Veterans or not...they get the water cannons.If that doesn't work,they get handcuffs.
Posted on 12/03/2016 8:34:52 AM PST by Lorianne
U.S. military veterans were building barracks on Friday at a protest camp in North Dakota to support thousands of activists who have squared off against authorities in frigid conditions to oppose a multibillion-dollar pipeline project near a Native American reservation.
Veterans volunteering to be human shields have been arriving at the Oceti Sakowin camp near the small town of Cannon Ball, where they will work with protesters who have spent months demonstrating against plans to route the Dakota Access Pipeline beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, organizers said.
The Native Americans and protesters say the $3.8 billion pipeline threatens water resources and sacred sites.
Some of the more than 2,100 veterans who signed up on the Veterans Stand for Standing Rock group's Facebook page are at the camp, with hundreds more expected during the weekend. Tribal leaders asked the veterans, who aim to form a wall in front of police to protect the protesters, to avoid confrontation with authorities and not get arrested.
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Who issued the building permits?
Suckers are born every minute ...
This has gotten out of hand.
U.S. Veterans? Like the V.F.W. or American Legion?
Who issued the building permits?
Who did the Environmental Impact Study?
Veterans or not...they get the water cannons.If that doesn't work,they get handcuffs.
Leftists every where.
wait, are they building barracks on sacred land- on Indian graves?
Shades of Custer!
Search the local news where the protest is. Gates torn out, livestock scattered/shot, fields trampled/ruined, trash everywhere, tire fires, all sorts of nasty stuff.
Don't these veterans have jobs?
Well, I don’t want to hear any more bitching about native Americans who are unemployed.
Lewis and Clark winter camp out on the Missouri redux.
“Anyone can say they’re a veteran. Can these people prove they’re veterans? “
Is John Kerry there? He’s a “veteran!”
A lot of places still respect freedom enough that they don't need no stinkin' permit, right?
If they are simply protesting the location, then maybe it should be moved.
If they are protesting the oil and gas, then maybe the national guard should just set a perimeter around the area and prohibit any fossil fuels of any kind from being brought into the area by anyone.
Give ‘em a taste of a North Dakota winter without fossil fuels.
This does strike me as a rather unusual cause for veterans to take up. It sounds to me more like a bunch of leftists claiming to be veterans.
“It steps back from the worksite, or it gets the hose.”
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