[AbolishCSEU]

That's a shame! I would buy MORE at Ace Hardware if they DID refuse to serve the Pipeline Protesters.

[A CA Guy]

Ace is the place helpful to anarchy man!

Patronizing them: OFF.

[generally]

The headline seems a bit misleading. I assume that pretty much every local store sells to anyone who walks in. The store clerks are not likely to ask every potential customer if they are a protester.

I can’t fault Ace on this. At least not based on the info I have so far.

[arl295]

This is stupid, I would expect a business to sell to anyone who walks through the door

How would they even know they were protesters? Do you we need political tests to buy a screw driver now?

[central_va]

Why protest something that once completed is invisible an has a proven OUTSTANDING safety record?

[Rurudyne]

Oh please!

They are ‘selling” to them.

Not giving to them.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I wonder if the idiots in the Ace marketing department realize that probably 90% of their customers would be very happy if they stopped selling to the pipeline protestors.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Despite social media reports and rumors to the contrary, Ace Hardware says that its stores have not stopped selling supplies to people protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Businesses should not be in the business of vetting the political views of customers. There's enough of this insanity on the Left, with hysterical CEOs announcing that they don't want to do business with Trump supporters.

[smokingfrog]

An employee who answered the phone at the Ace Hardware in nearby Bismarck said Thursday that the store had not received anything from corporate headquarters suggesting a ban on selling to demonstrators. The employee, who declined to give a name, said protesters had been in buying supplies all day.

[Ben Ficklin]

If Ace Hardware is selling stuff to the injuns, then it is likely that they are also selling stuff to the homosexuals.

[BitWielder1]

Why is ACE supposed to determine who can buy a legal product.
It's not like ACE is trucking crowbars (or whatever it is) to protesters in their camps.
It's not private businesses job to play police. We should not force them to.
Accusing innocent bystanders is a Liberal thing.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Are they supposed to ask every customer; are you a protestor?
Who cares what they sell to them.

[Navy Patriot]

I immediately recognized that the author wrote around the fact that the "Supplies" in question are hardware and industrial components that can be used to manufacture IED's.

Therefore, I would support ACE refusal to sell to unvetted strangers and unknown types while continuing to serve known regular customers of these items.

Multiple IED's have already been used by the anarchist - terrorist component of the "demonstrators" resulting in at least one serious case of mayhem injury.

[Migraine]

I’ll send ‘em supplies; I’ll call Waste Management.

[SaxxonWoods]

The only problem with that protest is the federal govt, which should send the National Guard to remove those idiots and keep a contingent there to keep them off that land.

I’m not going to punish my local Ace store which is hundreds of miles away and has nothing to do with the situation. My store does a good job serving my community and is a good neighbor providing decent jobs.

[Boogieman]

So ACE is still going to sell them pipes and nails for their pipe bombs?

[FreeInWV]

I support people’s rights even if I don’t agree with them. It is important to our society and country. These idiots deserve the right to protest as much as anyone else. So many protesters on the right supporting truly noble and sacred causes have been persecuted in the past. We should not just defend the protesters that we like and agree with.