Problems with park rangers and bobbies

[HonorSeed]

I've read a lot about the problems rainbow people have had with park rangers in the past and others. I ran across these links about a similar festival in England at Stonehenge that had some major problems.

See The Solstice Experiment, a hippie gathering at Stonehenge during the solstice of June every year. Links to pictures and sites, many wonderful photos of gathering from 2001-2005
http://www.infinitepossibility.org/stonehenge11
links to beanfield incident
http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=483553
This year is the the 20th anniversary of the 'Battle of the Beanfield'. A police operation called 'Operation Solstice' was initiated for trying to maintain a festival at this place, were were attacked by 1600 policemen.
It's 20 years, since the major trashing of my community, travelling on the way the make the "Peoples Free Festival of Albion" at Stonehenge.
Nick Davies, Home Affairs correspondent for The Observer. He wrote:
"There was glass breaking, people screaming, black smoke towering out of burning caravans and everywhere there seemed to be people being bashed and flattened and pulled by the hair....men, women and children were led away, shivering, swearing, crying, bleeding, leaving their homes in pieces.....Over the years I had seen all kinds of horrible and frightening things and always managed to grin and write it. But as I left the Beanfield, for the first time, I felt sick enough to cry."
Some had lost everything they had. Parents where frantic in locating their children, that had been taken into care. Vehicles had been taken to a 'pound' some 25 miles away and people had to go through further humiliation in reclaiming what was left of their homes.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/05/312088.html


peace to the rainbow people
Honor Seed

[merlinclark]

tu 4 your concern about a very real issue. yes, we've had to deal w/ spiteful treepigs alot, but i generally find that the us forest rangers are alot kinder to us than most other branches of the police/government/military.

my policy is to treat them(in most ways) just like family w/ weird uniforms and sometimes guns. ive seen rangers refuse to their superiors to carry their guns into the gathering because they actually "got it". then again at the missouri national i got a speeding ticket for going 2 miles over the speed limit. the speed limit was 5 mph. a few months ago at the north georgia regional the rangers actually suggested we leave some of the changes we made to the forest. so i guess my point is this: that although we have had some issues in the past w/ overzealous law enforcement, overall, i think we have learned more to practice what we preach these last years and treat the rangers like family as soon as they first approach us. this sets the precedent that we intend to deal w/ them on a human to human level, like real family, and it sets them at ease. takes away their fears. so we shoot the bull w/ them after they enjoy the coffee we just served them, and we all feel the way we should, like family at home.
dont assume that i am saying i understand the issues your tribe is dealing w/ over there. although i am druid, and have studied the recent caravan issues, i humbly admit that i have no first hand knowledge. but i feel that the less we accenuate us and them the more we come 2gether.
just my 2 cents.

[HonorSeed]

every 2 cents adds up for a more humble understanding of self and better relations with others.......then again too, in retrospect, it is not like you are gathering at the anastazi cliff dwellings to see the sunrise on a certain day each year. My tribe is the whole human race, I have never been to England.
Thanks for your unique perspective on the Rainbow peoples relationship to park rangers.

peace
Honor

[hippiehillbilly]

man at the north georgia gathering he speaks of,, the head ranger for the area played her lights an sirens to the drums one night..

some times they just feel the energy,,the love..

love n light

[HonorSeed]

that's super cool hillbilly:)