Escape the Okie Zone

We were blessed with the most gorgeous day on Saturday and I even went for a swim in the very cold water. Jeremy and Jenni were so helpful and sweet to a lonely middle aged schwagger! I had a great sleep in my car just putting the seat back, but Jeremy offered me an extra one of his tents so that I would have a better place to sleep. That is generally the spirit of everyone there and for most "Rainbow Gatherings". Everyone is helping each other out. Even when an emotionally disturbed adult was going nuts in front of everyone at the bonfire, a gentleman peacefully helped convince him to rest at safestock!


I had such a wonderful time with such wonderful young schwaggers! Most were in their early 20's checking out rainbow concerts all over the country. Most are very peaceful and we hardly saw any anger or violence except for Sunday when 3 kids assaulted a schwagger for money. I was there at my campsite early in the evening sharing the fire and smoke with these kid. I had no idea that they were violent criminals going from tent to tent looking for loot and victims. I hope that this is not a growing trend of an element of crime and poor attitudes invading this utopia.

Coming out of the place, I had an experience with the Salem Nazis. I failed a field sobriety test and I knew that I was not drunk. It is difficult late at night to stand on one foot while counting.
Counting to 30 on one foot was not enough and according to Montoya's opinion, I failed the test.
This gave the police the right to inspect my car. Officer Montoya handcuffed me (for the first time in my life) and gave me my choices as far as inspecting the car. I had a choice of telling him where the stuff was or holding me for 20 hours if they found any contraband or paraphenalia in my car. The thought of staying in Salem's jail coerced me into telling him where my stuff was. He asked me who would be driving the car ( I was giving a lift to two schwaggers to St. Louis who might have met the "profile" of the type of kids that the Salem police were looking for, "Hippies"). I told him that either of them would be ok as far as driving, so then he had them open up my trunk. While I was watching the policeman go through my trunk. He even brought over my weekly pill a day container that had mostly vitamins. He questioned one of the vitamins that had Kava Kava in it (legal) and tested it thinking it might be a methamphetamine.
He told me that it is against the law to have adderall anywhere except the pill bottle.

After finally being driven into Salem after they went through my whole car, I was escorted into the room to be tested and questioned. I ended up with 0.000 on the test after being interogated for an hour. They had found less than 2 grams of weed, a coffee grinder, postal scales (I carry those just for my own purposes and not to sell)....of course I had some dollar story baggies because they are convenient for storing food, pens,etc just to avoid organizational defictit disorder.
I will go into more detail later but I was left with a court date of December 7th with a misdemeanor and intent to distribute.

Others warned about having postal scales and baggies means that you are a seller! I have never sold and have no intentions of selling until Marijuana becomes legal with a kinder more benevolent administration.
I will be contacting the ACLU and prepaid legal to ask about the legality of them having the inspection of my car especially when I was not drunk! I will also question the field sobriety test when twice I have been stopped and then scored low on the breath test. I will also work on doing toe to toe exercises and practice standing on one foot for a minute.

I'm sure others that don't like me will have a field day with my continued misfortunes and say that I make the wrong choices and then I will have to reply about the obviousness of their statements :(

I will write more about the fun stuff including the "Waltzing Matilda" dance and the speech about this wonderful "Schwagatopia" while reading passages from my website during open mike.