As Morton County’s Sheriff creates a social media team to spew Orwellian language, and a group of veteran’s raises $800,000 through crowd funding and led by Wesley Clark, Jr. deploys in convoy towards North Dakota – WHERE is leadership? When white Bismark said “NO” the DAPL “Trans Energy Partners” began to ram DAPL down the throats of Native Americans at gunpoint – where is the outrage?
Liberal commentator Van Jones says he sees similarities between the demonstrations against the Dakota Access pipeline and the biggest protests of the 1960s.
“To me, this is Selma, this is Birmingham, this is as big a civil rights movement and as big a civil rights moment as you’re ever going to see,” Jones said on Chelsea Handler’s Netflix talk show “Chelsea” in an episode airing Friday.
In a brief clip from the episode, Handler mentions to Jones she wants to visit the protest site and asks what he thinks of the issue.
“They were going to put the pipeline through a white town, and the white people said, ‘Hell no!’ So instead, the Dakota Access company decided to route it through a Native American reservation,” Jones said. “And it turns out that the land that they’re putting it on is some of the most sacred land for Native Americans in the world.”
“For some reason, the mainstream media really hasn’t talked about it as much,” Jones added.
He added that the movement is one of the largest gatherings of Native American tribes since Christopher Columbus arrived in America, calling it the equivalent of the civil rights movement.
Jones called for President Obama to take action to stop the pipeline.
“President Obama is still the president of the United States right now,” he said. “And I think he should tell the Army Corps of Engineers to cancel this whole project. If Trump wants to do it, we’ll deal with that later, but President Obama should stand up and say this has gone far enough and needs to stop and needs to stop right now.”
We stand with our Native American brothers and sisters to resist this obscene
violation of their sacred land.
We call on President Obama to cancel this project. NOW !
Call the White House : 1-202-456-1111 and make your voice heard. NOW !
Fred Rich LaRiccia
to thank President Obama for stopping the damn pipeline.
And I told him I miss him already !
Fred Rich LaRiccia
Here is the link: http://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/articles/two-veterans-explain-why-theyre-joining-the-ranks-at-standing-rock-w453195
Human rights trampled. Government forces in violent confrontation with unarmed citizens. MSM next to silent on situation. Veterans protesting and taking action. Federal authorities deaf or complicit.
Did I wake up in the ’60’s?
Let us not forget the protector wounded in a government grenade attack. A wounded warrior for liberty. We can donate for Ms.Sophia Wilansky’s medical expenses at GoFundMe.
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
There is a reason why Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon invoked the SILENT majority.
Bill McKibben says:
It’s an interesting piece. Link here.
Evidence so far is that he doesn’t give two hoots.
Army will not grant easement for Dakota Access Pipeline crossing
By U.S. ArmyDecember 4, 2016
Army POC: Moira Kelley (703) 614-3992, moira.l.kelley.civ@mail.mil
The Department of the Army will not approve an easement that would allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota, the Army’s Assistant Secretary for Civil Works announced today.
Jo-Ellen Darcy said she based her decision on a need to explore alternate routes for the Dakota Access Pipeline crossing. Her office had announced on November 14, 2016 that it was delaying the decision on the easement to allow for discussions with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, whose reservation lies 0.5 miles south of the proposed crossing. Tribal officials have expressed repeated concerns over the risk that a pipeline rupture or spill could pose to its water supply and treaty rights.
“Although we have had continuing discussion and exchanges of new information with the Standing Rock Sioux and Dakota Access, it’s clear that there’s more work to do,” Darcy said. “The best way to complete that work responsibly and expeditiously is to explore alternate routes for the pipeline crossing.”
Darcy said that the consideration of alternative routes would be best accomplished through an Environmental Impact Statement with full public input and analysis.
The Dakota Access Pipeline is an approximately 1,172 mile pipeline that would connect the Bakken and Three Forks oil production areas in North Dakota to an existing crude oil terminal near Pakota, Illinois. The pipeline is 30 inches in diameter and is projected to transport approximately 470,000 barrels of oil per day, with a capacity as high as 570,000 barrels. The current proposed pipeline route would cross Lake Oahe, an Army Corps of Engineers project on the Missouri River.
So, what will Trump do? Go back to the Bismark route through “white people” [the original route that bowed to pressure and then targeted the reservation] at the point of a gun as the DAPL folks were doing in Standing Rock? Not likely, but…what?