I don't post in this sub very often (the last time was about some driveway gravel, I think) but I just wanted to add that I appreciate how Tommie unwittingly exposes that there was never a positive, righteous, clean-living Rainbow Family. It was always, from the very first day someone coined that name, a microcosm of the society it pretends to reject. Tommie-gun shows that it was always an excuse to play Pretendian and fluently speak the language of New Age Bullshit (e.g. word salad like "energy/light-worker") while buying, selling, and consuming powerful psychedelics, and bonus for Tommie, chilling with families with naked children. Untold numbers of Tommies, at this time every year, literally shit up national parks and leave devastation in their wake.
The hippie culture is also just as much a patriarchy as any culture it tries to resist. Notice that when Tommie reaches for the name of a famous Rainbow "elder," it's either Garrick Beck (who, to his credit, does seem to have written Tommie the gentlest "chill out and/or fuck off" letter I've ever seen) or Barry "Plunker" Adams -- both white men. I further appreciate that when called on this, Tommie goes into full hedgehog defense mode and starts babbling about pipe carriers and only then finally gets around to mentioning that the NDN poet John Trudell exists.
And lastly, I cannot adequately explain how much I love that, as awful as the vast majority of these people are -- the people Tommie himself terms "drainbows," proving the adage about the stopped clock -- even THEY don't want him around. I love his seething about it. Thank you so much for that, big guy. You have certainly ensured that you will always be remembered.