This message was posted to another barterfaire group I participate in. As I posted the article about this I feel I should also pass this along to you. Thanks.
From the barterfaire yahoo group:
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a message from "Avvy" aka Allen Lint of the Llama Family
Posted by: "Ask Us!" funcouple_wa@yahoo.com funcouple_wa
Sun Oct 7, 2007 9:04 pm (PST)
It is important to know that there was only one member of the llama
family arrested on July 26th. It was an illegal arrest and setup,
and a team of lawyers are working around the clock to fight for my
freedom. I have matured alot over the last couple years and have
literally fallen in love with this community, hence my desire to
weed out problems that past members and friends of my family may
have caused. It is important to realize that the Llama Family is NOT
a drug ring, as the media is ignorantly portraying. The other person
was a friend of mine from childhood but was not a llama family
member, hence his absence from the Llama family reunion this year.
He misrepresented himself as such, and did things the family did not
approve of. I pray for him each day, but am currently mostly focused
on my defense and my freedom. The federal government illegal
arrested me for being at the wrong place at the wrong time on July
26th and are now trying to give me LIFE IN PRISON even though I am a
NON VIOLENT PEACE LOVING PERSON. I can't talk too much about
details, for my own legal protection, but please know that I am
using this as an opportunity to stand up for the rights of our
entire community. Here is a flyer that some of you may have seen
this weekend. Please help me spread this to everyone that has
interest in seeing the barter fair community be the family it is,
and for the community as a whole not to lose it's rights. Thank
you all, and Jah bless. I ask on a personal note for prayer,
meditation, and good vibes both for myself and for my family, wife,
kids, the llama family, and the amazing people in our community that
are helping me. On 9/11/07 I was finally released on a 10k bail bond
but am limited to electronic home monitoring with a leash of 100feet
from the loving household that I was bailed out to. I am also
required to pee in a cup for the feds every few days, and am banned
from "barter fairs" until I can prove my innocence. Please remember
that I am entitled to a presumption of innocense. Also, please
remember that this is a hard time for my wife dragonfly and my kids,
and I would ask that you all show her some support. She showed up at
scotia road this weekend and didn't get very welcoming responses by
some people, which I understand was based on confusion mostly.
Jah bless, Avvy
____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _
U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT vs. YOU
Big Brother is Watching
A Critique of the U.S. Federal Governments Attack of Your Rights and
Liberties
By Allen Lint, 10/05/2007
BACKGROUND-
On July 26th, 2007 the Federal Government illegally
assaulted and robbed me. Stories and lies were leaked to the media
trying to prosecute me in the arena of public opinion. But the
public media swarm of lies did not simply fall against me and my co-
defendant, but also against the "Barter Fair" family as a whole.
Though I committed NO CRIMES on July 26th, 2007, and am entitled to
a presumption of innocence, the federal government told lies to the
newspapers saying that I committed drug crimes, and perhaps worse,
laid claim that the "Barter Fair" community is one based exclusively
upon drugs. They claimed publicly that our family oriented/spiritual
gatherings, fully protected by 1st amendment rights, are open "drug
markets." This is just one example of all the UNFOUNDED lies that
the Feds are spreading to turn the rest of society against us and
destroy our community.
WHY-
The Federal government is trying to turn public opinion
against our tradition and lifestyle. Just like in the days of Nazi
Germany in the 1930's, they understand that if you devalue public
opinion of a minority group with contrived misinformation, the
majority of society will look the other way when they start denying
the minority due process, civil liberties, or basic human rights.
FACT: Once you justify the denial/removal of the rights of a
minority group or individual, you immediately justify the loss of
your own rights. As you should remember from the pledge of
allegiance, the United State of America is a REPUBLIC. A Republic
is a form of government where 99% of the people can not take away
the rights of 1%… but in this day and age the federal government
seems to think that they can remove and trample on the rights of any
group or individual that has a alternative way of life.
TRUTH-
The "Barter Fair" community is NOT a community of drugs and
partying, as the feds would like the rest of society to believe. It
is a community based on traditional living and purposeful
gatherings. In the early 1820's the area of the Northwest was host
of "rendezvous trade circles" where many native tribes and
communities would gather to trade and barter goods to get them
through the seasons. Our "Barter Fairs" are based upon these
traditional values. Our private events are protected by our 1st
Amendment Rights to gather. The "barter fairs" are usually held on
private land and are PRIVATE spiritual gatherings for our community
to come together to celebrate life, practice our family based tribal
way of life, dance to our folk music, pray for peace, help one
another, have fellowship with our friends and family, expand our
spirituality in the privacy and comfort of family, raise and pass
along traditional education to each other and the children of our
tribes, and trade goods to help one another get through the seasons.
It is a community of love, peace, spirituality, respect, liberty,
and natural traditional living.
PROFILING-
The federal government is trying to say that our gatherings
and community is based on drugs. They claim to occasionally hear of
drug use and activity in our community. It is ridiculous hypocrisy
to hold our community to a higher standard then the rest of society.
At any gathering of people, there will always be a few `bad apples'
in the bunch. Be it a House of Congress, a police convention or a
golf tournament, you will find individuals partaking in drug use and
drug activity. In fact, those gatherings are proven to have more
hardcore drug activity then any of our natural, peaceful gatherings.
They are attacking OUR gatherings instead of theirs because we have
a different way of life: They are criminally slandering our
lifestyle to destroy our gatherings. We can't let them deny us our
rights!
THEIR TACTICS OF WAR-
The federal government is already using tactics of war
against the "barter fair" community. They are already routinely
denying members of the community, including myself, the rights of
due process, and many other rights. For example, I was taken into
custody illegally on July 26th, brutally attacked, denied food and
water and restroom for hours being forced to stand in a puddle of my
own urine. The illegal brutality continued for about 45 days until
finally being released on strict bail conditions limiting my
movement to 100ft of the phone line of the facility that I was
bailed out to. I was denied a probable cause hearing. The affidavit
supporting the warrant for my arrest, which was issued a day AFTER I
was illegally taken into custody, has been sealed. It is your right
as the public to see this affidavit and they refuse to show it. They
are denying me the right to face my accusers by sealing the evidence
against me in order to protect the myriad of confidential informants
working for them. In doing research reviewing hundreds of hours of
surveillance they illegally obtained at our gatherings over the last
year, I would like to share with you some of the TACTICS OF WAR they
ARE USING AGAINST YOU, and tips of how to defend from their assault.
1. Hidden Cameras
Agents have regularly trespassed into our private spiritual
gatherings, especially the Okanogan Family Faire, without permission
or warrant, with hidden video cameras and audio devices. The cameras
are hard to spot as they are disguised as Beer cans, Juice bottles,
buttons on coats, and hats. They profile against people wearing
backpacks and follow around people with long hair. They make a point
to travel around the circle and capture license plate numbers of
every vehicle, so that they can gather information about the owners
of the vehicles for later use.
2. Drug Activity
The feds are partaking of and encouraging the use of drugs while
they spy on our community. They talk people into doing things they
wouldn't normally do like obtaining drugs for them by befriending
family & continuously badgering, begging, asking, and offering large
sums of money. They cause the crimes that they are accusing the
community of doing.
3. Divide and Conquer
This is an old tactic of war that they are using against us. The Fed
spreads lies inside our community in hopes to turn it in on itself.
They tell the media lies to cause a divide in the community. For
example, they told the lies to the media about my illegal arrest, in
hopes that the community will point blame causing a lesion deep
within our family. They post fabrications in public forums alleging
that certain activities have caused various problems within the
community. They know that by dividing a community, they are
weakening it and therefore it is easier to conquer. DIVIDE
CONQUER DESTROY
TIPS
1. Play Music at your Camp. Reviewing the videos and audio, it was
determined that music with heavy bass being played at a camp caused
lots of static on their microphones and made their recordings
inaudible.
2. Do not incriminate yourself or others. Obviously, don't do
anything that can be misconstrued as illegal. Also don't talk about
the illegal activities of others.
3. Cover your license plate. While your vehicle is parked on private
property, the license plate does not have to be visible. Don't allow
them to violate your rights of due process and get your info for
merely being someplace. Cover or remove your plates while at our
gatherings.
4. Unite and stand strong in support of the community. Don't fall
for the lies they are feeding the media. Remember what our community
is really about and stand strong in support of it. Don't fall for
their dividing tactics by pointing fingers, laying blame, or letting
suspicion tear us apart. Treat one another with love and respect and
remember it is our duty to remind each other that our community is
about love, fellowship, peace, and traditional living. Don't let
tempers flare rather approach with compassion and love as family and
educate all of the true values of our community. It's important to
stand strong on our traditions. They can only beat us if we
let them.
The Constitution of this nation protects our rights to gather and
live with spiritual and communal values deeply engrained in our
traditions.
Be Good Family
From the barterfaire yahoo group:
begin repost------->
a message from "Avvy" aka Allen Lint of the Llama Family
Posted by: "Ask Us!" funcouple_wa@yahoo.com funcouple_wa
Sun Oct 7, 2007 9:04 pm (PST)
It is important to know that there was only one member of the llama
family arrested on July 26th. It was an illegal arrest and setup,
and a team of lawyers are working around the clock to fight for my
freedom. I have matured alot over the last couple years and have
literally fallen in love with this community, hence my desire to
weed out problems that past members and friends of my family may
have caused. It is important to realize that the Llama Family is NOT
a drug ring, as the media is ignorantly portraying. The other person
was a friend of mine from childhood but was not a llama family
member, hence his absence from the Llama family reunion this year.
He misrepresented himself as such, and did things the family did not
approve of. I pray for him each day, but am currently mostly focused
on my defense and my freedom. The federal government illegal
arrested me for being at the wrong place at the wrong time on July
26th and are now trying to give me LIFE IN PRISON even though I am a
NON VIOLENT PEACE LOVING PERSON. I can't talk too much about
details, for my own legal protection, but please know that I am
using this as an opportunity to stand up for the rights of our
entire community. Here is a flyer that some of you may have seen
this weekend. Please help me spread this to everyone that has
interest in seeing the barter fair community be the family it is,
and for the community as a whole not to lose it's rights. Thank
you all, and Jah bless. I ask on a personal note for prayer,
meditation, and good vibes both for myself and for my family, wife,
kids, the llama family, and the amazing people in our community that
are helping me. On 9/11/07 I was finally released on a 10k bail bond
but am limited to electronic home monitoring with a leash of 100feet
from the loving household that I was bailed out to. I am also
required to pee in a cup for the feds every few days, and am banned
from "barter fairs" until I can prove my innocence. Please remember
that I am entitled to a presumption of innocense. Also, please
remember that this is a hard time for my wife dragonfly and my kids,
and I would ask that you all show her some support. She showed up at
scotia road this weekend and didn't get very welcoming responses by
some people, which I understand was based on confusion mostly.
Jah bless, Avvy
____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _
U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT vs. YOU
Big Brother is Watching
A Critique of the U.S. Federal Governments Attack of Your Rights and
Liberties
By Allen Lint, 10/05/2007
BACKGROUND-
On July 26th, 2007 the Federal Government illegally
assaulted and robbed me. Stories and lies were leaked to the media
trying to prosecute me in the arena of public opinion. But the
public media swarm of lies did not simply fall against me and my co-
defendant, but also against the "Barter Fair" family as a whole.
Though I committed NO CRIMES on July 26th, 2007, and am entitled to
a presumption of innocence, the federal government told lies to the
newspapers saying that I committed drug crimes, and perhaps worse,
laid claim that the "Barter Fair" community is one based exclusively
upon drugs. They claimed publicly that our family oriented/spiritual
gatherings, fully protected by 1st amendment rights, are open "drug
markets." This is just one example of all the UNFOUNDED lies that
the Feds are spreading to turn the rest of society against us and
destroy our community.
WHY-
The Federal government is trying to turn public opinion
against our tradition and lifestyle. Just like in the days of Nazi
Germany in the 1930's, they understand that if you devalue public
opinion of a minority group with contrived misinformation, the
majority of society will look the other way when they start denying
the minority due process, civil liberties, or basic human rights.
FACT: Once you justify the denial/removal of the rights of a
minority group or individual, you immediately justify the loss of
your own rights. As you should remember from the pledge of
allegiance, the United State of America is a REPUBLIC. A Republic
is a form of government where 99% of the people can not take away
the rights of 1%… but in this day and age the federal government
seems to think that they can remove and trample on the rights of any
group or individual that has a alternative way of life.
TRUTH-
The "Barter Fair" community is NOT a community of drugs and
partying, as the feds would like the rest of society to believe. It
is a community based on traditional living and purposeful
gatherings. In the early 1820's the area of the Northwest was host
of "rendezvous trade circles" where many native tribes and
communities would gather to trade and barter goods to get them
through the seasons. Our "Barter Fairs" are based upon these
traditional values. Our private events are protected by our 1st
Amendment Rights to gather. The "barter fairs" are usually held on
private land and are PRIVATE spiritual gatherings for our community
to come together to celebrate life, practice our family based tribal
way of life, dance to our folk music, pray for peace, help one
another, have fellowship with our friends and family, expand our
spirituality in the privacy and comfort of family, raise and pass
along traditional education to each other and the children of our
tribes, and trade goods to help one another get through the seasons.
It is a community of love, peace, spirituality, respect, liberty,
and natural traditional living.
PROFILING-
The federal government is trying to say that our gatherings
and community is based on drugs. They claim to occasionally hear of
drug use and activity in our community. It is ridiculous hypocrisy
to hold our community to a higher standard then the rest of society.
At any gathering of people, there will always be a few `bad apples'
in the bunch. Be it a House of Congress, a police convention or a
golf tournament, you will find individuals partaking in drug use and
drug activity. In fact, those gatherings are proven to have more
hardcore drug activity then any of our natural, peaceful gatherings.
They are attacking OUR gatherings instead of theirs because we have
a different way of life: They are criminally slandering our
lifestyle to destroy our gatherings. We can't let them deny us our
rights!
THEIR TACTICS OF WAR-
The federal government is already using tactics of war
against the "barter fair" community. They are already routinely
denying members of the community, including myself, the rights of
due process, and many other rights. For example, I was taken into
custody illegally on July 26th, brutally attacked, denied food and
water and restroom for hours being forced to stand in a puddle of my
own urine. The illegal brutality continued for about 45 days until
finally being released on strict bail conditions limiting my
movement to 100ft of the phone line of the facility that I was
bailed out to. I was denied a probable cause hearing. The affidavit
supporting the warrant for my arrest, which was issued a day AFTER I
was illegally taken into custody, has been sealed. It is your right
as the public to see this affidavit and they refuse to show it. They
are denying me the right to face my accusers by sealing the evidence
against me in order to protect the myriad of confidential informants
working for them. In doing research reviewing hundreds of hours of
surveillance they illegally obtained at our gatherings over the last
year, I would like to share with you some of the TACTICS OF WAR they
ARE USING AGAINST YOU, and tips of how to defend from their assault.
1. Hidden Cameras
Agents have regularly trespassed into our private spiritual
gatherings, especially the Okanogan Family Faire, without permission
or warrant, with hidden video cameras and audio devices. The cameras
are hard to spot as they are disguised as Beer cans, Juice bottles,
buttons on coats, and hats. They profile against people wearing
backpacks and follow around people with long hair. They make a point
to travel around the circle and capture license plate numbers of
every vehicle, so that they can gather information about the owners
of the vehicles for later use.
2. Drug Activity
The feds are partaking of and encouraging the use of drugs while
they spy on our community. They talk people into doing things they
wouldn't normally do like obtaining drugs for them by befriending
family & continuously badgering, begging, asking, and offering large
sums of money. They cause the crimes that they are accusing the
community of doing.
3. Divide and Conquer
This is an old tactic of war that they are using against us. The Fed
spreads lies inside our community in hopes to turn it in on itself.
They tell the media lies to cause a divide in the community. For
example, they told the lies to the media about my illegal arrest, in
hopes that the community will point blame causing a lesion deep
within our family. They post fabrications in public forums alleging
that certain activities have caused various problems within the
community. They know that by dividing a community, they are
weakening it and therefore it is easier to conquer. DIVIDE
CONQUER DESTROY
TIPS
1. Play Music at your Camp. Reviewing the videos and audio, it was
determined that music with heavy bass being played at a camp caused
lots of static on their microphones and made their recordings
inaudible.
2. Do not incriminate yourself or others. Obviously, don't do
anything that can be misconstrued as illegal. Also don't talk about
the illegal activities of others.
3. Cover your license plate. While your vehicle is parked on private
property, the license plate does not have to be visible. Don't allow
them to violate your rights of due process and get your info for
merely being someplace. Cover or remove your plates while at our
gatherings.
4. Unite and stand strong in support of the community. Don't fall
for the lies they are feeding the media. Remember what our community
is really about and stand strong in support of it. Don't fall for
their dividing tactics by pointing fingers, laying blame, or letting
suspicion tear us apart. Treat one another with love and respect and
remember it is our duty to remind each other that our community is
about love, fellowship, peace, and traditional living. Don't let
tempers flare rather approach with compassion and love as family and
educate all of the true values of our community. It's important to
stand strong on our traditions. They can only beat us if we
let them.
The Constitution of this nation protects our rights to gather and
live with spiritual and communal values deeply engrained in our
traditions.
Be Good Family
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