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originally posted by: TinfoilTP
You go through local government to protest any projects that their districts oversee. There are plenty of cases where local opposition to projects taken through legal avenues have succeeded. Across the whole nation people successfully opposed having nuclear waste sites or even having nuclear waste travel by rail through their districts. This wasn't done by mobbing security or taking up terrorist tactics.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hasn't changed its position in the underlying lawsuit, which was filed by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The agency still believes it fulfilled its duty to consult with the tribe about the impacts of the controversial pipeline on cultural and historic sites.
However, since the matter remains of great public interest, the Obama administration believes a temporary restraining order is warranted against Dakota Access LLC, the Department of Justice said in a court filing on Monday. Construction near the #NoDAPL resistance camps has been the "subject of several recent confrontations," government attorneys wrote, including one on Saturday in which several people -- a pregnant woman and a young girl among them -- were injured in a clash with private security guards working for the pipeline partnership.
"The Corps acknowledges that the public interest would be served by preserving peace near Lake Oahe until the court can render its well-considered opinion on plaintiff's motion for preliminary injunction," government attorneys wrote in the short filing. "The Corps therefore does not oppose this short and discrete temporary restraining order."
In a footnote, the Obama administration also said the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe's concerns about Dakota Access "engaging with or antagonizing" the #NoDAPL resisters warranted a restraining order.
"Although this matter is outside the scope of this lawsuit, the Corps would not oppose a temporary restraining order on this basis in the interest of public safety," the filing stated.
You're Damn right bro!
originally posted by: buster2010
a reply to: TinfoilTP
Take human shields of women and children into a hostile confrontation.
Yes people standing there with signs is hostile.
The pipeline needs security,
Apparently the protesters need it more.
these are pre terror attacks designed to break down security so that infrastructure can be sabotaged at any time.
Not wanting a pipeline that threatens their way of life is a pre terror attack?
Those Indian groups need to be thoroughly investigated to ascertain what foreign enemy influence they have succumbed to.
The Mercs should be investigated along with the oil companies they are working for. The dogs should have been shot when they attacked and their handlers beaten with in an inch of their life.
originally posted by: Aazadan
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
You go through local government to protest any projects that their districts oversee. There are plenty of cases where local opposition to projects taken through legal avenues have succeeded. Across the whole nation people successfully opposed having nuclear waste sites or even having nuclear waste travel by rail through their districts. This wasn't done by mobbing security or taking up terrorist tactics.
Picket signs and chanting are terrorist tactics... seriously?