So... I attended my first Annual gathering since Prineville '97.
It was the Colorado gathering last summer.
I am still trying to process the bad taste left in my mouth.
Found out where the Spring Councel was. Showed up first thing early in the morning. Two other people there. Found a good spot and set up my tent and portable shitter/shower.
Then I read online that some folk needed a ride to Councel from Boulder. So I left that day to grab them and came back to my camp the next day...
I guess I should say what fucking camp?
When I returned there was a lot of people!
They would not let me go to my camp as I was told there was no more room for anyone.
Told them my camp was already there set up only to find that there was a van in my spot and my $350 tent, $100 shower/shitter, my $150 portable toilet, and my $200 cooler FULL of food were gone.
Everyone's response?
"That sucks! I guess someone needed it more than you!"
So be it!
I went and parked elsewhere... to sit and watch car load after car load of new people enter and park where "there was no room"!
I guess you have to know someone there or be someone special now a days to be let in the cool kids area...
When it came time to start council... the nerve damage in my feet was acting up so I figured I would let it get started.
Very little time passed (shortest Councel I ever witnessed) and people are walking back out.
The site has been decided!
I asked where it was and was going to head there.
But I was told directions were only given out to a few people at first... ON LAMINATED MAPS SOMEONE MADE!
Wtf?
No really... WTF?
So much for Rainbow having no leaders eh?
So much for us consensing a site TOGETHER!
Consensus my ass!
The Rainbow cult leaders/dictators/focalizers/con men alread had the site picked before spring council!
EVEN HAD LAMINATED DIRECTIONS MADE AHEAD OF TIME!
It is what it is I guess!
Almost did not go to the gathering but gave in and went...
Tried to park at Handi Camp!
NO!
I was not allowed to park there!
"THIS IS A PRIVATE CAMP!"
It does not matter that I am a 100% disabled (service connected) veteran with nerve damage in my feet.
Handi Camp is NOT allowed for anyone that is handicapped... only for people they want there and their friends and the special treatment they feel they want and deserve.
Decided right then and there if I ever saw any of them having a medical issue or problem I DEFINITELY would not help them.
Pretty sad actually... because of all the medical knowledge I was given being a Corpsman in the USN and the Hippocratic Oath I took!
Rainbow lives by the Oath of Hypocrites!
Pretty much almost decided to leave the gathering but ended up staying another week.
Spent the rest of my time there running back and forth to Walmart everyday... sometimes twice a day... to pick up hitchhikers and stragglers who I saw stuck online.
Put over a grand in my tank doing it.
My way to give back!
Met some great people that way!
Ended up leaving the day before the fourth because I saw 4 people (people I thought others looked up to) HITTING A FUCKING METH PIPE NEXT TO A VAN!
That was too much for me!
Almost chose to quit Rainbow entirely... but didn't.
Next thing I went to was the shit show holding camp in Arizona held in Rainbow's name!
Ended up leaving after three days when I once again saw a group of people passing around another meth pipe beside a bus...
But that is another story...
Rainbow IS dead!