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remember that old adage about "shooting ducks in a barrel"? what that means is you group your victims together and they are a lot easier to take down. well, for some reason (and i could go off about that but i’m on a mission here so bear with me a minute) it has been declared open season on hippies. and festivals are getting really, really nasty. i just got this sent to me about wakarusa.

so be really, really careful and know your rights. there is no such thing as a safe festival anymore, especially the venues like smilefest and wakarusa that are known to be "shooting ducks in a barrel".

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to all you leo’s out there reading these posts, fuck you. i love you, you have a belly button, but look in a mirror and rethink your life.

Hidden cameras helped in drug busts

By Eric Weslander (Contact)

Friday, September 15, 2006

Hidden, high-dollar equipment helped police crack down on drug dealing at this year’s Wakarusa Festival.

A new article in a trade journal, Government Security News, describes the roughly $250,000 worth of hidden-camera, night-vision and thermal-imaging equipment used by police throughout the festival grounds. The equipment was courtesy of a California company that agreed to give a free demonstration of its wares for marketing purposes.

The company estimated that they were able to cover 85 percent of the festival grounds with about a half dozen hidden cameras. One camera, for example, was mounted atop a light tower and used on “Shakedown Street,” a bustling area viewed as a problem spot for drug dealing.

“It’s hopefully a win-win for everybody except the crooks,” said Mike McRory, vice president of business development for NS Microwave Inc., of Spring Valley, Calif., which markets security and surveillance equipment and is owned by the defense contractor Allied Defense Group.

The company builds “covert” cameras disguised as everything from electrical boxes to birdhouses. They’re capable of seeing at night as long as there’s some ambient light nearby such as a lantern or fire.

‘Nobody knew’

Four of its cameras were “consistently deployed” throughout the festival, and at least two others were there to be used as needed, according to the company. The cameras were controlled by a computerized command center in a 21-foot trailer that was parked atop a hill in the middle of a Frisbee golf course inside the park.

“Nobody knew,” said Kevin Danciak, the company’s Midwestern sales representative. “It just looked like parabolic dishes on top of a trailer.”

The plan to use the cameras came about when Danciak ran into Clinton State Park manager Jerry Schecher at a Kansas narcotics officers’ meeting early this year or late last year. Danciak was there to promote his equipment. Schecher was looking for answers to growing concerns about drug dealing at the festival, which was heading into its third year and was growing in popularity.

Had there not been a strong move this year by law enforcement to control the situation, Schecher said, the state would not have allowed the festival to continue.

“This is a crowd that has a high expectation of privacy and freedom, and I respect that, within limits,” Schecher said. “I struggled with this a little bit, but I felt like we were doing it for the right reasons. If it was meant to be Big Brother and spying on people, I wouldn’t have done it.”

One festivalgoer said the hidden cameras were “a shame and kind of embarrassing.

“I feel like it was really a big mistake because people at a festival are trying to have a good time and let loose. I would be willing to bet that most people wouldn’t be OK with that had they known,” Ali Mangan said.

She said law enforcement should have at leased publicized the hidden cameras. The surveillance was conducted at the expense of the privacy of people not selling drugs, Mangan said.

The main things the cameras captured, Danciak said, were hand-to-hand drug transactions and drug use. After zooming into an area where drug sales were happening, police could then send an officer in to make an undercover buy that was caught on camera.

“We could see if there was a problem and then address it rather than just having to focus all of our foot patrols or enforcement in that area all of the time,” Schecher said.

Danciak said the result was a safer way of busting drug deals.

“No fighting, no running, no guns drawn, nothing,” he said. “It was just, ‘You pop around the corner, you’re there, you identify yourself and you see people just deflate.’”

He declined comment on whether the cameras covered the festival stage areas or campground areas outside the festival.

At least a month before the festival began, Schecher said, promoter Brett Mosiman was notified of the plan for security cameras. Mosiman did not return phone calls Thursday seeking comment.

The cameras’ presence was not publicized in the Lawrence area before or after the festival.

The article in Government Security News said the images produced were so good that some alleged dealers entered pleas based on the strength of that evidence. But Dist. Atty. Charles Branson, whose office is charged with prosecuting the cases, said he did not know of any cases in which that happened.

Many of those arrested at the festival were allowed to plead to lower charges in a massive docket call a few days after the hearing.

Police seized more than $11,000 in suspected drug money, but some of that came outside the festival grounds in a Kansas Highway Patrol checkpoint.

Lt. Kari Wempe, of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, the lead agency at the festival, said the camera system worked well.

“It gave a good overall aerial view of the grounds, which we would not have had otherwise,” she said.

But so far, she said, the sheriff has no plans to buy any of the company’s equipment. Schecher said he would like to use a similar system at the park in the future, perhaps for catching people who try to break into pay stations, but not necessarily for next year’s festival.

“Kevin has nice toys, but they’re expensive,” he said.

— Staff writer George Diepenbrock contributed to this story.
hmmm, tome this sounds like they could fight it on the grounds that its unconstitutional, (yea iknow..bushis screwing up the constitution..all the more reasonto fight the injustices of our gov) they violated the privacy of thousands of innocent folks, inthe hopes of catching a relatively small percentage in some sort of crimes..that just aint right…it does highlight though 1 of the reasons id rather goto a gathering then a fest anyday..
Well…they better not start hiding those cams in the bathrooms or in my tent. Anyway, doesn’t this belong in Events and Festivals?

lovin you
you should never take anything for granted when in babylon
This is so sad. Rainbows should start a fund to buy their own country/island. When it happens invite me PLEASE.
*begs*
Understand this brothers & sisters-in the original post, again the "LEO" is blamed for what is taking place. The LEO’s are simply doing their jobs, enforcing the laws that WE’VE ALLOWED to take hold! The impetus of my point here is that in many recent conversations i’ve had, it was revealed to me that only a fraction of americans, particularly those involved in subcultures such as ours, even vote. Shame, shame, shame. Want the leo’s to stop enforcing laws? CHANGE ‘EM! Vote; don’t give me the old "my vote isn’t going to make any difference anyway, it’s all prearranged" or the "if I vote 3rd party it’s throwing my vote away"…if everyone i’ve heard say either of those things got off their duffs and voted, the outcome of recent elections would be totally different. Take advantage of our system and vote to change the laws you don’t feel are reasonable…sorry for the rant! Lovin’ y’all…
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Was this a paid event to get into? Was this a true rainbow event?

The rainbow world keeps up the front thats its not all about drugs but time and time again I hear more and more older people that even the rainbow world is going to hell and alot of it goes back to drugs and drug related issues.

We all know that any event will have its share of drinking and drugs so is the rainbow family just getting picked on or does the law just figure its a sure thing?

I had a friend get busted at a bonnarroo at a drug checkpoint…..yep go figure, a drug checkpoint at a paid? hippie event…….the mail in fine was $2660 one year unsup probation, that will teach ya.

What the hell do you expect from the gov? A free pass.

Why are you crying over a system we all know is fucked and when you go out into that (system) world you are subject to the mainstream worlds rules and now want to bitch about it.
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I can’t get into calling people pigs and being all "down with authority". That is totally different from saying I support random drug searches or searches at gates, or searches at all. It just means that cops are people who, honestly, just are doing their job and the jobs they are given. They may really really really believe in what they’re doing too, it’s at the opposite of what we believe just as passionately. I am not a fan of abused authority, of drug laws, or of soooo many things we have in this country, I’ve just met too many nice cops to say they are all pigs. Some hate their job.

I live about an antiauthoritian lifestyle as possible, but I do so quietly. It comes naturally, I don’t get up in their face about it. I’ve always done things subtly, I feel that’s where the change really happens.

Wakarusa is not a Rainbow event but there are a lot of Family in the Lawence KS area.

WoodstockChild: Do you really think it’s much better in other countries? Some countries have looser drug laws but there’s always some kind of trade-off to be made.

All we can say about the cameras at Wakarusa is that we’re sure glad we don’t camp at that campground anymore…before we bought our land, we ‘lived’ at the campground during the week & vended on weekends…there didn’t used to be hidden cameras at the festivals there but times they are a’changing….
-sigh- Now I want to listen to Dylan. Only, at this time things were changing for the better, but now they’re taking a turn for the worst.
Things weren’t necessarily better then, Woodstock…. Let us not forget that there was a draft and a war that killed half a million American soldiers not to mention countless Vietnamese…. Yes today’s world has bad points, but the 60’s weren’t exactly a Mecca.
Seems like there is no where to escape the hidden spys any more, unless it’s in your own home… I was picking apples way up an old overgrown road at an abandoned farm. Middle of nowhere. A couple weeks later my neighbor told me he had some real nice pictures of me….. hidden GAME CAMERA! Damn.

Trouble with alot of cops is that it takes a certain type of individual to want to BE in that position. And like it. And those are not necessarily the type of folks that you might want to associate with… Just not a particularly respectable job. I think they send all the worst ones to poor and underpriviledged areas…
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When we went to a Tennessee (unofficial) gathering people got shot at and the cops were were walking around with those sound thingys.
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woodstock, why are you so pessimistic about…everything? Cheer up! The world really isnt all that bad.

to you, and in general- i am friends with a lot of the cops in the town i work in. Most of them are very chill people. A few of them admit to putting on this "dick-wad cop front" when theyre on the road (yes, they’ve said that) and a lot of them are pretty down to earth. (hell, when i was still 20 theyd bring me out drinking ive honestly chilled with them when theyve been off duty)

The young one who used to be a bit of a pseudo-hippie himself (we’ve had many conversatins when he comes into my store about everything we have in common and the phat jams he listens to in his cruiser) honestly wants to be a cop to protect and serve, not to bust kids and be a jerk.

So while some cops can be jerks and stereotype and be out to get people, im sure… many are doing their jobs and are awesome, normal every day people when theyre off duty. How are we any better for stereotyping them?

Let them do their job, know the law and your rights, BE CAREFUL, and you should be okay for the most part.

with love

her dads dea & her parents are ultra protective & shes desperate for freedom.. the anger at cops is really just anger at her dad & all he stands for

but its misdirected at what he does instead of just being angry about how hes affecting her..& woodstock sweety..u gotta approach him like that..hes just your dad doing what dads do..& right or wrong its not cause hes dea..hes just your dad..talk to him about his actions not his beliefs or what he has to believe to be a cop..
even forgety hes a cop & talk to him as dad..
cops are just ppl who hafta pretend to be a certain way so they can do theyre jobs
speaking of shows… this was a pretty interesting article .

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It can be hard to like cops, but they are just machines of the man just like we all are as employees. I do feel we are leaning towards facism more and more everyday.
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psh, drugs dont add anything to a show, wat would a show b without mad strung out people, i stick to the psychedelics myself but i appreciate stoned people in general…but i digress…first off, some people r cops, and some cops r people, for some they r only tools for part of the day, but others they spend there entire lives propogating hate…and thats another thing, i dont like cops, i cant stand to b told wat do, but i refuse to hate them, cus i think thats just contributing to the whole system of hate…a good test to see wat kind of a cop a person is, tell them u love them, a cop will get pissed, a person might just feel uncomfortable, or hell, they may even smile
Yes don’t hate cops… but do understand what they really are…. TOOLS! Today’s LEO’s really aren’t any different than the tools who work for the military. They are all part of the military-industrial complex.

The Rainbow Gathering proves a society can function without people desginated as "cops". I have never heard anything productive come out of LEOs being at the gathering.
Smoking marijuana is more fun than drinking beer,
But a friend of our was captured and they gave him 30 years,
Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why,
But demonstrations are a drag, besides we’re much too high,
And I’m sure it wouldn’t interest anybody outside of a small circle of friends…
-Phil Ochs
i never realized wat kinda world sponge bob and his friend lived in…spooky
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hmm, we were wondering where they were coming from last year at wakarusa. oh well. ive always gotten by without selling drugs. thats the simplest way to ensure your freedom.

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Next time everyone should wear masks and the same clothes.
Make it a nightmare to ID anyone.

We have this technology here in Woodstock that was GIFTED by The FEDS!
I can’t tell you how many times some young looking Narc has asked me here where to buy Drugs. We all tell them bogus places so they keep walking around in circles all day and laugh our asses off watching them.
its really messed up, stuff like this make me wanna say no to going to the bigger festies, dark star the other night in raliegh is a prime example, the cops where just pointing out kids and then grabbing them and searching em, a brother was there selling his wraps when one of the kids got busted, they took his wrap box and wanted to look in it, he got it back and all. but its really messed up for the kids who make money on lot, for some of us its the only thing we know
i would look into festies in other countries…like boom in portugal , or gatherings n shows in brazill or spain …hell anywhere but this floating prison ship called america ….well , i think that doing anything in the usa is out ……there used to be a lot of kind festies , but the reactionary psudopuritanical nazi bullshit that leaves everyone being unconstitutionaly violated and searched everywhere [hell the suspension of habeaus corpus ], its impossiple to gather together n enjoy each other here …..and this bullshit about the pigs being just people ….they all are paid mercenaries ….all part of the same sadistic , life denying machiene ……the only good nazi pig is a pork chop ….id say 90%of the humans here in the good ol usa should be put in dog food cans …the pigs soldiers judges court employees beurocrats bankers speculators paracites ….hell every athoritarian everywhere are the enemy of life and liberty and deserve no mercy …..patria libre o morire…..death to the pigs ….
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fucking damnit dude. I fucking hate kansas. We have the phelps, we have our semi-famous 501 schoolboard for being completely fucked, and we have the most unbalanced social system ever. Everyone is on welfare or rich as hell, and we middle class get fucked on everything. The rich kids get private school and scholarships they don’t need, the poor learn nothing but go to school on a full ride because of how poor they are thanks to the greedy ass rich people. The only good thing here besides jayhawk basketball has been wakarusa, and now they are fucking that up too! I can;t believe it! What the hell is wrong with Kansas?! WHY IS THE GOVERNMENT SO FUCKING RETARDED?!