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Police Evict Dakota Pipeline Protesters
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Puck Beaverton
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Wish I could say I didn't expect this...
We no longer need to invade foreign countries for oil. We can just send police and military forces to remove domestic opposition. They have every right to protest this and they shouldn't be forced to accept a pipeline on their sacred land. I hope we see more people protest this pipeline and stand with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their fight.
Frozenprince
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And yet, several dozen white people can hold a federal building as illegal occupants for 3 months and get off with no legal repercussions at all.
Seems that they have removed the protesters from the land own by the pipe line company where they are working.
I dont think the problem is protesting its people that are trying to stop the workers from working on private property.
Really haven't seen much covered on this.
EdibleKnife
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And yet people will continue to blindly praise them despite their clearly being used as tools to silence the disenfranchised. America gives zero shits
America's hardcoded adherence to white supremacy & the punishment for the marginalized in action
I don't think it's really about race here, more so that there's a lot of money involved. I'd be willing to speculate that the police are under a lot of pressure to do something.
eyeball_kid
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And Clinton & Obama have said not a damn peep about it.
Frozenprince
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Are they evicting and detaining them because they are natives? Maybe, maybe not.
Would they be evicted/detained if they were white? No.
Clockwork5
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Good. It's gone on too long.
Why is this good?
Lil'DigiOp
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America proves itself daily to defend and protect the rich and wealthy. Even moreso if that happens to intersect with whiteness.
Don't get mad at me, I just speak what I see.
Don't get mad at me, I just speak what I see.
Why do you think it should be a bigger news story?
But we need to know what Trump is ranting and making up for the 100th time again. Plus my conspiracy sense is going off saying people with vested interests don't want this in the media.
AstroNut325
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So we do have people working for Big Oil on GAF.
Fine Ham Abounds
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On private land? I'm confident they would be. That doesn't make the system any less racist.
I also kinda feel like you wouldn't find many whites who would put themselves in this sort of situation. Unless they were the type who like to be close to counterculture stuff in some misguided persuit of cultural absolution.
It's a sad state of affairs.
gutter_trash
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Incredible that this thread is so inactive.
It's a clear case of the government siding *violently* with companies at the expense of the environment and the rights of minorities.
It's a clear case of the government siding *violently* with companies at the expense of the environment and the rights of minorities.
The police are evicting people from private property. The other issues w/ the press and such have gotten attention, this does not, because this is what's supposed to happen. (regardless of how you feel about the situation)
Companies are [white] people, though.
So as I understand it, this land was originally part of the treaty from the 1800s with the tribe. Over time, the treaty was violated and the property was sold and that is how it is part of the company. This is what I garnered from the NPR segment a couple days ago.
It sucks. The feds should step in and honor the treaty.
It sucks. The feds should step in and honor the treaty.
Frustrated_me
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Why bother with real important news when CNN can discuss "why Trump talks like a women" instead?
Pls.
NYCmetsfan
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The white people did get detained with heavy police action and one was killed.
They got off in their trial by the jurors. The state threw the book at them.
TBH is it the biggest news in the world or the US?
I mean its another case of environmental discrimination and its clearly unjust. But things like the ACA rate hikes, Syria, Mosul and the presidential race are bigger news.
HalfBakedProphet
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Same as it ever was
Disgusting
Disgusting
Bro, I'm native. This entire protest is fucking huge, with over 300 tribes from across the nation gathered at Standing Rock. No one gives a shit because we're native. Reporters have been arrested, people have been attacked by dogs and denied counsel and arrested for no reason, police have been hurting natives, but again, no one gives a shit because it's the middle of nowhere and we are native.
This is bigger than Ferguson and everything. National news turns a blind eye.
For Christ's sake they have a no fly zone over unarmed protestors. Why?
Also, the land according to a treaty actually belongs to the natives, but no one gives a shit about the treaties either.
Defense Force for everything strikes again. If the state would have wanted proven terrorists to go to jail, they would have gone to jail.
Zok310
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Would speak against your boss if he lined your pockets with money?
Most people won't.
Spoiled Milk
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Because they were stalling a pipeline for no good reason.
The Bakken supplies about ten percent of the oil in this country and we currently truck or freight it down to Illinois, which is wasteful. The pipeline was being built to make that more efficient.
The oil companies do not personally send a check to Obama.
"reported"
I'm hearing today one of their mercenaries shot a tear gas grenade and blew up on some guys neck, and it was pretty bad.
Uh, no. Actually the land is owned by farmers, which were offered buy-outs from the government. They refused and in response the state took their land citing eminent domain.
Spoiled Milk
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That's Iowa, not North Dakota.
NYCmetsfan
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Defense force?
And that's quite silly as numerous people the state as wanted to go to jail don't. I just think its absurd to say the state didn't want them in jail and was letting them off. The jury did. I mean the state has prosicuted numerous people and juries and police/white sympathies seem to be the hold up and issue why different people get different justice.
But the simple matter is both occupations were forcibly evicted.
You must really like pipelines... or hate the Sioux
Cow Mengde
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You want them to drone strike these people?
Spoiled Milk
Banned
Those people in Oregon were detained and one was killed.
How else are you supposed to enforce the law with noncooperators without violence? I do not have the right to protest in your yard.
They're violating the law.
Have you watch video on these protesters? That is why people dont care about it. it one thing to protest. It another to try and shut them down.
standing rock could have met with people like everyone else when this was planned. They choose not too unlike the other groups.
The whole issue is oil leaks from the pipe line. This is silly because a pipe line is so much safer than using trains. OiL getting transported on trains and its not safe. They are pretty much bomb going through major cities. Also, the train system up there was never designed from this much traffic and driving prices up for the farmers.
There is a logical reason for a pipeline. That is why people dont care about people trying to shut it down. Its not protesting at that point. There are video of all this on youtube. Protester were attacking the worker, that is why they got bite by dogs. They went out there to shut it down.
They have a no fly zone because people were flying drones to attack the helicopers. They had to shoot the drones down.
Sunster
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I mean the whole pipeline situation not this specifically
Puppet Shadow
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gutter_trash
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lol you righties talking about private land and shit,
the land treaties were violated hundreds of time
google US treaties and notice 90% are all abouy land claims vs Native tribes,
the land treaties were violated hundreds of time
google US treaties and notice 90% are all abouy land claims vs Native tribes,
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/791814502014717952
And lol @ Hillary's response.
And lol @ Hillary's response.
Leadership taking the kind of stance that would allow this country to slip down the fucking drain. People with power will say nothing for fear of possible harm to immediate profits. Leadership not looking at the big picture, or how this will affect everyone in the long term, let alone the natives that are protesting. Total disregard for anything but another dollar in the pockets of protected interests.
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