Disgusting government piss ants at BLM demand 1 million dollar VIP compound before they will issue a permit for Burning Man this year.

U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials are asking Burning Man organizers to provide "excessive" comforts such as flushing toilets, washers and dryers, and vanity mirrors in a compound for high-level government officials staying in Black Rock City.

A Burning Man spokesman estimated the compound would cost the event more than $1 million, bringing its 2015 permit fees to about $5 million. The renderings of the compound obtained by the RGJ also show various accommodations set aside for VIP visitors but don't indicate who the visiting dignitaries will be.

The BLM has said it needs the elaborate encampment to support staff at the event. The agency is raising concerns about safety after a woman was run over and killed by a vehicle last year, and says the additional staff will attend to assess security conditions.

Why, of course, the government thugs are only interested in our safety, those dedicated public servants!  It's certainly not that they want their own special pad, with air conditioning and vanity mirrors, where they can hang after spending the day ogling the naked hippie chicks.

Among the amenities included in the BLM's demand are flushing toilets to be cleaned daily by Burning Man staff, a laundry with washers and dryers, on-demand hot water, air conditioning, vanity mirrors, refrigerators and couches. The event, known for its emphasis on self-reliance in harsh conditions, provides only basic amenities for normal ticketed attendees, such as nonflushable portable toilets.

BLM officials whine that their staff can no longer stay in the "primitive" accommodations available in Gerlach, which is about 20 minutes from the event location.

Details of the request were included in an email exchange obtained by the RGJ between a Burning Man official and Bob Abbey (and let's hope Bob Abbey lives up to the tradition of his last name), the former BLM director who is now a consultant for Burning Man organizers.

Abbey went on to say that BLM won't "change their strategy of threatening your permit until you agree to everything they are demanding including the latest BS proposal for providing VIP facilities for law enforcement and (Department of Interior) officials."

BLM Special Agent Dan Love of Salt Lake City was cited multiple times as the person behind many of the BLM requests, according to the emails. He did not return requests for comment. Love also led the BLM operation against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy that ended in a standoff with Bundy's armed supporters.  

Here we have yet another example of the commissars of the leviathan government refusing to give their approval to a hugely popular event without what they consider the appropriate bribe in money, service and comfortable accommodations.  Forget that the spirit of the event is in roughing it, that the event mostly polices itself, and that it's a place to escape the rules and conventions of society.  Nope.  Must have everything needed for the elites, the Eloi, to drop in whenever they want, stay in far better accommodations than everyone else, and have someone else pay for it all.  Or else no permit.

Bastards.  I guess we can see who believes they are the rulers, and who are the ruled.  Burning Man should just tell the BLM to stick it, and hold the event anyway.