Re: Utah police brutalize rave scene
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OK... Update time.

I have a friend (D&B DJ Focus) that gave me a few sordid details...

Michael Moore has the story, Rolling Stone is (supposedly) picking it up and Jon Stewart and Bill Maher are being contacted as well. Apparently hundreds of thousands if not millions of people around the country are talking about this...It's going to make a run of MySpace for sure. They are indeed trying to sanitize things... For example the report says guns wereconfiscated- they were- but they were from the property owner's private dwelling. She lives in the middle of Utah Nowhere. You have weapons if you live remotely out there. All legal, but they are trying to twist that.

The police were Utah State police, they were wearing only camo- no police or SWAT identifiers, faces masked, no IDs. Parents around the state are heatedly asking why fully automatic weapons with laser sights were used instead of batons and tasers.

The promoter's girlfriend's picture that was taken of her during jail intake was retouched to attempt to conceal her black eyes and broken nose. She may possibly have reproductive damage from being repeatedly kicked in the stomache. Several other girls were for sure sexually assaulted; I'm not sure if there are any rape charges pending but don't be surprised.

A hunter who was bow hunting earlier in the day who was not at all connected with the event was rousted from his campsite (they used infra red night vision to find him). He explained that he was hunting, had his permit and explained that he had been drinking heavily and just wanted to stay put.

The officer put a cocked fully automatic assault rifle to his head and told him to take his chances driving.

The party organizers prepared for a raid, but nothing like this.

They hired a lawyer a cuple of months in advance to make sure that every single legal t was crossed and every i was dotted. As reported earlier they retained the security services of a well respected and licensed firm and secuity officers were arrested for possesion of drugs even though they were in a marked container and were to be turned in to police officials after the event, as is the standing policy of the security force.

This event was fully, fully legitimate. It was not a "rave" as reported byt was, in fact- by legal definition a "Music Concert". It was NOT an all night event.

The police shut down the last event these promoters had, also on the same private property, also illegally- it seems that they flew the helicopter over and with 1500 people there decided that they had to let it finish- cornering the promoters after the show.

This time they were better prepared. The ACLU is on the case and the #1 civil rights attourney in the country heads their legal team. These people are well organized and fairly well funded. I will be keeping an eye out for information about what people can do to help other than simply spreading the word and not letting this go away.

It is a pivitol time in America right now- with Mom and Pop wqaking up and remembering the 60s and starting to mistrust the government for other reasons.

While many people at this point are refusing to believe that this could happen here- once some more mainsteam media carry the story it will begin to have a positive effect.

One more positive thing that will come out of this is that mom and pop will also have to be aware that this very important story is purposefully being ignored my mainstream media, in a (this time) obvious way.

No matter how many links and websites are hacked (hackers need to get involved because it seems the police are commiting federal crimes, either using their tools to hack the information off the sites, or using intimidation to scare it off- illegal either way) there are too many people aware of this now for it to simply go away.

Updates as I get them.