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As of January 22nd all property rights vest in the government. Welcome to the USSA.

The mayor takes over the house? Emminent Domain? Children's books today are so GAWDAWFUL. I say we toughen the little buggers up with Grimm's Fairy Tales, in the original versions.

hmm...teaching our babies how to be good little protesters...

karin - no fairytales - the truth is scary enough!

There this book going around in New Age Christian circles called The Shack, where God the Father is a Black woman, Jesus is an Arab carpenter and the Holy Spirit is an Asian Woman. Its about a guy whos daughter is kidnapped and killed by a serial killer and is enlightened by a PC god and at the end the serial killer is happy marching thru the pearly gates on his way to redemption.

Isn't that special?

Don't look now but your Free Civilization has gone over the cliff and is doing a slow motion crash.

VanHelsing... along with 90% of the human race you hate trees too now... what happened in your life to make you such a bitter dried up old fart?

There's a solution to this, but it involves a lamp post.

The moral of that story is to not let the crumb crunchers play in your trees. This is almost as bad as the "Hope lived inside Obama" book.

The logical next step is that the land itself belongs to everyone, not just the shit protruding from it. Take that Indians! Oh wait, we bought it fair and square. Take that, um.. us!

This book cover has transcended post-racial politically correctness by removing white people completely from the illustration. That kid on the tire is obviously of Latin descent.

And why the hell didn't they just find another tree to play in? There's a shitload of them growing all over the place.

The real story was that the new owner of the house wanted to cut down the tree because it had a termite infestation and might've fallen, damaging his roof.. or his own kids. A small price to pay for the survival of a dryad, I suppose.

The Lamp Post? Yeah, that how they found The Island so John Locke could be reborn by wearing Christian Shephards smelly old shoes.

Kids up in the tree that I want down? I'd cut it down with them in said tree while they sing their songs.

Since trees belong to everyone, Ig uess that means the Fairness Doctrine should be applied to all print media that is on paper which comes from trees.

Well if trees belong to everyone then they need to pitch in and help me pay to get this large Oak in my front yard trimmed before the summer.

Anybody have Dianna Noonan's address so I can forward her share of the bill?

IOpian, no kidding. I had a big tall dead tree next to the house that I bought. It cost $1000 to remove, a good chunk of change. I will await my reimbursement checks to roll in from everybody.

Of course, try to find the mayor if one of the little comrades should fall out of the tree. Then the tree magically becomes private property again, and the owner is on the hook for the liability.

There's a solution to this, but it involves a lamp post.

What for, Scaramouche? We've already got a tree. Now all we need is a rope. Some assembly required.

Johnny and susie cant read of know history but they can have this tree hugger crap shoved in their heads its kind of like a episode of the stupid 70s tv series APPLES WAY where this family of liberal stupidheads sit in a tree to keep it from being chopped down then it was a episode of THE SIMPSONS as well i mean this is the kind of junk you dont want your kids to be tuaght so they write crappy little boks about these brainless little tree sitters its as bad as that movie HOOT in which a bunch of little eco-brats commit all sorts of fellonies to save some owls and theres a book called RAINFORESTS which shows a man with a bulldozer being washed over a cliff by a flood and he is shown falling to his death and the book says THE BULLDOZER WAS WASHED AWAY BUT THE ANIMALS WERE ALL SAFE this is the kind of eco-crap you dont want your kids to read

Wow... I've seen some hippy childrens' books but this one is by far the worst.

I don't know, maybe the children could have negotiated with the new owner, found a compromise, that wouldn't be too bad. But this? Wow...

I dont suppose these same little granola munching green brats would chain themselves to a abortion clinic to oppose abortion they worry about inanimate trees which are more intellegent then they are becuase they have gone to these liberal schools run by the NEA

"and at the end the serial killer is happy marching thru the pearly gates on his way to redemption."
Um, I've read 'The Shack,' and I don't remember that happening.
Here's what I can recall happening in the end:
MEGA SPOILERS!
Over the course of the time Mac (The book's protagonist) spends in the area around the shack, he is eventually shown the cave where the serial killer (Nicknamed 'The Little Ladykiller,' for his M.O. of kidnapping and murdering little girls, and leaving a tiny ladybug pin at each kidnapping site as his calling- card) hid his daughter Missy's body, which had never been found up to that point (Indeed, one of Mac's biggest regrets up to then related to the murder was that they couldn't even find Missy's body to give her a decent burial). Later, when Mac wakes up from this weekend experience (Which included him having to express his forgiveness of both the killer, and his own abusive father), he is then able to show the police the location of the cave, and they gain enough forensic evidence from it to identify and arrest the Ladykiller.
In the epilogue, it is mentioned that Mac was going to be attending and possibly testifying at the Ladykiller's trial, and was attempting to see if the police would grant him a personal meeting/ conversation with the Ladykiller. That's it, that's all it says, there's nothing about if the Ladykiller repented or anything.
Personally, I thought 'The Shack' was a mixed bag, theologically speaking. Some of it made sense and fit with my understanding of the Bible, other parts of it didn't.
Spurwing raises a good point about 'Hoot.' That film, based on the kids' book by Carl Hiassen (Who has a LONG history of writing books which blatantly glorify ecoterrorism, some deliberately intended for kids), has the kids depicted as heroes for engaging in acts of ecoterrorism to stop a nest of burrowing owls from being bulldozed to make way for a pancake house (The sweet, charming tactics the kids use for this purpose include releasing a live alligator onto the site to scare off the workers). Fortunately, that movie was a complete bomb.
This is just another one for the propaganda pile. As some others here pointed out, why couldn't the children just play in one of the other trees in the area?
Anon @ 8:55, he never said he hated trees and you know it. What he said was that a guy has the right to do what he wants with plantlife on his own private property, as long as he follows the law in doing it.

The only comment I have is this: My God that book is disturbing.

If my child came home with that bulls**t, I would have a meeting with the principal the next morning.

Checking out An Englishman's Castle I saw several pages from Trees Belong To Everyone scanned and shown. Speaking of property rights, I have to wonder if the Englishman had permission to publish these pages? It is creative property.

Speaking of property rights, I have to wonder if the Englishman had permission to publish these pages? It is creative property.

Walking on the sidewalk, I stepped in my some dog crap, I mean the dog's creative property. Sure hope he doesn't sue me.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 26, 2009 9:03 PM

Yes, of course, your values don't apply to people you don't like. Hypocrite....

btw, in the book, the 'Protest song' that the kids sing and their idiot parents join in on singing (In a mind- numbing display of sappiness, it says that even the birds join in on the song, and a sudden breeze causes even the tree itself to appear to be dancing along to it) is so obnoxious and stupid, just them repeating (In song, I guess) the book's title and frequently- parrotted motto, "Trees belong to everyone." You'd think even children could come up with a more creative protest song.

Back a few years ago a tree died so a bunch of moonbats got together and held a funeral for the tree someone read JOYCE KILMERS poem TREES and like in SALASLEDO CALIFORNIA where they make home builders follow the practice of FUENG SHEA some moonbat ding-dongs got together and bult a shrine to a dead mountian lion that had been killed by wildlife athorities near a grammer school MOONBATS THE CREAM OF THE CROP OF STUPID

Summary of book: Kids play in tree in bloke’s garden, tree has TPO (tree preservation order), then house gets sold. Woman moves in. Either she or her solicitor didn’t do their homework and fail to notice the TPO (hardly tricky - it’ll be one of the basic things the solicitor is looking for), woman tries to chop tree down. TPO gets enforced, tree lives on.
This is a literacy aid using a fictional story about a tree with a legal device in place before the new owner purchases the property. And that's what you're wetting your socialist britches about?!

Jeez, why not burn down a McDonalds just in case...

So somehow it's the tree's fault that the new owner's solicitor hasn't done his due diligence?