Talk:Rainbow Farm

"Investigation and arrests" Section

There's clearly something wrong in the phrasing of this article, specifically in the "Investigation and arrests" section. The article states that efforts to gather evidence against the farm were "unsuccessful" until "the investigation eventually came to a head in early September 2001". However, the next paragraph begins by saying that the pair skipped their court date in August 2001... one month before any gather of evidence had been successful. Furthermore, the stand-off at the farm began August 31st, before "early September 2001, when state troopers came in on a tax-fraud warrant". That whole section make it appear as if no evidence was found until September, and makes no mention (in fact, going so far as to indirectly contradict) the May 9th police raid on the farm mentioned in the Time Line at the bottom of the article. It seems logical to assume that the May 9 incident is when the plants were found, but I don't know anything about this situation, whether that was the state troopers with a tax-fraud warrant or some other police force, or whether that raid was successful in finding evidence or was a dead end, and as such, I can't edit the article to change anything, because I don't actually know what's right, I just know that the evidence against the farm could not have been first gathered in September 2001, not unless just about everything else in the article is wrong. I ask that someone familiar with these events clean up the article so that the timeline as written could actually have happened as written. -Jermdeeks (talk) 22:55, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm a pot activist who was an acquaintance of Tom and Rollie. They were a gay couple raising Rollie's son from a previous relationship with a girl in high school. The standoff was provoked when CPS removed the child from the home. WillDwyer (talk) 00:09, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

See also section removed

I've removed these which have just been added:

• Branch Davidians
• Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG)
• List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States
• Michigan Militia
• Militia of Montana
• Montana Freemen
• MOVE
• Oklahoma City bombing
• Rainbow Farm
• Ruby Ridge
• The Turner Diaries
• Waco siege

The reason given on my talk page by the editor is "I think the relevance is in the fact that they all form a mutually influential web involving distrust of and destruction by the American police forces, of people both on the left and the right. Waco and Ruby Ridge both led to Oklahoma City, Rainbow Farm, etc." The problem I see is that this 'influential web' concept is subjective. Even though entries can be preferentially relevant according to the guidelines, the inclusion of all of these seems a stretch and it isn't obvious at all to me that Waco led to Rainbow Farm or even Oklahoma City. Dougweller (talk) 12:19, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Another source to cite?

http://www.deankuipersonline.com/books/i-am-a-bullet-with-doug-aitken/