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In article <JYM.91Apr27000231@remarque.berkeley.edu> jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer) writes:
>==================================================================
>      [From the March 27, 1991 issue of _Anderson_Valley_Advertiser_]
>
>      The PALCO Papers
>      by Judi Bari
>
>      Corporate millionaires are a vindictive lot.  Take Charles
>      Hurwitz, for example.  When he's not busy raiding other
>      companies, slaughtering ancient redwoods, or stealing the
>      workers' pension plan, Hurwitz amuses himself by suing
>      impoverished Earth First!ers.  Thus it came to be that Pacific
>      Lumber, also known as PALCO, is suing Earth First! activists
>      Darryl Cherney and George Shook for $25,000 for the crime of
>      sitting in a redwood tree.
>
>      Darryl and George have already paid their debt to society for
>      this ``crime'' by serving 10 days in the Humboldt County jail.
>      But the lawsuit asks for additional civil penalties.  Of course
>      Hurwitz knows that he'll never get any money out of Darryl or
>      George, since neither of them owns a thing.  The purpose of this
>      lawsuit is bare-faced harassment.  Such lawsuits are called

And of course, Earth First!ers are shocked and dismayed by anyone who would
participate in bare-faced harassment.  They attempt to harass and delay others
with tactics that, while shady, are usually legal.  Hurwitz just sounds like
he is giving as good as he's getting...  Earth First! shouldn't cry when
someone uses their own tactics against them.

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