Posted by Charles G. Camacho on August 02, 1999 at 09:14:35:
IT IS MY HOPE THAT WOODSTOCK NEVER BE REPEATED AGAIN.
THE EVENTS IN WOODSTOCK 99 WERE, THE LEAST TO SAY TRADGIC AND COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED IF THE PROPPER SECURITY HAD BEEN IN PLACE.
THE ORGANIZERS OF THIS SHOW DID NOT HAVE THE FORESITE TO KNOW THAT THE YOUTHS IN 1969 WERE DIFFERENT FROM THE VIOLENT CRIMINALS YOU SAW IN WOODSTOCK 99.
I HAVE NOTICED THAT AT NONE OF YOUR WEBSTIES NOTHING WAS REPORTED ABOUT THE RAPES THAT OCCURED AT THIS CONCERT. I FEEL THAT IF IT WAS LEFT UP TO YOU, NO ONE WOULD LEARN THAT AT LEAST FOUR YOUNG GIRLS WERE RAPED AND WHO KNOWS HOW MANY OTHERS OCCURED AND WAS NOT REPORTED.
THEN THERE WAS THE FIRES, WHY WAS THIS PERMITTED TO HAPPEN? WHY WASN'T THERE A FIRE CREW THERE TO KEEP THIS FROM HAPPENING?
NEXT WE HAVE THE FIGHTS, WERE WAS THE SECURITY WHEN THE FIGHTS BROKE OUT? I'M SURE THE BANDS PLAYING ON STAGE HAD PLENTY OF SECURITY, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE KIDS IN THE AUDIENCE, WHO WAS PROTECTING THEM?
FINALY WE HAVE THE RIOTS & LOOTING WERE WAS THIS 4000 MAN SECURITY TEAM WHEN THIS STARTED TO HAPPEN AND WHY WASN'T THE STATE POLICE CALLED AS SOON AS IT STARTED TO HAPPEN? IS THE JOB OF YOUR SECURITY TEAM JUST TO PROTECT THE STARS THAT ARE PLAYING ON STAGE AND THATS IT?
AFTER ALL IS SAID AND DONE, IT'S A WOUNDER THAT NO ONE WAS KILLED BUT THEN AGAIN WHO KNOWS, WE MAY FIND OUT ABOUT THAT IN THE COMMING DAYS AS NEWS REPORTS START COMMING IN. I WOULD BE VERY SUPRISED IF LAWSUITES WERE NOT FILED AGAINST THE PROMOTERS OF THIS EVENT. WHEN WILL THEY REALIZE THAT YOU CAN NEVER BRING BACK THE 60'S. IT'S GONE FOREVER AND IT'S ONLY A MEMORY NOW, AS IT SHOULD BE. THE 60'S WAS A TIME OF INNOCENCE, AND FRANKLY AMERICAS' INNOCENCE HAS LONG SINCE PAST. I HOPE THAT THE PROMOTERS OF THIS CONCERT HAVE LEARNED SOMETHING FROM THIS EXPIREANCE AND LEARN TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR CUSTOMERS, OUR CHILDREN AND THEIRS.