Looks like Civil disobedience paid off for the Sheehan family even if it cost them 100k in fines:
Although Liam Sheahan’s 2002 decision to disregard planning laws and bulldoze 250 trees on his hilltop property hurt his family financially and emotionally, he believes it helped save them and their home on the weekend.
“The house is safe because we did all that,” he said as he pointed out his kitchen window to the clear ground where tall gum trees once cast a shadow on his house.
“We have got proof right here. We are the only house standing in a two-kilometre area.”
And those who obeyed the law? They had this reaction before their council:
“We’ve lost two people in my family because you dickheads won’t cut trees down,” he said.
“We wanted trees cut down on the side of the road … and you can’t even cut the grass for God’s sake.”
But hey whats a few dead Australians if we can feel good about our selves as environmentalists right? And our green friends have wasted no time in using the deadly fires to promote their global warming ponzi scheme.
The entire global warming business is just a modern version of buying indulgences without any benefits to an actual soul.
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