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Claudette chases off all but one tree protester
Houston Chronicle ^
| July 15, 2003, 12:30PM
| JEFFREY GILBERT
Posted on 07/15/2003 2:27:24 PM PDT by Bayou City
July 15, 2003, 12:30PM
Claudette chases off all but one tree protester
By JEFFREY GILBERT
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle
"There's a hurricane?" the sole remaining Memorial Park tree-sitter joked in the rain Tuesday morning, still perched atop a 110-foot tall pine tree.
"Trust," as he refers to himself, is sticking it out through Hurricane Claudette, but he's the only one. His companion, "Bear", came down this morning.
"We knew it was going to get rough," Trust said. "So we decided that only the most experienced person stay up here."
Trust has survived wet and stormy weather for the past week, and he plans to stay there for as long as it takes to get his message delivered: Protect California's ancient redwoods.
He came to Houston from Humboldt County in California, and has been on the perch since July 5.
The protesters brought their demonstration to Houston because it is the home of Maxxam Inc., the owner of Pacific Lumber.
"This is a good test to show Maxxam that we're not going to be scared away by the storm," Trust said.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: claudette; hurricane; sitter; tree
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To: Bayou City
Someone get me my chainsaw.......damn tree huggers!
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posted on
07/15/2003 2:29:48 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: Bayou City
I wonder if anyone in California noticed that he was gone.
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posted on
07/15/2003 2:30:36 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
To: Bayou City
4
posted on
07/15/2003 2:30:48 PM PDT
by
EggsAckley
( "Aspire to mediocracy"................new motto for publik skools.............)
To: All
5
posted on
07/15/2003 2:31:43 PM PDT
by
Support Free Republic
(Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
To: Xenalyte
I wonder if anyone in Texas knows he's there.
6
posted on
07/15/2003 2:32:01 PM PDT
by
Guillermo
(Proud Infidel)
To: Bayou City
Wait a minute I'm confused.
This guy went to Houston
To sit in a pine tree
And the reason for this is to protest the felling of
redwoods
in California???
And people wonder why we make fun of leftists.
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posted on
07/15/2003 2:33:00 PM PDT
by
discostu
(the train that won't stop going, no way to slow down)
To: Bayou City
Tree sitters make funny catapult ammo in a hurricane.
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posted on
07/15/2003 2:33:36 PM PDT
by
Hillary's Lovely Legs
(This morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.)
To: Xenalyte
I wonder if anyone explained to them that Maxxam isn't logging in Memorial Park? The company won't care, and shouldn't.
What a bunch of eco-dinks.
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posted on
07/15/2003 2:33:39 PM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: Bayou City
I wonder how stupid do you have to be to rate yourself as the most experienced one??
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posted on
07/15/2003 2:33:56 PM PDT
by
U S Army EOD
(Served in Vietnam and Korea and still fighting America's enemies on the home front)
To: Bayou City
I wanted to gather up the Houston Freepers and go give that tree a PUSH now that the ground is saturated! After we shoot a few bottle rockets at his BUTT.
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posted on
07/15/2003 2:34:20 PM PDT
by
buffyt
(Can you say President Hillary, the Hildabeast, Mistress of ALL Darkness? Me Neither!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: U S Army EOD
GOOD POINT!
I bet their parents are so proud.... LOL
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posted on
07/15/2003 2:35:02 PM PDT
by
buffyt
(Can you say President Hillary, the Hildabeast, Mistress of ALL Darkness? Me Neither!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: Dog
Someone get me my chainsaw.......damn tree huggers!
LOL.... last week a house just down the street from mine had a pine tree next to the drive which took a direct hit from lightening... Blew about the top 1/3rd off and onto their garage roof... Not sure how tall it was but I'd estimate it at some 60+ ft. I'd give the tree hugging to the stroms and look for safer confines I believe...
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posted on
07/15/2003 2:36:24 PM PDT
by
deport
(On a hot day don't kick a cow chip...... only democrat enablers..)
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Good point! Hope they never find his body - a fitting tribute to his brains, which are already missing!
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posted on
07/15/2003 2:37:29 PM PDT
by
mil-vet
To: Bayou City
Darwinism works in strange and wonderous ways.
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posted on
07/15/2003 2:39:42 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: deport
Joshua Trujillo / Chronicle
An anti-logging activist from Northern California, who calls himself "Trust," peeks
out from atop a platform precariously balanced in the top limbs of a 110-foot
pine tree in Memorial Park Monday.
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posted on
07/15/2003 2:48:28 PM PDT
by
deport
(On a hot day don't kick a cow chip...... only democrat enablers..)
To: Bayou City
He came to Houston from Humboldt County in California, and has been on the perch since July 5.Bird-brain, eh?
FMCDH
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posted on
07/15/2003 2:49:02 PM PDT
by
nothingnew
(the pendulum swings and the libs are in the pit)
To: Bayou City
They REALLY shoudl stiffen the penalty for this nonsense. <P.
Maybe if the luber company sued "trust" for the cst fo this delay it would make some kind of difference.
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posted on
07/15/2003 2:50:45 PM PDT
by
Jhoffa_
(BREAKING: Supreme Court Finds Right to Sodomy, Sammy & Frodo elated.)
To: SpaceBar
How can someone be that stupid and yet live?
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posted on
07/15/2003 2:50:47 PM PDT
by
Wilhelm Tell
(Lurking since 1997!)
To: Bayou City
"So we decided that only the most experienced idiotic person stay up here."
20
posted on
07/15/2003 2:51:31 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(You can't HANDLE the truth!)
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