Posted on 06/27/2003 9:00:38 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Yeah, right. Picture a bunch of unwashed slimebags at a B.O. festival who use this as an excuse to go find a new place to go on a drinking & drug binge.
Nobody from what I can see is saying they can't meet, we are merely making light of their hypocrisy. I didn't realize we weren't allowed to voice our opinions on these fools. I guess the founders forgot to exclude us from the First Amendment.
Anyway, the operative word is peaceably.
Get drunk and fall asleep with a beer in your hand while you're there, and you'll wake up with it ducktaped to your hand.
The tagalong drunks, whom the rainbows despise, stay in the parking lot near the beer and far from the gathering in the forest.
I know most freepers don't like hippies and believe me they don't care for much of society, but I figured you'd encourage them to stay as far away from you as possible, and miles into a national forest is about as far away as they can get in this country.
Please leave these people alone. They're mostly harmless and just wish to be left alone. Besides, they are on the cutting edge of defending forest use from the feds increasingly restrictive laws. Everyone around here complained and moans when Clinton kept people out of the forest, and these people are doing something about it. The legal battles they fight ensure your rights as well.
Forest Service incident Commander Malcolm Jowers makes a career out of it. It's what he does. It's all he does. He's an unelected fed that doesn't respect the Constitution especially the Bill of Rights (that's usually unpopular around FR), and despises hippies, and is on a personal vendetta against them.
I didn't realize we weren't allowed to voice our opinions on these fools.
I'm a big defender of free speech. Voice away.
"Then in an unbelievable move of stupidity, some people threw rocks at the officers . . . It's regrettable that a few young fools would take it into their heads to commit those aggravated acts."
Please note those are the words of other rainbows condemning the attack. These people in general are far less violent than your average sports arena crowd.
That said these people are nasty disgusting pigs, I'd probably be tempted to trot my horse over them just for fun.
If they want to assemble fine, then they need to either clean up after themselves or pay to have it done.
Since they are meeting in Forest Service land, and have for years, it isn't a very successful career, is it?
Anyway, since you addressed this thread, I assumed you were talking to us.
Please note those are the words of other rainbows condemning the attack. These people in general are far less violent than your average sports arena crowd.
I realise that. Please note that the Amendment you quote only applies to peaceable gatherings, when idiots start throwing stones at people, it stops being peaceable.
Exactly. Freepers are always complaining about restricted public land use. These rainbows do a lot of work to fight that. But to many here, finding them personally dislikable narrows their vision.
I guess to them its all about who you are, and what you look like, and principles be damned.
Well, I'll be kind and say there's good and bad in every crowd. Rainbows are dirty and smelly and kind of annoying, bu they do respect freedom more than most people and they live it. And they are proficient at living outdoors as opposed to getting fat in front of the tv or loafing at a mall.
They're not afraid of doing something 'different'. I find that refreshing.
I agree, those who did it should be arrested.
Then again, I'm not much for guilt by association so I wouldn't roust the other thousands of rainbows for something a couple of dummies did.
One might observe that shower facilities way out in the National Forests are far and few between. Besides, I kinda like the idea that a bunch of hairy, smelly types are giving a hard time to the Feds who want to kick the people (including the hairy smellies) off of our land to make it a nice private preserve for the Clintonista ecobureaucraps. In case you haven't noticed, the Feds have been closing roads, putting HUGE metal gates across access roads, using dozers to put big boulders on the roads, and generally making the National lands unaccessible to the people. I wonder why? Let's speculate.
1st, the big time marijuana growers can make big bribes (and by big I mean BIG) to the federal types to block access to the National forests. Then they can grow their pot in peace, no hikers get killed by growers, etc. That's bad for business.
2nd, this way the wealthy types can go hunt illegally. No witnesses. Nicely private hunting preserves for the politically connected.
3rd, the bureaucrats don't have to deal with lost hikers or spend time out on the trails dealing with real people. Instead they can stay in their comfortable offices and drink their coffee on the taxpayer dollar.
I'm sure there are more reasons than these....
Thank you, that in my opinion is the biggest issue here.
but really, the resulting dysentary can't be blamed on the gubmint
They try real hard to maintain sanitation. I believe you in that it hasn't always worked, but believe me, Macolm Jowers does everything he can to cause disintery outbreak by threatening to arrest trech diggers. That's just one of his antics from his bag of dirty tricks. I find such wanton disrespect for people's health by a public official to be a disgusting and repugnant abuse of power. The man is a pig and a thug.
Sure you can, but it's a sign of low character.
Show up at the Rainbow Gathering with something that they don't like -- say a haircut, clothes, a beer, store-bought tofu, or a gun -- and they'll enforce their own sensibilities.
You got me there. They aren't perfect, heck, they're light years from perfect. But I will say a positive attitude and a smile go a long way when you're a stranger in a strange land.
I agree. My best friend and his wife are part of this movement (not specifically Rainbow warriors), generally thought of as modern "hippies". I hang around with them quite often, and also with many of their friends. I was best man at their wedding. They are both prolife, and religious. But they are very environmentalist and pro freedom. I enjoy hanging out with these folks. They are unpretentious, fun, freedom-loving free spirits. Granted there are some far left socialist kooks in their midst, but most of them are anti-big government, and my friend is downright conservative, or at least libertarian on many issues (gun rights for example, even though he doesn't own a gun).
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