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Title: Feds Say They Plan on Drug Testing Every Single Person Attending Burning Man
Source: Free Thought Project
URL Source: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/burning-man-drug-screening/
Published: Jun 20, 2019
Author: Matt Agorist
Post Date: 2019-06-21 07:49:34 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 5866
Comments: 26

Over the years, the Burning Man Festival has become one of the most popular events and party destinations in the US and has drawn tens of thousands of people in recent years. Unfortunately, this celebration of love and harmony is an enemy to the rigid bureaucracy and control freaks in the state. Last year, as TFTP reported, law enforcement attempted to turn the event into a police state function with random vehicle searches and checkpoints. Now, the Bureau of Land Management says they plan on implementing drug screening checkpoints at all entrances to see if people are showing up with drugs in their systems.

The Reno Gazette-Journal reports, the Bureau of Land Management may require drug screens at every entrance of the festival. Naturally, the event organizers say that this would create massive delays and sheer chaos at the gates. They also bring up the completely unconstitutional nature of such an act.

The idea of drug screening 80,000 attendees is so over the top that even Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen noted that actions are unconstitutional.

“If someone is doing a search or screening, you’re still working under the color of law enforcement. You need to make sure you have probable cause,” Allen said. “BLM has a hard row to plow with that.”

BLM officials said more information on the screenings may become available nearer to the event, Aug. 25 to Sept. 2, according to the Journal.

Over the years, the philosophy of the Burning Man celebration has been to “leave no trace,” meaning leave the land just like it was before 80,000 people descend upon it. Over the last 30 years, this is exactly what has happened.

For the past 30 years, the Burning Man organization has worked collaboratively with the Bureau of Land Management and other agencies, the public, and event participants to be an exemplary steward of public lands, and to produce a safe and fun experience. We have strived to protect the cultural integrity of the Event while safely adapting to changing expectations and increasingly aggressive regulatory requirements. We are held to the highest standard of any permit on BLM managed lands and are proud of our environmental track record. Burning Man is now the largest Leave No Trace event in the world. Black Rock City has also become a significant economic engine, bringing $70 million into the Northern Nevada economy each year.

Despite this environmentalist ideology, the group has found themselves in the cross hairs of the state who is attempting to regulate the event out of existence.

According to new regulations, federal government agents would be required to oversee the festival and manage areas previously managed by qualified staff. This would ruin the festivities.

As TFTP has previously reported, Burning Man has long been the target of government agencies despite not causing problems. The very idea of party-goers peacefully celebrating at an event for days on end is the antithesis of the establishment and the frequent attacks on the festivities highlights this.

Last year, we pointed out some sneaky tricks that officers were using to stop people. They were pulling them over for having dim tail lights, or any of obstruction of view in their windows, which is common when people are carrying camping gear. As soon as someone is pulled over, officers are ready nearby with drug dogs to justify a search on the vehicle. Some posters on social media said that police are profiling drivers and pulling over anyone who looks like they would be attending the festival.

This was confirmed by local newspaper ThisIsReno who reported that police in the region had orders from the federal government to target cars that are on their way to Burning Man and search them for drugs.

Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe’s Secretary Brenda Henry told Reno reporter Bob Conrad that these orders came straight from “the top.” When Conrad asked, “You mean from President Trump?” Henry replied “Yes.”

“If you don’t have anything to hide, you’re good to go,” Henry said.

The Burning Man Festival has long been a target of the Feds, who are threatened by the counter-culture nature of the event and its attendees. Burners have even been labeled as terrorists by the feds, as it was revealed in a 2015 Freedom Of Information Act request that the FBI sent undercover agents to the festival under the pretense of gathering intelligence on terrorists.

The 16-page document released under duress by the FBI is still heavily censored — especially parts pertaining to high-tech police surveillance equipment used to “gather information.”

The fact that terrorism is used as an excuse for the surveillance is interesting, especially because the FBI notes in its report that the festival is a “cultural and artisan event, which promote[s] free expression by the participants.”

Apparently, art and free expression can now be equated with terrorism, environmental degradation, and general enemies of the state and all those who attend must submit their bodily fluids for testing.

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Title: Feds Say They Plan on Drug Testing Every Single Person Attending Burning Man

Source: Free Thought Project
URL Source: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/burning-man-drug-screening/
Published: Jun 20, 2019
Author: Matt Agorist

FAKE NEWS

The feds will not screen anyone. Black Rock City, LLC (BRC) will hire approved people to do their private screening, if they want the Special Recreation Permit to be approved. (BRC) seeks to have a temporary city on federal land at Black Rock, with plans to increase to 100,000 people. BRC is the company that runs the event and sells tickets to get in.

https://uproxx.com/life/new-rules-change-burning-man/

Will New Bureau Of Land Management Measures ‘Outright Kill’ Burning Man?

Dane Rivera 05.01.19
UPROXX

Burning Man is butting heads with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over new measures that festival organizers fear will change the face of the event forever. On March 15th, while seeking a new 10-year permit from the BLM to continue operations in the Black Rock Desert of Northern Nevada (where the festival has been held annually for the past 29 years) The Burning Man project received a 372-page Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) which would require them to take on significant new measures in order to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act. Changes include reducing of the amount of light pollution produced by the event at night, providing dumpsters inside Black Rock City along Gate Road, paying for the maintenance of County Road 34 (the sole road leading to the event’s entrance), and implementing BLM-approved private security to screen vehicles, participants, vendors, contractors, staff, and volunteers entering the playa for drugs or illegal weapons.

[...]

At issue is the granting of a Special Recreation Permit for Black Rock City, LLC.

Private security would be hired by Black Rock City, LLC (BRC) and approved by BLM. BLM does not do drug security screening, but may require the company seeking the Special Recreation Permit to provide for such screening as a condition of approval of the requested permit.

The feds will not screen anyone. BRC will hire approved people to do that, if they want the requested permit to be approved.

Note that as the event is on federal land, possession, sale or use of marijuana may result in federal prosecution.

https://www.rgj.com/story/news/crime/2019/05/06/caught-smorgasbord-drugs-burner-sentenced-34-months/1123894001/

Man caught en-route to Burning Man with 'smorgasbord' of drugs in 2018 sentenced to 34 months

Sam Gross
Reno Gazette Journal > Published 4:56 p.m. PT May 6, 2019
Updated 2:01 p.m. PT May 7, 2019

A New York man was sentenced to 34 months in federal prison Monday after being caught ferrying a "smorgasbord" of drugs to the 2018 edition of Burning Man, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Colorado.

Alexander Zelyakovsky, 46, was caught on August 25, 2018, the first day of the week-long festival in the Black Rock Desert, as he drove a truck through Colorado en route to Nevada.

A Colorado state trooper pulled over Zelyakovsky for a routine traffic stop where he consented to a search of his vehicle, according to the release.

During the search, the trooper noticed the tailgate of the truck was particularly heavy and looked behind a factory panel where the drugs and several thousand dollars in cash was found.

In total, 1125 grams of ecstasy, 376 grams of Psilocyn mushrooms, .0173 grams of LSD, 229 grams of cocaine and $26,745 in cash was found inside Zelyakovsky's truck.

[...]

https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/projects/nepa/93518/175007/212561/Burning_Man_Event_SRP-Final_EIS_Vol1.pdf

[174 pp]

At 3-32

Proposed Mitigations for All Event Alternatives

Contracted BLM-approved, third-party, private security at all portals of entry to screen participants, staff, and volunteers entering the Event (Mitigation Measure PHS-1; Appendix E) would reduce entry of firearms and other contraband into the Event (BLM 2018bBLM 2019b). For example, events such as the Electric Daisy Carnival hire security personnel for entry screening to reduce subsequent impacts on law enforcement staffing the Event from banned contraband entering the Event (BLM 2018b BLM 2019b).

https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/projects/nepa/93518/175007/212561/Burning_Man_Event_SRP-Final_EIS_Vol1.pdf

[702 pp]

At PDF page 338:

Commenters questioned how having private security screening everyone entering the Event will affect wait times to enter the Event and suggested that this screening process could increase the wait time to days instead of hours to enter the Event. Commenters also asked the BLM to consider how this mitigation measure violates the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.

It is recommended by law enforcement agencies generally and by cooperating agencies with expertise in the area that a comprehensive security plan should begin with screening for banned items at the points of entry and a hardened perimeter. For the Burning Man Event, BLM has recommended a systematic screening process to provide participant health and safety at the Event site, as required by FLPMA and the BLM’s SRP regulations and policy. DHS publications recommend designing and implementing surveillance, monitoring, and inspection plans for soft targets and crowded places to avert active shooter, chemical, improvised explosive device, and vehicle ramming attacks. Further, BLM policy instructs law enforcement to aggressively combat illegal substance use on public lands. The BLM plans to institute this protection measure with the least amount of disruption to existing gate operations as possible. There is no evidence this will increase wait times to days instead of hours. NEPA requires the BLM to consider and discuss the human environment in environmental impact statements (40 CFR 1508.8 and 40 CFR 1508.14). The constitutionality of the proposed security screening is well supported in instances where the Department of the Interior contracts for or requires security at points of entry to large outdoor mass gatherings.

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