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Cannon Ball, N.D.

Driving near the Sacred Stone protest camp—ground zero of the effort to stop the Dakota Access oil pipeline from crossing the Missouri River—you meet a peculiarly balanced set of restrictions. To the north, the Morton County sheriff, with the help of the North Dakota National Guard, has set up a roadblock. Motorists coming towards the camp from that direction are stopped by armed officers who tell them to reroute around Highway 1806 because of a bridge that has not yet passed a safety inspection.

Motorists approaching the camp from the south, meanwhile, are stopped by self-appointed protest security forces who have kept the dark sunglasses but lost the bulletproof vests. They don't give a reason to the drivers they stop.

Coming down the rolling hills towards the river bank, the camp is bounded by the water on one side and fencing on the other three. Where Highway 1806 passes the camp, the protesters have erected a permanent guardhouse. Cones block off the road, forcing cars that are not allowed into the camp to turn around. At the gate, three burly Native-American men interrogate the occupants of each car. A sign posted behind them warns "no photography." (Most of the journalists allowed to enter are required to have an escort at all times.)

Why do liberal collectivist utopias feel so statist? Waiting in line to enter the camp, I can't help but wonder. At first glance, Sacred Stone combines the misery of a refugee camp with the guarded nature of a dictatorship. One of the men comes up to my window, suspicious of my reasons for coming. I try to appear as naïvely helpful and wonderingly curious as possible and in the end, he decides I can be allowed in.

As I start to walk around the camp, I can't shake the feeling that for all of its claims of community—of solidarity with the Sioux Nation against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and corporate power—the underlying spirit of the camp is one of rules enforced by unspecified, yet unpleasant means.

I've missed the morning orientation meeting for new camp-dwellers, but a large plywood sign clues me in on some of the other rules of the camp: "'isms' have no place here," it warns. "No weapons." For Direct Action Protesters (who volunteer to harass law enforcement on a more intimate level), there are more rules. http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/shall-we-gather-at-the-river/article/2005643

Justin Banks, 29, Arizona, dumps wood ash from cooking fires in a compost pit Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, in the Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp north of Cannon Ball, N.D. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor

The #NoDAPL protesters, supposedly a group of environmentalists out to defend the Earth from an evil pipeline company, are destroying the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land they’re camping on. Even Standing Rock Chairman David Archambault expressed concerns about this in an interview with Vice last month.

“We’re no different than the oil company, if we’re fighting for water,” he said. “What’s going to happen when people leave? Who has to clean it up? Who has to refurbish it? It’s going to be us, the people who live here.”

North Dakota state officials have been concerned about this for a while. “We’ve seen pictures of trenches and the garbage thrown in there. So that’s protecting the land?” Rob Keller, a spokesman for Morton County, told Valerie Richardson at the Washington Times. “And then the snow came in, and I’m sure it’s just a muddy mess now, because that’s river-bottom water, which is silt. It will be a mess.”

Richardson reports that state Department of Health officials contacted the federal government about the problem months ago, but the feds aren’t responding:

Scott A. Radig, director of the state division of waste management, said he sent a letter with photos of protesters dumping and burning waste in pits to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has jurisdiction over the area, but that he has heard nothing back. That was in September.
“They did not respond to us,” said Mr. Radig. “It is federal land, but even though it’s federal land, they still have to follow state laws on state management practices.”

I guess this is more of what President Barack Obama wanted to let “play out.”

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Jim 5805 11253 Holiday	#NoDAPL Environmentalists Trash the Land They’re Camping on While Feds Look the 12/2/2016 7:50:23 PM
	Shall We Gather at the River? The cultural contradictions of the anti-pipeline camp. DEC 12, 2016 \| By ERIN MUNDAHL Cannon Ball, N.D. Driving near the Sacred Stone protest camp—ground zero of the effort to stop the Dakota Access oil pipeline from crossing the Missouri River—you meet a peculiarly balanced set of restrictions. To the north, the Morton County sheriff, with the help of the North Dakota National Guard, has set up a roadblock. Motorists coming towards the camp from that direction are stopped by armed officers who tell them to reroute around Highway 1806 because of a bridge that has not yet passed a safety inspection. Motorists approaching the camp from the south, meanwhile, are stopped by self-appointed protest security forces who have kept the dark sunglasses but lost the bulletproof vests. They don't give a reason to the drivers they stop. Coming down the rolling hills towards the river bank, the camp is bounded by the water on one side and fencing on the other three. Where Highway 1806 passes the camp, the protesters have erected a permanent guardhouse. Cones block off the road, forcing cars that are not allowed into the camp to turn around. At the gate, three burly Native-American men interrogate the occupants of each car. A sign posted behind them warns "no photography." (Most of the journalists allowed to enter are required to have an escort at all times.) Why do liberal collectivist utopias feel so statist? Waiting in line to enter the camp, I can't help but wonder. At first glance, Sacred Stone combines the misery of a refugee camp with the guarded nature of a dictatorship. One of the men comes up to my window, suspicious of my reasons for coming. I try to appear as naïvely helpful and wonderingly curious as possible and in the end, he decides I can be allowed in. As I start to walk around the camp, I can't shake the feeling that for all of its claims of community—of solidarity with the Sioux Nation against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and corporate power—the underlying spirit of the camp is one of rules enforced by unspecified, yet unpleasant means. I've missed the morning orientation meeting for new camp-dwellers, but a large plywood sign clues me in on some of the other rules of the camp: "'isms' have no place here," it warns. "No weapons." For Direct Action Protesters (who volunteer to harass law enforcement on a more intimate level), there are more rules. http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/shall-we-gather-at-the-river/article/2005643 Justin Banks, 29, Arizona, dumps wood ash from cooking fires in a compost pit Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, in the Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp north of Cannon Ball, N.D. Michael Vosburg / Forum Photo Editor The #NoDAPL protesters, supposedly a group of environmentalists out to defend the Earth from an evil pipeline company, are destroying the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land they’re camping on. Even Standing Rock Chairman David Archambault expressed concerns about this in an interview with Vice last month. “We’re no different than the oil company, if we’re fighting for water,” he said. “What’s going to happen when people leave? Who has to clean it up? Who has to refurbish it? It’s going to be us, the people who live here.” North Dakota state officials have been concerned about this for a while. “We’ve seen pictures of trenches and the garbage thrown in there. So that’s protecting the land?” Rob Keller, a spokesman for Morton County, told Valerie Richardson at the Washington Times. “And then the snow came in, and I’m sure it’s just a muddy mess now, because that’s river-bottom water, which is silt. It will be a mess.” Richardson reports that state Department of Health officials contacted the federal government about the problem months ago, but the feds aren’t responding: Scott A. Radig, director of the state division of waste management, said he sent a letter with photos of protesters dumping and burning waste in pits to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has jurisdiction over the area, but that he has heard nothing back. That was in September. “They did not respond to us,” said Mr. Radig. “It is federal land, but even though it’s federal land, they still have to follow state laws on state management practices.” I guess this is more of what President Barack Obama wanted to let “play out.” https://www.sayanythingblog.com/entry/nodapl-protesters-trash-land-theyre-camping-feds-look-way/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium= SayAnythingBlog.com&utm_content=%23NoDAPL+Environmentalists+Trash+the+ Land+They%27re+Camping+on+While+Feds+Look+the+Other+Way
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Myrna 6311 16559 Waynes...	RE: #NoDAPL Environmentalists Trash the Land They’re Camping on While Feds Look the 12/3/2016 3:17:45 AM
	Well I just found this. It makes a lot of sense too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHSbCCNPUNQ
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Myrna 6311 16559 Waynes...	RE: #NoDAPL Environmentalists Trash the Land They’re Camping on While Feds Look the 12/4/2016 2:03:18 AM
	Here is a lady that knows what she is doing, or I think she knows what is what. Tells of how things are. My question is why are the treating people so horrid if they are so in the right. I think some of these things are made up. They have made so many false flags and fake news, I just keep wondering.
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Myrna 6311 16559 Waynes...	RE: #NoDAPL Environmentalists Trash the Land They’re Camping on While Feds Look the 12/4/2016 2:33:29 AM
	More info.
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Jim 5805 11253 Holiday	On the Standing Rock tribe’s Dakota Pipeline Protest ... 12/4/2016 7:01:00 PM
	Myrna read this in it's entirety, these are the facts. Plain and simple English along with the graphics. These people failed to make their voices heard long ago. What they are saying now is simply lies and anarchy. They had their day in court. On the Standing Rock tribe’s Dakota Pipeline Protest ... SCOTT GATES·MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2016 I must state up front ... I am a strong proponent of Native American rights. Too often throughout history America’s early inhabitants have been treated grossly unfairly ... and worse. My initial reaction to hearing about the Standing Rock/Dakota Access Pipeline protest was to support them. But then, as I always try to do I started researching - trying to verify the truth - separate fact from fiction. And as I researched I become more and more disappointed by what I learned. What triggered my concerns, was finding out the tribes claims at the core of the “protest” - that the reservation’s sole water source - the tribes water intake at Fort Yates, several miles downstream from the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) - was threatened ... were not truthful. Numerous times in the early stages the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II made claims similar to this one in a Bismarck Tribune article: "... the tribe argues that consequences would be severe if the 30-inch pipeline carrying 450,000 barrels of oil per day were to leak near the reservation’s water intake ... ” So I began to research further, to try to learn more about the facts and claims .... I started with the Dakota Access Pipeline website. What I found was a detailed, pretty straightforward and transparent source of information. But they also went a step further and offered links directly to the project filings and maps: In a review of the North Dakota filings - directly relevant to the tribes complaints - we can see a picture of detailed review, extensive input and engagement with various affected parties, and detailed historical, cultural, flora and fauna and other reviews. We can see information on the MANY changes made to the route to accommodate concerns raised in input obtained from those willing to give it. What seems missing is any significant involvement and input from the tribe during the 2 year approval process, despite dozens others with far less resources successfully petitioning to intervene, and filing affidavits to get their voices and input heard. The Standing Rock Tribe is not listed as a Petitioner to Intervene and offer an Affidavit. https://www.facebook.com/notes/scott-gates/on-the-standing-rock-tribes-dakota-pipeline-protest-/10154529600627457?hc_location=ufi
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