June 28, 2007
Name the early summer festival described here:
At least 10,000 in attendance, travelling from all over the country. Caters to people of all ages. several stages with massive amounts of bands. hippies. vendors selling tie-dye. Illegal narcotics and mind-altering substances readily available for a reasonable price if you know where to look. Camping on-site.
According to the PJS, I am describing Summercamp. I am not describing Summercamp. Based on many, MANY first-hand accounts, I am describing Cornerstone, the “Christian” festival going on in Bushnell this week. Did the PJS say anything about Cornerstone being an open-air drug market, ripe with self-indulgence and foggy with pot smoke? Nope. It’s a nice little festival in a small town for Christian music. Meanwhile, Summercamp is portrayed as a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah(sp?), with naked people parading around, screwing everything that moves and smoking, snorting, shooting, and swallowing everything they can get their hands on.
I GUARANTEE if MEG were to send the manpower to Cornerstone that was present at Summercamp, more arrests would be made.
But how is that possible? This is a good, Christian festival for good, God-fearing people! Well, God-fearing or not, teenagers at music festivals are GOING to use drugs, and they’re GOING to have a good time.
The discrepancy in reporting between Summercamp and Cornerstone is quite sickening, and the Peoria Journal Fishrag should be ashamed.