The Insane Clown Posse -- a white rap group whose members paint their faces like clowns -- is planning to sue the FBI for classifying its fans, who call themselves "Juggalos," as a criminal gang.
Here's is the FBI's "National Gang Threat Assessment," which describes the Juggalos -- without any hint of irony -- as a " a loosely-organized hybrid gang ... rapidly expanding into many US communities":
"Most crimes committed by Juggalos are sporadic, disorganized, individualistic, and often involve simple assault, personal drug use and possession, petty theft, and vandalism."
The section on the Juggalos is accompanied by this photo of a woman posing with a gun. It carries the filename, "juggalette-with_possible_firearm."
The annual "Gathering of the Juggalos" is going on right now, at Cave-in-Rock, Ill. It's basically a sort of drug-fueled, booze-drenched Woodstock that attracts up to 100,000 suburban youths, annually. Here's a description of what it's like, per the Village Voice: It makes the Mardi Gras ritual in which women gather strings of beads look tame.
And now we're throwing taxpayer dollars it.
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