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    Drug screenings may be implemented at 2019 Burning Man

    https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/artic...m-14016146.php

    The Bureau of Land Management also denied the organization the ability to grow to 100,000 attendees

    By Drew Costley, SFGATE Updated 2:16 pm PDT, Wednesday, June 19, 2019

    FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2006 file photo, "The Man," a stick figured symbol of the Burning Man art festival, is silhouetted against a morning sunrise in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is recommending attendance be capped at existing levels for the next 10 years at the annual Burning Man counter-culture festival in the desert 100 miles north of Reno. Burning Man organizers had proposed raising the current 80,000 limit as high as 100,000 in coming years.

    People attending Burning Man this year might need to reconsider that acid trip on the Playa, due to a policy that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is thinking of implementing at this year's festival.

    The BLM might conduct drug screenings at the entrances to this year's festival at Black Rock Desert, according to a report from the Reno Gazette-Journal.

    Rudy Evenson, a spokesperson for BLM, told the Gazette-Journal that the federal agency could hire a private security firm to conduct drug screenings at this year's festival, or may wait until 2020 to implement the policy.

    The BLM released a two-volume environmental impact statement (part 1 is here and part 2 is here) on Burning Man on Friday, June 14 that stated the agency will contract "third-party, private security to screen vehicles and participants, vendors and contractors, and staff and volunteers entering the event" that "will report ... banned or illegal contraband or significant concerns directly to law enforcement as violations are observed so that law enforcement can respond."

    In an email to SFGate, the Burning Man group said it is preparing a full statement on the BLM environmental impact statement that they will publish on the Burning Man Journal in "the next day or so."

    On Wednesday afternoon, the BLM sent a statement to SFGate regarding the reports of potential drug screening at Burning Man. "Our law enforcement personnel are focused on life, health and safety issues for attendees and staff which can be complex for an event this size at a unique location like the Black Rock Playa," wrote a BLM spokesperson.

    "Screening process and procedures are just one facet of a multi-jurisdictional law enforcement approach to ensure the safety and security of the event. These procedures will be carried out in a manner similar to previous Burning Man events. At this time, BLM has no new announcements on changes to law enforcement and security policy or procedures related to Burning Man 2019."
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    About time. God-damn hippies think they can get away with doing drugs just because they're in the middle of the desert.
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    They need to respond this way:

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    His death continues to be the wind beneath my wings.
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    Someday we need to make it our equivalent of Guy Fawkes Day and burn him in effigy every year.
    Quote Originally Posted by Pauls' Revere View Post
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain

    We can! John McCain died on Aug 25, the same day when the Burning Man festival begins!

    +rep

    You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Swordsmyth again
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    Next, it'll be TSA at train stations, bus stations, Coachella, Lalapalooza, Fyre, stadiums, etc...

    We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!

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    Is there any truth to the rumor that anyone who mentions “burning man” at the border will be given a free ticket and bus ride?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
    Is there any truth to the rumor that anyone who mentions “burning man” at the border will be given a free ticket and bus ride?
    To where?
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    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

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    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pauls' Revere View Post
    Next, it'll be TSA at train stations, bus stations, Coachella, Lalapalooza, Fyre, stadiums, etc...
    The safety will be glorious
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    Not gonna lie, when I first saw the title I thought it was about Black Lives Matter.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Globalist View Post
    Not gonna lie, when I first saw the title I thought it was about Black Lives Matter.
    Lol, me too. The I saw drug screen next to it and wanted to see what the thread is all about.

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    Dannno will just have to find another place to party and dance around naked.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    Dannno will just have to find another place to party and dance around naked.
    He'll just have to do it at his house.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheTexan View Post
    The safety will be glorious
    Thank you comrade brother for reminding me of Big Brothers glorious love for me.

    We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!

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    What is the easiest and most readily understood way of telling BLM
    to fk the fk off , blow it out their as, eat sht , and fkng die.......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    Dannno will just have to find another place to party and dance around naked.
    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Globalist View Post
    He'll just have to do it at his house.
    Or the LP convention.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

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    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stratovarious View Post
    What is the easiest and most readily understood way of telling BLM
    to fk the fk off , blow it out their as, eat sht , and fkng die.......
    I am thinking,, in a "Large and Dangerous" Game caliber.

    ymmv
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    I'm a dances with wolves kind of guy, not a dances with other hominids kind of guy. lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by ATruepatriot View Post
    I'm a dances with wolves kind of guy, not a dances with other hominids kind of guy. lol
    Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pcosmar View Post
    “The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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    We Should Fear ‘Brave New World’ More Than We Do ‘1984’

    George Orwell’s dystopian classic, '1984,' is back in vogue—but to understand what's happening in our world, we need less Big Brother and more Aldous Huxley.

    ...........
    Orwell’s Collectivist Nightmare Differs From Our World

    First, the Inner Party of Orwell’s totalitarian state is founded on a collectivist nightmare called “Ingsoc,” dreamed up by intellectuals who believe they are superior to their fellow human beings. The book’s villain, O’Brien, implies he actually helped write a book called the “Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism.” It’s a forbidden text by a dissident named “Goldstein,” one that “1984”’s more daring citizens furtively pass around among themselves. (O’Brien might even be Goldstein, although this is not clear in the book.) In any case, O’Brien knows the book chapter and verse, even better than the traitors do.

    Trump and his populists are many things, but they are not intellectuals. Their movement is about as organized as a yard full of fireflies. None of them are in danger of writing a book of any depth or meaning that might fuel a movement.

    It is true that Trump advisor Steve Bannon has referred to himself as “a Leninist.” But as someone who knows a thing or two about Leninism, I have to say that I’m not sure Bannon understands the term. Leninism, which decayed into the Stalinist nightmare that was the prototype for “1984,” was a method of strict party organization. It wasn’t about smashing the state—it was about creating disciplined and focused revolutionaries who wanted to capture the state and then further an ideological revolution.

    Orwell’s World Is About Discipline And Vision


    Orwell’s Oceania is a Leninist state because it thrives on hierarchy and discipline, with the Inner Party controlling the less-reliable Outer Party, who serve as the workers and bureaucrats of the totalitarian state. Beyond the government blocks in which these repressed drones live, there is the old city—the remnant of one of the many great wars fought in the novel’s past. The old city is full of the “proles,” or the proletariat, the ignorant masses who are left alone to putter about in poverty. Indeed, Smith believes that the proles are the only hope for overthrowing the regime, but he soon finds that proles enjoy… well, being proles.

    Trump and his coterie are not the Inner Party. They have neither the discipline nor the vision. They are, in fact, more like the proles themselves, albeit having accidentally gained the levers of power. None of them could explain a governing—or repressive—theory of power beyond a crude American nativism that would hold water for more than 10 seconds.

    Nor is Oceania’s Party nearly as conflict-averse as Trump’s team. Whatever else can be said about Trump’s campaign platform, it was consistent on two themes: friendship with Russia and disengagement from major military conflicts. By contrast, the three major blocs in the destroyed world of “1984” keep their populations subjugated through constant war with each other. Trump ran on a platform of violence against certain groups, but on a retrenchment back home and staying out of the soup of the other major powers. (Well, except China. Maybe.)

    Trump Is Closer To Corporatism Than Totalitarianism


    Trump, insofar as he is a danger to civil liberties, shows reflexes closer to authoritarian corporatism rather than totalitarianism. He and his advisers are more interested in the obedience of the common citizen as part of a group enrichment of particular classes and corporations than with any overriding ideological loyalty. They play to the proles, rather than neutralizing them. They have no real interest in what anyone actually believes, so long as it translates into temporary political power and personal enrichment.

    Orwell’s party, by contract, expropriates everything, owns everything, and controls every last detail of daily life. Their centrally planned economy doles out rations of chocolate and gin like precious resources. It is the high Stalinism of 1950, not the Chavez-lite nationalism of 2017.

    And finally, there is Big Brother himself, omnipresent and glowering, always watching, always judging, rarely speaking, a figure—again, modeled on Stalin—of superhuman virtue, intelligence, industry, compassion, and bravery. Father, protector, nemesis, demi-god, the actual Big Brother is never seen in person, a Wizard of Oz whose curtain is never pulled back. His mystique is central to the fear and awe he inspires among his subjects.

    Trump Is No Big Brother, Despite His ‘Alternative Facts’


    Trump is a lot of things, but he’s not Big Brother. He can’t stay quiet or keep off of Twitter for an hour. We know every tic, ever stray hair on his head, every odd gesture of his hands. We know his views at length because he talks about everything, in random order, incessantly. If this is our Big Brother, we have little to fear from a new “1984.”

    Trump is a lot of things, but he’s not Big Brother.

    One similarity, I suppose, with “1984” is the way Trump and his surrogates have launched a full assault on the English language and the notion of truth, deploying terms like “fake news” and “alternative facts” and other clunky mouthfuls that sound as much like the detritus of a college dorm argument or a psychotherapy session as they do messages to an actual political community.

    It is true that in “1984,” facts were utterly malleable, and language a weapon used to extinguish abstract thought. But again, compared to the titans of Orwell’s Party, the Trump team’s major players are pikers on this score. Whatever came out of Sean Spicer in his first press conference, it wasn’t Newspeak; it was a disjointed, fragmented language, like a poorly done speech heard through a too-loud speaker with a short in the wiring cutting out now and then.

    You Should Be Scared About ‘Brave New World,’ Not ‘1984’


    None of this is the regime that will create Oceania.

    No, if you really want to think about the dystopian novel that should scare you in 2017, you must go to the another school of dystopian literature, away from the gray totalitarianism of “1984,” and enter instead the sex, drug, and leisure soaked society of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.”

    It is here, in Huxley’s grim but orderly vision of the future, that Americans should see themselves as closer to their own doom. Huxley’s World State is run by benevolent—or so they see themselves—tyrants enforcing a genetically engineered caste system, in which the populace is repressed not by violence but instead anesthetized by easy sex, ample supplies of euphoria-inducing drugs, and meaningless entertainment. Pleasure and hedonism, not violence and party discipline, are the mechanisms by which society is induced to submission.

    We Should Fear Hedonism, Not Just Totalitarianism


    The world of “1984” destroys Winston Smith by torturing him until he is capable of loving nothing but the state. In “Brave New World,” the hero—a man raised outside of the World State’s “civilization”—resists the pleasures of the new order, until he eventually submits and ends up filled-with self-loathing. He then saves the authorities the trouble of dealing with him by hanging himself.

    The nightmare of a society debased by its own affluence and hedonism, increasingly turning both to drugs and suicide, is far closer to America under Trump. There is no need for Big Brother when people willingly withdraw from public life. Winston Smith took every spare moment to read, to write, and to meet his secret lover. But in a country where Americans fill their spare time with substance abuse, pornography, and moronic television shows, there are few Winston Smiths to be found—and no need for them in a state that doesn’t much care what anyone does, so long as everyone stays away from politics.

    We are killing our own sense of industry and independence on both the right and the left.

    Of course, neither of these dystopian nightmares are upon us yet, nor are they inevitable. One of the most endearing (and infuriating qualities) of Americans is that they don’t like to be told what to do. We retain a fierce streak of independence, even when it leads us astray. But make no mistake: we are killing our own sense of industry and independence on both the right and the left—yes, across the American political spectrum—and thus are far more at risk of sliding into the affluent but illiberal “Brave New World” than the regimented and disciplined world of Oceania.

    And if we’re lazy enough to become the decadent but efficient society Huxley foresaw in “Brave New World,” we could eventually fall to the conquest of more disciplined and martial nations. If that happens, then we do indeed risk emerging from the wreckage as the impoverished maximum security prison of “1984.”

    In the meantime, we had best think about how to recover our sense of dignity, stoicism, and self-respect before we court both of these terrifying outcomes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Globalist View Post
    He'll just have to do it at his house.
    He should do it @Danke 's house.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    He should do it @Danke 's house.
    I doubt Dannno will go all the way to Minnesota just to do that.
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    Why the outrage?

    If someone set up an exhibit at BM offering free cavity searches, those faggs would line up for miles to receive some trendy sodomy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ATruepatriot View Post
    I'm a dances with wolves kind of guy, not a dances with other hominids kind of guy. lol
    That's just about where I'm at..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Globalist View Post
    He'll just have to do it at his house.
    I'd prefer if he did it danke's house...that would be a hoot.

    Pffft...Burning Man.

    Years ago, somebody made the comment here about why there were no black people at Burning Man, and somebody cracked wise that:

    "Because a black man has better things to do than pedal around on a whale dick tricycle in the middle of sandy, dusty, blistering hot desert, high on Ecstasy, while listening to Skrillex".

    LOL - Gotta go with the brothers on that one...my thoughts exactly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    I'd prefer if he did it danke's house...that would be a hoot.

    Pffft...Burning Man.

    Years ago, somebody made the comment here about why there were no black people at Burning Man, and somebody cracked wise that:

    "Because a black man has better things to do than pedal around on a whale dick tricycle in the middle of sandy, dusty, blistering hot desert, high on Ecstasy, while listening to Skrillex".

    LOL - Gotta go with the brothers on that one...my thoughts exactly.
    I think it's great that liberals that opposed the likes of Lavoy Finicum and the Bundy's get to feel the loving embrace of the BLM. $#@! 'em.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phill4paul View Post
    I think it's great that liberals that opposed the likes of Lavoy Finicum and the Bundy's get to feel the loving embrace of the BLM. $#@! 'em.
    Hadn't thought of that...yer right...$#@! 'em.
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