Posted on 02/27/2017 5:01:17 AM PST by Kaslin
Be wary of those who only destroy. Smoldering embers of emotional environmental extremists can re-emerge as a wildfire.
The Trump administration last week extinguished Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protesters when they proved only willing to torch and trash the earth; culture; children and animals they claimed to be defending.
Pounding drums and donning feathered headdresses, they claimed to be “indigenous.” Shouting “Water is Life!” they professed to be guarding natural resources for “the children.” Holding “Protect the Sacred” banners, they declared themselves defenders of Native American cultural sites. It was all a show.
Four hundred and eighty-plus mounded dumpsters full of trash, including tents; food stores; personal items; and building materials are now being hauled off the federal land where protesters camped for five months. The earth the protesters claimed to cherish was so ravaged that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers enlisted a professional cleaning crew from Florida.
Eight pet dogs (minimum) were abandoned by protesters. A local pet rescue crew continues to visit the camp in search of animals. Funds are being raised by Furry Friends Rockin Rescue for vet bills to help the dogs regain health.
Two children were burned so severely that they were rushed to a Bismarck hospital when their negligent guardians set fires in protest of the federal order to leave. And one hazardous and toxic waste crew has been tasked with examining the area that has been tarnished by protesters.
When Standing Rock tribe members voted on whether to welcome protesters onto their reservation, build permanent structures, and stay through the winter—the tribal community voted with a loud “No.” 88 members voted: 66 votes were “no;” the majority of the remaining votes were undecided; and less than 10 votes were “yes.”
World leaders like Pope Francis jumped to take verbal swipes at DAPL: “indigenous communities are a part of the population to be appreciated and consulted, and whose full participation should be promoted at the local and national level.”
If only the Pope had done his research before opening his mouth. The Corps met with 55 tribes 389 times and exclusively with the Standing Rock Sioux a dozen times for input! Most global leaders who condemned DAPL incorrectly assumed the oil pipeline endangered the environment or hurt ancestral lands of indigenous peoples.
Like the anti-Trump Women’s March, the DAPL protest was hardly organic. Thousands of people from all over the world don’t normally rush to a cold, uninhabited, deserted landscape like the Dakotas without a sinister hand orchestrating their movements. The Obama administration bent over backwards to cater to the protesters—shutting down the project and using taxpayer funds to proffer the pouters with water and supplies.
Smoldering Sparks
Pipelines, as I've previously written, are proven to be the safest and lowest-emission method to transport crude oil. Plus, President Trump proposes to use the DAPL and Keystone XL projects, which he moved forward by executive order in late January, to reinvigorate the U.S. economy by asking the pipeline developers to use American-made steel. Pipelines are a clear win for the environment as well as for humans.
Skulking away from the campsite—after first torching it—DAPL protesters vowed to keep digging; and keep destroying. According the Associated Press, “Many protesters moved into other camps on the reservation.” Camp leader Phyllis Young told CBS: “the camps will continue.”
A protester known as Chase Iron Eyes told CBS that the Trump administration was engaging in an “ethnic cleansing” by asking protesters to leave land they don’t own. Chase Iron Eyes may know what to say to sound like a victim, but he needs to face the facts: DAPL protesters are destroying that which they claim to defend.
Smoldering sparks like Chase Iron Eyes won’t just go away peacefully, especially when the Democrat Party is like a breeze that carries sparks to collide with a highly flammable substance.
“Diversity is our greatest strength,” new Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez said yesterday. But when Democrats say “diversity,” they really mean victimhood. Perez went on to tweet a warning shot at President Trump: “Democrats united across the country will be your worst nightmare.”
We’ve been warned. The resistance has been extinguished. But not entirely. Stay alert.
If the land were really “sacred” these progressives would have shown an entirely different attitude towards it both while they were there and when they decamped.
Their behavior proves their words were lies and attempt to claim the higher moral ground. This validates what I have been saying for years: progressive-ism is far more about advancing the progressive agenda than it is about the issue of the moment.
In the case of DAPL, the demands and the effect of their actions all converge on more government, less liberty, less prosperity, less comfort. It converges on the socialist secular Utopia.
I wonder how many of those who lived in this camp were vegans or who ate organic food. I wonder if they practiced recycling, up until the camp became one huge flammable ghetto.
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