Bush declares state of emergency - BIG SECRET - Orders Federal Incident

IN SECRET<<<<< Today’s unreported story.......

A Federal Incident Commander has been appointed with at least 22 federal agencies represented at an incident command center set up near Steamboat Springs Colorado. The Rainbow Gathering is on. Ignore all rumors of cancellation.

This looks like it may be the year that Rainbows have dreaded happening in the name of Homeland Security.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/27/18283162.php

This is the 30th year the Rainbows have gathered in it's annual prayer for Peace circle held on July 4th each year. Rainbows have fought (peacefully) a pitched battle each and every year for the guaranteed right to gather. The Constitution says the right to "peaceably assemble shall not be abridged" with a big period at the end of that sentence (see original hand printed version). Large amounts of money have been spent this year to bring in 50+ busses for what is believed a mass arrest situation with plans for detainment camps being erected. For the last 20 years the feds have been practicing tactics through a federal indecent command for mass arrest to detain thousands, with federal tribunals to sit in judgment, but have yet to pull the trigger. Until now. Each year they have stopped just short. It appears the administration is preparing to test these plans.

The total cobosh is in with not a single MSM source covering the issue. In a similar to Waco type strategy ALL press is being turned away, "mysteriously" returning to not report a thing on what is occurring. A couple local press have published accounts from outside of the situation, but are staying away from reporting fully what is going on.

Many of the tactics developed over the years to control press have been learned by the feds at these gatherings. Massive disinformation intended to discredit, demonize, and disway the public has been in force for at least twenty years through these federal incident command centers at Rainbow.

A small army of disinformation "specialists" working for the feds and a core group of civilian "volunteers" work in the communities of gatherings and on internet sites (and now blogs) is in effect. Threats to the community of fires, disease, drunken brawls, assaults of officers, stinky panhandlers, environmental damage, and a whole horde of other distasteful things are deployed each year. Believe none of it. Especially planted cancellation rumors. Rainbows WILL gather no matter what even at the point of a gun. We have feared for years that some may die but the prayer will happen as our Hopi prophecy dictates that the first year the prayer does not happen is the year that the possibility of poetical peace on earth will be defeated.

While the gathering is a "non-political" event, the participants return to their home towns to head up the core of what is left of the 60's
anti-war, anti-nuclear, anti-neocomm movement. The feds are strikingly afraid that one day the Rainbow will pick up arms and confront the government. How little they understand Rainbow. Rainbow is the epitome of non-violence. It literally scares the living shit out of the government because no one anywhere, (except the military) a year in advance, can point to a spot on the map in the middle of nowhere and say we will be there or be square. And when they get there take care of all their family needs like food kitchens, shitters, water, medical, etc. and do it with 20-40,000 strong.

Tell the press to cover the state of siege. Tell congress, hands off Rainbow. Further history see legal links and the prophecies at our site I hosted for the last ten years (before I shut down my ISP) at:

welcomehome.org

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an on-site connection to the internet tommorro. If the connection is unsucsessful a contact will be coming out to call me with an update for publication.

Use cell phones to transmit vocal and text messages.

I don't know if sms can be programmed to auto send specific messages without having to type it all out but if possible use it.

If bluetooth capable use it to transmit to other bluetooth devices to have additional copies.

You have to get within 6 miles of steamboat springs

I hope you're wrong about a confrontation.

concerning this event? Some collaboration would be good.

the only internet site that has anything is the indy site I posted a link to, that, yesterday shortly after the arrests began.

I understand some update is coming out in the next few hours through the rainbow news groups. Will post updates.

On site reports (unconfirmed) say 500 have been ticketed and held till a hearing setup without representation or no real rights one would expect in due process, in a local fire station. Information is almost non-existant due to the location and the state of seige. I have a commitment for a direct report in the early afternoon with or without the onsite connection.

This is so terrible!! And I have close friends there.

Wishing all of them protection of light and peace.

Edit: typo

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.

Next he's going after Hawaiian shirts! Then Flame shirts! And Parrot Heads, your time is coming...

He heard about the "Summer of Love", but it didn't pan out for him and his asshole neo-con buddies who were too scared to drop acid.

I won't be back to a net connection for two hours. Please help kick as this needs coverage. I'll try for an update from the site tonight. I'm expecting a cell phone connection to come about from a friend.

Putting in some calls to the people listed in the OP sounds like a good idea - just to express our support for the Rainbow Children and to express our insistence that people be allowed to assemble in peace. Still, having read the response below, from miketwofeathers, I suggest some caution before panic...

rainbow children detained in the name of homeland security
by mike twofeathers ( miketwofeathers sbcglobal.net )

Wednesday Jun 28th, 2006 5:42 AM

First i woulkd like to address certain parts of this post, some of it is true but the part about children and arrests is not. the site has no raodblocks as of this date, there are 4000+ people with more coming everyday, there has been aprox. 283 tickets for no permit, and these are being addressed by the fs at a firehouse, fine has been 125dollars with 1 year probation to stay away from agethering. i don't know who posted this but they should have their facts straight before posting this sensationalism and untruths. second thing to address is the interment camps, this is also untrue, only place that poster could have gotten that info was on alt.gathering.rainbow it is total bunk, some trolls were using those exact words about these camps, and there are none that are being used nor is there any planned either. like i said the original poster has posted some big whoppers. people are on the land kitchens are running and people are digging shitters. to see what has been happening of late, i would suggest the steamboat pilot, google it up and read all articles pertaining to the gathering, you will find different answers than what this person wrote. and for more info i would suggest those who are truely interested feel free to join a yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ColoradoRainbowFamily/ and read the archives, i have posted many emails from those inside tha gathering who have painted a totaly different picture. \ my two cents mike twofeathers

it for thirty years, why has no one thought to call it a religion and acquire the full protection of this right-wing administration?

how can it be anything else?

I feel better now. But with this "administration", you never know.

Our View: This too shall pass
Wednesday, June 28, 2006

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The impacts of the Rainbow gathering on Steamboat Springs have been minimal -- an increase in incidents of panhandling, shoplifting, loitering and hitchhiking. There also has been an economic boost to local stores. Perhaps it's a nuisance. But it's hardly a disaster.

The most annoying part of the Rainbow Gathering is the tension between the Forest Service and the Rainbow Family.

We know the background. The Forest Service thinks that any time a large group wants to camp in the national forest, the group has to agree to play by some ground rules that someone in the "group" can be held accountable for enforcing. The agency justifiably is concerned about fire dangers this year.

The Rainbow Family thinks public lands are just that and that anyone should be able to use those lands without having to be responsible for anyone else. Group members say that, even when they abided by the Forest Service's permit process the past three years, they still were harassed by the Forest Service's law enforcement officers.

After going through this every year since 1972, it would seem that the Forest Service and the Rainbow Family would have a better system. The fact that they don't leads us to suspect there is more interest in having the fight than in resolving it.

<snip>

Every year, the Rainbow Family creates elaborate water and sewer systems in the national forest. The family produces a newspaper for participants and has a well-regarded health care team of volunteer doctors and nurses. By all accounts, the clean-up crew does a great job. The family even has its own law enforcement system. Any group that can pull off such accomplishments is organized enough to negotiate a reasonable deal with the Forest Service allowing the event to proceed in peace.

<snip>

The Forest Service and Rainbow Family profess to have similar goals when it comes to the preservation of public lands. It's too bad they can't work better together and lessen some of the impact these large annual gatherings have on the small, rural counties where they are held.


http://www.steamboatpilot.com/section/editorials/story/37918

I gives me hope that the report in the OP is exaggerated or just flat-out wrong.

I still recommended the post because I've always found it so disturbing that the Rainbow Gathering gets fined for not paying to use public land. First of all, they do pay--with their taxes. And secondly, what about the right to free assembly?

The Rainbow Children are incredibly bright and resourceful and loving and creative -- surely they could negotiate some kind of system/compromise that would allow them to live their values and still do some token 'something' to appease the forest feds. And, yes, I do fully understand that there are plenty of people in the hierarchy who are just giving them a hard time for the joy their experience in keeping people 'in their place'. You can't have any pudding without eating your meat -- and all that crap.

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edited to add that I just checked google news for this story and found that it was just posted 4 hours ago on google (I originally found it by reading the reader forum at stemboat pilot
http://www.steamboatpilot.com/forum/msg/75021916

I don't know what time this was posted at their site, so don't know if it qualifies for LBN

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4808578,00.html

Court asked to stop Rainbow Family trials

By Deborah Frazier and Sue Lindsay, Rocky Mountain News
June 28, 2006

Rainbow Family members on trial for camping without a permit and other charges should be tried in a larger public courtroom – not a small, rural firehouse near Steamboat Springs, attorney David Lane said today.
In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Denver, Lane said the public and some of the attorneys for more than 200 Rainbow Family members facing trial were denied access.

He said the firehouse’s limited space effectively turned the trials into "secret proceedings," and he has asked for a temporary restraining order to stop the proceedings.


...snip...

"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.

..more at link

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In case you do not know the legend:

http://www.chiron-communications.com/communique%207-9.html

The rainbow story is told many ways and in many different places around the world, including on Turtle Island (North America). It has been glimpsed in vision and told for hundreds of years, from dozens of perspectives.

Among the many ancient versions are the visions and stories of Padmasambhava of Tibet, Eyes of Fire of the Cree, Black Elk and Crazy Horse of the Lakota, Quetzalcoatl of the Toltec, Plenty Coups of the Crow, Ku’Kulkan of the Maya, Monteczuma of the Aztec, the Peacemaker of the Haudenusaunee (Iroquois), and Weetucks of the Wampanoag. Though they lived at different times and in different places, they shared a sense of what would unfold.

There was a resident Rainbow group near here that were planning to hold a gathering a few years ago but the police set up roadblocks and stopped everyone passing through the area. We happened to get caught up in one of the road blocks and were questioned but allowed to pass. It was obviously a dragnet meant to harass and intimidate event goers.
The Rainbow people here don't cause any problems. They may be a bit 'odd' as the locals put it, but so are a lot of us that don't belong.

This is just like the Nazis going after the Roma. If you can't control them, destroy them.