[UPDATE] Everglades EarthFirst! and the trial of the century (and what about that battery in the lake?)

Daphne Duret at the Post has the latest: All three Everglades EarthFirst! members were found guilty.

[UPDATE: The Post is all over this story and so is CBS12/WPTV. The New Times also did an article that's long and repetitive, multiple cut & pastes from previous articles by a former writer who likes to tell people he used to write for the Village Voice. Check back to this blog later for more on the trial of the century. Oh! And one more thing, see if you can spot one of the EF!ers on trial in this video from a Lake Worth City Commission meeting:
Continue reading the blog post from earlier in the week about the EF! protest last November that could have benefited from additional training and planning:]

Just when you thought. . .

Last November my good friends here in Lake Worth, Everglades EarthFirst!, had a protest in Palm Beach Gardens. It was a chilly morning I recall and everyone in Palm Beach County was riveted to the TV screen. The NBC5/WPTV helicopter caught the entire protest from the air. There was a beat-up old van in the middle of the road with two women attached to it. But they screwed it up.

The protesters disabled the van and for some inexplicable reason, with the 1,000+ ways to disable a vehicle, these radical environmentalists chose to remove the battery and throw it into a lake. Not kidding. There was no word if any gopher tortoises or green indigo snakes were injured in the throwing process.

Here is my blog post from last November about all this. 

Here is the latest news: the three that were arrested that day are on trial this Thursday:

Spread the word. This should be one hell of a fun rally. 

And one more thing, on that day of the protest last November, EF! made another really big mistake. When they stopped the van in the middle of the road blocking the Mandell Jewish Community Center they didn't know this center also served as a school for little children. As you can imagine the authorities are not too keen on little frightened kids being sent home for the day. Oooops.