Turns out RUSSIA was funding the left-wing pipeline protests.
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.
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.
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.