Posted on 07/08/2006 3:58:21 PM PDT by dynachrome
Now that the Rainbow Family is wrapping up its annual return to nature, the U.S. Forest Service is examining what it will take to return their campsite to its natural state.
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"It's shocking," Ottaviano said. "Now there's just this enormous trail system" in a previously pristine area.
(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...
When I think about hippies, all I can think of is Cartman and this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WurgdBKpjk4&search=Vault%20commercial
Deceptive headline; I was expecting to read how those pots of gold were crushing trees!!!
LOL! Me too! I expected some heavy Physics content!
"Deceptive headline"
Yeah, but it made me read the article!
Yes, well, all those pots o' gold are heavy content, indeed.
Indeed. And how they get there is one of the Mysteries of Physics!
LOL! I was thinking along the same line! Rainbows are in the sky, why would they damage a forest? Rainbows run a muck?
Until I read further.....
I hate those dirty hippies. What's worse is that it doesn't have to be that way. That group that does Burning Man every year leaves absolutely nothing behind. They even pay a farmer to come out and till the sand.
Oh goody.
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Just children out having a good time.
I thought it was going to be about damaged vegetation due to hailstorms of Skittles.
Guess with enough drugs they think they're still at Woodstock.
Un-freaking-believable
Normally I would say great minds think alike. But, living amongst the demented leftists, I find that I sometimes interpret things as pitiful demented attempts at logical thinking. What's your excuse?:-)
The less hippies that reside in Steamboat, the better.
And who leave behind dogs? 20-30 of them? That's horrid!
Lawsuit seeks to open Rainbow Family proceedings to public
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
June 29, 2006
DENVER — People flocking to a gathering of the Rainbow Family and who are now facing charges for camping without a permit and other charges are being tried in secret inside a cramped garage in a fire station parking lot, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
The lawsuit filed on behalf of Adam Mayo, a Colorado attorney who said he was turned away from the trials near Steamboat Springs, and William Randell III of New York, who is facing a trial, asks the U.S. District Court to order U.S. Magistrate Judge David West to hold the trials in public.
"The Rainbow Family chose a remote location for their gathering, and the government wanted to provide a court facility that would not be inconvenient for them," said Jeff Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney.
A judge, 17 defendants and prosecutors fit inside the garage, and there is standing room for the public and the media, according to the Rocky Mountain News.
Dorschner said the trials are open to the public, but extra seating and standing room areas are "first come" and "first served."
Federal officials were considering building a public address system so more people could listen to the proceedings outside the firehouse, he said.
The lawsuit filed by David Lane, an attorney who also represents embattled University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, also seeks attorneys fees.
About 4,000 people have arrived at the meadow north of Steamboat Springs for the event planned for next week that is expected to attracted some 20,000 people. The U.S. Forest Service denied the Rainbow Family's request for a permit mainly because of the fire danger.
Campers who were cited face fines of up to $5,000, but the typical fine last week was about $135. U.S. Marshals and Forest Service enforcement officers have arrested about 249 members for camping without a permit. Some also face alcohol and drugs charges.
The trials, which started last weekend are scheduled to resume Friday.
related articles
July 7, 2006 - Rainbow Family meeting winding down
July 6, 2006 - Rainbow Family's Colorado gathering estimated at 15,000
July 2, 2006 - Hippie group co-founder calls for Forest Service challenge
June 30, 2006 - Family builds kitchens in anticipation of the arrival of thousands of Rainbow Gath...
June 30, 2006 - Rainbow group prepares
June 29, 2006 - Gray areas in Rainbow clash
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20060629/NEWS/60629002
OK - and this same group was adamantly defended by several folks right here on this board - "they have the RIGHT" to assemble....yadda, yadda, yadda.
I say that those who so staunchly defended this group's "right" to meet in this national park land should volunteer to go help in the clean-up.
It has more to do with the hypocricy of these so called Earth People. They won't let us go into our forests and then trash it themselves.
Pray for W and Our Troops
"all those pots o' gold are heavy content,"
Well there was pot and it was heavy, but there weren't no gold.
Kids!
A bath, followed by a haircut.
The horror....the horror.
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I thought Jesse Jackson and his coalition had taken up camping.
"Deceptive headline"
I clicked on it thinking it was about a bunch of lezies making a mess in the forest.
Warms your heart, doesn't it?
First Global Warming.
Now Rainbows destroying forests.
Must be Bush's fault!
I have to side with the rainbows, both for being so libertarian that the left hasn't been able to co-opt them for anything of note, but also for their stubborn persistence in trying to tidy up after themselves.
To start with, they have an aversion to hierarchy of any kind, so no one is ever in charge of anything. This befuddles governmental agencies, who continually try to identify their "leaders" for arrest.
Year after year, it is a ritualized dance of confusing the authorities, followed by the gathering, with half-hearted threats and intimidation, and cries of woe that they are going to destroy the local ecology of wherever.
Finally, after the clean-up and re-seeding of the campground, one guy volunteers to be the garbage truck driver. He is the ritual sacrifice, as they finally have a "leader" to arrest. A brave sort, the volunteer could face either a stiff fine or as much as six months in prison.
But having someone who can be officially blamed for the whole event, and punished, closes the file on that year's gathering, so the paperwork is in order, and the feds are more or less satisfied.
All told, it is hardly a threat to western civilization.
LoL Thats at the top of their website!
Absoluely hilarious. All those back-to-nature Luddites driving up in their gas-guzzlers, lighting fires without permits, beating down the vegetation, and leaving behind their rusty junkers. Yes, let's save the wilderness and "hug a tree."
What is South Park?
I wondered why the streets in downtown Portland (OR) looked so empty and clean lately...
"South Park?"
The town in Colorado where Cartman, Kenny, Kyle, Stan, Chef, and the rest have many crude and hilarious adventures on Comedy Central channel. They diss Hollyweird all the time. Not for the squeamish. (check posts by eveningstar if you want to learn more)
It'll grow back, darlin'.
Before you know it.
Civilization isn't threatened, but the locals are. What would you have said if one of these hippies started a massive forest fire and the only road out was choked by Rainbow People trying to evacuate?
The woods are still dry from the drought, and the gathering isn't quite over. These gatherings should stick to the desert.
"I find that I sometimes interpret things as pitiful demented attempts at logical thinking."
Even with repeated practice, these 'things' are still the result of continual failure to establish a logical and truthful conclusion.
Instead, they lie to themselves about the truth, and insist we cooperate in their march into hell.
The resistance they encounter is fantasized to be Mongolian warriors trying to prevent them from succeeding in their mission from the 'god' they believe in. The one that believes in lies.
It is called dementiacratic pre-cracks. (sp? latin?)
Did you miss what the Attorney said, and how the Judge responded?
ISL (I'm still laughing)
(text of article copied from dynachrome's post. Any mistakes in text, or interpretation, are to be blamed on dynachrome)
"The Rainbow Family chose a remote location for their gathering, and the government wanted to provide a court facility that would not be inconvenient for them," said Jeff Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney.
A judge, 17 defendants and prosecutors fit inside the garage, and there is standing room for the public and the media, according to the Rocky Mountain News.
Dorschner said the trials are open to the public, but extra seating and standing room areas are "first come" and "first served."
Federal officials were considering building a public address system so more people could listen to the proceedings outside the firehouse, he said.
Now that's the idea.
If they wanted to make a spectacle of themselves out in the woods, then a trial out in the garage makes sense to me.
He should put it on the radio and ensure the everyone gets a chance to see the hyprocrisy of some groups like this.
Like public hangins (haaung-ens) in town.
Women and children up front. Standing room only!
South Park.
Not for the feignt of heart.
Do not operate heavy equipment while watching.
Surgeon General prohibited from admitting he watches it.
I was wondering since rainbows are in essence reflected light how on earth they could harm something.
The only thing I could think of was that shining light through the water droplets was causing a magnifying effect.
That's a clever hypothesis, actually.
AND their dogs, to go feral and kill of any small mammals that survived.
Hippies always say they want to change the world, but all they do is play music & smoke pot.
Cartman: Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.
Officer Barbrady: You can't just lock 63 people in your basement.
Cartman: They're not people, they're hippies!
Cartman: Naw dude, Independent films are those black and white hippy movies. They're always about gay cowboys eating pudding.
Cartman: Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.
Cartman: Only three more hours, sea people. Only three more hours and you can take me away from this crappy goddamn planet full of hippies.
Cartman: M'am, I'm here to check your house for parasites ... apparently, you have hippies.
Cartman: I hate hippies! I mean, the way they always talk about "protectin' the earth" and then drive around in cars that get poor gas mileage and wear those stupid bracelets - I hate 'em! I wanna kick 'em in the nuts!
Stan: I don't want to shoot the bunny.
Uncle Jimbo: No nephew of mine is going to be a tree hugger.
Cartman: Yeah, hippie. Go back to Woodstock if you don't want to shoot anything.
:D
A followup to the Rainbow family gathering. Tallying the cost:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1662871/posts
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