Monday, August 22, 2005

All your drum and bass are belong to us

Jackbooted fascist thugs in full combat gear (allegedly local cops and SWAT teams, although they look like military troops to me) attacked a legal, insured, fully permitted rave called Verses in Utah County, Utah over the weekend.



An unlinked commentator on What Really Happened claimed that a "source inside the Utah government reports that this action was undertaken out of fear that the rave would be used to rally support for the protest against Bush's Utah visit."



Welcome to Amerikkka. If you think it can't happen here - news flash - it already is and has been for along time. It just wasn't happening to middle class white kids. This brutal attack was instigated to condition the people to police state repression and to give the fascists some intitial practice mauling peaceful civilian gatherings - based on the premise that they are about to start becoming a whole lot more common.



Photos in chronological order, captured from the video. The servers hosting the streaming video are all getting slammed so try here, here, and here. Download the video here. Eyewitness accounts here.

Go over here and check out the pictures of guys in military uniforms kicking fallen teenage girls!



http://stonefruit.bl...-belong-to.html

Shocked and apalled, and this follows a trend including the Czech incident you posted a couple months ago.



As it is, I'm not able to bring a book I just bought (about the history of acid house and the concordant ecstasy and drugs scene) with me across the border b/c I don't want it confiscated and have a cavity search conducted. Not sure I'm going to bring my CCCP shirt, either. Your country, among others, is getting scarier all the time. Canada has lost democracy, but it hasn't gained fascism yet.

Hey Brotha!



We're all set on a guest list Saturday night to go out and get beaten up by riot cops!

I'll wear my athletic protector (re: plastic crotch guard).



(Not sure whether to put a happy smiley, or a frowning one because it's not out of the realm of possibility.)

LA is NOT Utah... basicly, in L.A., if you're white you're immune to police brutality...



I remember, a loooong while ago, my friend Todd and I went up to L.A., we were both about 18, maybe 19, and we were in his car. We had a bottle of Wild Turkey, and we swigged it on the drive up. What he used to do was buy cars offa little old ladies, detail them, maybe fix em a little bit, then resell them, it was how he made money. The car we were in, he couldn't sell it, so he left it parked in a shitty neighborhood with the keys in the ignition. 15 minutes later, he comes back, the car is gone, he calls the police and files a report with his insurance, so they'll have to pay for the car. Well, the cops found the car, with new tires and new suspension, after about 2 weeks, so he got it back.



We went to a coupla clubs, and got drunker, and he was driving us home, and we were completely lost, and the mostly empty bottle of Wild Turkey was in the trunk.... we were somewhere on Sunset, and the gumball red and blue lights start flashing behind us. The cops come up, ask for license and registration, and Todd goes 'Officer, we're lost, can you tell us where the freeway is' playing up the whole "We're just a couple of white suburban kids in danger in LA" angle, and the cop tells him that the reason we got stopped was that the car had been reported stolen. It took maybe five minutes for the cops to figure out it wasn't stolen, then they let us follow them back to the freeway. We got on the freeway, then pulled onto the shoulder to finish off the Wild Turkey in a toast to the beautiful LAPD.



I'm not particularly proud of that sort of thing, but it makes a good (and informative) story.

Yeah, I know, but I still think it's a good thing Bush isn't coming to Cali next week. 'Rallying support to protest'? What a laugh.

well, we're not doing a 'massive'.... I've been to more parties than I can count that have been shut down, but I've never seen anything like that... usually, the lights come on, and the cops just tell everyone to leave.

Someone sent the Utah footage to my email.



It's just sick. Here's a bunch of kids that want to have a good time, and it turns out to be some kind of sting operation. Now really, does the national guard (or whatever those military uniformed soldiers were) have to be called in on a bunch of raving kids? Honestly...



Darkstar, you best leave your book at home. I don't think your CCCP shirt will be a problem, if you're afraid it is then don't wear it on the plane. We (the US) haven't quite regressed back to the 1950's... just yet anyway.

whats CCCP stand for?

It's the transliteral Cyrillian text for U.S.S.R (Union of Soviet Socialist Republic)



Currently modern day Russia.

whirlygirl Escribi�:

Darkstar, you best leave your book at home. I don't think your CCCP shirt will be a problem, if you're afraid it is then don't wear it on the plane. We (the US) haven't quite regressed back to the 1950's... just yet anyway.

Definetly not bringing the book, which is a shame 'cause I went out to buy a book for the trip yesterday and came home with something I can't bring.



I was (mostly) joking about the shirt, which I actually wore to the Chems performance at Coachella. No hassle about that at the border or anywhere else. I guess trendy, shopping-mall-based communism is acceptable. :D



Despite the tone of my posts, I know the US isn't a police state yet (and probably never will be). Trust me, I plan on having fun like it's 1699 and I'm a member of the Spanish Inquisition. ;-)

why what are you guys planning? just a get together? or what?

Yeah, the shirt definitely won't be an issue out in the open here.



I remember in 1990-1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, there was a market for all things USSR/CCCP. There were even stores that sold a lot of things with CCCP on them - shirts, jeans, and the watches were a big hit. I think there was even a CCCP brand, not that that's surprising, but I really can't remember. During that time my parents went to Russia and a lot of people there were taking advantage of their newfound capitalism, and had set up stalls around the centers of the big cities. They picked me up this incredible watch, this big, heavy hunkin thing on a thick red strap. It was a souvenir watch for the most part, something cheap for the tourists, but was a replica of the old Russian military watches - the big CCCP on the face, and on the strap a tiny, plastic bubble-shaped nodule where you could put a tiny picture underneath (a pic of the soldier's sweetheart probably) It's pretty cool, but over time the whole mechanism corroded and I can't even get the back off to put in a new battery.

ive never been particularly "anti-capitalist" or "anti-government" apart from going on a couple of marches before the invasion of iraq im pretty back seat qbout the whole protest thing.



but if i lived in america and shit like this was going on, i can see myself being a serious anti-government protestor.



that shit is just bull-shit. and i bet those uniformed thugs didnt even identify themselves as government officials! imagine the fucking panic in that place.





utter utter government CUNTS

Criminal Justice Bill?

Dude, you can bring the book, no one's going to look at that. Just put it in your bag when you go through customs.

Ok, wow, now I'm really pissed off. Sometimes I'm ashamed to live here. :(