008...

"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 we’re most concerned about is safety and security, of our police officers and the people in the trees. That’s the reason we’re 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

15 posted on 08/21/2008 6:06:31 PM PDT by ETL (Lots of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the ObamaRats at my Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl)
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To: Zack Nguyen

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?


16 posted on 08/21/2008 6:09:19 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SmithL

Don’t cut down the tree, set it on fire.


17 posted on 08/21/2008 6:10:01 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: SmithL

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.


18 posted on 08/21/2008 6:11:42 PM PDT by elmer fudd (Fukoku kyohei)
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Put a bounty on them!

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!

19 posted on 08/21/2008 6:12:02 PM PDT by dalereed (both)
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To: Zack Nguyen

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.


20 posted on 08/21/2008 6:12:04 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (Orationem pulchram non habens, scribo ista linea in lingua Latina.***)
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