Be warned: the above post is NSFW and features lots of hippies in various states of undress.

I believe we can leave the world a better place than we found it, but the point the treetards were making wasn’t a point.

Thats what I couldn’t believe when I first found out about this! Like Alabama wouldn’t have cut down those trees with those idiots still in them to expand their football complex…. commitment people, go balls deep or go home!

the reason this has been such a protracted struggle isn’t because the university hesitated to evict the sitters but because they were obligated to abide by a court ruling to not begin the construction of the new facilities.

if they evicted the hippies but were still bound by the injunction from cutting the trees then what’s the point? the idiots would have just climbed up them again. yesterday demonstrated how much a circus that would be. why do it more than once?

and that lawsuit was as much a pissing match between the university and the city of berkeley as anything else. of course the hippies acted like it was their cause but they sure as hell didn’t have the money to fight the battle legally.

so when the appeals court ruled for the university and – last thursday – lifted the injunction then officials moved to evict the hippies and cut the trees at the same time.

but, yes, you are correct. down in the south we do have quite a different way to handle such situations.

But what kind of school allows smelly fucktards to do shit like this for years at a time?

Fucking liberals.

Oh well, keep them coming.

My favorite parts of this story, as a Cal Grad:

1) The amount of paper used in a legal battle to save less than 4 dozen trees, some of which are going to be transplanted and others which will be replaced three-fold.

2) The *wooden* treehouses, made by the “locals”, which ended up crippling the trees and endangering their health even if they survived.

Though if there is anything the progressive community knows at Berkeley, it’s how to win a Pyrrhic victory.

Oh yeah, football stuff… Cal recruiting up + OOC wins against the SEC, Big 10, and ACC (hopefully – will be at Maryland) in the past two years = new Cal football era. We won’t get USC this year, but it’s coming.

Sir, how dare you defile the good name of… Dumpster Muffin.

Okay, I suppose the name itself started out defiled. Carry on then.

I am often amused by a few folks around the country who might think that these tree dwellars were students or other persons that actually had a cause. It was all about publicity for them. Can any normal functioning person, student or worker actually spend 21 months in a tree anyway? This was just a temporary domicile for the homeless.

I was glad to see that ABC gave them no mention that I recall during Cal’s win over Michigan State.

To reemphasize calbearsfan’s post above, the people behind the whole 21 month tree protest (and pretty much all protests in Berkeley) ARE BY AND LARGE NOT STUDENTS. I’m a 2002 graduate of Cal. Most Cal students are just there to get their degree and get out. Most of us aren’t “activists”. It’s all the nutjobs that moved into Berkeley during the 60’s and 70’s.