Reference Docs/Links

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FS purchases 700 tasers (Electronic Control Devices):
http://www.peer.org/docs/fs/07_4_12_taser_justification.pdf
http://www.docuticker.com/?p=18223

FS guidelines including the protocol for taser use:
http://www.fs.fed.us/im/directives/fsm/5300/5380.doc
http://www.fs.fed.us/im/directives/fsh/5309.11/5309.11_50.doc

Top FS law enforcement officer John Twiss quoted speaking of his officers using deadly force at Rainbow gathering:
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/07/08/news/wyoming/31-rainbowfamily.txt

Incident Command Team head Gene Smithson swore under oath that “Every year we are – we are going to be recertified in it (crowd control),” at Rainbow gatherings:
http://www.free-assembly.org/gather/courtstorms/ar07-ozark/us-v-wirtshafter/hrg-transcript-5jy07/view

Additional press releases:
www.coloradolegaleagles.org

Radio

“The Rule of Law” radio program, July 3, 2008:
Hour One http://mp3.wtprn.com/Kelton/0807/20080703_Thu_Kelton1.mp3
Hour Two http://mp3.wtprn.com/Kelton/0807/20080703_Thu_Kelton2.mp3

Video

Footage of USFS’ attempt to incite riot, July 3, 2007 at Annual Rainbow Gathering in Arkansas
(Part One contains arrest, quiet part, sirens at main meadow, reaction. Plays audio only; video missing as of gathering time last year):
Part One: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=12590276
Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvvcwcHkYQA&feature=related
Part Three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD6bX-36Fbc&feature=related
Part Four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uklob4ooh1w&feature=related

“Rainbow Family & Christians Unite to Give Hope After Katrina” film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3tT5F9ECpA

“Effects of Rainbow Gatherings on Local Residents” film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VwVjvSSn5I&feature=related

Additional video evidence of the USFS’s harassment campaign against Rainbow Gatherings can be made available to the press.