Did you get a citation this year?

The text below via Karin Zirk. It may have appeared here, but I didn't see
it.


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Don E Wirtshafter wrote:

Thank you everyone for helping make 2006 such a safe and spiritual
event.

I offer to help anyone who received a gathering ticket through the
legal morass. I spent six days in court helping hundreds of people
through the complex legal process. I got myself admitted into the
local bar and was therefore able to appear in the Kangaroo Court to
conduct trials. On the day of my admittance, I represented one sister
who got a gathering ticket on her honeymoon. Tim Lynn, the Incident
Commander, testified against her saying that the Rainbows were a group
and that the Forest Service determined the gathering to be illegal. I
got to cross examine him for over an hour about this testimony. My
reward was that I and Summerbreeze, my volunteer legal assistant,
received our own gathering tickets as we drove the client back into
camp. There is no better way to motivate me to fight this government
bullshit.

Our heroes who fought their tickets and were found guilty need to know
that there is still probably time to appeal their cases. The law
gives you only ten days from the filing of the conviction, but most of
these convictions were not filed until Monday, July 10th, when the
clerk took the paperwork back to the court in Denver. So the ten days
starts from that time. If you have an appealable case, please, please
contact me ASAP. The formwork is easy and we can do it on the
phone. I will fax and mail it into the court for you. I can help you
file the needed paperwork and can help you hook up with an attorney.
Please call ASAP. Call collect if you have to.

I am especially interested in helping those who pled not guilty to
gathering tickets (ìuse and occupancy of a National Forest without a
permit to do soî), little shit marijuana busts and especially those
who were arrested simply because they could not produce their ID in
the woods. Some generous family supporters have donated enough funds
that we are able to offer attorney help in the right cases. All the
action is happening in Denver. We have several Denver-based attorneys
willing to help, which means you may be able to fight your ticket
without ever having to go to Denver. Again, contact me.

The third category of people who need help are those who ignored their
tickets and did not show up in court. My estimate is that there are
over 200 of you. If any of you want help getting through these
tickets, let me know. I hate the thought of 200 of my friends and
family walking around with these time bomb warrants. A simple traffic
stop can turn into months of hell if you have one of these hanging
over you.

Mostly I need your stories. Thousands of you witnessed abusive police
tactics at the gathering. These tactics get more outrageous every
year. They get away with testing their fascist technologies on us
because we donít fight back. The way we fight back is to write it all
down and make the proper complaints to the Dept. of Agriculture and to
Congress. As one old Colonel once implored me: ìtake names and kick
ass.î If we had good personal accounts of the LEO abuses, we could
take them down with much more efficiency than they are using to take
us down. So several of us are starting a new website intended to
document the intensity of the police pressure on the gathering and how
it affected us as individuals. You will hear about this soon, but in
the meantime, please write down your stories while they are fresh in
your minds. Photographs are needed as well. If you have any good
photographs of the roadblocks, police encounters or such, please email
them to me. I will pay the actual cost of copying any video tapes or
non-digital photographs that people may have.

I plan to write a lot more about my unique perspective of the
gathering, but first I wanted to put out these important
announcements. Please spread the word on this to your individual
lists and to friends whom you think may be affected.

Don E Wirtshafter

don@xxxxxxxxxxx

740 662 5297




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