Berkley Tree Sitters Fined

Here's a post by Little Green Footballs about the recent tree sitters. A judge is fining them for the legal fees and other fines for having caused the University $800,000 for security and other things during the 22 months these fruits were blocking the University from starting a stadium project on their own campus! I say, good job to the judge and University, even though these tree sitters probably don't have any money (or jobs since they spent so much time protecting the trees.) Here's the full story:

The tree-dwelling moonbats recently evicted from UC Berkeley are getting a
reminder that free speech isn’t free: UC hits tree-sitters with expensive
surprise.

Berkeley’s infamous tree-sitters have been hit with a rude
surprise since they came down to earth: Judges are socking them with thousands
of dollars in fines and legal fees.

Ironically, much of the money -
which could total more than $10,000 per sitter - is going straight to the
University of California, the very institution the tree-sitters were protesting
as they tried to save a grove of trees outside Memorial Stadium.

“It’s
really vindictive,” said an attorney for some the sitters, Dennis Cunningham.
“They don’t have this kind of money.”

Maybe, but university lawyer
Michael Goldstein isn’t making any apologies. “We’ve asked the judge to throw
the book at them,” Goldstein said flatly.

UC Berkeley estimates it spent
more than $800,000 on police and other security measures during the 22 months
sitters were up in the trees. The university spent $40,000 alone on the
scaffolding that went up around the final tree during the last day of the
protest this month.

DB