[lysol@whitehouse]

I respect and honor the 'tree sitter' who died while following her conscience. It is easy to carp, but it takes character to put yourself on the line.

[William Terrell]

I respect and honor the 'tree sitter' who died while following her conscience. It is easy to carp, but it takes character to put yourself on the line.

Then you respect and honor those that flew the planes into the WTC. (Don't give me the argument that that resulted in death of innocent people. The tree sitter intended to stop tree use, condeming the families of loggers to destruction and even death to individual members, including their children, and is no different in intention than tree spikers the have killed innocent people sawing logs.)

[mc5cents]

I respect and honor the 'tree sitter' who died while following her conscience. It is easy to carp, but it takes character to put yourself on the line.

O.K. But, um, don't you think it wise to pick a better cause for which to, as you put it, "put yourself on the line" for? I mean climbing up a tree to save trees is not my idea of a cause worth dying for. After all, trees are a renewable resource and in fact there are more of them now than when this country was discovered.

Now my idea of a cause worth dying for is something like Freedom, which we seem to have less and less of these days.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I respect and honor the 'tree sitter' who died while following her LACK of conscience

[WhiteyAppleseed]

It's unfortunate that the Tree of Liberty doesn't get the same devoted attention.

The chief danger today is that, once an aim of government is accepted as legitimate, it is then assumed that even means contrary to the principles of freedom may be legitimately employed. (Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty</>, p260)

It is possible that a fanatical religious group will impose upon the rest restrictions which its members will be pleased to observe but which will be obstacles for others in the pursuit of important aims. (Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty, p155)

[JZoback]

I respect and honor the 'tree sitter' who died while following her conscience

Very dangerous way to think.

Lots of people have died for allowing other people to follow their conscience.

[Amelia]

They ought to all be arrested for tresspassing, and made to pay restitution for the time that the logging crews, etc., had to wait for them to get out of the way, the cost of the law enforcement officials getting them out of there....

[Issaquahking]

SHE was an idiot and I have no sympathy for the silly wench. Principles worth dying for start with freedom, ask any vet. People who honor the country by defending America are worlds apart from brain dead greenies. That her family has to carry the burden of grief for her stupidity is sad. If there is a law suit, hopefully it is her parents going after the greenies who "brainwashed" her into such a stupid idea. Even that I have a hard time with that, because she chose to be there....but hey, the liberal call will never allow them to be responsible for theirselves...gotta blame somebody/sarcasm>.

They should log the place in celebration of the end of the green thought rule, and put Oregon's people to work.Currently Oregon has the highest unemploment in the nation because of the green machine, because of these kind of idiots.

[justin4bush]

Respect her? She got what she deserved. What an idiot.

[Publius6961]

I respect and honor the 'tree sitter' who died while following her conscience. It is easy to carp, but it takes character to put yourself on the line.

We all have our heroes.
For me however, mental and/or psychological deficiencies and ignorance are not admirable traits.