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BARBARIC Dakota Access Oil Police Cause Mass Hypothermia
I was mostly wanting to point out that there was perhaps a touch of bias in the original description.
You are right about it being privately owned land involved. However, the construction and the original encampment and protests were all taking place on land that was privately owned:
Protesters have set up teepee and tent camps on land owned by Energy Transfer Partners to slow the progress of construction and have threatened to block the highway.
http://time.com/4548566/dakota-access-pipeline-standing-rock-sioux/
Since then the camps I understood have been moved off and the highway is now being blocked by the authorities to keep the trespassers from returning, but any references to the basic facts on that if I've got them wrong are welcome.
I'm not especially upset about illegal trespassing and obstruction of the construction to make a point and to protest that the law is wrong and all that. I am particularly bothered though when people begin to feel the case isn't strong enough and start lying about some of the parts that might cause people to question their methods.
@bcglorf
interesting how you classify the protesters as angry mob and rioters.
see,
this all on tribal land,owned by native americans,who welcomed this "angry mob" and "rioters" and the police are there NOT at the behest of the tribal elders,but DAPL,a private corporation attempting to push a private pipeline,for private profit,through privately owned land.
DAPL had even hired private mercenaries to keep the landowners off their construction site,who used attack dogs,mace,rubber bullets and worked alongside the police.it got so bad at one point that they had pulled police officers from FIVE states to keep those pesky landowner rabble down!
on a good note,those ancillary officer teams bowed out after a few days,saying that it was immoral and they were unwilling to participate.so the "police" you are referring to are most likely private security.
Funny how the perspective you tell the story from changes it entirely even while keeping to the overall same facts.....and then add some context.
democracynow has been doing excellent work on this situation,as has countercurrentnews:
https://www.democracynow.org/topics/dakota_access
http://countercurrentnews.com/2016/11/north-dakota-becomes-first-u-s-state-legalize-use-armed-drones-police-defend-illegal-pipeline/
http://countercurrentnews.com/2016/10/ohio-swat-state-police-deployed-north-dakota-crack-dapl-pipeline-protesters/
http://countercurrentnews.com/2016/11/sheriffs-leave-standing-rock-saying-completely-unethical/
and if you wanna berate those hiring the private thugs:
http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/dial-a-cop-20161031
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Signed and signed.
Did you sign th
is one?
Here's the petition he mentioned.
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