June 20th, 2008 By Justin Williams
Tree Hugging Hippies: We’ve Got Video!
Fox 7 comes through with a news story and on-site video from this morning’s arrest of the I-69 protesters. After watching the video, I’ve got a few thoughts:
- Why were the two main protesters from out of state? It’s an Indiana project, so it seems hard for me to sympathize when the two main people involves are out of state hippies.
- The girl outside of the police station came off poorly. She sounded like the typical we were oppressed by the man type person.
- I still think it’s ridiculous that there were so many cops to remove 5 people.
- Chad Dick looks like he could be on the Colts offensive line. He’s a big boy.
Give it a watch and let me know what you think. I’m all for saving the environment in most cases, but I am not losing sleep over the whole I-69 thing. If it makes it easier for me to get from here to Indianapolis, I’m all for it.
thanks to TriStateNews for the tip
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Warrick Reader
June 21, 2008 @ 06:10AM
While I respect their right to free speech and their right to protest, I’m not really for sure what they have accomplished out of all this. They’ve embarrassed themselves more than anything else. I understand that they are anti-I69, but there have got to be better ways to get your message across. I’m not usually too big on building new massive highways, but I think the I-69 extension to Evansville is needed and long overdue. And I certainly don’t think that it’s going to be the end of the world when it’s built.
Treehugger
June 21, 2008 @ 03:05PM
Justin,
I think that their where more like 30-50 officers at least. They (ISP) had set up surveillance teams on both 41 North and I-164 and 57 just to watch for I guess environmental looking folks….lol.
Although I agree with the Protesters and Ground Supports efforts to stop the interstate peacefully, but am shocked by the 3 people who fled from police, to me that is not nonviolence civil disobedience….that pursuit could have hurt someone!
With the price of gas and diesel rising, seems like we need to invest our money in other forms of transportation, high-speed rails for instance.
I applaud the efforts for the mayor of Evansville adding 20 miles of bike paths…..Its about time our city thinks more progressively!!! Its a good start but we must add to our bus services immediately!! I would love to ride public transportation, but with the current route system in place, It would take 2-3 hours to get to a target location if you are required to transfer and walk several blocks to get to a bus stop!
Treehugger
June 21, 2008 @ 03:15PM
And one more thing, I-69 is a National Interstate system that will connect Canada to Mexico, bringing more illegal drugs, illegal aliens, and possibly even terrorists threw our communities. I think the NAFTA interstate Highway (I-69) will destroy communities along the way, cutting some rural counties in half, increasing emergency response times to accidents.
Thats why some of the protesters are from out of State, because this Interstate will hurt everyone in some way.
Justin Williams
June 22, 2008 @ 08:19AM
Sorry, but you completely lost me when you toss in the illegal drugs, aliens and terrorism argument. That is the biggest logical fallacy I’ve heard all week.
We may as well build that giant wall around our borders to keep everyone out. Sigh.
Treehugger
June 22, 2008 @ 08:39AM
or keep our jobs in
JERRY BILL
June 22, 2008 @ 11:26AM
Can someone get these people to go home
Jenna
June 22, 2008 @ 01:19PM
treehugger….dude…really….the Canadians are going to flood Indiana with Canadian bacon? Hockey players? Maple trees? Oooo let’s all watch out. Hell is breaking loose.
A. Supporter
June 23, 2008 @ 12:31PM
What the tree-sitters did was stand up to a government run by large multi-national corporations and unresponsive to the demands of its citizens. By INDOT’s own numbers 74% of public comments were against I-69. By independent surveys the numbers are closer to 95%. Petitions have been signed by well over 150,000 hoosiers to stop the road. No one wants to see $4 billion spent on a road that will save 8-10 minutes except the corporations who stand to earn that $4 billion in construction contracts and decreased costs of importing commodities.
The tree-sitters put their bodies on the line and said “if you want to build this undemocratic road, you must physically remove me first.” That the people in the trees were from outside of Indiana speaks to the global nature of this road. It’s the NAFTA superhighway and it’s construction will have far-reaching effects throughout the hemisphere. It will mean a loss of manufacturing jobs in Indiana, an increase in sweatshops in Mexico, and increases in mineral/resource extraction from communal indigenous lands in central and south america.
If all your information about the sitters or their motivations is coming from the courier press or fox 7 of course your views are skewed. Those media outlets, owned by giant corporate conglomerates, have been advocating the road for years. Visit stopi69.wordpress.com (click on resources and read the Collectivo Incendio article) or myspace.com/stopi69 for more information.
America is not free
June 25, 2008 @ 09:22PM
a.supporter do you even live here? What is your major malfunction? What a loser. You are just babbling leftist propaganda. If everyone does not follow you stupid view we are wrong. I’m a Hoosier and I want this road. Just like the I-64 has benefited Southern Indiana. US 41 is a very old road and can’t be updated to any type safety standards as a new Interstate can. There is just so long you keep repaving a dead horse. Its (US 41)still a dead and unsafe road.
My suggestion to you and your little leftist party is to move to Mexico or even further south so we don’t have to smell you in Southern Indiana. You sound like you want to blame America for all of the World troubles. So just shut up, pack up and “LEAVE”.
These people are so lost. They don’t live in the area. Now they are acting as if they are terrorists. Damaging other peoples property and trying to intimidate others. Wish I had just one of those hippie looking tree huggers I’d show them a little Southern Indiana Justice.
Jeff Malez
June 29, 2008 @ 07:04PM
This is ridiculous. I’m personally ambivalent to I-69. I can see both sides but just don’t care. But what I’m wondering is how these protesters can just up and have a little sit in some trees. I would love to protest for some causes I believe in but that thing called a job tends to interfere with that as I have to be at work every day. I’m wondering if these so called tree huggers have jobs themselves. If not, maybe they should get some.
Jenna
June 29, 2008 @ 11:30PM
I’m all for saving the environment…..but in the case of I-69….cut the damn trees down, pave the corn and soybean fields! I want I-69, and would thoroughly enjoy a quicker driver to IU and Indy. So please, cut the trees down, blame me, I’ll give you a dollar in compensation. But I’ll be getting to Indy quicker.
Hey, weren’t those people arrested driving a beat up old truck?? Isn’t that like anti-environment? An old, beat up truck spewing out black exhaust? We have all seen them. So the tree-huggers are polluters!
Gotcha.
You’ve been caught! :)
ch
July 01, 2008 @ 08:14PM
Not to mention the spray paint they used for the signs…hypocrites!