Subscribe‘Rainbow’ Hippies Attack US Forest Service
At last some good news, from the Jackson Hole, WY Star-Tribune:
In a Tuesday, July 4, 2006 file photo, Rainbow Family members gather in a meadow in the Routt National Forest near Steamboat Springs, Colo. prior to forming their traditional prayer circle.
Arrest leads to Rainbow riot
By TOM MORTON
Saturday, July 5, 2008
U.S. Forest Service officers pointed weapons at children and fired rubber bullets and pepper spray balls at Rainbow Family members while making arrests Thursday evening, according to witnesses.
"They were so violent, like dogs," Robert Parker told reporter Deborah Stevens of the libertarian-oriented, Round Rock, Texas-based We the People Radio Network [www.wtprn.com] after the incident.
"People yelled at them, ‘You’re shooting children,’" Parker said during an interview on the network’s "Rule of Law Show."
About 7,000 people have arrived at the gathering near Big Sandy in the Wind River Mountains for the annual Gathering of the Tribes, a seven-day event of fellowship, partying including illicit drug use, praying, and living on the land.
They camp on Forest Service land around the country every year, but the Rainbow family’s nonhierarchical methods — no one can speak for the Rainbows, much less sign a land use permit — often have stymied their relationships.
But rarely do the tensions escalate into violence.
The Forest Service’s Incident Command Team in Rock Springs issued a press release Friday morning, saying officers were patrolling the main meadow of the gathering Thursday evening when they contacted a man who fled and was later caught. Another Rainbow was detained for physically interfering.
Officers began to leave the area with the subjects and were circled by Rainbow participants, according to the news release from Rita Vollmer of the Incident Command Team.
Ten officers were escorting the detained subjects when about 400 Rainbows surrounded the squad, and more officers were requested, according to the news release.
"The mob began to advance, throwing sticks and rocks at the officers. Crowd control tactics were used to keep moving through the group of Rainbows," the news release said.
Other law enforcement agencies were called to the scene, the news release said.
Officers made five arrests; one officer suffered minor injuries and was cleared by a local hospital; and a government vehicle sustained damage, the news release said.
"This lawless behavior is unacceptable and we will not tolerate it," said John Twiss, Forest Service director of law enforcement. "The safety of our employees, public and Rainbow participants is our number one priority, and we will continue to protect everyone on the national forest."
Vollmer of the Forest Service Incident Management Team did not return calls requesting comment Friday.
Rainbow Family members’ accounts told a different story.
One member who identified himself only as "Ryan" told Stevens he was with his two children in his tent at the Rainbows’ Kid Village north of the main meadow where the major prayer circles and dinners are held.
One of the 10 officers pointed a pepper spray gun at him and his children, he said. His girlfriend was using the latrine outside when four officers came to her and asked if she was smoking marijuana.
The officers then ran through the Kid Village and through its kitchen, and chaos erupted, he said.
Other witnesses recounted seeing about 10 officers of the Forest Service’s incident command team drag an older man from the woods near the Kid Village, according to interviews by Stevens.
A woman in the village told the officers to take their guns out of the Kid Village. An officer threw that woman to the ground and pulled her head back by her hair while she was being handcuffed, one Rainbow named Rick told Stevens.
"I got out and yelled, ‘what the f— are you doing?’" Rick said. "That got it started."
The officers backed up in a defensive position, and some used their Tasers on Rainbows, he said.
Rainbows called for their crisis management team, and Rainbow family elders urged the crowd to remain calm, he said. However, the crowd kept moving, and the Forest Service officers began randomly spraying the crowd with pepper spray bullets.
The officers, with their two suspects in custody, found an exit trail from the main meadow, and the peacekeepers urged the crowd to let them go, he said.
"These people deliberately, for hours, were aggressively working the camp over and working the people over," Ryan said. "They chose the kiddie village — the one place, the kids, to take their stand and create a riot, and I bought into it. … They were looking for an excuse to do some damage to us."
Ryan’s partner, Feather, told Stevens she was pepper-sprayed, and saw another Rainbow with welts all over his body.
Feather also recounted seeing a couple with a young child and an infant who had just emerged from the woods and didn’t know what was happening.
The couple asked the officers what was going on, and the officers pointed their guns at the children. The officers walked away, but one turned around and pointed his rifle at the baby, she told Stevens.
Robert Kinn of Afton told the Casper Star-Tribune in an interview Friday that he and his family had been camping and drove to Big Sandy because they’d never been to a gathering.
Forest Service officers gave Kinn a citation and a $175 ticket for allowing someone to ride on his vehicle’s trailer, and said the officers weren’t polite. "I was scared, was harassed."
Kinn and his family went to the main circle for dinner, when they heard people yelling about needing help to put out a fire in the Kid Village.
About 10 minutes later, people came back to tell the main circle the fire was over, and the crowd resumed eating, he said.
One of the senior Rainbows gathered the crowd and explained the clash with the Forest Service, and another man showed where rubber bullets hit him in the stomach, Kinn said.
Kinn and his family drove home that night, he said.
Zen, his wife Storm and son hike to their camp at the Rainbow Family of Living Light annual gathering in the Routt National Forest north of Steamboat Springs, Colo.
How hilarious horrible.
There but for the grace of not smoking too much ganja go I.
Hopefully someone thought to videotape this priceless tragic incident.
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July 6th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Glad I wasn’t there.
July 6th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Wow, I bet that little family has broken the world stench record (storm can go from ZERO to Stench in just under 3.2 seconds, effectively beating the rhino at his own game). Three little dung beatles in search of some attention. What did they say the boys name is in the photo, PigZen?
July 6th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Good Lord, I’m not sure if the Forest Service should have thrown soap at them or condoms to stop them from breeding.
I wonder who they will be voting for in Nov?
July 6th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
They attacked the cops, and got mad when someone used teargas and rubber bullets on them?
If it was me in charge of that shebang I’d have had the cops bring a video camera–and real bullets. Try to put a rock through my troopers’ heads, and they’ll put a bullet through yours.
July 6th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
I went to the 2006 gathering in Colorado (and the 1996 one in MO), and personally witnessed the forest service getting unnecessarily rough with people. I don’t know what happened here, and I’m not inclined to believe the forest service would point a gun at a baby. I do know there are two sides to every story…if you were camping and not breaking any laws…you would not liked armed forest service agents interrupting your God given (and legal right) to assemble in the forest. It is easy to dismiss this because of the name, or the people shown in the picture…but I am here to say that regular, american-loving, republican-voting folks can also enjoy such an experience….don’t be so quick to judge these people and why they go.
I will say this…the rainbow gathering would surprise all of you…the population is actually only about 50% smelly hippy…the rest is just regular families. It is actually a beautiful experience….because there is no money allowed…nothing is sold…all items are either given away or traded/bartered. To be amongst that many people just existing in the forest together is a remarkable, unique experience. Sure, not for everyone…but it isn’t what you would think it to be. They take good care of the land…elders remain behind weeks after most leave to clean up.
I’m glad to have been a participant in 2 gatherings and regret not being there this year. Whatever happened here is not how this usually goes down….and it is very disappointing to hear.
July 7th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Feds boot Boy Scouts for Rainbow Family
‘It appears the group has managed to intimidate an entire federal agency’
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/i.....geId=67976
Read the whole article and then tell me about the “two sides” thing again, Morningglory.
July 7th, 2008 at 1:43 am
The blame lies with the forest service. They should have told the rainbows from the beginning that the site wasn’t workable. By the time they brought it up, several hundred had already arrived. They aren’t an ‘organization’, Ot is 5-10,000 people randomally assembling in a national forest. That stinks for the boy scouts and I feel for ‘em. But the blame lies with the forest service.
Besides, what in the heck does this have to do with the rainbow gathering as a whole? I’m willing to bet that few people there even knew the boy scouts had an event in the same area. How could they?
July 7th, 2008 at 2:17 am
The Boy Scouts have not only been planning their outing since 2004 but also took the time to get a permit- something the Rainbow Family never bothers to do. The reason few of the Rainbow Family knew is because they couldn’t be bothered to check. Do you think they really would have cared ?
How is it the forest services fault that thousands of hippies just showed up one day ?
Don’t worry, the ACLU is already coming to the Rainbow Family’s rescue and we all know how they feel about the Boy Scouts.
July 7th, 2008 at 2:51 am
Because the Rainbows had known since last year it was going to be in Wyoming, and by May they knew the general area. The forest service could have informed them that they needed to be somewhere else. The rainbows have moved before when the site they originally selected was moved.
Besides, the Rainbows have every bit as much right to use the forest as anyone else. What makes you think the Rainbows wouldnt have moved if they had been told earlier…when they had moved in the past?
July 7th, 2008 at 3:04 am
I won’t argue you the point except to say I am not a fan of the Rainbow Family. I will however leave you with a greatest hits article from the NYT.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/f.....A96E948260
July 7th, 2008 at 6:29 am
The best you can do is dig up an article from 1988? Sheesh! So what…that happened 20 years ago. Because alcohol is such a filthy, dangerous drug….it isn’t allowed at the gatherings anymore….all drinking is confined to the so-called “A camp” which is way down in the front parking lot. And besides….take any sporting event with 10,000 people over a two week period (If there was one) and tell me there wouldn’t be just as many drinking-related tickets issued to a similar number of people.
As for the other, proper sanatation is STRONGLY pushed there…ie not leaving your latrine uncovered….these people know how to camp in the wilderness now. Again, the best you can do is dig up an article from 1988?
You hate all Rainbow people? Why do you hate me? Just because I would go to one? I have voted republican since 2000 and stand behind my party. I bring my own water to the gatherings I go to. I don’t drink alcohol (much less drive on it), and would never throw rocks at law enforcement. ANd finally (again)…not all rainbow people are filthy hippies (I am not)…only half. :)
MGS
July 7th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Enlightening conversation, MGS—we all have to be careful not to sterotype everyone in a certain group like the left is want to do. As for hatred, we should avoid that, too—-save it for those that truly hate this country and are working to destroy it from within, like Obama and his comrades. This all reminds me of what a wonderfully free society we still live in.
July 7th, 2008 at 8:16 am
So explain how the above meshes with:
-’Officers began to leave the area with the subjects and were circled by Rainbow participants’-
-’Ten officers were escorting the detained subjects when about 400 Rainbows surrounded the squad’-
-The mob began to advance, throwing sticks and rocks at the officers’-?
According to official sources - the 10 Officers were attempting to leave - that doesn’t sound like a reason to intimidate and attack. And I have a real big problem with a ‘group’ that can’t even abide by their own (self-proclaimed) beliefs.
The official report also said that the Officers were chasing a (one) specific man - if it was his choice to run thru the Kid Village with the Officers behind him - isn’t then the problems (and supposed chaos) there his fault?
There are two sides to every story - and it usually is closer to one than the other - sadly we can no longer trust the msm to actually report the facts but rather take sides and skew the reporting.
July 7th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Maybe they are just unfamiliar with the workings of firearms and mistakingly thought they were aiming at “the baby”?
July 7th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
“One of the 10 officers pointed a pepper spray gun at him and his children” - How were they positioned? Were the children clinging to their father? If so then there was no way for the officer to point his PEPPER SPRAY gun at just Ryan. Additionally, it’s a PEPPER spray gun. It is a tool specifically designed for stopping people without causing long term harm. I’ve been hit with it a few times myself for training. Burned like crazy and completely incapacitated me. I was fine after about 20 minutes of washing my face with a hose and bucket
“A woman in the village told the officers to take their guns out of the Kid Village. An officer threw that woman to the ground and pulled her head back by her hair while she was being handcuffed, one Rainbow named Rick told Stevens.” - Did the woman walk up to the officers, calmly and politely explain that this was where the children were and that it would be appreciated by the community that thte officers move out of the children’s village with all possible haste? If she did then her handcuffing was unwarranted. However, if she yelled and screamed and physically attempted to get in their way then she interfered with law enforcement officers in the execution of their duties and an arrest is required. You resist arrest and the officer moves up the force continuum. Perfectly normal.
“Feather also recounted seeing a couple with a young child and an infant who had just emerged from the woods and didn’t know what was happening.
The couple asked the officers what was going on, and the officers pointed their guns at the children. The officers walked away, but one turned around and pointed his rifle at the baby, she told Stevens.” - Were the officers sighting down their rifles at the time or did they just have the rifles in a ‘low-ready’ position, butt against shoulder and barrel a few inches down from ‘on target’. Low-ready is used to keep a rifle in a position ready to shoot in a high threat situation when there is not currently a threat but the situation has not yet been pacified. If the officers kept their rifles at low-ready then they would point at the children, but it would be obvious the officers were not aiming at the children. Naturally the parents would see the barrels pointing at their children and remember it, what parent wouldn’t? Or maybe the officers threatened the kids. But that seems unlikely, in a situation like this officers are trained to assess threats and kids aren’t high on the list, but two adults would be.
I remember Waco, I never want to see another incident of the US attacking it’s own people, but the tactics used here weren’t the tactics used against the Branch Davidians. Rubber bullets, pepper spray and tazers, all non-leathal weapons. It sounds like the officers were attempting to make legitamate arrests and the crowd interfered.
No real bullets were used. The officers weren’t trying to kill anyone, just to do their duty and protect themselves.
July 7th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
johnx - I too, saw the WND article. The boy scouts bothered to jump through the bureaucratic hoops (meant to protect the land) and were going to IMPROVE the land they were staying on. Why should they get bumped for the non-hierarchical Rainbows who do not condescend to do any pre-planning or permit gathering, and who merely “commune” when they gather, and have to be cleaned up after by the more responsible members of their group.
From the bottom of your WND article link:
“Scott Scheffler, a volunteer spokesman for the Scouts, told WND the various work projects are making “immediate” changes. In Missouri, for example, 100 acres of invasive salt cedar was removed, restoring the area’s water table, allowing grasslands to re-grow and restoring the area’s beautiful vistas.
Not only are Scouts donating their time and talents, they are paying their own expenses to travel in most cases and fees of about $250 per person per week, to cover the costs of food, housing, equipment and the like, officials said.”
It sounds as though mgs had a positive experience with the Rainbows - well and good. But if you ask me, the Boy Scouts are the injured party here. The Forest Service has more than enough to do without handling groups like the Rainbows with kid gloves.
July 7th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Hey, I agree…it is a lousy thing to have happen to the boy scouts. No one is arguing that. I also don’t buy for a second that law enforcement pointed a gun (pepper spray or otherwise) at a baby.
I just hate to see people so dismissive of an entire group (10,000 or more) of Americans whom (some) may dress different than them…or whom may choose grass over beer. Not all Rainbow people are filthy, communist, leftist hippies….I certainly am not. And while (admittedly) I may make up a minority there…the fact is that only about half the crowd at the two gatherings I went to were dred-locked hippies.
That is what shocked me the most…how many regular families I saw there at the two gatherings I went to. It was just another family event for many (about half) and that was quite beautiful to see. Gosh, I even remember more than a fair-share of elderly people. Blue haired grandmas were there. Seriously, I have pictures if you don’t believe me.
Sadly, that too you would never see in these articles. They will only interview the smelliest, dred-lockiest hippy they can find as it is a better photo-op.
I’m not expecting to change any hearts and minds…just accept that things arent always what you believe them to be. It is very regrettable what happened to the boy scouts…and anyone who threw a rock at the forest service deserved to have a night-stick thrust upon their skull. But let’s not knock the entire gathering because of this all. As far as I am concerned…the gathering is every bit as American as the boy scouts are.
Oh well, I think some of you (or one anyway) see my point and thus I must have made it at some point!
MGS
July 7th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Ps I missed this from earlier…
>The Boy Scouts have not
>only been planning their outing
>since 2004 but also took the
>time to get a permit- something
>the Rainbow Family never bothers to do.
Yeah well that is because it is National Forest…you don’t need any kind of permit to camp there. It is open to anyone who wants to use the land. That is why the gatherings are always held there, and not in National Parks or other lands.
July 7th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Hmmm, the Boy scouts are expected to go through the process of obtaining permits and reserving camp sites, They can reserve no more than 60 percent of the campsites leaving the remaining sites as first come first served.
But a group that has no hierarchy but have representatives, and are warned of a conflict are free to do as they please because its a national forrest?
Step away from that bong.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
That is because the scouts are a proper organization, card carrying members…and thus if their group is over 75 people…they are required to go through the permit process. The rainbows are anything but organized…I certainly never applied to go to one. It really is more of a random gathering of people, that a properly organized function/event. No such permit is needed for them.
Anyway, even if this boyscout event never occurred I doubt most of you would look at the rainbow group any differently than you currently do. And I can’t say I blame you to some extent…had I not been talked into going I’d feel the same way. It is easy to dismiss something that is different from your view of ‘normal.’ It is easy to dismiss something you have no first-hand knowledge of.
But having gone, I know what the event is all about and I have a very different outlook….I’m not simply going to stereotype 10,000 people as communist, dirty, anti-american hippies. I view the gathering (boy scout incident aside) as the ultimate expression of what it is to be an American…gathering together freely to practice and worship as they see fit.
I’d say that 95% of those attending did not check with the boyscout’s scheduled events first and had no first-hand knowledge of their event…it isn’t fair to blame them all. You are entitled to your feelings…but the blame is not on all attendees…the blame is with the forest service who did not stop the event (the rainbow event) from occuring in the first place, and maybe the rainbow elders who first picked the site (and didn’t bother to check)…but you can’t hold each individual member responsible.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
…but you can’t hold each individual member responsible.
Well, there was this place called Nuremberg where they had a trial once…
Sorry MGS, that’s a bit facetious I know. You’re making good points and I salute you for even trying. You’ve been on this site for a long time and know very well what the prevailing attitudes here are towards…well pretty much everything.
But - an old and very true saying, is that you are judged by the company you keep. If you and the blue-haired old ladies and the other ‘normal’ Americans go to such gatherings, you will be associated with the less-savory types. Even the name: “Rainbow” brings immediately to mind either the Greenpeace lunatics, or the homosexual lobby groups.
It’s maybe not fair and maybe not right. But thats the way it is.
July 7th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
More bad press for the Rainbow Family.
Researchers seek health aid for Rainbow youth
LINK
As of late Monday, 30 citations had been given out for unauthorized cutting of trees, possession of marijuana and LSD, and nudity, said NFS spokeswoman, Rita Vollmer.
http://planetjh.com/news/A_103779.aspx
‘A bad apple’
LINK
July 7th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
I live in Wyoming. I drove through the Bighorn National Forest over the 4th and asked a Forest Service lady working at Burgess Junction about camping around there. It costs something like $10 a night per campsite-so how does that work with the Rainbows?
July 8th, 2008 at 3:44 am
You must be mistaken. Rainbow experience aside, I go camping all the time. No permits are needed to camp in a national forest. Perhaps it was a national park? You do not need to pay to camp in a national forest.
July 8th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
http://www.forestcamping.com/d.....c.htm#fees
According to this, a fee is charged.
July 9th, 2008 at 12:48 am
The National Parks in Wyoming are Grand Teton and Yellowstone. Not sure of distances but definitely over a hundred miles away from the Bighorns as the crow flies. DEZ’s link says that fees vary from free to $25 so I suppose you have been fortunate enough to find all of the free campsites. What kind of campsites do the Rainbows use in their gatherings? If they are using campsites that other people have to pay for and don’t then I have no respect for them.
July 11th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
To morninggloryseed…
“The blame lies with the forest service. They should have told the rainbows from the beginning that the site wasn’t workable. By the time they brought it up, several hundred had already arrived. They aren’t an ‘organization’, Ot is 5-10,000 people randomally assembling in a national forest. That stinks for the boy scouts and I feel for ‘em. But the blame lies with the forest service.”
Besides, what in the heck does this have to do with the rainbow gathering as a whole? I’m willing to bet that few people there even knew the boy scouts had an event in the same area. How could they?”
“The forest service could have informed them that they needed to be somewhere else.”
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From one who unwillingly HAS YEARLY first hand knowledge of these rainbows…
In this one statement you took both sides of the same argument! The forest service should have told the rainbows?…and then you argue that the rainbows couldn’t have known about he boyscouts! The boyscouts did all they were supposed to do…The rainbows just show up and then think everyone should find a way to tell them…all however many there are…individually…that they shouldn’t come!
Come on! How in the world can you expect the Forest Service to “cancel” the rainbow event. When the rainbows decide to “show up” its a little like trying to hold back the sea!!! Good grief!!!!!
These rainbows travel all over the US during the year from National Forest to National Forest! To whereever the weather is comfortable for the time of the year they show up in any particular National Forest.
I live IN the Ocala National Forest in Florida. We BOUGHT and PAID for a home on private land within the Forest. Every February, give a take a month either way, we are inundated with these unkempt, dredlocked people. We have to keep things on lock down to guard against petty theft. You said money isn’t allowed…that they trade for what they need. The local store managers don’t call it that..nor do those of us who have lost tools or other items from our yards. Odd that we don’t have that problem any other time of the year. They leave public bathrooms so nasty that the businesses have to constanly close them for cleaning (after they try to “bathe” in the sink) or to fix the plumbing! Again this doesn’t seem to happen any other time of the year.
And pets…dogs and cats…We keep the pets inside or under watchful eye. Pets seem to be a favorite with the rainbows …even if they are owned by someone else!
One rainbow nearly hung a cat before my eyes one hot day.He had tied a rope around the neck of a neighbor’s cat while he was walking down the street with it! The cat was trying to get away and jumped down! I am hoping that they only want them for company…but since you said no money is allowed…you really have me concerned.
All in all mornninggloryseed..it is YOU that doesn’t have a accurate understanding. We here in Ocala National Forest have to live through it every year.
As to where the rainbows find to camp…They camp in the wilderness. Think about THAT impact on the wildlife that the libs are so fond of. I can’t do anything on my land because it might “disturb” the wildlife…however the rainbows can tramp all over the forest floor…from camp site to camp site as the Forest service moves them along after they over stay the time limits for camping.
These people are a burden on everyone who pays taxes
I just wish a few of these characters would work! Money IS allowed.
July 11th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
If only the DEA would show up.
It’s no wonder people think law enforcement is a joke - here and on most every college campus on “420″ day, law enforcement sits back, watches federal law be violated, and does nothing.
ICE, when notified of illegal aliens, often does nothing.
Liberal lawyers and judges have truly succeeded in using the courts to prosecute what they want prosecuted and have intimidated law enforcement into ignoring the crimes they believe are OK.
July 17th, 2008 at 11:20 am
It seems the Rainbow thugs are at it again.
From the Boulder “Daily Camera”:
Five members of the “Rainbow Family” — a loose-knit band of hippies that preaches love, tolerance and peace and is best known for its large gatherings every July — were arrested Tuesday night by Boulder County sheriff’s deputies after a violent brawl broke out at the group’s campsite near Ward.
Deputies responded at about 6:30 p.m. to a report that a fight had broken out among a group of a dozen people camping out in the area of Ruby Gulch, located on state Forest Service property along the Peak to Peak Highway between the towns of Nederland and Ward….
A man calling himself Papa Stone, 38, of Seattle, said … “It’s not what we represent,” he said. “We represent free love. We’re out here showing people you can live with a group of people and share life without the complication of money and bills.”
Ken, a 26-year-old Florida resident who would only give his first name, was maintaining a “trading blanket” along the access route Wednesday.
He said the fight should not reflect the group as a whole, and that the incident happened at a so-called “A camp,” where alcohol is prevalent. Alcohol is not allowed by the larger group, which has congregated deeper into the forest.
“We’re about looking after each other,” Ken said. “It’s about finding ways to live in peace with each other.”
This week was not the first time authorities had to deal with a serious incident at the Rainbow gathering.
In 2006, a member of the Rainbow Family angered over another family member’s refusal to help him “regulate” others camping at Ruby Gulch stabbed him in the neck, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Court records show that Joshua Sunchild Silva, known by his Rainbow name of Karma Chip, pleaded guilty to third-degree assault and was sentenced to six months in the Boulder County Jail in the stabbing of Gilbert Hernandez, 31.
http://tinyurl.com/5jcgq4
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 am
Rainbow Riot Recap:
July 3, 2008
Police try to bust a guy with dope.
Rainbows decide they’re not havin’ it.
Pothead coward runs away from the cops into the kiddie village.
Rainbows decide to obstruct the cops.
Cops tell Rainbows to go back down the hill.
Raimbows refuse.
Cops yell:
“Back off! Get back down the hill!”
Peaceful Rainbows yell back:
“No! You back off mother f*cker!!!”
Cops shot into the ground.
Crowd kept coming.
Cops shot into the crowd.
Rainbows yell:
“Hey let them go it’s gonna be Marshal law!”
If they declare Marshal law, I declare f*ckin’ anarchy!”
Woman refuses to move cops arrest her.
Rainbows yell:
“I’m gonna kill your mother f*ckin’ *ss!”
“F*ck you, you fascists!”
“This is our land!”
“F*ck you you piece of sh*t!”
Rainbow peacekeepers yell:
“Don’t escalate!”
“Everybody be cool!”
Rainbows yell:
“F*ckin *ssholes!”
Rainbow peacekeepers yell:
“Everybody calm down!”
Rainbows yell”
“Get out of our woods!”
“Get the f*ck out of our woods!”
“We want peace and love”
“Shame on you!”
“Leave us alone!”
“Anarchy!”
“Back up where’s the f*ckin backup?”
“Love your f*ckin brother!”
Rainbows start throwing sticks and stones at the cops.
“This world does not belong to you!”
“Get out of here! You’re fired! You’re f*ckin fired! Put your guns down!”
Rainbow peacekeepers yell:
“Be strong and be peaceful brother”
Rainbows yell:
“No it’s war! It’s mother f*ckin’ war!”
More Rainbows start thowing rocks.
Rainbows yell:
“Get the f*ck out of here!”
Rainbow peacekeepers yell:
“Hey you instigator, stop stop instigating! stop escalating!”
“Be strong be peaceful”
“Get your guns off our kids!”
Rainbows yell:
“F*ck you crackers!”
“Go home, go home pigs!”
“Pigs go home!”
“Mother f*ckin’ pigs get out of here go home!”
“I’m gonna f*cking kill those pigs.”
After riot, cops in parking lot give each other high 5’s.
General concensus: both sides behaved shamefully.
Shanti Sena tried to keep the peace, but failed.
*ssholes to the left of me.
*ssholes to the right.
…..
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