Originally posted by EARTHY SPIRIT...

This event was very intense.

Upon arrival us two were confronted with a higher price than expected based on the flyer. We paid for entry and were searched thoroughly, our markers were taken away from us and disposed of.

We entered the space and put the items we brought with us in a position which suited us and began to dance and enjoy ourselves. Our intentions were to let everyone know how much we loved them all and that this year would be a good one. Happy New You. I love you. Je t'aime. Tout la monde!

At some point I placed the glasses I use in order to see clearly down amongst the items we brought with us. I determined that it would be good for me to see everyone with my senses more clearly than my glasses could allow. I would no longer see individuals as special individually. I would move and dance about the entire room and give love to each being there. It was absolutely the best I've ever felt in my life. There was a tam player there who was wonderful, somehow I found him many times and he found me many times.. He played wonderfully, I loved him! I loved everyone!

At some point though, I determined that I should put my glasses back on in order to find my friends, but I could not find my glasses, they had dissapeared and my vision was not sufficient to locate them... especially in the dark..

So I determine I must ask for assistance, I cannot see clearly anymore. Help. My glasses are lost, they have fallen somewhere here in the back of the main room, please help me to find them someone... please help. It's dark, there are many many people here, it is hard for me to do this all alone with no flashlight.

When I approach the guards to ask for help they are violently forcing another individual into a table, this person is not struggling so much as trying to defend themself, it's a scary sight. I make a plea of help to the femal guard who is observing the other two confining the individual. IJai perdu mes lunettes la au derriere du chambre et jai besion d'aide. Si tu plait, aide moi. The female guard turns and snarls that I had better go away or I will be restrained too.

I have not been frightened like this before, it's now more difficult for me, I'm half blind and those I go to for help actaully threaten me?

Approaching another person I sk for help and am shrugged off again, I am now very sad and scared really because I cannot see my friends and cannot find them and they are not apparently looking to help me.. I'm alone, half blind and noone will help me so I cry out load "Aide moi! Si tu plait! Jai besion d'aide ici! Quel Que veut tu me aide?? I am certain all those around me heard my cry but none stepped forward to request what kind of hep I was in need of.

Then security came and demanded that I leave. I could not understand this, this was not right? I asked them if they would help me locate my glasses. They demanded instead that I come with them in the form of force.

Immediately I was taken by the neck, the arms, the legs by security in am extremely forceful manner. My shoulder was dislocated during the ordeal, I did not struggle, I was being strangled violently and dislocated and I was crying. I cried that my arm is dislocated and that i loved them and did not want anything but assistance, why? why? why? are they hurting me?? I am dislocated OW OW! They did not care, they laughed at me and continued to twist.

They took me and those things they determined were mine to the exterior of that place, to the front doors. They threw me down and I immediately went about trying to relocate my shoulder, I have been damaged badly, the progress I have made on my shoulder over the last two years has been torn apart. It hurts again.

I was barefoot and with no shirt on. They did not bring all of the items I brought with me to the door. My glasses were still inside. They determined I must leave, they told me forcefully to do so. I stood my ground, I told them I love them with a smile. I am not angry, you have hurt me but i continue to love you, why are you determined I must leave when all I have done is ask for help? I don't understand!

So I cannot leave, my friends are inside, my glasses are inside!!! I am positive minded, I love and laugh and am positive! I do not struggle, I do not attempt to cause pain, I am merely here to enjoy myself, why did this occur????

It is NOT over. The police come next, all the while these people who have escorted me out are trying to tell me where I am allowed to stand and that I must leave, they force me into a corner like a piece of meat and grab me by the throat and rais meinto the air in order to take me to the police car. They squish me into the front of the car, on the hood and twist my very hurting arm into a location which is very suceptable to re-dislocation. I cry why are you doing this? Ow my arm cannot go there! Ow! Please no! Help!

The ploice who escort me to the station laugh at me the entire time, they think I am on some sort of drug, that I am all high and that my requests are illusions or I am some sort of crasy person?

They laugh at me, they take me to the station and the rest of the police there laugh at me too, all the while I am speaking in french describing my ple for help to them, requesting they help mke and asking why they are doing this? They laugh, and they determine I have no rights, I am not read any.

I am still in only a pair of pants. I have been taken out into the snow twice and am cold, they will not give me my shirt or socks or anything, they are laughing at me, ripping my items apart, tearing open the big stuffed dog pillow I brought to search for things they did not find. They pick me up by my pants, and carry me in the form of a wedgie all the way to a holding cell. I don't understand!!! Why am I here!

At some point many many hours later I am shivering cold and I ask a passing guard politely to help me I am cold and she asks me if I would like to leave? I could not believe my ears! Of course I would like to leave!

Now I cannot understand why I have been given a ticket for two hundred and sixty dollars for yelling for help. ok though, now I only have 80% of the things I brought with me from Montreal to Quebec City.. I do not know where I am, I cannot read street signs, I have spent most of my money and my friends do not know where I am.

I ask for help from the officer at the front desk, he says that ii should take a cab and a bus back to montreal, I have less than 50 dollars left for the entire month and have not bought Groceries yet. Hm.? It's 7:30pm I cannot see and do not have enough money to get where i need to go. Thge officer at the front desk tells me that if i do not leave he will lock me up again, that if i do not have any money he cannot help me.

There is more to this story, but at this point I take my future into my hands and spend the rest of my money in order to return home. I am home now. I have no money left. My glasses are gone and cannot see very well. I am missing other items too. Why did this happen? Who is responsible? Am I free?

Originally posted by MOONDANCER...

umm.. you guys.. don't get all worked up about this, trust me. Umm... trust me. Umm.. really, I mean REALLY. Some people are just.. well some people are just.. you know..

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