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...
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People who back groups which want to kill every Jew on the face of the earth, are not peace activists.
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.
I’m reduced to believing that there is something chemically wrong with these people’s brains.
These stooges are as useless as used toilet paper.
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
Glad that Cricket left America.
Ha! That's the money phrase!
Had a good chuckle over this.
Hit ‘em with tear gas canisters.....
In the head.
“he was seriously wounded when an Israeli-fired tear-gas canister hit him on the head.”
Did it knock any sense into him?
This is why you shouldn’t spoil your children. What a complete loser. Wonder who pays for his mash?
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...
“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!
I guess the Cricket is not chirping!
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
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.
Tristan Anderson, now 38
Thirty eight?
She's about half way through completely wasting her life.
Video here. CAUTION: Page has links to “dating” services although no nudity.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=db2_1237029789
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