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  • Whose shoulder should carry the burden?

    04/03/2003 11:59:39 PM PST · by farmfriend · 7 replies · 163+ views
    Times-Standard ^ | April 03, 2003 | Editorial Staff
    Whose shoulder should carry the burden?The $37,000 that the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department spent the week of March 17 policing logging demonstrations in Freshwater was a snapshot of the significantly higher costs these activities have brought to bear here over the years. The tree-sitters protesting Pacific Lumber Co. logging are doing so in defiance of a court order, and are trespassing as well. This is not protected freedom of speech. It is illegal. The folks who were encouraging them on Greenwood Heights Road below the tree-sitters' perches, may have in large part been acting legally, but quite a few allegedly...