Utah Rave…busted?
Our weekly trip to the record store is always interesting. We go there for equal parts record shopping and chatting, and its becoming less the former and more the latter. Talking to Jeff he told me about this Utah Rave getting busted (video footage here ) This is some really scary stuff. Swat team, helicopters, assault riffles, and attach dogs. This was a totally legit rave, permits were in hand, security and insurance, everything that was needed for an expect 3,000 person event. So why? Is this practice for the SWAT team, pick on a bunch of ravers as if there were a group of terrorists, knowing that it would be hard for them to get the public on their side because of the bad rap that electronic music and dance culture has in this country. This discussion at the daily kos seems to lean in the direction of “well this is utah, a very conservative state”. Here is an everything2 link which has more eye-witness accounts of the raid. This is truly disturbing.