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2004-06-17 Home Front: Culture Wars

Greenpeace action suggests new forest war

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Posted by Super Hose 2004-06-17 12:53:52 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 How did the containers get there? I mean the left considers GreenPiss supermen but I doubt they carry around three tons of steel in their backpacks.

And did they used Teamsters to haul the container? And iffin' they didn't, wouldn't the Teamsters be interesting in this work rules violation?

Posted by badanov 2004-06-17 9:14:01 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-06-17 9:14:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 A small tidbit of information that greenies never speak of. (Probably due to ignorance)

A tree through it's growing life uses carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. Everybody knows that.

After the tree dies and lays there decomposing it uses aproximately the same amount of oxygen and produces approximately the same aount of CO2 that that it used in it's lifetime.

That's Biology.

Posted by Michael 2004-06-17 10:22:33 AM|| 2004-06-17 10:22:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The containers were buried in landfill before it was learned that protestors were hidden inside.

Posted by Anonymous5246 2004-06-17 10:23:15 AM|| 2004-06-17 10:23:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Caterpillar 525B Skidder. That'll due it,however,I suggest a D-10/with rippers.Smash the container like a beer can then drag it out of the way.Minimum disruption of the habitat is the objective after all.

Posted by Raptor 2004-06-17 10:29:57 AM|| 2004-06-17 10:29:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Since you will already be operating in a logging area, we here at Rantburg U reccomend the Caterpillar 525B Skidder.

Ah. Caterpillar log skidders -- reminds me of a girl I dated in college.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-06-17 10:34:49 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-06-17 10:34:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 LOL RC

Posted by Shipman 2004-06-17 4:36:19 PM|| 2004-06-17 4:36:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Leave them there, in fact, add chains, then spread fresh venison around 'em...

Nature, gotta love it

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-17 5:09:55 PM|| 2004-06-17 5:09:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm no legal beagle, but for these activities, I would say document them and show that they are a systematic effort to violate the law. Then after this paper trail is established, get an injunction with some teeth that fine Greenpeace $1000s per violation. Treat this the same way as labor unions get fined when violating a no strike order. Hitting them in their pocketbook will get their attention real quick. But people need to do their homework. Greenpeace does, this is just not someone's whim.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-17 5:19:16 PM|| 2004-06-17 5:19:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Something I've read over and over again is that these big wildfires are started because (in incidents other than Ecoterrorist-initiated, obviously) lightning strikes the forests and starts a major fire - but only because humans clear out all the little stuff that would burn quietly. From what I've heard - and I'm no ecology expert - it's actually nature's way of clearing out the debris. (Please correct me if I'm wrong). Assuming this is correct, I wonder what would happen if the Bush Administration announced that they weren't going to clear the forests. Would Greenpeace protest that, too?

Posted by The Doctor 2004-06-17 5:27:36 PM|| 2004-06-17 5:27:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh, no. Be prepared for a summer of sad tales of well meaning greenies falling out of trees they're sitting in to protect and killing themselves.
In the interest of good taste, try to keep the snickering to a minimum.

Posted by tu3031 2004-06-17 9:12:20 PM|| 2004-06-17 9:12:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Doc - nature's way is frequent fires due to lightning, wildfires. By controlling the fires, but not controlling the fuel level - accordingly(i.e. no thinning) - we create an artificially hazardous environment, which results in fires that don't burn themselves out via chg in weather pattern/wind or lack of fuel.

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-17 9:34:58 PM|| 2004-06-17 9:34:58 PM|| Front Page Top

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