A question to ask of these protestors...

Do you have a job?

Keystone XL pipeline work splits trees, divides opinion

WINNSBORO - Sitting in trees more than 40 feet above pipeline construction crews, two men have come up with an ultimatum.

"Until TransCanada can give me a legally binding document that they're not going to cut any of these trees down, I'm not coming down from here," said one of the men.

The problem, local residents say, is that the men are sitting in someone else's trees.

And if I owned the land I'd be cutting the tree myself...and then after they got down I'd prosecute them for criminal trespass.

For more than a month, a group calling itself Tar Sands Blockade has embarked on the most aggressive effort yet to stop work on the southern portion of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline.

Protesters have locked themselves to heavy machinery, stood in front of working equipment and taken to the trees in a network of platforms, tarp and rope, hoping to prevent work on the $2.3 billion Oklahoma-Texas leg of a line eventually planned to link Canada with the Gulf Coast....

...Protesters outsiders

Except for a handful of property owners who object to the pipeline, most of the demonstrators have not been local, said Leslie Boorman, a Winnsboro resident who works at a computer repair shop in town. Both men in the trees said they are from outside of Texas....

...The men, identifying themselves by aliases saying they fear legal action by TransCanada, said they were comfortable surviving on canned food, books and often confrontational conversations with security workers standing about four stories below them.

They were the holdouts of a group that once totaled nine tree protesters. The rest descended after TransCanada decided to shift its pipeline route around the group's platforms and banners, one of which reads "You Shall Not Pass."...

Or if you don't want to cut the tree down, just cut them off from resupply...a couple of K9s around these idiots will probably keep supporters away.

More to the point, these professional protestors have no business on another man's property. They are criminals and need to be treated as such. Hopefully they spend some time in the county jail soon.