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Posted by Michelle Moquin on September 26th, 2016
**Water is life.
Good morning.
/SB, Abeque, and all the indigenous peoples: Thanks for posting your concerns. I knew very little about this pipeline. However I did more reading and what I have read really concerns me.
Our Native Americans have suffered through so much from the massacre and genocide of 12 million peoples, to robbing them of their lands, to displacement of their children (really, kidnapping!) into foster homes, taking them away from their culture, their language, their traditions and their families.
And now this.
When a young Native American girl says, the oil industry keeps pushing for it because they don’t care about our health and safety. It’s like they think our lives are more expendable than others,’ looking at history, she is correct.
We have built several holocaust museums that condemns Germans. And yet it is another issue to build a museum that confronts our own genocide. There isn’t a museum that confronts the genocide that was perpetrated by our own ancestors towards Native Americans or towards African Americans.
Even in Washington, the Native American museum doesn’t address the genocide but rather a sort of a “historical amnesia”. We have no problem pointing the fingers at others who have done such atrocities, but when it comes to ourselves, when we can’t even examine, not to mention document, who we are and what we have done in our own country, it is truly sickening.
And now this.
Energy Transfer Partners demolished Native American burial grounds damaging irredeemable ancient cairns and stone prayer rings, and attacked the peoples with dogs and pepper spray. Did they even care?
An earlier plan that would cut the pipeline across the Missouri River upstream from Bismarck, North Dakota, was rejected to avoid contaminating the state capital’s water source, yet they had no issue building the pipeline downstream to the present contested crossing, where the Standing Rock Sioux says they’ll be the ones who suffer in the event of a spill.
Considering that from 2012-2013 alone, there were 300 oil pipeline breaks in the state of North Dakota, my guess is the Native Americans have every right to be concerned over the safety of their water, and their livelihood, and every right to want to protect their land.
It’s obvious that the livelihood of the Native Americans aren’t valued as much as whites when you consider their horrific past and present day treatment.
Lawrence O’Donnell speaks well to this:
I know I’m digressing here but, like the murders of African American men, and our shouts of “Black Lives Matter,” cops killing blacks is the modern day lynching, could this pipeline be the modern day genocide? Ok before you go off on me, because I know that sounds radical and far-fetched – and I don’t mean to sound like a fear-monger, but biological warfare was used against the Native Americans in the past.
Yes, genocide may not be intentional but after what happened in Flint Michigan (A 2011 study on the Flint River found it would have to be treated with an anti-corrosive agent for it to be considered as a safe source for drinking water. Adding that agent would have cost about $100 a day, and experts say 90% of the problems with Flint’s water would have been avoided.), my feeling is, nothing is beyond the white man and the atrocities he will commit to his fellow humans when money is the motivating factor. The way OTWs are grossly and continuously mistreated in this country, I wouldn’t throw that question into the trash just yet.
Isn’t it about time we treated our Native Americans with the respect, care, and humaneness that they deserve? Like all OTWs who don’t see the light of justice, my heart goes out to them. I stand in support of them with them.
Here’s a recent write from the Huff Po:
The Super Twisted History Of The Dakota Access Pipeline
Archaeologists from institutions including the Smithsonian and Chicago’s Field Museum joined opposition to Energy Transfer Partners’ project this week, accusing it of destroying burial grounds.
Completion of the Dakota Access oil pipeline seemed almost inevitable. But then the Obama administration stepped in this month and offered a respite to the medley of Native Americans, environmentalists and Midwestern landowners who oppose it.
Three federal departments announced that work would stop on a pivotal section of the 1,172-mile pipeline in North Dakota while they second-guessed how the Army Corps of Engineers approved most of the project in July. The move was applauded by critics, who say the pipeline could pollute drinking water from the Missouri River and destroy land that’s culturally important to Native Americans. Many also object to the energy company acquiring land from family farmers in Iowa via eminent domain.
The controversy stems from a series of government decisions since 2014, when Energy Transfer Partners announced a plan to carry 570,000 barrels of crude per day from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to existing infrastructure in Illinois. A look now at those choices explains why thousands demonstrated against the pipeline and dozens were arrested near the Standing Rock Sioux’s reservation and in Iowa in the summer.
“They’ve been using backdoor process to get the pipeline approved,” said Dallas Goldtooth, an activist with the Indigenous Environmental Network. “The antiquated permitting process was not designed for mega fossil fuels projects.”
New pipeline opponents emerged this week, when archaeologists from the Smithsonian, Chicago’s Filed Museum and other institutions wrote a letter to President Barack Obama this week. The letter criticized the Energy Transfer Partners’ “recent destruction” of Sioux burial grounds.
But construction rushes ahead, apart from a section near an encampment of hundreds of Native American protesters. It stands at 60 percent complete, according to a memo from Energy Transfer Partners CEO Kelcy Warren to employees this month.
Critics say the following moves explain why the pipeline looks to them like an environmental hazard and a government boondoggle.
The Dakota Access Pipeline would stretch 1172 miles, from North Dakota oil fields to an existing Illinois pipeline.
Oil Spills, Climate Change Concerns
Critics say that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers used a lenient environmental review that didn’t adequately examine the potential for oil spills or the impact on climate change.
Getting the federal agency’s approval was essential because the pipeline would cross its rivers and waterways 202 times.
The Army Corps granted permission to an environmental assessment relied on skewed data from Energy Transfer Partners, according to attorney Carolyn Raffensperger. The assessment made alternatives to the pipeline, such as using railroads to move the oil, which sound costlier and it came to other conclusions that underestimated the environmental risks, said Raffensperger.
Pipeline spills happen nearly every day in the U.S., federal data shows. The environmental assessment didn’t address what damage a Dakota Access leak could cause, Raffensperger said.
“The approval process for pipelines is fatally flawed,” said Raffensperger, who’s litigating against the pipeline’s use of eminent domain in Iowa.
Critics argue the pipeline should have been vetted through a more rigorous environmental impact statement. The Army Corps says on its website that option would only be available if the environmental assessment had turned up anything troubling.
“The [agency] drafted an Environmental Assessment) to determine if the placement and operation and maintenance of the pipeline on federal real property interests have potential to cause significant environmental effects,” it states. “If there is such potential, the [Army Corps] will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement.”
The Army Corps has shown some concern for negative consequences if hazardous materials were to get loose elsewhere.
It rejected an earlier route that would cut across the Missouri River upstream from Bismarck, North Dakota, partly to avoid the risk of contaminating the state capital’s water source. But it was remapped downstream to the present contested crossing, where the Standing Rock Sioux says they’ll be the ones who suffer in the event of a spill.
“We have designed the state-of-the-art Dakota Access pipeline as a safer and more efficient method of transporting crude oil than the alternatives being used today, namely rail and truck,” said Energy Transfer Partners CEO Kelcy Warren in a memo to employees last week that the company released to the press.
Click over to watch the video:
‘Loophole’ Speeds Up Project
Out of all the local, state and federal agencies with some jurisdiction over the project, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had the most influential input, although only 37 miles of pipeline would exist inside its territory. Its approval came last in the review process.
Sierra Club lawyer Doug Hayes said the Army Corps exploited “a loophole” opened by Obama’s energy priorities to push the pipeline through the review process. Hayes is litigating against the use of eminent domain to seize property from land owners along the pipeline’s route in Iowa.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers subjected the pipeline to what’s called the Nationwide Permit 12 process and narrowly looked at “several hundred” waterways crossing essentially as independent projects, rather than judging it as one, massive structure, Hayes said. This permit program was designed for small structures like boat ramps and mooring buoys that affect fewer than half an acre of the Corps’ jurisdiction.
“As far as we can tell, it was only used for truly minor pipeline projects” until Obama called for the expedited approval of the Keystone XL pipeline in 2012, he said.
The project should have been subjected to what’s known as a 404 permit, a part of the Clean Water Act that considers the impact from projects like airports, dams and mining exploration, according to Hayes and other opponents.
The Army Corps declined to answer The Huffington Post’s queries about the pipeline because of ongoing litigation, but material on its website said the agency could only evaluate the sections on its land, rather than the pipeline in its entirety.
“For this project, [the Army Corps] has jurisdiction over a very small portion of the overall pipeline and may not regulate where it does not have jurisdiction,” the site post states.
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has accused Energy Transfer Partners of deliberately destroying important artifacts, including graves shortly after historical sites were identified.
3 Federal Agencies Called Out The Army Corps
Long before the protesters garnered the support of celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio and Pharrell Williams, three government offices expressed dismay at the Army Corps’ decision making.
The Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation in March wrote separate letters raising the possibility of water contamination and destruction of historic sites in terms echoing the Standing Rock Sioux, The Associated Press reported in April.
They were concerned that tribes along the route had not been properly consulted and called on the Army Corps to go ahead with a formal environmental impact statement.
Those fears were realized earlier in September, according to the Standing Rock Sioux, who accused the company of deliberately destroying important artifacts, including graves shortly after the historical sites were identified.
Protesters entered the company’s land in response, where security guards reportedly used pepper spray and dogs to disperse them.
“They went out of their way to desecrate this land,” said Allison Renville, who was at the protest camp that day and grew up on the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate reservation in South Dakota. “People were really upset. We were kind of shocked that it was even happening.”
Energy Transfer Partners insists that it is culturally sensitive to what might be underground and has denied encountering anything significant. The company has also claimed that protesters have attacked its workers, though spokeswoman Vicki Granado refused to provide specifics of any alleged altercation “for security reasons.”
The company’s chief executive wrote in a memo that multiple archaeological studies “found no sacred items along the route.” Environmental worries are likewise overhyped too, he wrote, as other pipelines crisscross the region. There are 25 crude oil and natural gas pipelines in North Dakota, according to the state’s pipeline authority.
Farmers’ Land Taken for Pipeline
In Iowa, protesters have fumed over the state’s use of eminent domain to force landowners to sell land that Energy Transfer Partners needs to build the pipeline. Police arrested more than 40 demonstrators for alleged trespassing at a construction site on Sept. 17.
Farmland cannot be seized through eminent domain in the state, attorneys said, unless it’s for a project with a public benefit like a highway or sewer line. Despite opposition, the Iowa Utilities Board in March determined that “the proposed pipeline will promote the public convenience and necessity.”
Among the roughly two dozen property owners at the time fighting the eminent domain order were a man trying to preserve land in his family since 1898, a family of turkey farmers and a woman who grows crops like blueberries, rhubarb and asparagus.
“We do not think there’s any public benefit from this at all,” said Kari Carney, executive director of 1000 Friends of Iowa. “The process was really sort of rammed through.”
Energy Transfer Partners claims that the pipeline will annually generate $129 million in property and income taxes.
As a financial precaution, the Iowa Utilities Board said its approval was contingent on the pipeline’s parent companies, which also includes Sunoco Logistics and Phillips 66, to put up money in the event the pipeline causes an emergency in Iowa.
An Iowa Utilities Board spokesman declined to comment due to ongoing litigation.
The next steps
Though the Obama administration froze work on one section of the project near the Standing Rock Sioux, construction continues elsewhere as much of the route is on private land.
Other tribes have joined the Standing Rock Sioux, who have a lawsuit pending against the Army Corps over the approval process. Some Iowa landowners have sued the state for its use of eminent domain.
The wildcard may be what decision the Obama administration reaches. Though the president was earlier a proponent of the Keystone XL pipeline, he rejected it last year. The statement the Department of Justice, the Army and the Department of Interior issued last week announcing work would not proceed near the tribe raised the question of whether the administration has undergone a transformation on projects like this.
“This case has highlighted the need for a serious discussion on whether there should be nationwide reform with respect to considering tribes’ views on these types of infrastructure projects,” the joint statement said.
If the pipeline comes to fruition, Energy Transfer Partners stands to reap huge benefits as other companies have abandoned plans for competing pipelines in the area.
“We got so lucky,” CEO Kelcy Warren told Bloomberg last year. “All of our competition vaporized.”
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September 26th, 2016 at 12:41 pm
About the debate tonight, “MORE AMERICANS EXPECTED TO SELF-MEDICATE THAN FOR ANY OTHER DEBATE IN HISTORY”
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/more-americans-expected-to-self-medicate-than-for-any-other-debate-in-history
September 26th, 2016 at 2:47 pm
Michelle, thank you so much for posting about this sickening situation, and doing such fine research to report it to everyone. And you are correct. Although the N. dakota protest is temporarily on pause, the company is tearing up Texas today.
On a positive note, if that can even be said in any way with this travesty of justice, several Native Hawaiians who were active in the protests against the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii have gone to North Dakota to show solidarity.
The UN also came out today condemning the US:
“The U.S. authorities should fully protect and facilitate the right to freedom of peaceful assembly of indigenous peoples, which plays a key role in empowering their ability to claim other rights.”
According to Tom Goldtooth, the director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, “The UN Expert got it right.”
“What the U.S. calls consultation is not consultation but a statement telling people what they’re doing after millions of dollars have been invested, painting Indigenous Peoples as spoilers. The right of free, prior, and informed consent begins prior to the planning process, not when their bulldozers are at your doorstep.”
Tauli-Corpuz’s statement was endorsed by seven other U.N. experts, including Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, Léo Heller; Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, John H. Knox; and Special Rapporteur on cultural rights, Karima Bennoune.
My hopes are the Great Spirit will prevail and shut down this pipeline before an environmental catastrophe can occur.
Thanks again, Michelle.
/SB
September 26th, 2016 at 4:32 pm
The video won’t download but I’ll keep trying meanwhile….
/SB now I get why you were so adamant about Mischa posting about this, I’ll admit it caught my eye but I read a lot, research a lot and just didn’t have the personal bandwidth to include this but it is so important…we white folks just can’t seem to muster up compassion for anyone or anything that revolves around making money.
I like the blame to Obama, nice set up but it’s bunk, he never approved moving like a bull in a china shop through sacred territory and that comment above has it right, this is part of what’s called PLANNING you don’t do this after the fact. But they likely did or would ignored their findings anyway.
We’ve segregated native americans since we landed here, ‘giving them’ their own land and leaving most in areas where it’s difficult to make money. Poverty stricken people in the US get no say usually so I’m hoping they continue to fight the fight.
A few key points in my eyes (‘kidnapping’ caught my eye so I went back to read it, as a mother I had to):
* the Feds pay thousands for to the state for every child it takes
* you can make bogus claims as to why they were taken but it will minimize the population and putting them in white homes will minimize their ties to their heritage and their own families. (Would like to know the grounds on which they are taken, the story indicated this one woman’s plight was based on hearsay from people who didn’t like the family?!)
* displacing people is one thing via ‘eminent domain’ desecrating tribal land is another, but that CEO could care less and anyone else on that oil/money train
It’s sickening.
Glad I’m informed now. Not sure what I can do about it but thank you for educating on the topic.
I hope I can catch debates on YouTube after the fact bc I won’t see it here. That #1 comment is funny but kind of sad at same time.
Luv, Zen Lill
September 26th, 2016 at 5:24 pm
Actually Zen Lill Obama’s record does include support for the pipeline. And although he did move to delay the DAPL Obama green lighted two more pipelines on Native Land.
In May, the federal government quietly approved permits for two Texas pipelines — the Trans-Pecos and Comanche Trail Pipelines — also owned by Energy Transfer Partners. This action and related moves will ensure that U.S. fracked gas will be flooding the energy grid in Mexico.
The Dakota Access Pipeline is also set to carry oil obtained via hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), but in the northern U.S., from North Dakota’s Bakken Shale Formation through several Great Plains states to Illinois.
Within a two-week span in May 2016, as the Sacred Stone Camp was getting off the ground as the center of protests, the U.S.Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued presidential permits for the Trans-Pecos and Comanche Trail Pipelines. Together, the pipelines will take natural gas obtained from fracking in Texas’ Permian Basin and ship it in different directions across the U.S.-Mexico border, with both starting at the Waha Oil Field.
It’s outrageous that not only do they tromp on tribes rights they have the audacity I name their pipelines w Indian names !
Don’t look for Hilary to address this tonight. It’s too touchy w the public and she has quietly stood by and supported the DAPL
/SB
September 26th, 2016 at 6:11 pm
/SB I saw that in the article but thought it was after it was realized it would go through sacred territory. Disappointed. Agree Hilary won’t be touching on this tonight. Thanks for clarifying. ~ ZL
September 26th, 2016 at 7:49 pm
During the debate tonight Hillary was discussing DTs tax returns that were released at one time. They showed he paid no taxes. He proudly stood there and said paying no taxes made him smart. How unAmerican can you get ?! How does he think shit gets paid for. ? This shows clearly that he will not work for the benefit of the Americsn people. He’s not doing it now. He can complain about our infrastructure needing repairs – if he Amd others like him had paid their share of taxes maybe we might not be stuck with a crumbling infrastructure. . He clearly feels he is better than the average citizen and he could give a shit about any of us.
/SB
September 26th, 2016 at 8:27 pm
JBGS#1, why would anyone who cared about their country want to “self medicate?”
This was the first opportunity for voting citizens to see what was up to lead this nation.
Only those who were closed minded and would not change their minds regardless of how their candidate performed needed to self medicate.
September 26th, 2016 at 8:33 pm
Thank you Social Butterfly for supporting our cause. We couldn’t make a dent in the conscious of this country without people like you.
September 26th, 2016 at 8:35 pm
This country is in two different camps. One is voting color and the other issues. Donald will win some of those from the issue camp, but Hilary will win NONE of those in the color camp.
September 26th, 2016 at 9:02 pm
Hilary wiped the floor with his ass. But many of my family and friends are voting for Trump because to them he represents keeping the OTW from attaining equality with us privileged whites.
To hell with the security of the country and the economy. Look what happened when we voted Bush in. We got Iraq, and a financial melt down.
But have we whites learned anything from that? No, because the only thing that matters to most whites is that they stay on top.
September 26th, 2016 at 9:19 pm
What pissed me off is why didn’t anyone pose the question – why it is necessary for the black person to produce his birth certification when none of the other 43 white men before him had to.
I am livid that the MSM hasn’t raised the issue of WHY does the black man need to wait until the white boy says he is legitimate?
That is why white racist thugs with badges feel they can murder unarmed blacks with impunity.
September 26th, 2016 at 9:23 pm
Social Butterfly#6, lowlifes only want others to pay taxes.
September 26th, 2016 at 9:37 pm
Donald Trump fails in the one way that really matters in debates: by confirming, before people’s eyes, doubts they already had.
Unfortunately, those that are voting color will not be affected.
September 26th, 2016 at 10:02 pm
Olga#10, this working taxpayer is checking out too.
PRESIDENT TRUMP will make America great again!
September 26th, 2016 at 10:02 pm
hitlary wore red because that is the color inmates wear at the prison she is going to after the election.
September 26th, 2016 at 10:03 pm
I seriously doubt that Hillary won over any of the undecided millennials who will have to fight in and pay for those wars she’s trying to get us into.
September 26th, 2016 at 10:04 pm
It’s great that with Trump and Trumpsters facts don’t come into play at all.
Keep it light, easy and emotional. Don’t burden your brain with useless details.
NAFTA? Negotiated by George HW Bush and the GOP Congress… with help from Great American Companies… back when America Was Great, prior to 1992.
Clinton (Bill) just rubber stamped it, everybody loved the giant sucking sound, and nobody noticed the jobs moving to Mexico… 24 YEARS AGO.
Meh.
September 26th, 2016 at 10:04 pm
Trump says “”They gave me a defective mic!” he told reporters. “[I] wonder, was that on purpose?”
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/donald-trump-microphone-debate-228754#ixzz4LQduBBrY
September 26th, 2016 at 10:06 pm
If his people had bothered to note, it happened to Hillary’s mic too. They kept dropping out
September 26th, 2016 at 10:06 pm
Those who want war with Russia and don’t really care about jobs would think Hillary won. Hillary showed herself yet again to be a war monger. She has no proof of Russia’s hacking but she’s prepared to go to war with them for it.
September 26th, 2016 at 10:07 pm
She’ll be knitting sweaters in a few months and the world will be safe with PRESIDENT TRUMP at the helm.
September 26th, 2016 at 10:07 pm
One of my favorite hitlary lies was when she started talking about mandatory min sentences and how they have been used to imprison minorities. Do you know when those mandatory mins started? UNDER BILLY BOB back in the 90′s. What a despicable, lying witch.
September 26th, 2016 at 10:08 pm
drumpf took care of Hillary just like he did to the Prez of Mexico when he told him “Mexico will pay for the wall”, when they met face to face !
Make America Grate Again !
September 26th, 2016 at 10:09 pm
Hillary just looked like the big war monger she is. She is doing all she can to rekindle the Cold War with Russia and is threatening war over hacking she thinks they did.
Of course spoiled brat Chelsea won’t be going to fight in any of Hillary’s wars.
September 26th, 2016 at 10:09 pm
Outside of the Clinton News Network, everyone know Trump won and won big. The drudge report, politico,fox news all showed Trump winning by more than 60 percent. This race is OVER. Get ready to say President Trump. :)
September 26th, 2016 at 10:12 pm
hitlary prepped for an entire week and accomplished nothing. PRESIDENT TRUMP did next to nothing and still cleaned her clock. You tell me who is fit to lead this country?
September 26th, 2016 at 10:14 pm
Hillry sounded mean and ugly. SHe reaked of evil. Maybe she really is Satan’s bribe? Trump wasted 90% of his allotted time warding off dishonest attacks by Clinton. She would blather about her “vision”, without stating a police, and deliver something outlandish a Trump. Trump would make faces or drink water and jump into whatever time he was allotted answering the slander. Just based on appearances, Clinton sounded mean as a snake, while Trump came off as easily distracted and thin skinned
September 26th, 2016 at 10:16 pm
Curtis#26, Trump looked like an oaf! He looked like an easily distracted child. Clinton had a memorized list of slanderous charges, which she tossed into the middle of what middless drivel she was muttering. Trump took the bait and blew his entire allotted time trying to “explain” himself.
A good example. Trump asked for the release of transcripts of Hillary’s Wall Street speeches. Hillary answered by demanding Trump’s tax returns and charged that he paid no taxes while small animals and children starved to dealh becasue of that and, somehow, deflty changed the release to her emails.
It was brilliantly done. My best freind, truly undecided, provided the only light in this miserable night by saying that Hillary sounded and looked “mean, untrustworthy and downright evil”. She thought Trump sounded like one of her kindergarten students with ADD.
September 26th, 2016 at 10:17 pm
We will see next time. My bet is that he will be advised to not take it easy on Hillary the next time. He showed compassion for her being ill. Had he attacked her, you would be screaming misogyny. Poor picked-on little thing.
September 26th, 2016 at 10:18 pm
Is she the won who interrupted and shouted over the debate opponent in an inconsiderate manner?
September 26th, 2016 at 10:18 pm
In every general election since 1960, more women have voted than men. So yes, keep disrespecting women. It’s a winning strategy.
September 26th, 2016 at 10:19 pm
I get it now. You were one of the people saying these things in the Trump Rally video:
“Build the wall. F* * *k those dirty b e a n e r s.”
“Hang the b ! * * h.”
“F* * *k Islam. God Bless Donald Trump!”
“F* * *k that n ! * * * r!”
“Get out of here, you F @ g!”
“Send them b @ s *–ds back!”
“Hillary is a w h 0re!”
“Hillary needs to get her a $ $ spanked!”
“B! * * h!F – * * you, Hillary!”
“Trump the b ! * < h!Kill her
September 27th, 2016 at 5:37 am
Exit polls show round one went to Clinton.
September 27th, 2016 at 7:46 am
One has talked for the majority of the time but said NOTHING!! The other hasn’t had much time to talk but when she does, says it all.
September 27th, 2016 at 7:57 am
White people want you to stand for the national anthem, but it their kids were being murdered by the police they not only wouldn’t stand they would expect the rest of us not to stand.
This is the most hypocritical race on the planet and it doesn’t help that it is the most conscious less too.
Considering how it is the only race to have use germ warfare, committed mass enslavement in dozens of countries for centuries, committed genocide on a level beyond the imagination, it is ironic that they also want to claim a special affiliation with religious morality.
If these creatures are an example of what be religious, godly, or pious, I’m for Satanism, damn certain it couldn’t be any worse.
September 27th, 2016 at 7:58 am
If these creatures are an example of what being religious, godly, or pious leads to, I’m for Satanism, damn certain it couldn’t be any worse.
September 27th, 2016 at 8:07 am
It does not matter what we tell our black kids. The police are trying to keep you off balance. They are yelling cammands to keep you from thinking. Like in the “drop the gun,” when you don’t have a gun.
if you are allowed to think you may be able to plan something which they don’t want. This sounds like good policing but it really is a trap.
The laws say that in these encounters if you do not perform perfectly the police are allowed to kill you. They can then say they feared for their lives because you did not comply exactly with their commands.
Our black children are being required to act perfectly while the police are trained to prevent them from doing so. And if our children do not act perfectly then the law says the racist, thug with a badge can kill them. It is that simple and so is the solution.
Make the police have to attempt to deescalate every situation. If a person is killed by the police the police MUST prove beyound a shadow of a doubt that the killing had to be done.
No more “I feared for my life” killings. Sick racist, bought and paid for 5 on SCOTUS devised a new way for white america to last a little longer on the top by allowing their thugs with badges to terrorize the one race that doesn’t stand for their bullshit.
I’m for honor that Black Saints wall with Micah Xavier Johnson, 3, and Gavin Eugene Long, 29. Right now it seems the only real solution to white america’s refusal to rein in their dogs.
September 27th, 2016 at 8:36 am
Chris Christie, on MSNBC, just said that we shouldn’t believe fact-checkers, because “they have an agenda.” Yes. It is to check facts, dude.
September 27th, 2016 at 8:37 am
Six thousand people liked this post:
“Hopefully, L. Holt is out of a job. All he had to do was cut Trump off at the proper time and not let him interrupt and he couldn’t do it. Every bartender in America could have done his job.”
September 27th, 2016 at 8:38 am
Howard Dean just accused Trump of doing cocaine. Hell, everyone was thinking it
September 27th, 2016 at 8:40 am
The best part Jez, was Dean’s quote was also on during the debate! There’s some screen shots of it via twitter if you can find it. This is another time I wish one would post a graphic here. Too funny.
September 27th, 2016 at 8:58 am
and Betty White (god, I love her) tweeted: If you stay in a Trump hotel, refuse to pay. Say that you weren’t satisfied. He said that’s cool.