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UC Berkeley police officers trying to bring down tree protesters
Bay City News Service via CoCo Times ^ | 6/17/8

Posted on 06/17/2008 9:21:56 AM PDT by SmithL

About 25 University of California, Berkeley, police officers and a cherry-picker have converged at the Berkeley Oak Grove, where five climbers are being threatened and may have to come down today, according to Save the Oaks spokesman Doug Buckwald.

Buckwald said he began receiving calls on an emergency phone network from climbers who "have sent word by cell phone their belief that this is it - they are coming in to get them right now."

Protesters have been in the trees since UC regents voted in December 2006 to approve a plan to build a sports training center and other facilities near Memorial Stadium.

The project calls for clearing a grove of oak trees near the football stadium, which is where protesters have been living.

The Oak Grove is located just north of the intersection Bancroft Way and Piedmont Avenue, near the International House in Berkeley.


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: berkeley; beserkeley; environmentalwackos; treehuggers; treesitters; uc
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To: SmithL
Get 'em Girl!


21 posted on 06/17/2008 10:18:58 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Senator McCain, what did GWB promise you back in 2000? And you believed him? BWAHAAAAA!)
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To: rightinthemiddle

Yep. Once they hear those saws, they’ll be scrambling their scared little liberal butts down those trees like the Viking Kitties hearing a can of Friskies opening.


22 posted on 06/17/2008 10:25:43 AM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: Right Cal Gal

Two words:

Det. Cord.


23 posted on 06/17/2008 10:28:56 AM PDT by null and void (Bureaucracies are stupid. They grow larger by the square of their age and stupider by its cube.)
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To: svcw

I know several redneck squirrel, possum, and ‘coon hunters who would be more than glad to help... ‘-)


24 posted on 06/17/2008 10:30:00 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
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To: SmithL
where five climbers are being threatened

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25 posted on 06/17/2008 10:44:39 AM PDT by Minnesoootan
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To: SmithL
Since these tree-huggers are probably animal rights wacko's too, I'd love to see the cops fence the entire area and let a family of hungry beavers, who have really big teeth, loose inside.

Wonder what they'd do then?

26 posted on 06/17/2008 10:46:36 AM PDT by MountainDad
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To: SmithL
Fence off the area, release a leopard into it.

Leopards love to climb trees.

27 posted on 06/17/2008 11:26:36 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: usmcobra

hmm....I like it... not subtle but effective.


28 posted on 06/17/2008 8:58:34 PM PDT by Walkingfeather
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