Posted on 12/03/2016 1:03:35 PM PST by onyx
The son of retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark heads a veterans’ group committed to preventing law enforcement from evacuating Dakota Access Pipeline protesters. The group plans to arrive at the encampment Sunday.
The group will supplement the few veterans who already arrived at one of the encampments earlier in the week and and demanded that law enforcement lay down their firearms.
Wesley “Wes” Clark Jr. and former U.S. Marine Michael Wood Jr. lead Veterans Stand for Standing Rock. Clark’s father was also a 2004 Democratic presidential primary candidate.
The younger Clark graduated from Georgetown University and served four years in the Army before moving to Hollywood to pursue a writing career. (He does not appear to have any screenwriting credits in his 20-year career.)
Clark, whose Facebook page lists his interests as “history, music, gaming, futurology, foreign affairs, sex and saving the planet,” is a climate activist who protests against oil companies .Law enforcement claims he “supports activists who commit crimes to stop oil pipelines, which he believes is supported by his Christian beliefs.”
He claims the Standing Rock protests are more about issues related to clean water and the U.S. Government acknowledging a promise to pay the tribe revenue created by a river dam. Clark has claimed he would “instantly” turn over to police any protesters committing violence, but then claimed it’s the police who are instigating violence.
However, the North Dakota Veterans Coordinating Council sent a letter to the “Veterans Stand for Standing Rock” group asking them not to go to the southern part of the state where the protest camps are located, the Associated Press reported, because tension would likely increase and place a burden on law enforcement, Council president Russ Stabler said.
Stabler, who said that the Council has no opinion on the pipeline, also said the veterans coming to Standing Rock have been misinformed and should not be advancing a movement that has “broken laws, destroyed property and attacked law enforcement.”story continues
Very true.
[ Weasley Clark ]
Hehehehehehehehe.......
I dunno, man. As freakin’ gullible as these leftards are I’ve at times been SORELY tempted to set up some sort of fake leftist sucker operation I can run for beer money; maybe even make my car payment — like selling solar panels, but more accessible to the average welfare recipient. Bet you could make bank if you figured a way to out-faux your neighborhood Fauxkota and nick off his followers.
I’m sure the “vets” are morons that got kicked out of boot camp or got busted out of tech school for underage drinking. In the world of the MSM, anybody that walked past the recruiting station is a veteran. I’m betting that over 90% of the Homeless Veterans never went anywhere near the military, either.
And his daddy is a fairy that appeared on the cover of The Advocate magazine. These people have problems.
So what’s the status of the unceded land?
So what’s the status of the unceded land?
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Good question. I don’t know the answer but that is the point of contention. The Indians claim they still have the land under Treaties of the past.
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Mekasi Camp-Horinek, an Oceti Sakowin camp coordinator states, “Today, the Oceti Sakowin has
enacted eminent domain on DAPL lands, claiming 1851 treaty rights. This is unceded land. Highway
1806 as of this point is blockaded. We will be occupying this land and staying here until this
pipeline is permanently stopped. We need bodies and we need people who are trained in non-violent
direct action. We are still staying nonviolent and we are still staying peaceful.”
Joye Braun, Indigenous Environmental Network organizer states, “We have never ceded this land.
If DAPL can go through and claim eminent domain on landowners and Native peoples on their
own land, then we as sovereign nations can then declare eminent domain on our own aboriginal
homeland. We are here to protect the burial sites here. Highway 1806 has become the no surrender line.”
Ladonna Bravebull Allard, Sacred Stone Camp, “We stand for the water, we stand on our treaties,
we stand for unci maka—we stand and face the storm.”
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I knew it. Think the claim is a bit overblown, but still, why is it that liberals like Wesley Clark and Hillary Clinton that are the most gung ho for fighting the Russians? Even now you’ve got butthurt lefties like the remainers in the UK moaning about how Brexit ‘benefits Putin’ and disappointed Hillary supporters keep moaning about Trump wanting a ‘constructive’ relationship with him. Weird.
Ah,to be in North Dakota in December!
Good post. My dad was in the AF and he use to say the same thing. (i.e. While it is appropriate to respect their service, everyone who served is not a fricken hero. Audie Murphy and Sgt York - now those guys were heros.)
These idiot protestors need the Rachel Corrie treatment (i.e. meet Mr. bulldozer.)
Like father, like son, a code-pick dipsh*t.
That’s fine. As long as they don’t use fossil fuels to get there or to sty warm I won’t consider him and all the others a bunch of hypocrite, useful idiots.
Why are left-wing veterans so interested in this?
So what is old Weasel-ly up to these days?
LOL!
Come on.
It was actually British General Mike Jackson.
I remember that from reporting at the time.
Wasn’t Wesley Clark fired from his NATO job. Something about credibility.
“:^)
Hey! I call em as I see em!
Got a problem with that?
“:^)
< /justkidding >
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