Over 20 Water Protectors Arrested At Peaceful Sacred Stone Prayer Ceremony
First a blockade:
According to the independent journalism outfit Unicorn Riot, which has been reporting live on the Dakota Access protest from the camps, after praying at the second site, "a large amount of police vehicles arrived and blockaded the only exit on the public road leading to the DAPL work site."
Then a seriously militarized police raid:
Unicorn Riot continued:
Dozens of militarized police with shotguns appeared with a Bearcat armored vehicle as well as a [Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle, also known as an MRAP]. The Bearcat was also brought out by police at yesterday’s action, but the MRAP, a larger tan colored armored vehicle, had not been seen at any DAPL sites until today.
After blockading the exit points, police vehicles sped across open fields towards the crowd of protectors as they left the site. Several arrests were made, as police brandished loaded shotguns, and assault rifles. The latest information we gathered is that there were up to 21 arrests.
A Lakota grandmother speaks truth to power:
In the following video, posted on by the Red Warrior Camp, a Sacangua Lakota grandmother recalls the raid. "The next thing i knew there were like 40 police and they were all dressed in riot gear," she said. "I've never in my life seen a gun in real life and I've never had a gun pointed at me and I went into shock. I think everybody went into shock."
Watch video at Common Dreams:
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/29/over-20-arrested-after-milit...
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What happened to them is wrong on so many levels
Obama as usual is protecting the oil companies and the banks that are installing this pipeline. He told the construction company to 'voluntary' to stop construction.
Seriously? Voluntary, as in please?
The cops that are doing the bidding of the companies aren't seeing the big picture.
One day they will have to decide to do this to their friends and family members if they too get out of line and then when they have finished the jobs then they too will find themselves in the line of fire because the powers that be will fire them and hire mercenaries.
Obama is going to go down as one of the worst presidents ever because he's rolled over for the elites and corporations. Around the world and in this country.
My disgust for him is beyond words!
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
I Hear Ya Snoopydawg
Obama's right wing pivot in the final year of a dismal two term Presidency has been despicable. He's moved to the right of the Blue Dog Dems and the Republican Party.
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
His right wing pivot in his FINAL two years?
Look at all the programs he continued that Bush started.
Obama ran on a progressive platform and even before he took office he put the same people in his cabinet that were responsible for the global economic crisis.
I'm not sure of any progressive legislation that he's passed.
He has hidden behind the republicans obstructionism his entire terms.
BP was told not to use corexit and did they stop using it? Hell no, they did what they damned well wanted to do. And the corexit wasn't just sprayed over the ocean, but over land, people and waterways.
People are sick and dying heinous deaths because of his weakness in standing up to BP.
I could go on all night, but most of us know that he's one of the worst presidents ever!
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
If I May Bridge You Two
What Obama has been doing the last two years of his tenure is to become MORE OPEN about his reich-wing leanings. He no longer pretends to be a progressive, and I don't recall him even using the descriptive lately - except to put us down. Remember all his plaintive bleating about his Lily Ledbetter law? Where did THAT go? I don't hear anyone bragging about that piece of crap!
Obama's record backs Snoopydawg. Obama's stage presence and public demeanor backs Meteor Man
edited to give Meteor Man proper recognition.
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.
I agree with you and thank MM for posting this which many
of us might have missed.
The polluters get thugs and the taxpayers pay for them.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Obama, one of the
Obama, one of the construction team for the Corporate States of Oligarchia and the corporate enforcers.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
Yet another backstab by the "progressive Obama admin"
Never thought I could hate Democrats as much as I hate Rapepublicans.
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
One of the first instances
of using an ex-military MRAP against unarmed American citizens.
This is terrorism. The pipeline company is commiting terrorism. The banks that fund them are funding terrorism. Domestic Terrorism.
Where are all the God and Country Republican Conservatives outraged at this violation of our civil rights? I would at least expect the old tea partiers to bitch about how big goverment is getting.
Hell, the Birchers should be bitchin' the loudest.
Crickets.
This stuff effects all of us. All 99% of us. Republicans, Democrats, of all stripes, Independents, Greens, men, women, black, white, and every color in between.
We all agree, militarization of our domestic law enforcement is unacceptable.
Yet there is nothing we can do.
When will an Apache gunship become standard issue?
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Thank-you earthling1
One of the first uses of an ex-military MWRAP? Holy shit! Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle:
https://www.google.com/search?q=mrap&oq=mwrap&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l3.920...
I had no idea what an MWRAP was when I posted the story. How many of these behemoths were given to American Police Terrorist Departments? God help us all.
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn