From Task and Purpose:
‘Where Evil Resides’: Veterans ‘Deploy’ To Standing Rock To Engage The Enemy — The US Government
On Dec. 4, if everything goes according to plan, hundreds of veterans will muster at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. The mission: To stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.
“Most civilians who’ve never served in a uniform are gutless worms who’ve never been in a fight in their life,” Wes Clark Jr. declares. “So if we don’t stop it, who will?”
Clark Jr. is one of the most vociferous opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a controversial 1,170-mile project that, if and when it is completed, will shuttle an estimated 470,000 barrels of crude oil every day from North Dakota to Illinois. “It’s immoral, and wrong, and dangerous to us all,” Clark Jr. adds.
He doesn’t fit the traditional tree-hugger mold. He’s not a hippie. Nor is he a member of the Lakota or Dakota tribes, the two Native American group known collectively as the Sioux. He’s a former Army officer and the organizer of an upcoming three-day deployment of U.S. military veterans to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in southern North Dakota, the site of an escalating months-long standoff between law enforcement-backed security contractors and activists that has so far resulted in multiple injuries, more than 500 arrests, and a United Nations investigation of potential human rights abuses.
According to an “operations order” for the planned engagement, posted to social media in mid-November, “First Americans have served in the Unites States Military, defending the soil of our homelands, at a greater percentage than any other group of Americans. There is no other people more deserving of veteran support.”
Good luck and Godspeed! They have a GoFundMe page here: Veterans for Standing Rock #NoDAPL
Obama has to know that this is happening and yet he still allows it to go on - probably one of his bestest buddies is behind the pipeline, Warren Buffett perhaps? A 0.1% bankster anyway.
I'm an employee of Energy Transfer Partners, builders of DAPL. I've personally worked on portions of the pipeline that DAPL will join to deliver crude oil down to the hub in southeast Texas.
The oil is already moving down here from the Dakotas via hundred-car freight trains. This pipeline simply makes that movement safer and more economical.
As for the 'protest', there was no protest until outsiders stepped in, funded by outside interests. Outside interest? Who owns the freight trains that will lose revenue if a pipeline takes over that function.
As for safety, there is little in life as safe as a newly installed pipeline. Compare that to derailed freight trains.
As far as 'peaceful' protests, look into the millions of dollars of equipment ruined by 'protestors' here. It's a different story when the facts come from people who know what's happening as opposed to those whose view only comes from the protest's press releases.
MC