I'm Thinking about the Changes in the Administration and What it Means for Rainbow

Last year we had a certainty about the players in the regulation talks as far as government representatives with the Forest Service, the Department of Agriculture and the chain of Law Enforcement Command. And of course, we knew the current President Bush and his policies about gatherings.

But this year is different. President Barack Obama campaigned with the slogan for "change" and his winning the election was the first big change in this country. For the rainbow gatherings, not only did the Presidency gain a new representative, so did the Department of Agriculture and the Forest Service.

Mark Rey, Undersecretary of Agriculture

Last year we all knew that talks with the Undersecretary of Agriculture Mark Rey were progressing at an expected pace over the past two years. Now Mark Rey has retired from that position after seven years and vanished into the private sector without a peep and sworn by the nature of his office oath not to be involved in any official or policy making capacity.

Most of us know the face of Mark Rey. But who knows the face of the new Undersecretary of Agriculture? Has one been appointed and approved by Congress? That is a question to answer right here in the coming days of this blog.

Conference Calls with Mark Rey

Links to the telephone conference discussions with the Undersecretary of Agriculture Mark Rey, John Twiss, Federal Director of Law Enforcement, and Tom Florich, Forest Service Liaison were made available at Garage Band.com today.

It was my hope to upload the files directly to this site, but have yet to figure out how to do that. If anyone has a clue, please email themidnightwriter1@gmail.com.

These files are audio mp3 files. Altogether, there are five audio files.

http://www.garageband.com/artist/RainbowFamilyTalk


Meanwhile, please visit the following links and give these audio phone confabs a listen. It will be an enlightening experience as the audio files reveal the stated intent on the part of the Forest Service to the "rainbows" for full co-operation in the alternative manner of compliance regarding Forest Service regulation 36 CFR 261.10 (k). This is in regards to free assembly on public lands. It applies in this particular instance to rainbow gatherings and the right of the assembly to take place without a permit, since a gathering is not a group or an entity. Therefore, the rainbow gathering has no "legal" representative or leader who can lawfully sign a permit to represent thousands of individuals.

Posted by The Midnight Writer