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Posted on 07/20/2018 12:18:17 PM PDT by rktman
North Dakota has filed a claim against the federal government for $38 million the state spent dealing with the months-long Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protests.
The state claims the often violent protests were the result of negligence by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps failed to enforce the law and keep protesters from setting up illegal campsites on federal land, the state argues.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Turns out RUSSIA was funding the left-wing pipeline protests.
You mean the Democrats were taking money from Russia? Say it ain’t so.
Yes! Next time kick some hippie butt!
They should have just set up a stage a few miles away and had Stormi do her show, as a distration.
“The state claims the often violent protests were the result of negligence by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps failed to enforce the law and keep protesters from setting up illegal campsites on federal land, the state argues.”
This band of Marxists in Army uniforms, should be disbanded, or at least have every civilian project taken from them. Keep them around for the next war, but they should have nothing to do with civilian engineering projects. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, they are “aligned” with the envirowackos and are forever using their fiat to f*ck with private property owners. Here their “shtick” is “wetlands.” Farmers put in stock ponds and then the ACoE declares them “wetlands,” and fines the farmers if they do anything to change them.
There should have been Bury My Ass at Wounded Knee redux
Where’s the cavalry when the Indians are off the reservation?
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The only other major encounter North Dakota had with a large group of hippies took place just a few months before the Woodstock Fair. You might want to look up the "Zip to Zap" for details.
I was still in high school when that took place and our student fees were still paying for it when I attended North Dakota State University some years later. We even talked about variants on the Zip to Zap such as:
Bottom line is that hippies and rural American small towns don't mix well.
Yes, it was my recollection that this was 0bama-era political theater, that was allowed to happen if not outright financed and encouraged by those in his administration or deep state support.
Now the taxpayers will be footing the bill, it seems.
“Now the taxpayers will be footing the bill, it seems.”
We always do.
“””The only other major encounter North Dakota had with a large group of hippies took place just a few months before the Woodstock Fair. You might want to look up the “Zip to Zap” for details.””””””
I was attending Ben Franklin Junior High when that hit. My rebellious hippie neighbor who was an NDSU student went. It was quite the deal.
A few years later his rebellious sister married a Catholic. Also quite the scandal at the time.
In some situations, the state does have the authority. I know at least one land agency, the Forest Service, uses reciprocal agreements with law enforcement agencies (usually at the county sheriff level) so that forest lands in the middle of nowhere can be patrolled by both federal and local law enforcement. I've talked with county mounties before when they've come through the campsites on patrol...
Sioux County, North Dakota is entirely reservation land, so I think a very different situation here.
Well; this was all obama’s doing so take it out of his bank account. Confiscate and sell his fancy $8m house if need be. It’s just a front for his shadow government anyway.
Isn’t it kind of cool to have grown up in a state which is so civilized that you can remember all of the details of this hippie BS nearly a half century later precisely because it is so rare?
The land in question here is Army Corps of Engineers land.
From the article: "The state claims the often violent protests were the result of negligence by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps failed to enforce the law and keep protesters from setting up illegal campsites on federal land, the state argues."
“Those organized protests, launched from large makeshift encampments illegally located on federal lands, involved frequent outbreaks of dangerous, unsanitary, and sometimes life-threatening activity,” North Dakota Attorney General Stenehjem said in a statement.
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