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Rainbow Family members start gathering in Oregon
hosted2.ap.org ^ | 6/22/2017 | ANDREW SELSKY

Posted on 06/23/2017 7:31:06 AM PDT by rktman

Concern is growing in a conservative, remote corner of Oregon as people start arriving in a national forest for a Rainbow Family of Living Light annual gathering, a counter-culture get-together expected to draw thousands.

Officials with the Malheur National Forest said this week that around 600 Rainbow Family members are already camped at a gathering site near Flagtail Meadow and that between 10,000 and 30,000 are likely arriving by July 4, when the multi-day event peaks with a prayer for world peace.

People with small children, those with disabilities and senior citizens were among those who wrote to the event's Facebook page, discussing the site near the town of John Day in eastern Oregon, accessibility and bus routes.

Some commentators expressed concern about keeping the place hygienic.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: communes; growup; hippies; rainbowfamily
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Well that's just silly. I'm sure the location will probably be even more pristine after they leave. I'm sure they'll stay within the boundaries of the law, rules and regs. But, probably stretch the crap out of those boundaries.
1 posted on 06/23/2017 7:31:06 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Might as well declare it an EPA superfund site right now.


2 posted on 06/23/2017 7:33:21 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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To: rktman

For more on the “gathering” of nature lovers and why locals are a tad pissed.....

http://www.capitalpress.com/Oregon/20170621/ranchers-fume-as-rainbow-family-set-to-camp-on-federal-land-in-oregon


3 posted on 06/23/2017 7:33:53 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: KarlInOhio
Might as well declare it an EPA superfund site right now.

Bahahahahahaha. But, yeah.

4 posted on 06/23/2017 7:33:57 AM PDT by mykroar (Congratulations President Trump)
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To: mykroar

Uh, what’s an epa? LOL!


5 posted on 06/23/2017 7:34:52 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

No, counterculture would be a gathering of Conservatives.


6 posted on 06/23/2017 7:35:58 AM PDT by Husker24
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To: rktman

Go to your local landfill or city dump and you’ll see what that pristine part of Oregon will look like after this congregation of lefty kooks depart.


7 posted on 06/23/2017 7:36:20 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: rktman

There will be a mysterious outbreak of shigella soon, I predict. They end up practically wallowing in their poop by the time it’s all said and done.


8 posted on 06/23/2017 7:38:13 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: rktman

Environmental hippies head out to destroy Oregon wilderness...


9 posted on 06/23/2017 7:38:26 AM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: rktman

They pollute the earth they claim they love, and in the process become their own worst enemy................


10 posted on 06/23/2017 7:40:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: rktman
Don't bogart the bong, man! (In my best George Carlin voice)
11 posted on 06/23/2017 7:41:06 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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Well, Rainbow represents hippies, and blacks and homosexuals in a wooded, probably hard to get to area (usually) so the mantra, “Hippies n’ ******s n’ queers, Oh MY” just might be apropos


12 posted on 06/23/2017 7:41:09 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: rktman

Don’t the folks who supposibly protect our forests work for the Fed? And if so President Trump should fire Dem all for not doing their Jobs!!!


13 posted on 06/23/2017 7:42:08 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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“If we were in control we would all have free energy, everyone would be housed and fed and we’d be having song circles every day.”

About sums it all up.


14 posted on 06/23/2017 7:43:12 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Morning in America Again, again.)
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To: rktman; flaglady47; Maine Mariner; pax_et_bonum
Sounds like an incipient 1969 Woodstock 2.

Read up on the disorder, filthy mess and incredible local disruption this "Peace and Love" gathering of over 400,000 really was.

Leni

15 posted on 06/23/2017 7:51:35 AM PDT by MinuteGal (GO TRUMP !!!.......GO PENCE !!!......USA !!! USA !!! USA !!!)
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What is the carbon footprint of all these enviro lovers????

The question should be asked, since they bitch at all of us and lecture us about our carbon footprints. How much carbon will they spew in their celebration of mother earth? How much will they despoil the environment there, as they celebrate mother earth???


16 posted on 06/23/2017 7:56:23 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: knarf

Isn’t it cultural appropriation, for them to hijack the Rainbow name? Don’t rainbows belong to the homosexuals???

Won’t homosexuals be upset if others try to take their name and symbol???


17 posted on 06/23/2017 7:57:25 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Rennes Templar

And those song circles would be mandatory. Oh yes. Nobody skips song circle.


18 posted on 06/23/2017 7:58:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: KarlInOhio

Some Woodstock aftermath in the background.

19 posted on 06/23/2017 8:01:45 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: rktman

Unless they’re queer families, they are guilty of cultural appropriation. The homosexuals now OWN the rainbow!


20 posted on 06/23/2017 8:08:03 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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