U.S. Veterans to form Human Shield at Dakota Pipeline Protest

[Old Rocks]

Wow!

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By Terray Sylvester | CANNON BALL, N.D.
More than 2,000 U.S. military veterans plan to form a human shield to protect protesters of a pipeline project near a Native American reservation in North Dakota, organizers said, just ahead of a federal deadline for activists to leave the camp they have been occupying.

It comes as North Dakota law enforcement backed away from a previous plan to cut off supplies to the camp – an idea quickly abandoned after an outcry and with law enforcement’s treatment of Dakota Access Pipeline protesters increasingly under the microscope.

The protesters have spent months rallying against plans to route the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, saying it poses a threat to water resources and sacred Native American sites.

Protesters include various Native American tribes as well as environmentalists and even actors including Shailene Woodley.

State officials issued an order on Monday for activists to vacate the Oceti Sakowin camp, located on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, citing harsh weather conditions.

The state's latest decision not to stop cars entering the protest site indicated local officials will not actively enforce Monday's emergency order to evacuate the camp issued by Governor Jack Dalrymple.

Dalrymple warned on Wednesday that it was "probably not feasible" to reroute the pipeline, but said he had requested a meeting with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council to rebuild a relationship.

"We need to begin now to talk about how we are going to return to a peaceful relationship,” he said on a conference call.

The 1,172-mile (1,885 km) pipeline project, owned by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP.N), is mostly complete, except for a segment planned to run under Lake Oahe, a reservoir formed by a dam on the Missouri River.

Veterans Stand for Standing Rock, a contingent of more than 2,000 U.S. military veterans, intends to go to North Dakota by this weekend and form a human wall in front of police, protest organizers said on a Facebook page. Organizers could not immediately be reached for comment.

"I figured this was more important than anything else I could be doing,” Guy Dull Knife, 69, a Vietnam War Army veteran, told Reuters at the main camp.

Rest here: U.S. veterans to form human shield at Dakota pipeline protest

There is another pipeline along that same route, what's the big deal?

The big deal is that is a natural gas pipeline, and if it breaks, no major damage to the water. An oil pipeline is a big deal if it breaks in that reservoir that the Standing Rock Reservation depends on for drinking water and irrigation.

The pipeline company was originally going to route that pipe upstream from Bismark, and the people of Bismark said no way, so they routed it upstream from the reservation. After all, just a bunch of dumb indians there, and who gives a damn.

Well, now they know who gives a damn!

 

[Old Rocks]

The protesters need to arm themselves. When the loons took over the bird sanctuary in Oregon the police left them alone. These protesters need to take a page from their book, especially because their cause is actually legitimate.

Their cause is far from legitimate.

Their cause is absolutely legitimate. Were they to try to back it up with guns as the assholes you backed on the Malhuer Refuge did, they would already be dead, not handled with kid gloves like those felons were.

 

[Tom Horn]

So building the pipeline over the top of the lake (where anybody with a pipe bomb could rupture it) is better than burying it under the lake where a block-buster probably wouldn't break it?

 

[BluesLegend]

So damming the river destroying fish and wildlife habitat was okay, but running a pipeline under the lake which will not harm anything is a calamity? Sounds like faux rage to me.

 

[TheOldSchool]

The protesters need to arm themselves. When the loons took over the bird sanctuary in Oregon the police left them alone. These protesters need to take a page from their book, especially because their cause is actually legitimate.

Their cause is far from legitimate.

Their cause is absolutely legitimate. Were they to try to back it up with guns as the assholes you backed on the Malhuer Refuge did, they would already be dead, not handled with kid gloves like those felons were.

I know it is legitimate. The idiots at Malheur were treated like royalty because they were armed. Let's see if the thugs shoot freezing water at people who are able to fight back.

 

[Old Rocks]

Given the record of pipeline breaks under rivers, it would be better to go over, with a bridge, and containment structure that would be big enough to handle a blowout.

 

[007]

The big deal is that is a natural gas pipeline,

A NATURAL GAS pipeline? Well then WTF... what's the big deal with that?

That changes everything. There's no HORRIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL consequences. Now this is back to being STUPID.

 

[OKTexas]

Wow!

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By Terray Sylvester | CANNON BALL, N.D.
More than 2,000 U.S. military veterans plan to form a human shield to protect protesters of a pipeline project near a Native American reservation in North Dakota, organizers said, just ahead of a federal deadline for activists to leave the camp they have been occupying.

It comes as North Dakota law enforcement backed away from a previous plan to cut off supplies to the camp – an idea quickly abandoned after an outcry and with law enforcement’s treatment of Dakota Access Pipeline protesters increasingly under the microscope.

The protesters have spent months rallying against plans to route the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, saying it poses a threat to water resources and sacred Native American sites.

Protesters include various Native American tribes as well as environmentalists and even actors including Shailene Woodley.

State officials issued an order on Monday for activists to vacate the Oceti Sakowin camp, located on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, citing harsh weather conditions.

The state's latest decision not to stop cars entering the protest site indicated local officials will not actively enforce Monday's emergency order to evacuate the camp issued by Governor Jack Dalrymple.

Dalrymple warned on Wednesday that it was "probably not feasible" to reroute the pipeline, but said he had requested a meeting with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council to rebuild a relationship.

"We need to begin now to talk about how we are going to return to a peaceful relationship,” he said on a conference call.

The 1,172-mile (1,885 km) pipeline project, owned by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP.N), is mostly complete, except for a segment planned to run under Lake Oahe, a reservoir formed by a dam on the Missouri River.

Veterans Stand for Standing Rock, a contingent of more than 2,000 U.S. military veterans, intends to go to North Dakota by this weekend and form a human wall in front of police, protest organizers said on a Facebook page. Organizers could not immediately be reached for comment.

"I figured this was more important than anything else I could be doing,” Guy Dull Knife, 69, a Vietnam War Army veteran, told Reuters at the main camp.

Rest here: U.S. veterans to form human shield at Dakota pipeline protest

There is another pipeline along that same route, what's the big deal?

The big deal is that is a natural gas pipeline, and if it breaks, no major damage to the water. An oil pipeline is a big deal if it breaks in that reservoir that the Standing Rock Reservation depends on for drinking water and irrigation.

The pipeline company was originally going to route that pipe upstream from Bismark, and the people of Bismark said no way, so they routed it upstream from the reservation. After all, just a bunch of dumb indians there, and who gives a damn.

Well, now they know who gives a damn!

We've got oil pipelines that cross rivers and streams all across this country, none, zip, nada have caused irreparable harm anywhere. This is just more eco-nazi BS.

 

[Old Rocks]

Pipeline Failures and our Water Supplies | American Rivers
Kalamazoo River oil spill - Wikipedia
Images for oil pipeline breaks in rivers

Get the idea, fellows?

 

[Old Rocks]

Wow!

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By Terray Sylvester | CANNON BALL, N.D.
More than 2,000 U.S. military veterans plan to form a human shield to protect protesters of a pipeline project near a Native American reservation in North Dakota, organizers said, just ahead of a federal deadline for activists to leave the camp they have been occupying.

It comes as North Dakota law enforcement backed away from a previous plan to cut off supplies to the camp – an idea quickly abandoned after an outcry and with law enforcement’s treatment of Dakota Access Pipeline protesters increasingly under the microscope.

The protesters have spent months rallying against plans to route the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, saying it poses a threat to water resources and sacred Native American sites.

Protesters include various Native American tribes as well as environmentalists and even actors including Shailene Woodley.

State officials issued an order on Monday for activists to vacate the Oceti Sakowin camp, located on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, citing harsh weather conditions.

The state's latest decision not to stop cars entering the protest site indicated local officials will not actively enforce Monday's emergency order to evacuate the camp issued by Governor Jack Dalrymple.

Dalrymple warned on Wednesday that it was "probably not feasible" to reroute the pipeline, but said he had requested a meeting with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council to rebuild a relationship.

"We need to begin now to talk about how we are going to return to a peaceful relationship,” he said on a conference call.

The 1,172-mile (1,885 km) pipeline project, owned by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP.N), is mostly complete, except for a segment planned to run under Lake Oahe, a reservoir formed by a dam on the Missouri River.

Veterans Stand for Standing Rock, a contingent of more than 2,000 U.S. military veterans, intends to go to North Dakota by this weekend and form a human wall in front of police, protest organizers said on a Facebook page. Organizers could not immediately be reached for comment.

"I figured this was more important than anything else I could be doing,” Guy Dull Knife, 69, a Vietnam War Army veteran, told Reuters at the main camp.

Rest here: U.S. veterans to form human shield at Dakota pipeline protest

There is another pipeline along that same route, what's the big deal?

The big deal is that is a natural gas pipeline, and if it breaks, no major damage to the water. An oil pipeline is a big deal if it breaks in that reservoir that the Standing Rock Reservation depends on for drinking water and irrigation.

The pipeline company was originally going to route that pipe upstream from Bismark, and the people of Bismark said no way, so they routed it upstream from the reservation. After all, just a bunch of dumb indians there, and who gives a damn.

Well, now they know who gives a damn!

We've got oil pipelines that cross rivers and streams all across this country, none, zip, nada have caused irreparable harm anywhere. This is just more eco-nazi BS.

Tell that to the people in Montana, you lying dumb fuck.

 

[tinydancer]

The facts are simple. The pipeline does not cross tribal land. AND it follows the same route as the Northern Border pipeline.

The goal of the protestors is to stop the development of the Bakkens. Quite simple. Just like the bullshit that was pulled over the XL. That goal was to try to stop production in oil sands in Alberta.

Same enviro whacko bullshit. Different location.

These assholes are part of the "leave it in the ground" fools.

 

[007]

Pipeline Failures and our Water Supplies | American Rivers
Kalamazoo River oil spill - Wikipedia
Images for oil pipeline breaks in rivers

Get the idea, fellows?

"OIL" pipelines, not natural gas.

 

[Lewdog]

The pipeline originally was supposed to go through north of Bismark, ND which is 95% White. They cut that plan because of a danger that the pipeline would burst and affect the water supply. Now they are running it through the Indian Reservation and saying there is no chance of the line breaking and contaminating the water supply... REALLY? Fucking REALLY?

Pipeline route plan first called for crossing north of Bismarck

 

[Constructive Anarchy]

i don't know who is right or wrong on this issue . But probably not such a good idea to raise veteran status to such high levels so that veterans can get away with this kinda stuff .

Raise their status? Clearly some people have no idea of what is earned.

 

[007]

The pipeline originally was supposed to go through north of Bismark, ND which is 95% White. They cut that plan because of a danger that the pipeline would burst and affect the water supply. Now they are running it through the Indian Reservation and saying there is no chance of the line breaking and contaminating the water supply... REALLY? Fucking REALLY?

Pipeline route plan first called for crossing north of Bismarck

How does natural gas contaminate anything?

 

[pismoe]

i don't know who is right or wrong on this issue . But probably not such a good idea to raise veteran status to such high levels so that veterans can get away with this kinda stuff .

"this kinda stuff"? Exactly what do you mean by "this kinda stuff"?

----------------------------------------------------------------VETERANS protest and plan to break the law is 'this kinda stuff' i refer to . --------------------------- ALSO , Who cares if they are veterans as if veteran status makes their protest and possible lawbreaking acceptable and special Bodecea .

 

[Constructive Anarchy]

lets see what happens thing is that these veterans are only veterans and they should obey the laws . I like veterans , lots of people in my family were / are veterans but that status doesn't give veterans the 'right' to break the law Syttfe ,

No, it doesn't give them the right to break laws. It just makes them better people than those who never sacrificed anything.

 

[Tom Horn]

They'd be killed.....like Wounded Knee.

As they should have been....warriors there refused to surrender their weapons and a small band brandished their weapons at Cav troopers......bad move.

 

[ClosedCaption]

i don't know who is right or wrong on this issue . But probably not such a good idea to raise veteran status to such high levels so that veterans can get away with this kinda stuff .

Get away with this kinda stuff? What kinda stuff?

 

[pismoe]

i don't know who is right or wrong on this issue . But probably not such a good idea to raise veteran status to such high levels so that veterans can get away with this kinda stuff .

Raise their status? Clearly some people have no idea of what is earned.

--------------------------------------------------- and no special status is ever earned , in these days of military volunteers looking for a job and training a military volunteer does their jobs and gets paid and thats the end of earning anything for veterans CAnarchy