would you do it?

I had some friends ask me to train them so they could climb and tree sit protest. I didn't, much as I like to introduce people to climbing I didn't want my name involved. Now that I here the rest of the story I'm glad I didn't. I never thought that they would be forced down. I thought they would just log somewhere else till the protesters got bored.

A funny story associated with this was one of the group did a pole sit for the duration of the local fair to raise money for charity. At the end of the week he decided to do what he called a fireman roll to exit his platform. So he wrapped himself in rope and rolled off the platform thinking his fall would be somehow controlled but he almost hung himself.
 
I would. But not 'cause the money was right. I think doing many things for money is wrong. I think it is (or was) an issue bigger than what money could be made.

I'm sure some may have been motivated by the money but some had more noble motives such as he safety of some of the sitters and the property rights issues already discussed here. These might simply be rationalizations but sincere none the less.
 
Actually this isn't work for any arborist. More like police or military. The proper technique is the same as on the tv show Cops, if you haven't experienced it. Solve the problem quick if communicating isn't working. Disable by force, restrain with proper equipment, and lower like an unconcious victim. If the audience had been removed first they probably wouldn't have resisted. That was like the worst cat recue ever, because the cat could talk back. And if you've been following my posts of late they should be getting back to normal, as I've made it one month without ciggarettes,a fricking mindbender I tell ya!
 
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Stay with it, the worst is over and it's totally worth it.
 
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I wasn't present when the ruckus with Phoenix happened. But he did climb up that tree with the sole intent to stage the struggle and get it videotaped by the sitters in an adjacent trees. It was the best propaganda video they could come up with to use as a false example of the brutality and ruff neck methods used used by Eric's team to get the sitters out. But it was indeed a cohered and staged struggle for just propaganda purpose. And it worked for them very well.


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So this was the only struggle like this? Those extractors seemed pretty used to scrapping with people to get them out.
If this was an isolated incident lets see some video of successful, diplomatic extractions. I'm curious to see how it normally went.
 
I'm not at liberty to release any video content. Nearly all of it is the property rights of Eric Schats.

I hope someday soon he will post the full video record of all the extractions. But it is up to his discretion.

I do know there is about 100 hours of video that could be presented. About 90% of which would put a person to sleep.
 
Erick, along with all his team, was sued by the tree sitters. And PL was suing the tree sitters. And the tree sitter were also suing the Humboldt County Sheriffs Dept. And all the while the extractions were going on all three suits were active in court. This went on for nearly 3 years, maybe longer.

The laws of discovery in California allow each party in the suit to obtain any and all evidence that the other party may have, and use that evidence in their case against the other. So with the discovery law to back them the sitters demanded copies of all the video in Eric's possession.

So they got the proverbial golden egg to pick out the juiciest parts to make Eric, his team, PL, and the Sheriffs look bad on the internet. But they also had hundreds of hours of their own video to add to it. That's how the videos on the internet came about.

One thing the sitters sure didn't do is post any video of the open dialog that went on between Eric and the sitters during the extractions. Which constituted the bulk of the video content, and consisted primarily of Eric telling each sitter why he was there, along with all the explaining in detail of what he could to do if they came out willingly,, or with resistance. And all the deal cutting so the sitters wouldn't lose face with their peers on the ground.

90% of the sitters chained themselves to the trees in what are call lock-boxes. And most of them told Eric that he would have to cut the lock-boxes and chains to get them out. Other than that one formality everything else usually went without incident. And "everything else" consisted of cuffing them and ensuring the harnesses and belays were all in place. And then they were lowered out of the tree.

So,, most of the video content is just Eric talking with the sitters telling them step by step what he was doing. He was anal about safety and covering the teams behind. And so he was a talking machine in the tree and left little if anything for anybody to wonder about his intentions along every step of the way. And as far as the sitters using any of it in their case against him,, it was pretty useless in that respect.

Still it would make for a great eye-witness documentary.
 
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