Utah: Rave raided by SWAT team.

[Nullific]

They shot tear gas on the crowd, set dogs on them, and beat them as well as tried to prevent and destroy video footage from being captured.
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/82205utrave.cfm

First hand reports and links to videos from BlueLight:
http://www.bluelight.nu/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=218179&r=-

[Porkchop913]

thats fucked up

[fightingcock777]

fuck the police

[Cacophony]

I saw that on www.safedance.com or something like that... thats fucked up.

[ezjim]

They shot tear gas on the crowd, set dogs on them, and beat them as well as tried to prevent and destroy video footage from being captured.
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/82205utrave.cfm

First hand reports and links to videos from BlueLight:
http://www.bluelight.nu/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=218179&r=-
ive said it before and i will say it again kids....the only good cop is a dead cop....i lived in salt lake for a short time in the late 80's it is a true shit hole of a city ..... 3.2 beer and religous opression makes for a unpleasnt enviroment..damn morman's drove us nut's ..but there were also some pretty cool people there...i hope these facist jack booted bitchass cops get the ever loving crap sued out of em..and if there is any justice then why they are defending thier unlawful actions in court thier wives will be cheating on them with raver's

[Phresher than it Got]

did anyone check the links on bluelight forums? you can only get one video, the rest have been shutdown, blocked, deleted.., and the newreports, only one is still up, the one that pats the SWAT team on the back, hmmm, anyone else smell opression...?

[MeatRulz]

seems fucked up.

[Nightstar]

I watched the video on that utah rave and that is some fuc*ed up sh!t...

I was kinda thinking it had something to do with the homeland security laws or whatever but either way it was un-called for.

[420ultimatesmokage]

it was some fucked up shit, happened in utah county not suprising thats the most mormon/conservative part of this whole state.

[Jake0steve]

That is horrible. I found one video that worked too, it wasn't pretty.

[Fattie]

No, it wasn't.

[Az.]

i just read through the site and watched the video and thats fucking bad. I bet the only people who were hurt there were hurt by the police. Everybody having a good time then bam choppers, dogs and armed forces appear and the trouble begins...its bad

[Euphoric]

too many beatz. thats what it was. always take precuations cause that house music is dangerous kids! :eek:
anyway, the blatant injustice demonstrated here will only further our agenda in the long run. they will never win this war...but stay out of their horrible, twisted, sober path til then. :p
Theyre armed. Now thats fucked up. Only stoners should be allowed to have weapons. Yo those sober freaks are TWITCHY :rolleyes:

[Nullific]

Whoaa I just got to see some of the the video recently, and reading more of these first hand reports will give you shivers.
http://forums.utrave.org/showthread.php?t=20020

Sure Utah may be a very conservitive state with a high mormon populations, but isn't it still in this United fucking States?

In the eyes of the government...
Bin lawhoo? Naw, first we need to go after a bunch of people listening to psyche music on someones private property, even though they have all permits to required to operate and are taking all necessary safety precautions. You see, there just might be people there selling drugs, in possession of drugs or possibly even...under the influence of them! Drugs, weapons of mass destruction, it's all the same to us. These are dangerous biotoxic brain altering chemicals, capable of letting a person think god knows what. If they want to get altered they can hit up a local bar, get drunk and black out. (Presuming they are 21 and drive responsibly.)

Next we're hitting the public schools, notorious for kids selling and doing drugs. We'll just bust in there with our guns drawn, demand every student in the hall keep their mouth shut and go over them with the dogs; standard military anti-druggie protocol.
Ohh shoot, already been there and done that.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/11/07/school.raid/
http://www.thememoryhole.org/policestate/stratford-raid.htm
Shame we didn't find anything, aside from that our reputation is growing ever worse.

Guess it's time to stop them pesky liberal 'medical' marijuana hippies. Medicine or not, marijuana is as tightly controlled as methamphetamine...well, actually meth has an accepted medical usage so pot is definately much worse.
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[Ganj]

They shot tear gas on the crowd, set dogs on them, and beat them as well as tried to prevent and destroy video footage from being captured.
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/82205utrave.cfm

First hand reports and links to videos from BlueLight:
http://www.bluelight.nu/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=218179&r=-

not very wise on the laws behalf.
i bet you could file a lawsuit on the officers for animal cruelty. we all know what those people where sweating out of their bodies - and to sic the dogs on them, i'm sure they where sick afterwards.
i'm sure the rollers where still enjoying the raid. lol, oh the joy of ecstacy.

[robert42]

wow thats shocking! :(

[somebody someone]

fuck the police, what the fuck are they trying?? seriously.. find something better to do than busting people having a GOOD TIME. pricks

[ermitonto]

"To protect and serve", my ass. Fuck the police! The government in this country does nothing to actually fight crime, that is, to analyze crime patterns, try to find out the causes of crime and suggest what socio-economic conditions should be implemented to fight things which are shown to be the cause of crime. For example, we know that unemployment and poverty are the most reliable predictors of crime, but does the government do anything to try to reduce unemployment and poverty? Do they even acknowledge the link between fighting crime and improving socio-economic conditions? No, they don't care about preventing crime, just punishing crime (as well as various non-violent, harmless acts). What do we do with all the poor unemployed criminals? We send them to a shithole with other criminals, where they are then demoralized, abused, raped, beaten up, unloved, and taught how to commit crimes before being released back into society, as if that didn't just make things a lot worse for his criminal potential. As for organized crime, our policemen, by enforcing anti-drug laws, are just handing one of the biggest markets over to criminal organizations. They have some delusion that society will some day not have any drug market, as if someday the demand is going to dry up through eradication of all drugs everywhere, yet the War on Drugs has made NO progress towards this goal since it started; drug use has actually substantially increased, while prices have simultaneously risen. This means any violent organization, from the gangs on the streets of LA to the CIA, has an easy way to make huge untaxed fortunes for whatever violent crime they want to fund, and they don't have to account for where the money came from to anybody.

The only legitimate purpose of the police is to prevent violent crime, and even that could easily be accomplished by the organized citizens of any community in an autonomous and decentralized fashion, rather than having the government running our lives with its monopoly on setting the rules and using violence. And even as far as violent crime goes, the police tend to propagate it more than they prevent it, through various means like giving the drug and prostitution markets to violent criminals, providing the example that violence against non-violent people is justified, sending criminals to universities of crime (prisons), and reinforcing trends of poverty and unemployment especially among people of color (it's hard to get a job after you've been to jail for drugs, or if you don't have a place to live because the police took down your squatter camp). Abolish the police system!