http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/world/europe/06germany.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Findex.jsonp
The "people" didn't do this just because the felling of the tress, they protest about the money being spent for a new high speed rail being built, while the old rail in bad disrepair was just left to rot some more.
This very same thing is occurring in the United States. Blowing money on something new while the rest of the infrastructure is in a shocking need for repair. American government to, wants to build a new high speed rail
The embarrassment suffer by the German government is the violent way in which they tried to repress the voice of her "people"
There were a thousand school children at this protest and many of them got hurt because of their governments need to squelch the opposition to their plans.
Hoping to cool down what has become a growing political problem and national embarrassment for Germany’s top leadership, officials said on Tuesday they would not cut down any more trees or demolish the remaining wing of a century-old train station, at least for now.
Though the remarks by officials did not represent a moratorium on construction of a new high-speed transit hub in the city of Stuttgart, it did mark the first time officials inched away from an aggressive insistence that construction move ahead on the Stuttgart 21 project, said leaders of the opposition movement in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
Last week the police fired water cannons and pepper spray at thousands of protesters who tried to block the felling of about 25 trees, some centuries old. The next day tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets chanting, “Shame on you.”
