Posted on 11/18/2014 11:09:24 AM PST by chajin
The president of a South Dakota-based Native American tribe says it will be an “act of war” if Congress authorizes construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
“We are outraged by the lack of intergovernmental cooperation,” Rosebud Sioux Tribe President Cyril Scott said in a statement.
“We are a sovereign nation and we are not being treated as such,” Scott said in response to Friday’s House vote to approve the project. “We will close our reservation borders to Keystone XL. Authorizing Keystone XL is an act of war against our people.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
That's what happens when you accept Federal $$$$'s and insist on asking permission from the state to open casinos and such. Tribal sovereignty has got to be one of the biggest hoaxes ever pulled off. If you have to ask permission, you aren't "sovereign".
You are a sovereign nation by our indulgence. In any other world, you’d be a defeated nation that had its a$$ handed to it 140 years ago and ceased to exist.
THis is posturing for jobs. Keystone will bring the Sioux shovel-ready jobs... at least more so than Casinos which are not built, and with no access for customers... (unless, the pipeline can be refitted now and then to transport tourists and gamblers).
Well, how about we just go around it?
Bingo! We Have A Winner.
How about we don’t let any gasoline or diesel enter the same reservation?
I keep butting up against the concept of a eugenic solution to the Democrat Problem. It is more attractive every day.
enforce the border, let the reservation become self-sufficient
So Mary Landrieu has declared war on the Sioux?
She must be looking for votes from a different tribe.
The story doesn’t say that the pipeline crosses their reservation. If it doesn’t, I don’t see how the tribe has any standing. The complaint seems to be that the pipeline would affect cosmic harmonies and ethereal treasuries of grace. Tribes don’t have standing in this area. Only EPA has such power. EPA claims the right to regulate anything related to the carbon cycle, the hydrological cycle, and the atmosphere. Psychic pollution must surely be in its purview as well. If we didn’t live under a system of limited government and secure property rights, I would be worried.
The Sioux don’t want shovel ready jobs! Most wouldn’t know what to do with a tool!
The Sioux don’t want shovel ready jobs! Most wouldn’t know what to do with a tool!
Ah, you are obviously a descendant of those lying sons of bitches who broke every treaty with the Native Americans in the past. We are all so glad to have you around, making us so proud of our Nation and its honor to its word.
Been meeting with the White House on a regular basis?
And of all the pipelines in the US, how many cross Sioux lands and how much revenue do hey collect from them? Or are they mad because it does not cross their land and they can not get any revenue form it?
Israel, Puerto Rico, plus many more ... most in the world I suppose.
Where’s my casino ?
“It will be an “act of war” if Congress authorizes construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, Rosebud Sioux Tribe Chief Oil-In-The Face said in a statement.
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