I can call a spade a spade. Laughingbear's posts clearly exhibit the twists, turns and manipulation of information for a specific purpose. Laughingbear has some reason to be motivated to malign William and Katrina. We are exploring this reason. Laughingbear is not neutral at all in this situation. So what is his motivation? Why is he so emotional over these issues? Who does Laughingbear actually hate?
In attempting to manipulate forum opinion, Laughingbear will even contradict himself to make a point. Why? We all want to know.
Then LaughingBear pretends to make peace on the mountain encouraging all of us to forgive a very violent man. A very violent man who essentially controls the hotsprings. A man that is capable of physically beating another person to the point of attempted murder like at El Mirage.
Shortly after the Friends of Deep Creek takeover at the Bowen Ranch, Mike took control of the gate money and started hanging around at the Ranch fulltime. Mike Castro suggested that the shortage of money to pay ranch personnel was because people (members of Friends of Deep Creek) were going free through Moss Mill (Mike Castro supported free access prior to takeover of the Ranch). So, Mike Castro took much of the leadership of the Friends of Deep Creek with him to these confrontations against the membership of the Friends of Deep Creek to force the people to go through the Bowen and pay the toll. Of course, the President (AZ Mike) never had any idea.
Then Mike Castro takes the guys to El Mirage for a little fun and recreation. Some drinking, partying, and rowdy fighting. They started at the Lazy 3 until Mike Castro spotted his mark, someone with money that they could physically dominate. Mike Castro had a big powerful truck vs. a Baja Bug. Mike Castro directed all of them to follow this vehicle onto El Mirage Lake. Mike Castro back aways with his headlights off.
Then Mike Castro accelerates to a high speed and focuses on the Baja Bug impacting the bug with such force that the bug flips three times. They never saw it coming. The bug landed on its roof and the passengers were suspended in their harnesses. Mike Castro, his lieutenant David Boyer and Friends of Deep Creek leadership (we believe Eric Heinrick, Michelle Hart) and (Venus Joseph, Bruce Parsons and more totaling 9-11 people) surround the Baja Bug and help the two passengers out of the bug.
Some others stopped to help but were waved off by David Boyer. Once there were no witnesses, Mike Castro starts questioning the guys, do you have money? drugs? hand them over. The passengers complied. Then Mike Castro and David Boyer become violently aggressive with the two passengers, beating them up. Mike Castro and David Boyer encouraged others to join in, they had clubs, kicked these guys, beat them up and left them for dead and that's an ugly truth to deal with. I obtained the BLM Incident Report that reported this as a "drunk rollover". I have talked to this guy several times. He will never forget Mike Castro or David Boyer, names stuck in his head.
In gang psychology its called "blood cement" to bind someone to the gang through sharing a horrific crime together that scares the bejuses out of all involved, scares them that they may be implicated in a serious crime (they believed that they would all be charged with murder), became more scared that they got away with the crime, and then deeply afraid of the men they saw commit that horrible act that night. The participation in what they believed to be a murder is the "blood cement" that bound them to the [Bowen Ranch] gang.
Don't you think they were terrified Laughingbear? Don't you think their hearts were beating? Don't you think they were scared to death? They didn't say a word did they? They were completely dominated by Mike Castro by then and did whatever he said. Now they are gone.
Can you relate, Laughingbear? Are you human, Laughingbear? Make peace with who, Laughingbear?