Title: I'm Going To Beat The &ucking Mexican Piss Out Of You! Seattle Police Brutalize Innocent Man Source:
[None] URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkrHk99jkbc Published:May 8, 2010 Author:Wet backs Post Date:2010-05-08 13:57:37 by Jethro Tull Keywords:None Views:2256 Comments:159
I think he meant that tree huggers make or create activities that are often illegal requiring law enforcement/interference and subsequent jail and/or court time.
Well, now you are talking about non-violent civil disobedience.
We want the authorities to be violent and even to hurt or kill us to help us achieve our goals.
When you go into a tree you invite action that defines to the public who the oppressor is and who is wrong. Much the same way Indians allowed the British to beat them when they tried to enter the mines which helped them to show imperialism is wrong and help them achieve their independence.
This is why we won in the Headwaters, and why they generally would just as soon leave us alone in the trees. If you climb a tree for forest defense without realizing you could die, you are a fool and not in touch with reality.
I nearly died in an urban sit and got a big out of court settlement and changed the way the city handles tree cutting and how they deal with tree sits.
I could of killed the guy who made me fall, but then I would of lost. My last minute hanging from that branch at 42 feet above the pavement I was calm and expecting to die.
I woke up in the hospital, I didn't expect that. We are not cowards. Go ahead and kill us. We will win if you do.
The silly thing about what he did by trying to interdict me causing my fall was I was only going up a tree not slated to be cut to hand a banner and establish a presence for a demonstration the next day.
I could of just climbed down and surrendered to be arrested as a trespasser when I realized I had a foolish and overzealous idiot on my ass. Or I could of gotten pissed and hurt or killed him.
Instead, as a very competitive former paratrooper who understood the mission, I let him corner me into a situation where I would up falling three stories to the pavement. I am extremely competitive, stick to the mission, and don't scare easily.
No boast, just how it is. And there are plenty of forest defenders as fearless or more so, and many of them are younger then me, and much better climbers. ;-)