Phyllis Bennis
Yeah; how much Soros money is being spent on this astroturfing? Never mind encouraging more riots.
So much ignorance in that protest. So much appeal to emotion, “it’s freezing and the police are spraying peaceful Protectors with water....” when the facts are hostile trespassers face consequences for illegal and dangerous activities.
Indian artifacts were not an issue until a month ago when someone "found" a stone point supposedly on the right of way, a point which looks suspiciously like a Mississippian culture point form the Ohio river valley.
Another point worth noting is the Obama connection to this protest. David Archambault's sister was one of the longest serving advisors to Obama. Obama made a rather hush hush visit to Standing Rock last year just prior to the onset of the current terrorist activities in the Bismarck area.
If the pipeline is going under ground, how is it disturbing tribal sovereignty? Imminent domain is used to dig the trench. Once the pipe is buried, life goes on above ground as if nothing happened. All this is, is a cover for the true agenda: The derailment of our nation’s pursuit of energy independence. Could this be the subversive efforts of the middle eastern oil cartel?
If I recall correctly, Lake Oahe is man-made! It was created by the construction of the Oahe Dam.
These “sacred burial grounds” arguments from Indians are as ridiculous as they are tiresome. Most Plains Indians didn’t bury their dead. They placed them on scaffolds or even in the crooks of trees. And since the tribes were nomadic, they disposed of their dead where they fell, meaning that pretty much all of the Midwest has some kind of dead Indian relic on it. Are we supposed to consider all that real estate “sacred burial grounds?”
No mention of the corporations that run US policy by owning the politicians. Its the crackers fault....
***the pipeline would harm burial grounds***
Are they burying their dead outside the rez in the ground? In the olden days they used sky burial on a scaffold and had no real burying ground, and while traveling, they would give the old people a bowl of water and some food, then abandon them.
The “Sacred Indian Burial Ground” has been used for years to try and stop various projects across the USA.
Whites from Minnesota are being paid and bussed in to work the protest lines.
TWINKIE has a few drops of American Indian blood from
both sides of my family. If the Injuns had stuck together
instead of fighting and killing each other; the WHITE MAN
could never have defeated them. - Sort of like IF us
DEPLORABLES stick together, this silliness WILL end.