Begin forwarded message: Date: June 30, 2006 11:16:26 PM PDT Subject: [ctrl] FYI: 500 Rainbow Tribe Members Detained In The Name Of Homeland Security!!!!
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Date: June 30, 2006 10:49:51 PM PDT (CA) Subject: 500 Rainbow Tribe Members Detained In The Name Of Homeland Security!!!!
Rainbow Children Detained In The Name Of Homeland Security!!!!
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/27/18283162.php
-----<snip>-----They are arresting EVERYONE! Any one on road or in area are being taken to a round up point to be taken to Detention camps!
The family has been determined to be a threat to Homeland Security" <snip>
Please take the time to read this and do your part to help. Details
are at the bottom on how to help.
Thanks: The Freedom Files w Heretic.X
I Have Woken UP!
Corporations_Ate_My_BABY!
Summary:
Since 1972 people from all over the US and the world make a trek to
the National Forests for something called "The Gathering Of The
Tribes" to express activism mixed with alternative spiritual
practices and prayer.
The Bush Administration has spent millions of dollars trying to stop
the Rainbow Gatherings. 500 people who have been issued citations,
are then being herded into "trials" like none anyone has seen before
in America.
These pseudo trials are likely prototypes for what Homeland Security
will use in the cases of insurrection or even a plague. Defendants
inexplicably lose the right to a public hearing (this year these
hearings are being held behind closed doors in a firehouse garage
near the site.)
Attorneys and legal observers have been denied the right to even view
these trials. The defendants are not explained their rights nor
afforded the right to an attorney, the right to summon witnesses, the
right to a jury trial, even fresh water!
We must understand that if these citizens lose their constitutional
right to gather, we all lose such rights. This year the Rainbow
Gathering is being used to set precedents that will be turned against
drug policy, civil liberty, anti-war or other activists in the near
future. Phone Numbers and A list Of Actions You Can Take Are listed
at the end of the full story posted below and marked with **asterisks**.
Original Post From:
----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: Fight American Fascism
EVERYONE!. This is serious businesss. This is not a joke, or anytime
to ignore what is really going on. I am posting this again in an
attempt to get EVERYONE involved. These people are having all of
their rights violated and being thrown into all of those nice prison
camps that we have heard so much about. It is your American duty to
help these people. I have inclosed latest letter that I recieved
right below. PLEASE help in every way possible so we can show the
department of Homeland Security that we are not afraid and that they
can not do this!
From: LEXX
My Original post has been deleted and they will not let me post this
any more.
At last contact, there are about 2-300 sites on other side of
Roadblock. They are arresting EVERYONE! Any one on road or in area
are being taken to a round up point to be taken to Detention camps!
The family has been determined to be a threat to Homeland Security,
so begins the first MASS ARRESTS!
THIS NEEDS TO GET OUT VERY SERIOUSLY! THIS IS A WACO TYPE SCENARIO
ABOUT TO HAPPEN!
PLEASE GET THIS OUT TO EVERY ONE YOU KNOW
THANKS,LEXX
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I don't care who you are, or what you're beliefs are, you NEED to
help with this in order to protect our freedoms. Please read this
article and voice you're support by calling you're representatives
and everyone else. I know most of you don't read or act on what I
post but PLEASE do it this time. We have now lost our free internet
because we didn't do enough, let's not lose our right to assemble.
From: LEXX
Dear Friends and Family,
I need your help to protect my family, the collective efforts of tens
of thousands of citizens known as the "Rainbow Family." This week,
near Steamboat Springs, Colorado, the U.S. Forest Service has taken
illegal action to stop this annual assembly for _expression and
prayer, in gross violation of the participants essential
Constitutional rights.
The 'Rainbow' Gatherings have borne a legacy of spiritual & cultural
pilgrimage to the National Forests since 1972, the purest exercise of
open consensual assembly in our time. The annual 'Gathering of the
Tribes' draws thousands over the first week of July, focusing on the
4th as a holy day of prayer for peace and freedom. In recent years
small regional events in this mode have emerged, and such gatherings
have taken place in many nations around the world.
THE GATHERING EXPERIENCE --
Some say the "Rainbow" Gathering is the continuation of the idealism
of Woodstock. I think of it more as my annual spiritual retreat and
family reunion. Since 1980, I have gathered with my family to compare
ideas and pray for peace. I arrive loaded with the burdens of my
work, depressed about the world situation. Each year I depart with my
faith in humankind renewed and with the energy to fight the beast
another year.
The rainbow family is not organized in any way; it is an exercise in
self-determination and cooperation in the public interest, without
need of government controls. We understand that no matter what comes
down, it is the respect and care for each other that win in the end.
We have no leaders or leadership, we have no offices or officers, we
have no treasurer or treasury. We sit in counsel, often for days at a
time in order to make mutual decisions, but there is no power to
enforce these decisions on any individual. In the end, just like in
society, it works because enough responsible people make sure that
what needs to be done gets done.
We have been doing rainbow gatherings for over 30 years, each time in
a different national forest across the country. We come in and set up
a village in the woods. Cooperative kitchens pour out a wide variety
of foods. Seminars on just about any topic are run by the hour.
The Rainbow is known as a healing gathering; people with various
ailments come for help. Here in one place they can receive healing,
from herbalists, acupuncturists, chiropractors and masseuses working
with osteopaths and physicians. These healers work as a team and
share their knowledge in a holistic approach that teaches all
involved a lot about the roots of medicine.
Religious groups, ranging from Christians to Hare Krishnas set up
camps. It's truly a free society. We go pretty far back in the woods
to get away from the ills of civilization like alcohol and hard
drugs. We have our gathering and then restore any damage we cause to
the woods. And we have a perfect record of restoration of the forest.
It's great to walk through a gathering and see so many people but not
a scrap of paper on the ground, not a cigarette butt in sight. Each
year we train thousands of newcomers how to get along in the woods
without destroying the place. Knowledgeable Forest Servide 'Resource'
personnel love us; it's the Federal bureaucrats and police from
Washington who are on our case.
REPRESSIVE FEDERAL POLICIES --
The Bush Administration has spent millions of dollars trying to stop
the Rainbow Gatherings. They are enforcing a 'Noncommercial Group
Use' permit regulation that is impossible for unaffiliated
individuals to comply with. 36 CFR 251.54 They require that that
someone sign as an agent for a fictional group entity named as permit
Holder -- which then must assume full liability from the Government
and bind participants vicariously to its terms.
By the creed of the gatherings, no one can appoint themselves to such
a position. More importantly, such an ad hoc gathering has no legal
capacity to designate agents or act as a group party in any way. As a
result, individuals are denied personal standing in First Amendment
exercise and subjected to harsh criminal prosecution for being
anywhere near the area
The Forest Service requires that a permit be applied for in advance
of the gathering. And they use any excuse possible to deny a permit
application when we manage to submit one. This year their denial was
based on the fact that a logging company had a permit to log in a
nearby parcel of the national forest, even though there is no logging
activity present whatsoever. The site is far remote from any
inhabitants -- but still the Forest Service is all over our case.
Millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent to block this harmless
gathering from taking place. The scariest aspect of all this is how
Homeland Security is using these gatherings to perfect their
techniques of martial law. Regulations written for the Federal
Emergency Management Authority to deal with natural disasters are now
being used to crush dissent in this country.
Each year the Rainbow Gathering is declared a "National Incident" and
federal military law ensues. A Special Agent is appointed "Incident
Commander", with a Delegation of Authority, a large law enforcement
"Team", and huge budget to control the gathering. Qualified Forest
Service administrators lose their power, while the county sheriff and
other officials are brought into targeted law enforcement actions by
inclusion in the Incident Team and other inter-agency agreements.
Each year Homeland Security gains more power over the individuals
involved.
RIGHTS CRISIS IN COLORADO --
At this writing Forest Service law enforcement has issued over 500
tickets to the early arrivals at the gathering in Colorado. They have
blocked the road and have prevented food and water from reaching
those who managed to get into the gathering before the police
roadblock was set up.
The 500 people with tickets are being herded into trials like none
anyone has seen before in America. These pseudo trials are prototypes
for what Homeland Security will use in the cases of insurrection or
even a plague. Defendants lose the right to a public hearing (this
year these hearings are being held behind closed doors in a firehouse
garage near the site.
Attorneys and legal observers have been denied the right to even view
these trials. The defendants are not explained their rights nor
afforded the right to an attorney, the right to summon witnesses, the
right to a jury trial, etc. Defendants ordered to appear each day at
9:00 a.m. and sit in the hot sun without water or sanitary facilities
until their trials. Some have now been waiting for several days.
These abbreviated trials only take a few minutes. Last year I tried
to help a string of defendants defend themselves in these trials but
felt helpless to do much as the system was clearly stacked against them.
This year is especially frustrating to me as I have to watch this
come down from 6000 miles away. Right now I am in Hungary at a
medical conference for my employment. I am flying home on Thursday
and plan on being in court Saturday, July 1st, to defend some of my
best friends who got a ticket for illegally gathering as they drove
down a public highway.
WHAT TO DO --
The confrontation this year is getting more intense by the minute,
which is why I am asking for your help. The only way to stop a
massive conflagration in Colorado in the next few days is to get
thousands of people to contact their political representatives as
well as the responsible administrators at the Forest Service to
demand that this repression stop immediately.
Please, even if you can never conceive of yourself at a Rainbow
Gathering, you must understand that if these citizens lose their
constitutional right to gather, we all lose such rights. This year
the Rainbow Gathering is being used to set precedents that will be
turned against drug policy, civil liberty, anti-war or other
activists in the near future.
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Following are some instructions on who to write and/or call
We hope to start flooding the Department of Agriculture and the
Forest Service with complaints starting Monday morning and not
stopping until harassment stops. It is especially important that we
get a few Congressional representative and Senators concerned enough
to write the Forest Service for an explanation of why so much money
is being spent to keep people from camping in the National Forest set
aside for exactly that purpose.
Please keep the pressure on these bureaucrats until we are able to
spread the word that the government has backed off and that the
gathering can proceed unhindered.
If you do not know the contact information for your Congressman or
Senator, you can find this here. You can call your representative at
212-224-3121. Besides your representatives in Washington, please call
and write the following people to voice your protest to this harsh
treatment of people who just want to go on a camping trip in the
woods. Keep the calls coming until word is passed around that the
government has called off their dogs. Please forward this letter to
your friends and feel free to re-post it on any listserv or website
you wish. Email me if you have any questions.
Don E Wirtshafter
Attorney at Law
Box 18 Guysville, OH 45735
740 662 5297
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
USDA, Natural Resources & Environment
Mark Rey, USDA Undersecretary
1400 Independence Ave. SW, .. 217-E
Washington, DC 20250
202-720-7173 Fax: 202-720-0632
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kathleen Gause, Director 202-205-8534
USDA Forest Service
Civil Rights Staff
Stop Code 1142
1400 Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington., DC 20250-1142
Tel (202) 205-1585
Office of the Chief
Dale Bosworth, Chief
USDA Forest Service
Yates Federal Building (4NW Yates)
201 14th Street, SW - Washington, DCÊ20250
202-205-1661; Fx: 202-205-1765
Executive Assistant...Karla Hawley, 202 -205-1195
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests,
Mary H. Peterson, Supervisor
2468 Jackson Street -- Laramie, WY 82070-6535
307-745-2300 Fax: 307-745-2398
U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region (R-2)
Rick Cables, Regional Forester
Mail: P.O. Box 25127 -- Lakewood, CO 80225-0127
303-275-5451
Richard Stem, Deputy Regional Forester, Resources: 303-275-5451
Steve Silverman, Office of General Counsel, Regional Attorney:
303-275-5536
Bill Fox, Law Enforcement & Investigations, Special Agent in Charge:
303-275-5253
Jerome Romero, Deputy Director of Civil Rights: 303-275-5340
Some resources to research these issues further:
The best Rainbow website:
http://www.welcomehome.org
A good article written before the feds came down hard:
http://www.csindy.com
More recent coverage:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com and
http://www.denverpost.com
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