Posted on 06/22/2015 8:33:12 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
James Swan parked his old Dodge alongside the South Dakota visitor center, where grungy hippies were sprawled on a lawn and passing around a feather. The two-dozen vagabonds are planning to unleash thousands of their brethren into the Black Hills for prayer and free thinking. But Swan wasn’t feeling the peace and love.
“We don’t want you here. You have no f—king respect for Lakota people!” the 54-year-old Native American yelled into a mic attached to his truck. His T-shirt bore another message: portraits of warriors who had shellacked the U.S. Army in the Battle of Little Bighorn, alongside the words “Original Homeland Security.”
“They aren’t listening to anybody,” Swan told The Daily Beast of the phalanx of graying flower children and their next-generation recruits. “This might work for them everywhere in other states, but they’re dealing with Lakotas now.”
“We’re a warrior society,” he added. “We don’t want violence, but this is our culture, our sacredness and we will protect it.”
Swan is not a tribal council representative and does not speak for the Sioux. That isn’t stopping him from fighting the Rainbow Family of Living Light, a counterculture group that’s held annual gatherings in national forests every July since 1972 to pray for world peace—and deliver drugs, nudity and sometimes murder and other crimes in their wake.
To some Lakota, the love fest threatens to desecrate the sacred Black Hills National Forest, where 5,000 to 20,000 hippies are expected to dig trench latrines, fire pits and kitchens. Swan and his band of activists with the United Urban Warrior Society say they’re planning a blockade and will remove the bums.
“You’re not a tribe,” Swan added. “You’re fricking fruitcake people.”
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Back in the sixties.....had the hair and other ‘accoutrements’ but was never EVER a hippie. Did spend some time entertaining Hippie Chicks though.
Now I have NO hair and the wife has the last say on who I entertain. Cest La Vie!
They invaded the Ozarks a few years ago. Wonder if they took all the ticks and chiggers with them when they left.
A robust grasp of God would free them from such dependency. What we call gospel today is often a joke compared with what the bible testifies about. But their ancestor reverence isn’t any match for paleface bribes.
I see those hippy clowns have been leaving comments at the article shouting about bigotry , Yawn,
If they believe in love and respect then respect that people don’t want you so piss off.
I know your pain...
I’ve always despised hippies.
““I’ve talked to several Rainbow people who I believe try to be decent human beings,” Clark said. “And then there’s a whole messload of them who—pardon my language—are totally freaking whacked.”
...They pointed to reports that one of the group’s hippie pow-wows cost taxpayers $500,000 in law enforcement and forestry management in 2013...
...“We don’t want your drugs, alcohol, nudity, using parts of our spirituality in your rituals!, your free love, your lingo, your fashions, etc.,” Swan wrote on the site.”
I’m hoping the Lakota kick some hippie butts.
About time these layabout, drug fueled, hippies moved into the decade.
Lakota Warriors vs. Rainbow Hippies.
Sounds like a D III College Basketball game.
What the hippies are doing with American Indian symbols of reverence is kind of analogous to doing black masses, or reading verses from satanic bibles, if it were being done against a Christian context. Those Indians could really bust this up if they wanted to... and pretty much every normal paleface would understand. How about some 100% natural skunk spray extract?
Never liked hippies. Was at Stonehenge years ago when the summer solstice was going on and they released more of a foul smell than a skunk.
They leave places a mess and if they had respect like they claimed they would respect peoples wishes to piss off.
The author is being far too generous. They mostly poop wherever and whenever. If you go to a wilderness place that they infested the previous year, the damage is still apparent.
Those people are dangerous criminals.
At every one of these gatherings women get raped. Every single one.
There's nothing more pathetic than an ageing hipster.
“Free love” not just a right but a requirement huh.
Assholes
In
Moccasins
Both on and off the Res.
“We’re a warrior society,” he added.
That’s rasis.
That’s not the point... it is a spiritual thang.
(smothered snicker)
It could be worse...
Well it’s disputed land, so “get off my lawn!” really isn’t going to work.
Yes, the hippies are stinky and badly behaved, but to my thinking they are also potential customers as well as a nuisance to the Federal Parks system. So why not combine those attributes and profit off the situation? You might even make new friends!
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