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Burning Rainbow Farm Book Review
Seattle Post-Intelligencer August 18, 2006 by John Marshall Ruby Ridge, Waco -- and Rainbow Farm? The first two sites of notorious government violence within the United States seared their way into the American consciousness, [...]
Property forfeiture: gateway law to chaos?
Seattle Times August 11, 2006 by Mary Ann Gwinn Every so often I read a book that stays with me for days. "Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke" (Bloomsbury, 374 [...]
A tragic tale of conflicting agendas
Chicago Tribune August 6, 2006 by Bill Savage Dean Kuipers' "Burning Rainbow Farm" chronicles a forgotten chapter of a struggle peculiar to a nation founded by landed rebels: how to balance the social benefits of [...]
Rainbow Warriors
LA Times August 6, 2006 by Jennifer Joseph WHAT'S a high-school-dropout, Harley-riding, long-haul-trucking, fist-fighting, George W. Bush-supporting, pot-smoking, gay rural Midwestern real estate investor to do when he gets close to 40? For Tom Crosslin, [...]
Drugs, hippies, militia a deadly mix in 'Rainbow'
Rocky Mountain News August 4, 2006 by John Dicker Making fun of hippies is a worthy pastime, especially here in Colorado, which hardly wants for natural resources. (Drop that Boulder joke right here, baby...) [...]
Drug Truth Network
Drug Truth Network with host Dean Becker
In These Times
In These Times July 18, 2006 by Steven Wishnia The motto of Rainbow Farm in Vandalia, Mich., could have been "A Working-Class Hippie Is Something to Be." On Memorial and Labor Day weekends from 1996 [...]
Utopia Gone to Pot
Lux Esto July 7, 2006 by Zinta Aistars Surrounded by forces in blue, and most every other color of uniform, Rainbow Farm blazed in a fury of flames while guns were trained on the two [...]
Lansing City Pulse
Lansing City Pulse June 22, 2006 by Bill Castanier There was no pot of gold at the end of this rainbow only fire, destruction, death and the end of a dream. In 1997, when Tom [...]
Ashes at the end of Rainbow Farm
Detroit News June 20, 2006 by Michael H. Hodges Some call it Michigan's own mini-Waco. Just one week before the September 11 terrorist attacks, FBI and state police sharpshooters took out the two owners [...]