Feds Turn Burning Man Into a Police State, Announce Drug Tests for Attendees and

[zorgon]

Feds Turn Burning Man Into a Police State, Announce Drug Tests for Attendees and Mass Spying

Federal agents announced that they will be drug testing attendees who drive to this year's burning man, entirely innocent people could go to jail.

Black Rock City, NV – Music festivals have grown in popularity over the past several years, and to some extent, these events have provided a safe haven for people to party and enjoy themselves. However, these situations have naturally created a target for police who are seeking to generate revenue through drug arrests.

This vacation season, art and music festivals are going to be a honeypot for police, who have announced that they will be strongly targeting some of the biggest events in the country, including the legendary Burning Man, which takes place in the deserts of Nevada each year.

Burning Man has become one of the most targetted events by police over the years, and the Bureau of Land Management, the federal police force tasked with patrolling the event, has recently announced that they will be drug testing people who will be driving in and out of the event.

According to a press release in last month's "Federal Register," the BLM announced that they will be drug testing drivers to see if they are under the influence, and they will even be testing for marijuana despite the fact that it is now legal in the state of Nevada.

Cannabis Now reported that a mere microscopic 10 nanograms of cannabis per milliliter of urine (or 2 ng/ml of blood) will warrant an arrest at Burning Man. Under these conditions, it is entirely possible for a person to fail a drug test even if they are sober and have not smoked or ingested any cannabis for days.

Pershing County Sheriff, Jerry Allen recently admitted to The Reno Gazette-Journal that the vast majority of drug arrests at Burning Man are related to marijuana.

Attorney and cannabis legalization activist Lauren Vazquez said that she expects a massive backlash from these rule changes, and pointed out that not much driving takes place at the event anyway, aside from people entering and leaving the festival.

"It looks to me like they are setting a standard for drivers on the playa. It does say probable cause is required. This is a rule making proposal and will soon be open to public comment and, hopefully, revisions. Knowing burners there's going to be a lot of talks. I'm more concerned about the laser prohibition on page four: Never leave home without your laser!" Vazquez said.

"It's only on the playa, and it takes probable cause to search the driver by saliva or blood or urine. Just being at burning man is not probable cause — they have to smell weed, see you driving badly or see you doing drugs while driving before they can test you. So just sitting in line on the way out is safe. At least they wrote in the probable cause standard and we don't have to argue about that," she added.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/drug-testing-burning-man/

[petrus4]

The Land of the Free.  Mind you, from what little I've read, Burning Man has apparently had some issues with corruption on the part of the organisers themselves, in addition to the pigs attempting to ruin the festivities.

It's part of the war on Agorism, of which Burning Man is one manifestation.  The usual tired arguments about law and order occasionally get made when someone asks, but the real goal of the police here, is ensuring that no one finds a way to replace the current system; the one which is run by child-raping psychopaths. 

Drug testing is primarily a means of harassment and intimidation; the hope is that if they get a few people sentenced, it will instill sufficient fear of jail time in the rest of the scene, that attendance will decline.  You will probably never see more than 5% of the participating group being meaningfully arrested, and the police know that, but what they rely on is the fact that even though they can only arrest very few, nobody wants to be the one hit by the poison ball.

[robomont]

all the cop pension funds are drying up and they want to fund cop retirements on the backs of the potheads.its obvious.they even snuggled up to trump at the beginning of his presidential term as they know the gig is up.their desperation is turning into the beginning of a civil war.thats why states are about to absorb the pension funds and feds are hinting at federalizing police.its genocide of potheads as they can tune nexrad to the thc chem signature,thus making potheads violent.then using the excuse they were killing a druggy.what do you think will happen eventually in all the legalized states,yep.full on murder because potheads are expendable in their eyes.as its always been.i see murderers running nexrad and im pointing them out.i see you.airforce murdering its own citizens.what a shame our country has turned into.

[ArMaP]

In Portugal this would be illegal, nobody can be forced to have a drug test.