A death row full of innocents

September 14, 2011   Pasadena, California  – Tonight 6pm at Jackie Robinson Center, 1020 N. Fair Oaks Ave., the Pasadena Urban Forest Advisory Committee will sign death warrants on 12 (that’s TWELVE) beautiful trees.  The Pasadena Public Works Dept. chainsaws are hot and ready to cut them down or pull them out violently by the roots and let them die a slow lingering death.

The twelve trees are located around Johnson Field in Hahamongna Watershed “Park” (an unprotected wildlife refuge in Pasadena).

Officials are reporting all the good reasons why the devil palms of Devil’s Gate need to die NOW:

1) Guilty of being non-native (although not invasive)

2) Accused of being in poor health. No trial (since facts support health)

3) Accused of disrupting water percolation (even though the 13,000 cubic yards of sediment dumped on them is the real culprit)

4) Indecently enjoy shedding frawns in public on a regular basis to make room for new growth. Disgusting and obscene! (see pornish palm photos below)

These non-natives are at best described as quirky and at worst ‘obscene harlots of the natural world.’ They have been sentenced to death for these and possibly many more unnamed offenses. This is where the denigration starts, folks.

WHO  WILL  ARGUE  THEIR  CASE?   WHO  WILL   SAVE   THEM?

Here are some mugshots of the trees scheduled for death:

Here is one of the arrest reports:

What’s goin’ on?

Monday at 6:30pm, the Pasadena City Council is scheduled to meet. Me and you you and me, or somebody, maybe anybody, should go to this thing. I know it’s boring, MIND-NUMBING, but there’s a few items listed on the Agenda (see below) that look kinda weird. That is to say, perplexing, possibly even…

suspect.

What do you think?

Source: http://ww2.cityofpasadena.net/councilagendas/2011%20agendas/Sep_12_11/agenda.asp

And, here is a snippet from CEQA Section 15061 (b) 3 on this EXCEMPTION they proceed, however, it is arguable that common sense has anything to do with this:

[Subsection (b)(3) provides a short way for agencies to deal with discretionary activities which could arguably be subject to the CEQA process but which common sense provides should not be subject to the Act.

This section is based on the idea that CEQA applies jurisdictionally to activities which have the potential for causing environmental effects. Where an activity has no possibility of causing a significant effect, the activity will not be subject to CEQA. This approach has been noted with approval in a number of appellate court decisions including the State Supreme Court opinion in No Oil, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles.]

Source: http://ceres.ca.gov/ceqa/guidelines/art5.html

So, what’s going on? First off, we know Los Angeles County Mayor Mike Antonovich ordered an EIR be performed by the Los Angeles County Public Works before undertaking the large sediment removal project in the works. That’s where the whole of Hahamonga gets leveled. Then amazingly, after it’s been completely decimated, the whole place gets landscaped with plastic grass and sports fields.

OKAY! Not the whole place. It’s a watershed, after all. There’s only so much one can do to destroy the City of Pasadena water retention. Personally speaking of water retention, lately, I feel like I am a walking water reservoir ( buried in Johnson “Field”) even though I have cut out the salt!

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