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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: 5843
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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#2. To: Deckard (#0)

Drug screening every attendee? Try drug searches at the entrances. It's federal land.

If people don't like it, move the venue to private property. Woodstock was held on private property and had 400,000 people.

misterwhite  posted on  2019-06-21   10:10:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: misterwhite (#2) (Edited)

Try drug searches at the entrances. It's federal land.

You'd be thrilled if the feds searched without a warrant or probable cause anyone going on any federal land at any time. Actually, you'd most likely be in favor of cops anywhere doing that.

After all "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear", eh comrade?

Not a big fan of the 4th amendment, are you bobby?

Deckard  posted on  2019-06-21   10:24:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Deckard (#3)

You'd be thrilled if the feds searched without a warrant or probable cause anyone going on any federal land at any time.

Federal land, federal rules. Have your drug party elsewhere.

misterwhite  posted on  2019-06-21   10:57:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: misterwhite (#4)

Federal land, federal rules.

No probable cause - no warrant.

I'll have to say - you are the most strident and unapologetic police state worshiper I have had the displeasure of dealing with, online and elsewhere.

Deckard  posted on  2019-06-21   11:28:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Deckard (#5)

No probable cause - no warrant.

Yet the TSA can search everyone at the airport with no probable cause - no warrant. Go figure.

misterwhite  posted on  2019-06-21   12:36:09 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: misterwhite (#6)

Yet the TSA can search everyone at the airport with no probable cause - no warrant. Go figure.

Not hard to figure. Both public transport and human lives are at risk from terrorism.

That is not the case at Burning Man.

sneakypete  posted on  2019-06-23   14:43:49 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: sneakypete, yall (#12)

Yet the TSA can search everyone at the airport with no probable cause - no warrant. ——- Whitey agrees. again with anti constitutional bull.

Pete —- Not hard to figure. Both public transport and human lives are at risk from terrorism.

That is not the case at Burning Man.

Pete, I’m glad to see you’re still fighting the irrational clowns around here.

Haven’t been posting due to health problems. How are you doing?

tpaine  posted on  2019-06-24   16:12:44 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: tpaine (#17)

Haven’t been posting due to health problems.

Welcome to the club.

How are you doing?

Better now,but it's been a little rough the last few months. Two heart operations and a diagnosis of Stage 4 Lymphoma in the groin,stomach,and chest.

I have had periods in my life that were more fun.

Don't really understand how or why,but I seem to be beating it and haven't even really been all that sick.

Biggest problem is chemo brain. I just call it "Mad Cow" now.

sneakypete  posted on  2019-06-25   17:09:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: sneakypete, yall (#18)

Better now,but it's been a little rough the last few months. Two heart operations and a diagnosis of Stage 4 Lymphoma in the groin,stomach,and chest.

I have had periods in my life that were more fun.

Not much fun here either, —- and it’s flat amazing that you haven’t felt “all that sick”.

Good to see every one at the site is still truckin on...

tpaine  posted on  2019-06-26   10:50:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: tpaine (#19)

Not much fun here either, —- and it’s flat amazing that you haven’t felt “all that sick”.

I know. I have a friend that was a VERY senior SF medic when he retired and went to med school checking my lab reports to let me know if they were sugar-coating anything,and last week he flat out told me "There is no way in hell a man your age should be responding this well to stage 4 lymphoma,and not even be getting sick."

One lab report last month stated "Remarkable recovery in the white blood cell count". "Remarkable recovery" seems to ME to be words rarely written or seen on blood work from cancer labs. My doc even insisted on quoting it out loud to me with a big smile on her face.

Which proves the old saying still applies that states "It's better to be lucky than it is smart".

sneakypete  posted on  2019-06-27   2:07:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: sneakypete (#20)

It's better to be lucky than it is smart

At 82 I’m finally getting smart enough to realize how lucky I’ve been.

You still do anything over at FR?

tpaine  posted on  2019-06-27   12:46:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: tpaine (#21) (Edited)

You still do anything over at FR?

No. Jim Bob banned me permanently a decade or so ago. Maybe even longer than that.

He never got over the hard-on he had for me for exposing his pet "Green Beret General" as a phony. Turns out the guy was a teenager living in Texas.

sneakypete  posted on  2019-06-27   20:44:34 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: sneakypete (#22)

He never got over the hard-on he had for me for exposing his pet "Green Beret General" as a phony.

I remember that incident vaguely, but I was banned by then, permanently.

Are any of the other sites you used to post at still operating?

tpaine  posted on  2019-06-27   21:00:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: tpaine (#23) (Edited)

Are any of the other sites you used to post at still operating?

Liberty Forum,but it mostly seems to be skin-head wannabes there now. Used to love Goldi's site,but it shut down when she died.

I post a lot now on The Briefing Room. Their format/software takes some getting used to and it is awkward at best,but there are some bright people posting there.

sneakypete  posted on  2019-06-29   10:22:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: sneakypete (#24)

I post a lot now on The Briefing Room.

Thanks Pete.. I’ll give that site a try..

tpaine  posted on  2019-06-29   10:41:05 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#26. To: tpaine (#25)

Thanks Pete.. I’ll give that site a try..

Cool!

There is always room for an independent thinker!

sneakypete  posted on  2019-06-29 10:44:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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