Yes, I know this person, and he is a real protesting type, the type with deeply held  and well thought out values, the courage to take a stand for them, and the grit to persevere when the authorities who should have protected he and and his companions  from physical assault add insult to injury by interfering with a friendly hike on public land . He is the type that spends weeks in the woods holding down our watershed for mostly oblivious thousands of beneficiaries in the valley below. He is the type that has often forgone the comforts of our culture because he believes that there are more important things than having the most stuff or the best job, things like being good members of our biosphere, good children of the Earth. I know this person to be smart, competent, housed, kind, and marketable by the standards of our society. I know he would hate me writing this because the last thing he wants is to be held up like some kind of poster for forest activist; I hope he can forgive me.