Gypsy was an agent for Earth First. That is a terrorist organization that has, among other things, performed "tree spikings." Those, in case you don't know, are designed to maim or kill tree cutters or saw mill workers. Nice folks!
Maybe Gypsy's folks are nice people. I know lots of nice people who have screwy kids. Gypsy was engaged in an act of irresponsible trespassing and got himself killed as a result. He was no hero.
Darryl Cherney and his Earth First cadres are not cute little bunny rabbits flitting about in the forests to protect the innocent chipmunks and spotted owls. They are dedicated Marxists. They hate our system of government. They hate our way of life. They want to bring America to a screeching halt. They prey on the young and the feeble-minded to man their barricades for them. If you haven't figured this out yet, I feel sorry for you.
As for poor little Butterfly. Take a peek at her bio, and note in particular the traffic accident and the severe head injury some years back. That says lots about her willingness to spend two years up in a tree and the ability of the Earth First and other terrorists to keep her there long after she had pleaded to come down.
You need seriously to do some thinking about the real world. Also, some attention to spelling and grammar would help.
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As far as spiking goes, the Earth First! movement does not support it. The protests are aimed at those setting the policies, not the rank and file workers.
Judi Bari's book "Timber Wars" has an excellent treatment of the spiking question.
ELF has in recent years coat-tailed into a timber sale Cascadia Forest Defenders/Southern Willamette EF! had considered contesting with non-violent civil disobedience.
They spiked that sale, and shut down any plans to do sits or other actions as not to get tied into the work of what are definately terror organizations.
The Earth Liberation Front came into being because some considered EF!'s shunning of sabotage and distruction as too little too late.
I have watched the local EF! group save trees by doing survaeys for red tree voles, an endangered species under the ESA. They consider tree sits and tripod sitting to be last resorts if legal actions or vole, spotted owl, or other protected species are not detected on planned timber sales.
They also remove ELF material from local bulletin boards, and do not permit known ELFers to mix with them. And you know what? If these folks were spiking and buring and carrying on like ELF, or ALF, I would be as death on them as I am towards ELF and ALF. And I watch very chosely to see how they are operating.
As for David Chain, he was being non-violent in his participation in cat and mouse tactics in those units above Owl Creek.
He did what he did out of love of life and the forest, not to hurt or damage anyone the way Pacific Lumber's owner Charles Hurwitz has.
Many of those in that timber crew cutting trees three times as fast as PATCO did before the hostile takeover by Hurwitz's holding company Maxxon likely have to endure layoffs that was a practice not tolerated in PATCO before Hurwitz.
Hurwitz used Texas Savings and Loan to finance the junk bonds that purchased PATCO. He was interested solely in plucking capital from a company rich in liquidable assets.
The U.S. government had to pay way over a billion taxpayer dollars to return Texas Savings and Loan to solvency. I see Hurwitz as a thief, and without ethics other then those that keep him true to the game of lining his pockets.
PATCO has been cited and fined many many times for logging violations, and some of those were deliberate and in the realm of the worst sort of scoff law activity.
He has bribed and bullied species survey people, and deliberately cut around the clock on two three day weekends he knew there would be no California Forest officials to stop what he was doing.
With all due respect, PATCO and Hurwitz are undefensible. David Chain in comparison was a saint. Here is a website that details Hurwitz's crimes. I doubt Gypsy could have been anywhere as bad as this cull is, even if he had tried.