Eastern Oregon to be Invaded By Hippies (John Day: fit in, rent)

[Squidlo]

Originally Posted by pdxMIKEpdx

People will give them gas just to get them to move on down the road....

Send a tanker out to get them headed home? My main concern is potential trashing of a wild but public area.

[texasdiver]

Originally Posted by pdxMIKEpdx

People will give them gas just to get them to move on down the road....

Gas station attendants won't. They are mostly minimum wage slaves who have to make their tills balance so they can't give out free gas. Why would local people care what kind of vagrants are hanging out at some gas station out by the freeway?

[Masterful_Man]

What are they doing in Oregon? Why don't they go south to California where they belong?

[pdxMIKEpdx]

Everyone knows that Oregon is where the "real" hippies hang out.

[karlsch]

Forest Service says to stay away from the area.

"Forest Officials would like to strongly discourage the general public from visiting the gathering site because of the unknown health hazards that may remain.":

RAINBOW GATHERING: Stay away due to health risks | Elkhorn Media Group

[texasdiver]

So legally, how was this Rainbow gathering different from the Malheur Refuge occupation last year?

In both instances you have outside groups descending onto public lands and occupying it without permission and then doing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage.

This is an honest question. Legally I don't see much difference. I'm guessing the Forest Service put up with the Rainbow folks because because they know it will be short-term. But it is still just as lawless as the right wing Malheur bunch.

[Larry Caldwell]

The Malheur occupation was not in the desert, it was in federal offices that prevented federal employees from going to work.

I doubt that Rainbow did "hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage." Historically they have been good about cleaning up sites, hauling off their own garbage, replanting vegetation and even coming back a year later to monitor the site. The only permanent contribution they left was about 4 tons of poop, deposited in latrines that were dug where the rangers told them to dig them.

The real impact was in the small surrounding communities, which found themselves deluged by hordes of religious nuts looking for a spiritual experience. As everyone knows, someone else's spiritual experience can be really irritating, but all you can do is hope they shut up and go away.

[Lynn 123]

Originally Posted by Metlakatla

Tensions rising: Heated exchange erupts at Rainbow Gathering community meeting - Local News -

So they're going to crap all over the Canyon Creek Complex. 20,000+ dirty hippies. As if the area hasn't suffered enough from outsiders recently. You can't tell me that that many people camping with no toilets or washing facilities isn't going to cause significant damage to the area. For a group who claims to value environmental responsibility, the Rainbow Family sure has a funny way of showing it. I would stay far away from this area if I were going to view the eclipse (although their gathering is supposed to be over far before that, there are rumors that some of them will be hanging around through August. Even if they all leave, they'll have pretty much trashed the place). Who knows for how long their trenches they'll be using for restrooms will infect the groundwater.

ETA as usual, the Rainbows are talking about all the money they'll be spending in the area, but I don't think they're worth it. On one of the social media pages dedicated to their event, they're advising those traveling to it of the best food banks to stop at along the way to stock up. Bunch of drug-addled hypocrites AFAIC.

Uhmmm... Here in California we don't call them hippies. We call them Drain-bows.

[pdxMIKEpdx]

Whatever happened with all the Rainbow Family stuff?

I haven't heard a word about it since July.

Good?

Bad?

[CAjerseychick]

Originally Posted by pdxMIKEpdx

Whatever happened with all the Rainbow Family stuff?

I haven't heard a word about it since July.

Good?

Bad?

People who went said it was good.

They set up the water filtration systems for Camp.