Protesters, Including Kids, Mauled As Private Mercenaries Attack Native American Pipeline Protests
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/mercenaries-attack-protesters-dogs/Members of the Standing Rock Sioux and at least 100 other Native American nations as well as activists and advocates peacefully chanted “water is life” while guards held dogs nearby to intimidate the crowd. Without warning, these security henchmen showered the demonstrators with pepper spray and released the dogs — at least six people were bitten, including a young child.
Called the Dakota Access Pipeline by those responsible for its construction — and an evil, immoral usurpation and exploitation by those who know better — the project is slated to span four states, stretching 1,172 miles, but threatens the reservation’s water supply and would invade sacred land.
For months, the Standing Rock Sioux have camped in the pipeline’s proposed path, halting construction at least temporarily as Energy Transfer Partners, the firm responsible, continues to intimidate, harass, and now attack protesters attempting to protect their own land.
Birmingham, N.D.?!
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Why repeat the lie that it is not a peaceful protest?
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the fence to stop the bulldozers even though that private property was protected by guards and workmen with guard dogs who had been granted rights to be there by the property owners. The trespassers also brought some big dogs themselves.
Now, assuming I were among that group and imagined that sites I'd paid no attention to before and never visited before were nevertheless sacred to me, I would have crossed also to try to stop the bulldozing.
BUT, and here's a big but -- I wouldn't lie and pretend that these guys who were doing their job somehow came outside the fence and attacked me. This was incited by the trespassers. I imagine IF I were one of them I'd have been proud of it and certainly not lied and pretended I was a victim.
I'd be far, far prouder, though, if we'd just purchased the land a long time ago, or even if we'd gone and confronted the pipeline company owners at their homes some time ago, however, alerting the media to that. You know, the guys who ordered the bulldozers out this time before a court order could be belatedly obtained. People from 500 tribes demanding changes in the yards of oil barons and/or corrupt legislators, threatening to clobber them with flag poles, would be something I could really get behind.
Wikipedia:
In June 2014 Energy Transfer's board of directors approved of the Bakken pipeline. In October 2014 Houston-based Phillips 66 became a joint venture partner owning a 25 percent stake. Phillips co-owns the 'Energy Transfer' crude oil pipeline from Patoka to storage terminals in Nederland, Texas. It co-owns the storage terminals with Philadelphia-based Sunoco Logistics Partners.[1] Sunoco is a fully owned subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners since 2012.
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. is a master limited partnership owning and operating one of the largest and most diversified portfolios of energy assets in the United States. ETP has natural gas operations that include approximately 24,000 miles of gathering and transportation pipelines, treating and processing assets, and storage facilities.
Billionaire Kelcy Warren. He lives in Houston, so if they wanted to hit him with their flag poles they'd probably need to lease busses and head on down.
That's neoliberalism, and neoliberalism stinks.
or about any private property these individuals might own. They're objecting to the pipeline crossing other peoples' land. Their ancestors were nomads who moved around what they consider "ancestral" areas from year to year., and that is the basis for the claim that the pipeline crosses "sacred" lands. Some of the protesters are from the nearby Standing Rock Reservation, and other ND reservations, but a bunch come from farther away.
Personally, I'm wondering why they haven't pointed out specific ancestral sites that can and should be protected, through government purchase if necessary. This has been a matter of intense interest to preservationists for decades now, and many sites have been protected.
From a couple weeks ago,
"Riders from the Standing Rock, Rosebud, and Lower Brule Lakota reservations came together on horseback to push back a police line that had formed between a group of protesters and the entrance to the Dakota Access Pipeline construction site."
Later in the video in the OP, you can see the woman handler urging the same dog to go after more protesters. The dogs were even biting the horses that some protesters were riding!
Eventually, a bunch of protesters crowded the guards and dogs, threatening both the mercenaries and the lunging, snapping dogs with the pointed ends of their flagpoles, which is what finally got the mercenaries to get into their trucks and leave--because instead of being intimidated and running away, the protesters got even angrier, braver, more determined, and more united.
ON EDIT: I love animals, and I don't blame the dogs. They were turned into attack dogs by training and by the way they were used against peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment rights. The protesters didn't actually hurt the dogs--but they created a solid wall of people armed with poles against the dogs and mercenaries and threatened both the dogs and the handlers with their poles--as even I would have under the circumstances, despite my love for dogs.
This is very bad, stupid PR for the company building the pipeline and for the government agencies that have okayed it and that are allowing them to attack the protesters.
MSM and LEO LIES. This picture and the video linked in the OP show that peaceful protesters were attacked and injured!
