Sep 04 2008
Take A Break And Cry For A Tree
This goes away from our regularly scheduled programming, but it’s definitely worth it. Check out this video from Break.com of hippies crying over trees.
http://view.break.com/565864 – Watch more free videos
They’re not just any hippies, though. They’re Earth First! — a group with a nasty history within the environmental movement:
Earth First! (EF!) is a “warrior society” that takes a “by any means necessary” approach to “defending mother earth.” The group declines to participate in the democratic process, preferring instead to damage, disable, and destroy the property of its ever-growing list of enemies. EF! targets include, but are by no means limited to, loggers, ranchers, and farmers — especially those who grow genetically modified crops. Earth First!ers’ crimes include assault, arson, and untold acts of sabotage.
Before he quit in the late 1980s, the driving force behind EF! was a man named Dave Foreman. His book Ecodefense: A Field Guide To Monkeywrenching is a how-to for environmental saboteurs. It includes nine chapters of instructions on subjects ranging from tree spiking to destroying roads, from disabling equipment to making smoke bombs. Rodney Coronado, an Earth First! zealot who was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison following a string of arsons, calls the book “our bible.”
UPDATE (9/7/08): Thanks to the Hill Street Blagh, which links to this post, notes one of our commenters, and adds a great item on Earth First!’s disdain for Sarah Palin.
Yeeeeesh….makes me feel like I need to have a few bowls of Chunky Spotted Owl Soup.
It should read: They’re not just any hippies, though. They’re Earth First! — a group of ‘nasty hippies’ within the environmental movement
You gotta classify Hippies like you a species lol
Looks like you’re trying very hard to make this a non-serious, [artisan site.
Keep up the good work of making sure no one outside the echo chamber pays attention to you?
Tokyo Tom, we’re not the ones wailing for trees. If you are looking for overly partisan, non-serious people you may wish to check with the Earth First!-ers — who, by the way, have been involved in some quite unsavory activities in their overzealous pursuit of of environmental dogma.
Should you wish to examine more serious fare on this site, do a search for 30,000 scientists — it’ll begin to show how many people actually don’t take the global warming hype that seriously.
I’ve been in that very position, moved to tears by clear cutting and forest and rock formation destruction in general. It’s a sickening feeling that becomes so overwhelming that it is nearly debilitating.
Wow! I grow trees for harvest. What will happen to me if these people get power?
And how come they are not naked? Plants had to be killed to make the clothes they are wearing unless it is man-made, which means it came from oil. You know how they feel about oil.
Oh well, time to go out and kill some more trees. He He He. I am going to pull up a baby tree by the ROOTS.
I imagine though that you replant everything you harvest?
Also, it’s the work of groups like Earth First! that have made our own forests overrun and have increased the likelihood and intensity of forest fires.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_Forests
Their and other groups continued opposition to the Healthy Forest Initiative shows they would rather endanger millions of human lives.
If trees could scream, would we be so cavelier about cutting them down? I think we would be if they screamed all the time, for no reason.
Skinnyrumcakes: Awesome
You think these freaks crying is hilarious, just wait when Hussein has his ass handed to him in November. These moonbats will be falling from buildings. Do moonbats fly? I sure hope not.
I thought I heard Stan Laurel’s whimper amid the keening.
I know one way of killing these trees without the use of any weapons. Have the very bloated Rosie O’Donnell stand in the middle of a forest with a bullhorn and let loose with one of her poorly constrcuted Haikus. Boy, I would love to be there, watching that fat bast*rd rant and eating a nice Spotted Owl sandwich and a delectable Baby Seal milkshake, with or without, a minced Asia Minor Spiny Mouse dipping sauce. Can you say bon appetit?
Earth First! Therapy second.
Pure comedy gold!
Just about the time I think I’ve lived long enough to see it all…along come morons like these tree criers and prove me wrong.
[...] are apparently members of a radical environmental group called Earth First!. They call themselves a “warrior society” that has charged itself with protecting [...]
Frosty, who was it who said “As evidenced by one of our most popular posts recently — see the video of hippies crying over the carcasses of trees and bemoaning the lost, beautiful “life” of rocks! — we don’t mind playing to a low common denominator so long as it lightens and enlightens the debate”?
There is obviously very little connection between this video and “the debate” about what to do about climate change. You are merely cheapening yourselves by mocking others.
I note that Chris Horner has an even funnier take at Planet Gore (Mock around the Clock, I call it):
EPA Senior Staff Meeting 1/21/09 [Chris Horner]
What really troubles me is, I can’t tell from which administration these folks hail.
09/08 02:15 PM
http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDJjNTQwYzg3ZWY4YzRlZGE2ODc2MTY2YjVhZDNhYTU=
Chris is an equal time mocker.
obama voters no doubt.
What the hell is wrong with them. They should be yelling and screaming in cities. Don’t scream and cry and bitch by the freakin trees. They’ve been through enough.