Utah Rave Raided by SWAT Team

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coming soon to a music fest near you.... ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, "FASCIST AMERICA!!!" *crowd screams*

http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/82205utrave.cfm
Monday, August 22, 2005

The “war on drugs” took on a literal meaning this past weekend when SWAT Team agents in full military combat regalia stormed a rave an hour outside Salt Lake City, Utah. Covered in a recommended blog on Daily Kos is a firsthand account detailing what transpired at the event on Saturday, August 20, where military soldiers swooped on the crowd of about 1,500 people in the Spanish Fork canyon. The event’s promoter claims to have attained all the necessary permits to host the rave and even had an insurance policy of 2 million dollars.

According to the Salt Lake Tribune , Salt Lake City detectives wanted to “get their point across that such activity was not welcome in their area,” a point they made with more than 90 law enforcement officers and camouflaged SWAT Team members, vicious dogs and tear gas. According to the Utah County Sheriff’s office, their Major Crimes unit dispatched several undercover officers to the party and waited until they witnessed drug-related crimes to send out both local and state SWAT teams. Eyewitnesses have posted their accounts of police brutality and other civil liberty violations, as “crowd control” became an assault on many peaceful partygoers who were doing no harm to others. Watch a video of the raid here.

Rave busts have become infamous for their abuse of the civil rights of young people across the country who only want to enjoy music. The most recent widely publicized bust took place in Flint, Michigan, where eyewitness reports included accounts of patrons being strip searched and cavity searched, some of them in unsanitary or dangerous ways.

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Watch a video of the raid here.
feel free to share the link
http://www.skool.us/download/vids/fascism.wmv

another one from chopper : http://www.skool.us/download/vids/choppernight.mov

please spread the word if you care about music culture preservation in america. there is a "war on fun" being waged in the past decade. pretty soon they will likely win this one unless the people get mad enough about it. :angered
 
Im glad my ravin days are over, back when i was into the rave scene, underground events like that never got busted. we just carried on our ecstacy trips having the best times of our lifes!

M A R L O N
 
well, i've been goin to clubs since 95 and i've never eaten x. i went then for the music and i am only involved in it now for the music, or love of, rather. i think it's a damn shame that a bunch of harmless young adults have to get treated like rodney king for just trying to have fun and be themselves in a world of chaos and destruction. and they have to get the chaos thrown in their faces like some scene out of a horror movie. grown men kickin/punching girls in the face?? do what?? is this what america is about? militant enforcement of a failed permit violation? is this what the "patriot act" is supposed to be doing for us? are we safer from terrorism now that a bunch of kids were "sent a message" like this??

its not right that everyone gets "oppressed" just because a few people have some kind of personal problem against others having FUN! it really says a lot about how this idea of post-9/11 america is becoming more like deja vu nazi germany. next we'll be forced to burn our records because they will be considered "contraband" ... plus it's already been rumored that this was viewed as an "anti-bush" rally by the govt and i'm sure it's no coincidence that bush was in town to hold a "pro-iraq war" propaganda party around 3 days of this event. what's really goin on? most people are too blind, scared, or retarded to even look at the reality of the situation, and those people, to me, don't deserve freedom or to even be an american. FEAR from the gov't as a control mechanism is blatant tyranny and propaganda, and is the reason why our forefathers gave us the right to bear arms, to take up arms against the GOVT!, not "terrorists"...

who's the real terrorists here? is it a dj?
 
indegruv said:
who's the real terrorists here? is it a dj?

Unfortunately if you live in Utah and you arent in the "majority" you become an outsider. Its not so noticeable, but in social circles and political circles it stands out like a sore thumb. I know thats off topic, but just thought I would make my point so yall didnt think I was being mean or anything... :hithere :losmile
 
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