Rescue personnel were called to the scene of a logging operation in the Ramsey Gulch area about 20-miles south of San Jose on Tuesday night after loggers heard moans coming from the area where a group of tree-sitters has been camped since August, the group said. It was unclear how long the injured man had been on the ground.
In other words, there were other Earth Firsters around, but they wouldn't give up their place in the tree to save this guy. The life of the tree was more important.
Careful what "friends" you choose....
This doesn't surprise me one bit. I was involved in the neo-Pagan/Wiccan spiritual scene for about ten years. Even when I SYMPATHIZED with "Earth-based religion" I was appalled at the callous misanthropy of the Earth First! types who infest that movement. They LITERALLY WANTED BILLIONS OF HUMANS TO DIE to "save the Earth" from destruction. That kind of heartless, brainless nihilism, coupled with their navel-gazing self-absorption that completely excludes unhip patriarchal concepts like honor, loyalty and common decency towards other humans, guarantees scenarios like this. Perhaps if these creeps had been like old-school radicals, who at least HELPED fallen comrades during struggles, this man might have lived.