Berkeley tree-sitter travesty continues; officer battered
Just when it looked like the trespassing tree-sitter siege in Berkeley was winding down, up pops another law-breaker to join the remaining trio.
Oh, and a police officer was attacked by one of the tree-sitters’ supporters.
Ho-hum.
I remind you again that these loons have been perched in the branches since December 2006.
Dumpster Muffin must be proud:
A fourth tree-sitter has joined three remaining protesters living in the branches of an oak grove outside Memorial Stadium, a university spokesman said today.
The man, whom university officials did not identify, climbed over one fence Sunday night and up a different tree from the one occupied by the other tree-sitters, UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said.
Also Sunday, campus police arrested a 56-year-old supporter of the tree-sitters on suspicion of battery on a police officer and resisting arrest. David Walton was trying to get supplies to the tree-sitters when he got into an altercation with an officer and threw the officer to the ground, Mogulof said.
Last week, four of the tree-sitters left the trees, leaving three remaining protesters. The group is protesting the university’s plans to cut down the oak grove to build an athletic training center.The latest tree-sitter went up Sunday with a pack of supplies.
“It’s his intention to stay as long as he can … to save the trees,” said Doug Buckwald, a spokesman for the protesters, who said the man is in his 30s.
No, they don’t have anything better to do.
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These are the same dipsticks that just want to depart Iraq leaving the good people there subject to sure demise by Iran and other terror groups. But remove trees (that will be replaced ten fold) and it’s a total travesty.
I wonder how many trees were/are being sacrificed to promote this insanity, such as boxes for supplies, paper for writing, etc.? Since 12/06, I’m sure a lot more trees are gone, to save these. When you start attacking the police, something needs to be done. Or, does the council/police “feel their pain”? Once the MSM gets bored and leaves, they will come down and move on to some other “new” cause.
Is the tree on her property, or has she merely “adopted” some tree? I ran into a few people like this in the Air Force. They would rather have people killed in airplanes hitting trees on takeoff than allow some to be cut down and replaced elsewhere. Do they not understand that trees can grow? It rains, water seeps into the ground, things grow. Sometimes it does not rain, things wilt and die.
Who cashes their welfare checks?
One 5 gallon drum of round-up at the base of each tree in 2006 without a doubt would have killed the trees way before now.
Exactly Chief. These same people would also jump over fences, run across active flight lines, and smash instrument panels on fighter planes. They would rather these planes not be available to do the job needed, such as helping a populace that is being tormented by a raving lunatic.
$$$$$$’s keep rising one the way these imbuciles have handles this stupidity.
I keep saying, this would make for a great Stihl commercial. Maybe we could even cast some of these guys help make it.
I say call in the Axe Men from Oregon, they’ll make short work of these humanoid troglodytes.
Yeah or cheaper - just frill or girdle them with a small hatchet or even a good knife.
Just cut the bloody trees down. If the idiots at the top refuse to come down in a timely fashion when they start chopping, then let them ride the now firewood to the ground.
Problem solved!
You’re welcome.
or, have a lumberjack competition on ESPN. ROFL
And their living in them isn’t doing any physical damage to the trees???
Irrelevant. The end justifies the means with liberals. They can put their children in danger of being run over by trucks if it blocks supplies to troops in Iraq. They can urinate and defecate on trees if it keeps the trees aloft. They can burn SUVs if it “saves the planet.”
Don’t try to get logical with these people. It’s like fighting a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
Besides, I was always told to never wrestle with a pig. You both get muddy, and the pig likes it.
It’s not just that they’re urinating/defecating on the trees; they’re actually building structures in them. Not to mention the damage done by the extra weight–I remember my dad cutting off a branch my sister and I always used to climb one of our trees because we’d bent it so much.
Dances, good read, never heard of this before, thanks.
Cheaper is the key word here these numbnuts have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on this fiasco and have handled it in the most inept way imaginable especially for a place of higher education.
ROFLMAO
Now, there’s some reality television I would watch.
Nuts come from trees. I don’t understand what all the fuss is about? All the wasted energy and emotion over nuts…meanwhile, the thieves in Congress continue to steal our freedoms (more useless laws) and money. Where’s the outrage?
Some Cal fans say that the trees occupied by the treesitters aren’t even among those scheduled for removal. If that’s the case, then the treesitters aren’t preventing anything. (UC is awaiting a court ruling that could come within a couple of weeks in order to proceed with the project.) Ironically, all they’re doing is gaining the best view to watch the removal of the other trees and the construction of the student athlete high performance center.
Mr. Left Hand, let me introduce you to Mr. Right Hand. You’d be surprised at what the two of you might accomplish if you weren’t working at cross purposes. Duh.
Easy solution. Bore a hole into the center of each tree. Inject posion. Wait for a strong wind. Problem solved. My uncle actualy did this when there was a tree he wanted to have removed but the greens in new zealand didn’t want to remove it. They had no argument after the tree was already dead.
cue the music…
“I’m a lumberjack and im okay…..”
Bring the chainsaws to the site. Inform the tree-sitters thay have 30 minutes to begin their descents.
After 30 minutes, begin cutting the tree of any of the tree-sitters not making their way to the ground.
Arrest and prosecute any of the tree-sitters who survive the fall of their tree.
Berkeley lets there police be assulted like that and it will come back to bite them on the butt.
Mogulof said the university is trying to coax all of the tree-sitters down.
That SHOULD not be a problem. Energy bars my left foot. and water would be fine if delived with a high pressure hose, 30-06 or such.
Or just down the damn tree with the punks in it. Berkeley needs a nuclear power plant failure.
If these protesters actually cared about saving trees, they could be out saving hundreds, if not thousands, of trees right now. California has several major forest fires raging while these simple minded clowns continue their childish stunts.
Clearly these protesters are not interested in actually helping the environment or saving trees, but rather, they are interested in being in the newspapers.
Where’s a good hailstorm when you need one?
Call in the Marines …. Oh wait, these tree sitters appear to be Welcomed Guests
Why don’t the cops simply girdle the trees? Cutting the bark off a 3″ ring around the trunks of the trees would kill them, and then maybe those poor tree hippies could go get jobs.
The classic way is a 40# bag of rock salt.
I was thinking that a can of gasoline a few matches would do the trick. If their tree is on fire, or even the one next to them, that would inspire rapid descent.
However, reading this thread and think about lumberjacks (…drink all night and I sleep all day!), cutting them down is the right thing to do. There is a tremendous amount of firewood there. We could avoid burning some fossil fuels this winter. If they cut them to an easy to manage size, they could give them to Berkeley homeless for their under-bridge campfires.
Don’t these tree-s*itters have any consideration for the homeless??
I’ve never seen so many people in dire need of attention like these. And it appears that most of these bedwetters live in Berkeley (except for the ones that live around here in the Amherst/Northampton area of western Massachusetts).
Why can’t you just take them down like treed bears: tranquilizer gun and a net?
I would fill those energy bars with ExLax or the active ingredient if I had access to them…
Let’s see…I think Caterpillar makes bulldozers big enough to push or pull a tree down, or at least make a tree lean enough to produce the desired effect of removing these freaking losers from their perches.
If these mutant space alien waste-oids should survive the fall, they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law; if they don’t survive, pour concrete over them as a memorial and a reminder to their stupid tree-sitting brethren that bulldozers ALWAYS win!
Can I drive? PULEEEASE???!!!
This is UC-Berkeley, after all. I’m firmly convinced that their most popular course is Protest Participation, with Organization a close second. (Or maybe a far second, as organizing a protest actually takes initiative and — God forbid — work.)
Wouldn’t it be beautiful if the trees died anyway after the 2-year moonbat infestation? More toxic than Roundup, doncha’ know.
Since this is a blue on blue situation, I think the University should captiulate and throw a big party for the tree sitters.
Then wait until a foggy night comes. Have a crew of ninja tree fallers show up and whack all the trees at once and disappear. Then the University can blame the crime on right wing radicals and build their stupid athletic training center…which as we all know is a colossal waste of the taxpayers money anyway. At least construction provides jobs and contributes to global warming!
2 words “forest fire”
Who finances these bums, where do they get money to sustain this nonsense? They obviously dont work. Collect welfare from the city, maybe?
Call in the Ax-Men! Melvin Lardy and the Stump Branch crew, where are you?
Burning wood releases the carbon dioxide stored in it. Back to the global warming “re-education” camp for you!!! Just a note, the current forest fires will probably release more co2 than the entire usa this year. Ironic isn’t it that the greenies want to store the co2 in these forests which burn down every year releasing that same co2???
Sounds like a decent training type situation for the trusty Police K-9 unit…
whose a good doggie?
How is it that a 4th person was able to jump the fence and join the clown parade anyhow? Isn’t that what Berzerkly is paying these cops overtime for to keep and maintain a secure perimeter? The tree sitters are there illegally in the first place, the police should be getting some air bags to catch these fools and then shooting off tear gas as they climb the trees in full tactical gear to arrest these buffoons.
Congratulations Berzerkly, the few of you that do pay taxes must be so proud that your hard earned money goes to clowns like this who don’t work and leech off the government teat. But when you vote in liberals who want nothing more than bigger government and people depending on them for their every whim I guess you reap what you sow.
not fire….. fire ants…. couple boxes of about 10 each outa do the trick.
should read 10,000
and blind, it’s illegal to top trees in Cal. with a hefty fine to boot.
aj, now that is cruel and unusual. I like it.
Where are the creative thinkers in Berkeley?
Doesn’t ANYONE out there possess:
BB guns? Pellet rifles? Slingshots?
Laser pointers? Paintball guns?
Mirrors to reflect the sun into their eyes?
The possibilities for fun are endless.
txmarko,
get the sound track from Disney of “it’s a small world”
Play that over and over real loud 24/7 and they will be jumping out of those trees’s.
LOL ajmontana!!
How about radio controlled aircraft and helicopters delivering doe urine, etc from above?
aj, really? seriously I did’nt know that, if that was a law in Missouri I would have alot of neighbors that would be fined. It’s actually not good to top a tree anyway it invites disease and many time will kill them. If you have a tree trimmed you should make sure they are an arborist.
blind, well it may just be moutainous tress pines, sequoia’s etc…. topping for Christmas trees…..
How about some supersoaker water pistols to wet the tree sitters down, then follow up with a radio-controlled helicopter that hovers and drops a load of ground habanero & capsicum pepper dust?
One could control the RC heli from the stadium, no one would even know where it came from or went to afterwards.
I could make a vacation out of this!
Its like with little kids, if you ignore them then eventually they move on to the next “crisis” in their life. If everyone just ignores these idiots then either they can waste their whole life sitting in a tree OR they can declare success that they saved the trees.
Once they climb down, then 5 minutes later cut the trees to the ground.
We could hold a giant celebration in their honor in Berkeley and tell them they won a free trip to Burning Man with a years supply of Medical Marijuana! BUT we will need to clear the trees in order to plant their pot for them….
RabbidSquirrel - Unfortunately Berkeley is infested with nothing but “little kids” who have nothing better to do than collect welfare & unemployment checks. They have nothing but time on their hands to protest and attend others’ protests.
Think of the tax $$$ wasted on fencing and police presence for this idiocy.
No amount of money could make me want to live in Kalifornia. The inmates are running the asylum.
One more liberal with a criminal record.
Check
It would be interesting if someone from the Goldman School of Public Policy on campus did a study into the amount of taxpayers dollars involved in this rediculous situation. A great follow up to the study would be to survey the town’s residents if they knew how much they were spending on it and if they approved. Extend this if state monies are involved.
I believe that even in Berkeley, there would be some reversal of opinion if each taxpayer knew what the escapades of these few cost them. If I lived there, I would begin a class-action lawsuit that challenged the tree-sitters to pay for the expenses they forced on the city, state and university.
“Spies Like Us” alien moment. Dress up a female cop in Christmas lights and pink boas. Have her approach the tree about 4am.
“I am Iris, god of plant life throughout the universe. I am sore displeased with your inhabitance of my precious dear ones – my trees. I implore you, remove yourselves from my dear ones or suffer the consequences of my wrath.”
Waits 30 seconds and then hit them with tranquilizing darts.
When the sun comes up, they police officer has plausible deniability and the freaks got a show!
OR
Do what I would do and just throw rocks at them until they got tired and went home.
Once these fools come down, they will have to be checked medically, of course. Guess who pays for that? Being in that place, they won’t receive a bill for town services since 12/06. Mr. Taxpayer gets the usual bill, on his way to vote more liberals into office.
misterbee241
I was thinking along the same lines as you. I figure their probably collectly unemployment, which thanks to our liberal congress has been extened another federally fundedm 13 weeks.
BTW, if animals have the exact same legal rights as humans (not my belief), why don’t we handle this like a bird infestation. Start shooting them with pellet guns. Oh wait!!! that may harm the trees, never mind.
I wonder how quick they would climb down when their rich daddy’s received a lawsuit for the costs of having their kid sitting in a tree.
What’s the old saying, Pride goes before the fall? I don’t think daddy would be so proud when it cost him a bunch of legal fees to have his kid make a statement for the environment.
Ever see how they get the nuts out of an almond tree?
They use a machine that drives right up to the tree and grabs the tree and then shakes it violently till everthing falls on the ground.As long as the tree shaker runs on bio-diesel and has an illegal alien driving it then the sitters will have no recourse.
JLP
Instead of “saving” these relatively young trees that the property owner wants to remove, why don’t they head down to Blitchton, GA (near Savannah) to save this 300 year-old oak that the property owner wants to save, but the city wishes to remove:
http://www.wtoc.com/global/story.asp?s=8632070
I’m sure Mr. Parker would love to meet “Dumpster Muffin”
JLP #61
Bravo! I love it!
Let’s make sure we order the industrial size shaker. Would hate to leave any nuts in the trees.
Tree-tards.