For over 20 years, the U.S. Forest Service has waged jihad against the "Rainbow Family," which holds a large annual camp-out. The FS has raided Rainbow camps with heavily-armed SWAT teams, imposed blockades, tear-gassed, arrested. The FS's favorite tactic is to prosecute Family members for its failure to apply for a "group use permit," which is required by any group larger than 75 persons using the national forests.

The permit is free. It requires the group to clean up the site after use. Violation of the permit's terms imposes the group to multi-thousand dollar fines.

Anyone want to bet the FS has never required the Shasta Lake partiers to get a group use permit? Or has never imposed financial penalties for permit violations? Doing so would go a long ways toward holding these children responsible for their misbehavior.