Wed, June 21, 2006 - 10:47 AM
--- In ColoradoRainbowFam...@yahoogroups.com, marty heartsong
<martyheartsong@...> wrote:
> Hey Pham. It's 2:30 am and I just got back. We won a major battle today
> but the war is far from over. They set up a road block Monday night about
> 7pm. No one allowed in, even if you already had a ticket, And anyone
> coming out was issued one and not allowed back in. Gigi was doing main
> gate and when they came in they confiscated his radio. Within an hour we
> had about 20 cars and rigs backed up so some of the people with kitchens
> in thier rigs started feeding the pham. Then we started a bonfire and
> started drumming. A few kids tried to sneak into the woods to go around
> the roadblock but there was leo's hiding in the woods and they were
> quickly nabbed. the main force of leo's left about 9pm after giving
> everyone in A-camp a ticket and anyone else they could find.They had a
> generator and flood lights at the road block but only left 4 leo's behind
> facing about 100 hippies who were all in good spirits when I stepped into
> the woods to answer nature's call and accidently found
> myself back in the gathering. Word quickly spread of family being
> stranded outside the block with no gear ( a lot of us were making supply
> runs when we got blocked out and all of our gear was inside) and in the
> middle of the night about 30 blankets appeared from nowhere out side the
> roadblock (thankyou ninja's). In the morning a few of our younger family
> members put on war paint and decided to try to get the supplies in that
> had been stranded all night. By then the morning leo relief crew arrived
> and there was about 4-6 leo vehicles and 6 to 8 giddyups( I was still
> inside the gathering at the time but got to listen to it unfold via
> radio). By the time the youngers got to the block (coming from behind)
> there was at least 60 -70 of them. And since people had been coming in all
> night long there was almost 200 people in front of the blockade. As soon
> as the bro's and sisters from inside the gathering arrived the cops
> started to freak and started pulling out their guns,
> shotguns and assault rifles, no lie, no tear gas guns, no pepper spray,
> machine guns pointed at the family. You wanna know how brave your family
> is?? How much this family means to all of us?? approaching loaded pointed
> machine guns and twitchy trigger fingers (the leo's were scared) they did
> the only thing they could do, they started to "OM" and quickly joined
> hands and continued to march towards the roadblock. The pham on the other
> side of the block realized what was happening and they started om-ing
> joined hands and approached the blockade from the other side. We are lucky
> no one got shot. I heard later that the om circle was almost complete when
> the giddyups busted through at a gallup and then all the leo vehicles sped
> off with there sirens blazing and lights flashing. We could hear the
> cheering over the radio's, it was awesome, but only temporary. All the
> leo's left for awhile ( I think to lick their wounds and regroup) But a
> 1\2 dozen vehicles came back at dusk and
> harrased and few of our elders (they're still trying to find someone to
> sign thier damn permit). When I left it seemed like they set up a smaller
> roadblock and they were arresting somebody so I got out without being
> hassled. But on the drive down to steamboat I passed three leo's with
> lights and sirens heading back to the site (I think I passed a few more
> that didn't have teir lights on but I can't be sure. Anyway the seige is
> still on till someone signs and so far no one will. Will post more
> tommorow if I can, it's late, 3:30am got to go to sleep
> now.........................love & peace..........sleepy
