Posted on 06/24/2008 10:29:33 AM PDT by girlangler
Shouldn’t be a problem if you want to watch from a respectable distance. Otherwise you will hear the common refrain “Pardon me, Rainbow Brother, but do you have a cigarette?” about 50 times in a row.
Truthfully, in person, the pathos of a gathering is such that it is hard to feel angry at them. And most of them look forward to a gathering as the highlight of their year.
Far be it from me to get in the way of whatever little happiness they can get out of life. If these are the meek that shall inhabit the world, they are going to have to fight it out with rabbits to figure out who will be the dominant species.
LMAO!!
I am joking and all, and don’t mean any disrespect while doing so.
I know a lot of good, hardworking, respectable people who are the “Woodstock” generation, and they still try to relive those days, not meaning any harm.
I am also in that generation, still love to listen to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Buffalo Springfield, all that, even the anti war stuff, although I disagree with it now. It brings back a lot of memories of my youth.
I’d guess many of those RF types are like a lot of those young kids today who have causes that are so misguided, like the animal rights activists. They mean well, want to make a difference in the world, but don’t realize they can do great harm doing what they “believe” is right, without researching and learning what they are really contributing to.
And, like me at one time, they can’t see the irony of wearing leather sandals to an animal rights protest.
BTW, I marched in San Franscisco against the Vietnam War in the early 70s (not because I knew anything about it, but because it was one heck of a party, was so cool, and I wanted to do something significant).
I happen to now be one of the greatest supporters of the WOT and our troops. And I regret my contributions to surrendering in a war we had won, abandoning our allies and getting a lot more people killed than if we had of stuck it out.
As for setting up a city of 25,000 people in a “fragile, pristine” area, (approximately 80 percent of wildlife, endangered fawna and wildlife live on public lands) and believing in saving the environment at the same time — well that’s just plain stupid, and somebody needs to point it out. And I’d be willing to bet a big chunk of those RF people are Sierra Club members, believe in global warming, and would scream bloody murder if a rancher wanted to graze a cow on that land.
Like I said in previous posts, setting up an overnight city of 25,000 people, disturbing the fawna and wildlife there, crapping in unclean situations where the runoff can hurt the streams and animals that live in them, well, that should be a crime. It would be if an oil company or rancher did it (it is actually), or if you or I did.
The RF needs to move to private land, or be fined by the feds. I am sure, with 25,000 people to contribute $1 apiece, they could swing it. They could sell tofu hotdogs or something.
Believe me, it’s been done before.
I grew up with a national wildlife refuge at my back door. Back then, we never gave a second thought to taking anything we wanted. When I was a kid, we used to play with, trap and keep horned toads as pets.
Now they are on the endangered species list. Do it now and you could end up in jail. However, I do love rhodedrons, and have many in my yard, but I danged sure wouldn’t harvest one from a national forest these days.
Forgot to add, Rebelbase, I trout fish in a beautiful stream in the Cherokee National Forest, and have looked up at cliff faces while fishing and see spray paint graffitti “Rhonda loves Ronnie,” etc.
There is a good reason for many of these laws and I agree with them. I can’t imagine what 25,000 people camped in a national forest shitting on the ground would be like. I danged sure wouldn’t care to fish in a “pristine” area like that, wade the stream for trout.
Actually, there's no reason the Rainbow Family and the planet Venus can't get along - which is where these nut cases belong.
Hard to bum a ride to Venus.
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