Posted on 01/31/2017 1:19:42 PM PST by drewh
Less than a week after the inauguration of President Trump, an Obama has already spoken out against one of his policies.
No, not the 44th president, who left the White House last Friday. In fact, it was Barack Obama’s eldest daughter, 18-year-old Malia, who attended an event at the Sundance Film Festival this week to express solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe – the Native American group that for months has protested the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
The news was revealed by “Divergent” actress Shailene Woodley, herself a vocal activist against the oil route, in an interview with Democracy Now!:
Tuesday morning, Trump signed a presidential memorandum ordering DAPL’s expedited review and approval. That night, Malia, Woodley and others at Sundance assembled in support of Standing Rock.
Opponents of the 1,172-mile pipeline argue that it would run through ancient Sioux burial grounds, and that the project could possibly leak into the Missouri River. Last month, the US Army Corps of Engineers – the federal agency overseeing DAPL’s construction – ordered a stop to construction pending further review.
The most direct parallel between Malia and another first child, Kendall says, is with Amy Carter, the youngest of former President Jimmy Carter’s four children. Both were around the same age at the time of their fathers’ inaugurations – Amy was 9, Malia was 10. Both are Ivy Leaguers – Amy went to Brown University, and Malia will attend Harvard this fall.
The teenage Amy was known for her political activism, having marched with counterculture figure Abbie Hoffman. Both were arrested in 1986 at an anti-CIA demonstration in Massachusetts. A year later, after she and Hoffman were acquitted, 19-year-old Amy invited supporters to another CIA protest at the agency’s headquarters in Virginia.
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only if they have aspirations of being a community agitator.
Stockholm syndrome
Does she get SS protection? I don’t think she does...
I think she should go protest in a muslim country. She’d make a really cute hostage, wearing orange....
Malaria is making herself a public figure, and fair game for disagreement, ridicule, and derision ... she’s in the same category as Bath-house Barry and his partner Moosechelle.
Like Daddy, Like Daughter...no difference...
Amy Carter did this crap for years.
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Who is picking up the travel tab for this year of worldly experience?
Al Gore's daughter Karenna also likes to get arrested.
she was in new York at the met yesterday...
Just about all former presidents’ children take part in political protests or political ralllies.
Only first kids who are laying a foundation for further political office like State Senator and rabble rouser on a short fuse to the White House. The acorn.......
She needs the attention.
Didn’t Jimmy Carter’s kid protest?
When you’re a liberal elitist, someone ELSE always picks up the tab eh?
Far as I’m concerned she can do whatever she and her parents say she can. Who cares?
I would bet that Dick Nixon would have probably put a bullet in his daughters head if they turned up at an anti-war demonstration however.
She is emulating her mom and pop by mooching off rich liberals who collect black celebrities as status symbols
“Opponents of the 1,172-mile pipeline...”
Just to be clear, almost 90% of it is already in the ground - on both sides of the disputed area.
They do when daddy is a Marxist.
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