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Tree sitter is not in Berkeley any more
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 3/19/9 | Debra J. Saunders

Posted on 03/19/2009 8:09:01 AM PDT by SmithL

When Tristan Anderson, now 38, was living illegally in the trees at UC Berkeley to protest the administration's ultimately successful bid to cut down the trees to build a sports training center, life was good. For 21 months, Berkeley's tree sitters happily fouled their nests with little interference from the authorities. Their biggest fear was falling.

When Berkeley finally erected barbed-wire fences and began to shine spotlights on the canopy campers, the tree huggers complained that UC had turned their grove into "Guantanamo." UC retaliated by giving the tree sitters energy bars.

In June 2008, Anderson, who went by the name "Cricket," was arrested, charged with trespassing and violating a court order - and still he was able to chat happily with reporters.

Segue to the West Bank last week. Anderson had joined pro-Palestinian protesters in the village of Naalin, where he was seriously wounded when an Israeli-fired tear-gas canister hit him on the head.

Fellow activists said the attack was unprovoked. The Israeli Defense Forces said they were reacting to rock-throwing demonstrators. Whatever happened, Anderson found out in the worst way that political protest outside the Bay Area isn't all energy bars and catch-and-release.

Back in the Bay Area, Anderson's fellow peace activists could have used the awful occasion of Anderson's situation to contemplate how wonderful it is to live in a safe country. Instead, Monday night, they held their usual menacing and violence-tinged protest that closed down a swath of Market Street and exposed Ess Eff once again as a consequence-free environment.

According to SFPD, five protesters were booked on charges including felony aggravated assault, battery on a police officer and tampering with a vehicle.

They went beyond their very American right to freely express their political views - and illegally blocked off a portion of a main...

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: berkeley; beserkeley; braindamaged; idf; terrorsupporter; treesitter; tristananderson
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1 posted on 03/19/2009 8:09:01 AM PDT by SmithL
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Back in the Bay Area, Anderson's fellow peace activists....

People who back groups which want to kill every Jew on the face of the earth, are not peace activists.

2 posted on 03/19/2009 8:12:11 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: SmithL

Is this a trust-fund baby, or what? Otherwise, how does this guy have the time to sit in trees and the money to travel to the Middle East to join demonstrations? Does he not need to earn a living. For that matter, ditto Code Pink.


3 posted on 03/19/2009 8:12:25 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: SmithL

I’m reduced to believing that there is something chemically wrong with these people’s brains.


4 posted on 03/19/2009 8:12:39 AM PDT by lesko
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To: SmithL

These stooges are as useless as used toilet paper.


5 posted on 03/19/2009 8:13:00 AM PDT by unkus
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To: SmithL

Youre the cutest thing
That I ever did see
I really love your peaches
Want to shake your tree
Lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey all the time
Ooo-eee baby, Ill sure show you a good time


6 posted on 03/19/2009 8:13:53 AM PDT by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: SmithL

Glad that Cricket left America.


7 posted on 03/19/2009 8:15:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: SmithL
Whatever happened, Anderson found out in the worst way that political protest outside the Bay Area isn't all energy bars and catch-and-release.

Ha! That's the money phrase!

8 posted on 03/19/2009 8:15:44 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (http://isportsdigest.tripod.com)
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To: SmithL
Whatever happened, Anderson found out in the worst way that political protest outside the Bay Area isn't all energy bars and catch-and-release.

Had a good chuckle over this.

9 posted on 03/19/2009 8:16:24 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Yes, Gorbachev is better than Obama. At least Gorbachev admitted he was a Communist)
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To: SmithL

Hit ‘em with tear gas canisters.....


10 posted on 03/19/2009 8:17:21 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

In the head.


11 posted on 03/19/2009 8:19:29 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (Want to make a conservative angry? Lie to him. Want to make a liberal angry? Tell him the truth)
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To: SmithL

“he was seriously wounded when an Israeli-fired tear-gas canister hit him on the head.”

Did it knock any sense into him?


12 posted on 03/19/2009 8:20:09 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: SmithL

This is why you shouldn’t spoil your children. What a complete loser. Wonder who pays for his mash?


13 posted on 03/19/2009 8:24:27 AM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: nuconvert

Doubtful. I guess he’s really palling around with vegetables (having probably become one himself). Oh, wait, but that would imply he really wasn’t a vegetable before...


14 posted on 03/19/2009 8:25:07 AM PDT by farlander (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: SmithL

“he was seriously wounded when an Israeli-fired tear-gas canister hit him on the head.”

As soon as I read that, I burst out laughing. I know, I’m evil and wicked. Hee!


15 posted on 03/19/2009 8:25:12 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: SmithL

I guess the Cricket is not chirping!


16 posted on 03/19/2009 8:25:44 AM PDT by golf lover
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To: Old Grumpy

The only sympathy I have is for his family and their loss, other than that...NICE SHOT!

What a waste of space these people are


17 posted on 03/19/2009 8:28:36 AM PDT by cups
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He forgot he was in Frisco where they have time to tolerate nonsense from useless trust fund baby turds.The Israelis have more serious problems to deal with.he’s lucky he didn’t catch a 5.56 slug between the running lights.Now he can drool on himself and wear a diaper.


18 posted on 03/19/2009 8:31:13 AM PDT by steamroller
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To: SmithL
Tristan Anderson, now 38

Thirty eight?

She's about half way through completely wasting her life.

19 posted on 03/19/2009 8:33:13 AM PDT by Lee N. Field ("I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it." -- J. Gresham Machen)
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To: SmithL

Video here. CAUTION: Page has links to “dating” services although no nudity.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=db2_1237029789


20 posted on 03/19/2009 8:33:48 AM PDT by gracesdad
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