Posted on 11/28/2016 10:53:48 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
A reported influx of white protestors at Standing Rock has led to an unusual request from activists at the North Dakota Access Pipeline protest.
According to the Independent, fellow protestors are asking white demonstrators to please stop treating the area like a free-for-all festival, complete with drugs, unsolicited music and photo ops.
"No drugs or alcohol... This is not burning man or a festival," one statement posted on Facebook reads. "... YOU ARE NOT ON VACATION. This is not a camping trip."
"White people are colonizing the camps..." protestor Alicia Smith added on Facebook. "They are coming in, taking food, clothing and occupying space without any desire to participate in camp maintenance and without respect of tribal protocols. . .
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LOOOL! How true!
The Professional Protesters are getting paid, and bring a certain amount of organization and dedication to their jobs.
The Amatuer Protester is up there on his own dime, and wants to have an authentic experience.
Naturally, there is going to be some conflict between the paid and unpaid groups. How would you like it if a bunch of idiot Millenials showed up at your office, arriving late and leaving early, smoking weed at lunch and having sex in the restrooms, talking about how they want an authentic Medical Insurance Claim Center Telephone Support Services Experience?
Come to think of it, that does sound like my office!
The protests were going on during the election season, but in the statement issued last Friday the organizers blame the “Obama Administration” for the US Army Corps of Engineers eviction notice.
Obama talked about some sort of ‘relocation’ of the pipeline route but it doesn’t address the concerns raised by the protest, the building of the pipeline on land promised to the tribe in the 1851 treaty, a treaty broken by the United States government.
These folks are operating beyond the control of the DNC-Obama-Hillary Clinton political machine.
That’s what I like about them.
Obama approved this pipeline DAPL after canning the Keystone XL one. He shafted the Left big time by dumping one pipeline, then approving another.
The Energy Transfer Partners building this pipeline and their CEO give their money to Paul Ryan and other crooked RINO politicians like Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
Sarah Palin dealt with the cronyism of the Murkowski Machine and the energy industry during the rise of her political career.
Yeah, I’m on the side of the protestors fighting the kind of Corporatist Uniparty business elites and the crony politicians Nigel Farage, Donald Trump and Sarah Palin have opposed.
Looks more like Fred Ward.
I have a friend from the 70s who’s there and is just that kind of nut
I see a rebel flag in that scarf
A good Indian
“Yeah, I’m on the side of the protestors...”
Good for you, comrade.
Good for my other comrades like too those who were protesting in the Oregon Standoff earlier this year and standing with them.
Bundy Ranch and Gavin Seim both supporting Sacred Stone Camp.
The Energy Transfer Partners support Corporatist Globalist RINO politicians that stabbed Donald Trump in the back like Paul Ryan.
I think I picked the right side.
Martin Luther King was right even though there were Communists around him.
Precious.
In the initial post I replied to you made some good observations.
But going full on commie is dumb.
Isn’t this where Shalene Woodley was recently. [I know the spelling is off, but I really don’t care]
That is Iron Eyes Cody, who played many Indian roles in movies, television, and advertisements. He was not a real Native American, but Sicilian, if memory serves.
Their protest is more like Burning Dumbass.
>>Well, what did they expect from a bunch of filthy worthless hippies?
And the white people who are joining them.
The tribe heads are bent out of shape because they’re not getting their cut of the loot from the pipeline it has nothing to do with clean water or scared lands or cronyism
You are correct, sir!
There are many stories being spread about but I see some Indians-Native Americans with a grievance and others ranging from Leftists to some Patriots joining in to sympathize.
I stand by what I said about cronyism and politics as usual.
We have a Uniparty system in this country with one party pretending to be “Conservative” and the other “Liberal-Progressive”.
The “Conservative Media” and the “Liberal Media” made noise about Obama canning the Keystone XL Pipeline then the “Progressives” were just as betrayed by a Democrat POTUS as “Conservatives” have been betrayed by the GOP.
Obama went ahead and approved the DAPL pipeline and a lot of folks can see the betrayal and hypocrisy on the Left and so they are all over the pipeline protest.
The reason people on the Right and Left are betrayed by the Uniparties of R’s and D’s is because they answer to big business instead of to small business and the little people.
Nigel Farage has warned us over and over about the Corporatist system of government we have, don’t you see it.
A month after the pipe is in the ground you won’t see be able to see it.
I’m not a Commie, but I’m not a Corporatist either.
this guy was Sicilian...no joke
No, that wasn’t Charles Bronson (who was Eastern European). I remember that commercial from when I was a kid- we were all shocked to find out later that the actor was Italian.
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