Why do so many Rainbow feel they must steal from others?

I truly can not understand why so many Rainbow feel they must steal from others. 

Whether it is like what happened to me at the National Gathering last year in Colorado with my camp, shop lifting from establishments, or flat out stealing from you right in front of your face acting as if nothing happened. 

When I first arrived to check on who was already at the site selection here in Vermont I met a group of people. Introductions went well other than one particular kid. This kid was the first to start hitting me up for anything and everything. "Got tobacco? Got ganja? Got beer?" Of course I say yes and bust out a full can of American Spirit that I brought to share. Let him roll a cigarette. He then asks to fill his tin which I agreed to. 

I truly do not believe in the way the Vermont focalizers and kitchen chose to go against the Rainbow tradition of not releasing site info until the last minute when seed camp is there to set up. So I ended up setting my camp at least a mile down the road at a nice site where two creeks meet. I often stay here for two weeks in my rotation of staying here in the forest and Love Dawg has all the fresh clean water she could want at her need.

The next morning this kid showed up at my camp with his dog first thing in the morning. Kid wanted more tobacco and to get puffed out again which I kindly give again and do. I walked over to untangle Love Dawg from a root that her tether was wrapped around. As soon as I was doing this I see the kid grab my can of tobbaco, grab a huge scoop, and put it in his shirt pocket. He put the can back as quick as possible thinking I did not see.

Maybe I should have said something right then and there but I chose not to. I just ignored that it happened and sat back down because I already know from past experiences that confronting Rainbow over such things only gets met with the lies and denial of doing it and the possibility of a fight or violence. Or they feel they must go around bad mouthing you to anyone and everyone that will listen.

He then says he is going to go to Hancock to "spange the locals and do bum shit" to get something to eat because they have no food up there. I try to explain to him that Hancock is quite small and that he really should not be blowing the place up and was met with the standard reply of "I don't give a fuck!". So I talked the kid into giving him a ride to Middlebury so he could get some food and not be such a heat score. The whole way he is talking about how he is going to bring back food for everyone at his camp and how hard-core of a Rainbow he is.

30 minutes later he returns to my car with Mc Donald's and of course beer. On the way back he eats a Big Mac, fries, and a 20 piece chicken nuggets then throws the trash on my floorboard. So much for all the hype on how they were going to bring back food for everyone! Hannaford's is right next door to Mc Donalds and he could have indeed got everyone food other than McD's and beer for himself only. Typical...

Anyways he keeps coming back wanting to get stoned and such. The first day he asked to charge his phone in my car and I told him I had a battery pack but did not have an apple phone cord but he had one. Charged and left.

The next day he comes again and asks to use the battery for his android but didn't have a C cord. So I let him use my battery and extra C cord. We sit and puff and talk about the gatherings. 

I ask him why they were here so early when seed camp is over a week away. The kid replies that they ARE seed camp. So I simply ask him what they were doing up there for seed camp. He responded "Nothing, because there were no supplies..." I pretty much pointed out that THAT was not seed camp if he was not there to seed and work and just hang out and drink beer and holler at locals that drove by. 

The kid got completely agro on me and told me to stfu and that I has no clue what I was talking about and how he was a "true" hard-core Rainbow for ten years and that if it were not for people like him that Rainbow gatherings would not happen.

I did not like his becoming agro and having an aggressive attitude towards me and POLITELY asked him to leave cause I had shit to do. So... the kid gets up and unplugged his phone and put his phone and my cord in his pocket and walked off. Honestly... I was pretty stoned and did not realize he took my cord until after he left. FUCK! I decided to let it slide just like his tobacco thievery.

About an hour later he comes walking by my camp towards town with his pack on and his dog and stops and asks if I can give him a ride to town again so he could try getting to Burlington and make some money. Said the people at camp were assholes and not give him a ride.

I flat out told him to beat fucking feet and kick rocks and that I hoped he had a pleasant walk. He just gave me that typical Rainbow stink eye and headed off down the road without a response.

I felt bad for his pup. A beautiful young pup who was skin and bones... obviously NOT taken care of.

This kid was your typical Rainbow type that some Rainbow consider a "drainbow". I hate that word because hi holy Rainbows use it constantly to describe people they don't care for but I know that even some people that have absolutely nothing material to contribute DO contribute in other ways. But... this kid would be the prime example of a "drainbow" if there was one.

Typical Rainbow traveller who wears extremely dirty clothes barely held together with patches that they thinks makes them look cool and stand out. The type of clothes they refuse to wash because they would fall apart. Doesn't even hang them up to "air wash" and air out. They smelled of nothing but stale beer, urine, and that disgusting smell that I compare to the smell that comes out of a bicycle tire tube when let out but stronger. 

So... I have already had about a third of my $100 can of Spirit stolen and a fucking phone cord I really need.

FUCK... I would gladly have helped them out if they had only just fucking asked me. 

I fucking hate thieves! 

Especially the ones that do it right in front of you because they think they can and that most people wont notice or say something over something minor items...

Stealing is fucking stealing... no matter how small it might be!

WELOME THE FUCK HOME VERMONT! 

First dose of the Vermont Rainbow family

Just got my first dose of the Vermont Rainbow Family!

NOT positive what so ever unfortunately...

Seems like the Vermont "focalizers/kitchen" ARE a primo example of what high holys are in the Flesh!

They seem to only care about their egos and status in Rainbow land versus the people that make Rainbow what it is...

I NEVER thought they would be so UNKIND and negative!

And people seem to wonder why I become so negative and agro towards Rainbow!

DEFINITELY because of people like THEM!

It is people like them that truly contribute to the decay of the gatherings... much more than anything I can ever say or do!

And people wonder why less and less people show up to the gatherings and they get smaller and smaller and are in Decay?

MAYBE... it IS because of people like the Vermont "focalizers" that should be welcoming family home... NOT SHITTING ON PEOPLE THEY DON'T KNOW and making them not feel welcomed home at all... only for their own personal needs, gains, and THEIR fat fucking egos and agendas!

WELCOME THE FUCK HOME VERMONT!!!

NOT!

Why Rainbow does not release site directions until last minute

 It has always amazed me about how many people go to online Rainbow groups and the only thing they ask is where the gathering is going to be? They could care less about even being a part of the groups or even fucking reading anything already posted because they are too damn lazy to do it for themselves and want others to do it for them. Typical Rainbow... it does not matter that there are dozens upon dozens of posts of the same thing being asked everyday AND ALREADY FUCKING ANSWERED!

It gets even worse with the non stop bombardment of people getting pissed because scouts/focalizers won't give out any information until the last minute announcing seed camp!

Well let's see why this is?

In my 30 years of being involved (or trying to be involved) with Rainbow gatherings it has always been known that...

1. There is a camping limit of 14 days in most National Forests. We have always tried to respect that regardless of not signing permits and being there. You are only adding more complications before the gathering can even start by being there early.

2. There is no seed camp to create what organizations of our non organization... of things needed to be there to accommodate people for a gathering. No seed camp. No kitchen. No water. No shitters. No camps. No trails. No parking. And alot of other things.

The seed camp is there solely for that reason. The people that usually do come to seed camp come for a reason. To seed everything for a great gathering to grow and happen. And these same people actually (well mostly) know what the fuck they are doing and it is indeed a lot of work and tedious manual labor that the average Rainbow could care less about helping with.

3. There are no PROPER shitters! People show up early to wait and dig shitters where they should not be dug which creates more clean up work. Or you find the hidden shit piles with toilet paper strewn everywhere by people who literally don't give a shit. After all... Rainbow seem to have a philosophy of if no one sees them do something then "they didn't do it" and are not responsible for whatever they did knowing that someone else will come along and have to clean it up for them.

No offense but sisters are notorious for trampling vegetation when there are no shitters! They seem to always never want to use an already trampled spot to cop a squat. They trample a new spot so no one sees them pee. Guys seem to go where they want. When people piss everywhere and in the same spot... it can be totally noticed even in the woods.

4. There is no designated parking! People show up early and park where ever they want. Often it is in places they shouldn't where they damage the environment. Sometimes really bad. Once again they know someone will come along that will have to repair and fix the damage. More manual labor, time, and effort mostly left for clean up crews. The people that cause such damage could care less when they leave.

5. There are no proper designated main trails! People just come and trample the vegetation and environment without care or concern... yet again leaving a mess and extensive damage that takes more time, effort, and physical labor. This can be pretty bad in certain sensitive areas that would be marked off once seed camp started. Some areas may never fully recover properly from such abuse.

The national last year in Colorado was a prime example of this. There was a large sensitive area around two sides of main parking that people made a trail through and kept trampling off the trail to take a piss in it or park in it. Pretty surprised that seed camp did not catch that but Forest Service came in with dozens of workers quickly to post it and mark it off before it got too bad. Having those workers brought in just added more fuel to the fire to be used against us because of costs and damages which the Feds, the public, and locals closely watch!

6. There are no kitchen's! There is no food. Your mommy and daddy Rainbows are not there to feed your asses. So many fucking people show up with absolutely nothing always expecting others to feed them. It creates such a negative energy all around. People that do have food are expected to share and when they don't people become idiots. Or if they do share what they brought then they themselves run out of food which makes people have to unnecessarily come back and forth out of the site drawing attention.

7. The people that show up with nothing end up in one of the assorted local towns which are often quite small. They go there to do "bum shit" or "jug" or "spange" the locals. They often shoplift. They loiter. They leave the trash from any food they do get everywhere. Then they head back to camp with a bag of chips, a case of beer, and a pack of smokes when they could have bought food... which causes a vicious and constant cycle of them returning to these towns non stop. And most Rainbow have no problem harrassing and intimidating locals trying to get money out of them...

This only creates quite the heat score on everyone at the site, in the towns, for the people coming in, and just the gatherings in general. Not to mention it makes things worse on what the locals and public think about Rainbow and what it really is.

8. There is no designated water that gets properly set up and laid out in support of the gathering. This means people fuck up the environment around the water sources that are there. The same sources that are supposed to provide clean/uncontaminated water for the people at the gatherings. Rehabilitation of water sources and the areas around them can sometimes be the hardest to get done in a timely manner and may never be the same from the damage. More wasted time, effort, and manual labor...

9. LEO become quite annoyed and it sets and determines just how they might choose to interact with us. Even the kindest LEO can get fed up and have had enough! And when that happens it usually does not end up well for people in general. More LEO interactions. More problems being discovered and dealt with. More tickets and fines. More intentional harrassment. And they seem to think they need to bring in even more LEO.... not to mention more pissed off locals!

There are more places to go and wait out the start of gathering!

This year's Vermont regional gathering IS a prime example of all of this. A PERFECT EXAMPLE of why the site is announced at the last minute...

The infighting between the people around the New England area is intense and they don't agree on anything! There used to be only NERF but now there are multiple different groups who choose to not work together and ignore each other.

We have solid family folk here in Vermont that are trying to do this gathering properly. Everything from seed camp to cleanup. Vermont has been my home state for at least 15 years now. Vermont is known for having extremely amazing gatherings.

This year though... is already starting off bad and seems different. I just got back. A 3300 mile drive with two five hour naps. When I went looking for info online I found bickering and chaos!

The folks here in Vermont... trying to do this properly are being overwhelmed by people online who are not in Vermont that are trying to dictate and control how and where this gathering happens. They could care less about Vermont, it's family, and a lot more.

We got stupid fucking idiots elsewhere, who only want attention that they seem to crave, by trying to focalize the Vermont gathering from afar and by what they have heard or think... and for what? To boost their high holy egos and earn some brownie points within the Rainbow Heirarchy?  To be able to fucking pat themselves on their backs and be able to boast to anyone and everyone for the rest of their lives about just how "Rainbow" they truly are and how they focalized a Vermont regional gathering?

These fuckers have created the perfect shit show before the gathering!

When they could not get their way and when the Vermont family folk disagreed with what they want... They went online and spammed every single Rainbow group with directions to the site... TEN FUCKING DAYS BEFORE SEED CAMP EVEN STARTS!!! They did this KNOWING the chaos it was and would cause that could not be taken back!

It reminds me of what the local scout/focalizer, Rabbit, at this year's Oregon regional told me... "I don't give a fuck if this spot is under a no camping rehabilitation this year. I picked this site and put out directions. They can't prevent people from coming now anyways! Fuck what LEO and the locals say or think. I'm in charge and this is where I chose! Fuck em!"

Way to go Oregon!

That was actually one of the most negative energy feeling gatherings I have been to. Had to leave to control the violent side of me because of Rabbit yelling with spit flying in my face over his hi holy ego temper tantrum.

These people are a perfect example what the Rainbow Heirarchy and leadership has become!

They, by no means, are NOT helping Rainbow and the gathering... they are only harming it and future gatherings by their attention seeking actions!!!

It is losers like them that are responsible for the current destruction of Rainbow that is currently happening.

Having found out that the directions to the Vermont site were given out already... I went to the site to see if anyone was there. Me and Love Dawg usually stay in the GMNF up off FR39 because of the short trip to Middlebury or in the southern part of the forest between the B towns... properly and legally of course.

When I got to the site there are indeed people and vehicles already there waiting for the gathering and creating a heat score blowing up the spot. Newbies from the National waiting on the party with their beer.

Very little food if any. No tobbaco or pot. No money yet conviently leaving and coming back with cases of beer! Didn't take less than ten minutes before I'm being hit up for stuff. After giving up tobbaco a few times and then saying no more... I guess I'm a bad guy now cause I got a full can of Spirit and said no when asked the third time.

Already doing bum shit in town...

What got to me the most though was the way they are hooting and hollering and waving at anyone that drives by... asking them if they are here for the gathering creating a heat score and seemingly wanting attention.  LOOK AT ME I AM RAINBOW!

Yeah... this is going to be a great gathering!

I truly think it is time for the Vermont Rainbow folk family to take back Vermont from the idiots trying to control it's gatherings and form our own online group! I hope someone wants to and will do it... the whole fucking shebang!

FAITHFUL potlucks!

Faithful drum circles/trade circles/get togethers! Don't fucking bitch about the snow or winters... The Mt Shasta family hold weekly circles all winter long in the park and this year they got more snow than I have ever seen in Vermont and made it work! IF YOU ARE DEDICATED YOU ARE TRULY DEDICATED!

We need to focalize as a committed community TOGETHER to make future Vermont gatherings happen AND HAPPEN PROPERLY!

NOT FUCKING PEOPLE FROM OUT OF THE STATE WHO COULD CARE LESS ABOUT US, OUR WISHES, AND OUR COMMUNITY!!!

IT SHOULD BE VERMONSTER'S DECISIONS ON WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW THE FUTURE VERMONT RAINBOW GATHERINGS COME ABOUT!

MADE IN FUCKING VERMONT GATHERINGS!

MY PSA IS NOW OVER...

A good dose of modern Rainbow

 In the past two years I have definitely been getting a good dose of seeing what modern Rainbow gatherings have become. That includes being on the land and meeting, watching, and talking to people who claim to be Rainbow.

I have really noticed the lack of respect and basic disregard they seem to have for the environment that they claim to not harm, clean up, and leave no trace on.

The public and limelight seem to only focus on the aspect of the main gathering. You NEVER hear or see anything about the damage and trash they leave in their wake before the gatherings and after the gatherings. They form small so called "holding camps" before all gatherings, sometimes in multiples, they they trash and damage and do absolutely no clean up of the camps when they leave those sites. It is left to the responsibility of the locals, tax payers, and what services they might have available.

When there are no gatherings or holding camps going on then they go to various BLM land and assorted National Forests to set up camps and when they leave could care less about cleaning up after themselves, their trash, and their messes that they leave behind expecting others to deal with it. Not to mention any environmental damage rehabilitation.

Certain places like the forests around Mt. Shasta and the deserts around Quartzsite are perfect examples of large groups of them trashing the land.

Their excuse when confronted is something always along the lines of... "This is Federal land so they got the money to clean it up. We hate the Feds anyways..." Of course most of them are on foodstamps and made up disabilities to collect their "free money" from the Federal government who they truly love and worship for... fucking hypocrites.

Modern Rainbows frequently now seem to believe that everyone should share and give... except themselves. They constantly have nothing and just take take take and when they themselves do have something no one will ever know and they will just keep it to themselves and then spend it on drugs or alcohol.

Material values seem to mean nothing to them because they steal what ever they want from people, vehicles they get in, or businesses. Or they know they can go do bum shit and beg without effort. And travelling and constant moving around only makes it so much easier for them as there is always new people to fuck over.

Don't get me wrong... Rainbow has always had these type of people. BUT... they were a small percentage. NOW... they seem to be a good majority of the travelling family. All doped up, methed out, or drunk usually.

None of them give a shit about legalities and vehicles. They steal cars and ditch them and even leave them at gatherings. Or they get vehicles they never put in their name, never register or insure, and are pieces of shit that leak oil all through the lands. The vehicle breaks down they abandon them in the forests, deserts, or on the side of the roads. Not to mention half the people don't even have drivers licenses over dui's/dwi's!

Rainbow brothers and sisters seem to be two faced non stop. Showing one face to the locals/public and another when alone amongst themselves. The shit they claim to care about, talk about, and show... is so far from the truth it is pathetic! 

When they think no one is watching or no one is around they show their true colors.

They the LAST thing they care about are the locals!

They know they are moving along and that the locals will be left to deal with anything like they always have and they will be gone. They are off to grift off of their next place/victims.

IS there any "true" Rainbow family left?

The ones that have homes seem to be just as bad!!! The shit they do on a regular basis in their home towns seem to be just as bad as the travellers...

Not the Rainbow I believe in or was taught decades ago...

Vermont regional gathering...

 Well... I guess some chick decided they did not want to honor the tradition of not releasing the site information until last minute and seed camp and posted the Howdy Folks online already for the Vermont regional Rainbow gathering.

They could care less about any complications that might arise because of it...

And for what?

A boost for their ego so that everyone knows she was the first person to announce things before anyone else and catch all the spotlight and pat on the backs for being A Vermont focalizer?

So... here is the Howdy Folks and come have some beer! Seems to be the only thing people currently up there care about!

2023 Vision Circle?

 

It appears that the future shit show known as the 2024 National gathering has been decided.

They don't even bother calling it the Vision Councel anymore. It is a Vision Circle. It makes perfectly good sense considering the mafiosa hierarchy that has taken away the consensus process are the ones that decide things for EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING!

The true Rainbow councels and consensus died a long time ago with the takeover by the mafiosa hierarchy and the Gang of Nine!

Sooo... the gathering will be in California.... wait no!

It will be in Arkansas!  Wait no? 

It will be in Oklahoma! 

Naw... it will be In Washington! 

WTF?

NO WONDER NO ONE CARES ANYMORE!

Forest Service: Half of Rainbow Family Violations Involved Illegal Drugs

 

Forest Service: Half of Rainbow Family Violations Involved Illegal Drugs

"Based on Forest Service records, 116 violation notices were issued in relation to the Unauthorized Noncommerical Group Use Incident on the White Mountain National Forest, and of those 56 were on drug related charges.

The drug related charges include officers finding fentanyl, LSD, heroine, ketamine, methamphetamines, psilocybin mushrooms, ecstasy, cocaine, and marijuana.

“There was a variety. Most were harder drugs,” Markin said."

Rainbow gatherings are officially dying!

So what?

Maybe 3,000 people showed to this year's National gathering?

People are saying this year's site has been the worst selection of any site in the gathering's history!

I really do not think that is what the low turnout is  about even though mass amounts of people turned around and left after seeing what a shit show it truly was...

I think the 80% kind and 20% unkind people that go to the gatherings have finally flipped to where only 20% kind people now go and the other 80% who go are now the unkind, negative, and dark folk that make up the larger percentage of Rainbow and the gatherings now a days!

Nobody wants to go anymore seeing what it has become over the past couple decades...

The "elders" have finally ran the Rainbow gatherings into the ground once and for all!

They must be so proud of themselves! 

THERE IS ONLY ONE THING FOR THEM LEFT TO DO... kick back and watch as OTHERS clean up their mess as usual! (Or try to if they even can)

It has been amazing at just how many people I have been meeting in my travels lately that say "I used to be Rainbow" or "I won't go to another Rainbow gathering ever again" or "I was sexually harrased or assaulted at a Rainbow gathering" or my all time favorite... 

"YOU CAN'T TRUST A RAINBOW ANYMORE"!!!