Comments on: Man Arrested Helping Tree Sit, Abuse of Sitters Continues

By: Miner

Miner — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:22:56 +0000

The snow is coming this week end let the bastards freeze in the dark…or rather the light

By: Watcher

Watcher — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:32:15 +0000

Guin, are you prepared to take financial responsibility if one of these young people’s parents choose to sue if something were to happen to their children? I am sure Massey has the liability well covered. How bout C G Z ?

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:38:35 +0000

Way to go Climate Ground Zero! Keep up the good work. We’re watching from Pennsylvania.

By: Guinstigator

Guinstigator — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:11:12 +0000

Watcher, I am a member of Climate Ground Zero. And we will take responsibility for our people. As a matter of fact, we always have. But if something were to happen to our people due to disregard of their safety by Massey or it’s employees, that would nor be for us to take responsibility. That would be on Masesey. Don Blankenship admitted in his debate il Bobby Kennedy that he cannot extract coal legally undedr EPA rules and regulations. So who is committing crimes here?

Em, we truly appreciate your support. Thank you so much.

You’ll never leave brushy alive I have left a few times, and as far as I can tell, I am still alive. Empty threats won’t deter me. And hoping our people will fall won’t work. They are too well trained, too determined and too well schooled in non violent civel disobedience to worry about such ludicrous comments. We are committed to saving the mountains and doing so nonviolently.

By: em

em — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:57:13 +0000

Nope Watcher I am not a “member”. I will support them in any way I can though.

By: Watcher

Watcher — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:55:15 +0000

Em, do I take it you are a member of CGZ? If so I commend you, If not I still commend you for taking responsibility for those who choose not to.

By: em

em — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:28:04 +0000

Dear Watcher…..if they don’t I will.

By: Watcher

Watcher — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:27:39 +0000

If something were to happen to these tree sitters, would Climate Ground Zero do the “just” or “right” thing and accept responsibility?

By: em

em — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:31:19 +0000

(cont.) and merely lawful behavior does not always rise to the higher standard of being just. That is, to treat law and justice as meaning the same thing, may lead to an error in thinking: Just because a society has laws, therefore those laws are just.

Just because Massey owns the mountain legally does not justify the destruction that is taking place. And although the “sitters” are “trespassing” does not mean their actions are not just when it is the “right” thing to do for us all.

Isaiah 24:4-6. The earth dries up and withers, the world languished and withers, the exalted of the earth languish. The earth lies under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt.

By: em

em — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:24:31 +0000

Isaiah 55:12-13. The mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. All this will be a memorial for the Lord, a sign that for all time will not be cut off.

Isaiah 11:9. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

Lev. 25:23-24. The land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants. Throughout the country that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

Dear, “you’ll never leave brusy alive”…..those are just but a few. Do you want more? I think you confuse the words “law” and “justice”. Most people use the two words synonymously (together) but there is a danger in equating the tool of law exactly with the higher ethical value of justice. Ethical behavior almost always exceeds the lower level of lawful behavior.