Dakota Access campsite goes up in flames: Protesters set fire to their tents as deadline to evacuate looms and activists warn they are 'ready to go to jail'

[Right_in_Virginia]

Dakota Access campsite goes up in flames: Protesters set fire to their tents as deadline to evacuate looms and activists warn they are 'ready to go to jail'
Daily Mail, Feb 22, 2017, Associated Press

Protesters camped out on federal land near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation are torching their tents as the deadline to evacuate approaches and the National Guard gears up to move in.

Those at the six-month-old camp have until 2pm local time to get off the land before authorities go in and give them a simple choice: Go home or go to jail.

But the threat of being locked up hasn't moved some, who 'will engage in peaceful, civil resistance ... holding hands, standing in prayer,' according to American Indian activist Chase Iron Eyes.

With the clock ticking down, tents were being burned at around 5:30am local time - despite the falling snow - for 'cultural reasons,' NBC said.

Other structures, which appeared to be made of wood - including what appeared to be a yurt - were also spotted engulfed in flames and acrid black smoke.

Those who are willing to leave the camp - located between the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and the pipeline route - will be bused to Bismarck, around 70 miles away, and given tickets back home.

Those who aren't face jail time.

Morton County sheriff's deputies are empowered to arrest people who won't leave, and while Army Corps rangers can't make arrests, they can write citations that carry a maximum punishment of a $5,000 fine or six months in jail.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4249330/Dakota-protesters-set-tents-fire-evacuation-nears.html#ixzz4ZR4xv8fU

[Oceander]

Isn't arson a crime?

[EC]

Isn't arson a crime?

Not if you burn your own stuff. Air pollution is though, according to the EPA.

I'm not normally one for indulging tantruming snowflakes, but in this case I'm more than happy to give them what they want. A good long sit in jail with no bail.

[SirLinksALot]

Some questions come to mind:

1) Who is supporting these folks? Who can go on a camping vacation like this for months?

2) What did they use to burn the site? These enviro extremists who love mother earth by using petroleum to protest petroleum? I like all the nylon and plastic products they have, essentially, petroleum products they claim to be against.

[Oceander]

Not if you burn your own stuff. Air pollution is though, according to the EPA.

I'm not normally one for indulging tantruming snowflakes, but in this case I'm more than happy to give them what they want. A good long sit in jail with no bail.

Even burning your own stuff can be illegal, particularly if it endangers others.

[SZonian]

Hmmm...

Build up camp with tents, pop-ups, totes, etc. protesting oil pipeline

Pollute the area so bad that it's damn near an environmental crisis for the area

Then burning those same products they used that are made from petroleum

All in the name of protecting the environment from "pollution"

Yeah, that computes.   

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Some questions come to mind:

1) Who is supporting these folks? Who can go on a camping vacation like this for months?

2) What did they use to burn the site? These enviro extremists who love mother earth by using petroleum to protest petroleum? I like all the nylon and plastic products they have, essentially, petroleum products they claim to be against.

On 1), a lot of them are paid by one of Soros's entitites or environmental groups.

North Dakota has proposed a slick way to keep some of them at bay at risk of committing further criminal behavior:

http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/north-dakota-wants-hired-pipeline-protesters-to-pay-income-taxes/

[Taxcontrol]

Use the NG to put up traffic sign posts around the "camp", one every 10 feet.  Build a perimeter around the location by encasing with 3 layered concertina wire.  Put generators with light poles up around the exterior and put a guardsman every 50 feet armed with their AR.  Before you close it off entirely, use a loud speaker to inform the protesters that they can either leave now without arrest but will be searched, identified, and ticketed ...or.... they will be arrested.  Give them till sundown to sundown to comply.  Any attempt to breach the perimeter will be shot.

Once past sundown, seal the exit.  No one in or out, nothing in or out.  No food, no water, no blankets, etc.  After three days, open the exit for 4 hours.  This time, they will be arrested and prosecuted under federal riot laws.  At the end of the 4 hours, close off the perimeter again and wait 3 more days.  Repeat until there are no more protesters.

[SirLinksALot]

[Fishrrman]

Protesters set fire to their tents as deadline to evacuate looms and activists warn they are 'ready to go to jail'

Dat's fine.
Arrest 'em!

[truth_seeker]

Chief Burning Tent

Gets government benefits already, likely including food, shelter, medical---ObamaCare or Medicaid.

Protests over things taking place on land owned by others.

[Wingnut]

Liberal slant from a leftist paper but at least they are removing the riff raff and the losers

By
Seattle Times environment reporter
Some opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline were dug in and defiant as night fell over their besieged camp Wednesday.

Police had made 10 arrests of pipeline protesters for failing to follow orders to leave the camp by 2 p.m. local time.

Officials have said they did not intend to enter the camp overnight. State authorities estimated the hold outs at 50, but activists estimated double that.

Most had left earlier Wednesday, marching arm-in-arm out of the camp, which was so muddy officers could not enter it with their cars. Surrounded on all sides by roadblocks and under threat of arrest, demonstrators burned their tents and shelters rather than see them destroyed by police.


 
Chase Iron Eyes of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe said so many fires were burning and so many teepees reduced to ashes it triggered an eerie memory. “It reminded me of pictures, or maybe memory in my DNA of the massacres, when you see teepees and structures burned, it was extremely traumatic, a heavy feeling.”

At its peak in December, the camp was home to more than 10,000 opponents of the pipeline and their allies, including veterans from around the country who camped to help the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and other opponents make their stand. Not in modern times had so many nations gathered.

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/standing-rock-protest-camp-being-leveled-emptied-by-force/

[Smokin Joe]

Wow. Talk about a biased article repeating the lies that ginned up a protest against a pipeline that will, as designed, not come within 50 feet of the water. Now they're claiming the site is sacred because they protested there and prayed.

(That's because the who "sacred land" gambit was highly questionable in the first place.)

The article mentions over 700 protestor arrests, but fails to point out over a million dollars damage to construction equipment, invasion of private property, molotov cocktails and at least one IED used against police, ongoing disruption of traffic and commerce through the area, and a host of other things. Now, the cleanup crews have to deal with the toxic aftermath of the fires in an area where flooding will likely contaminate water with that debris if not cleaned up in time.

More:

http://www.news4jax.com/news/national/deadline-to-leave-dakota-access-pipeline-site-approaching
One of the more balanced background articles:
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060045082

The very latest:

https://twitter.com/StandingRockFct/status/834526915537022976/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

and yeah, follow the money...
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/445148/dakota-access-pipeline-protests-hurt-casino-revenue-environment

I'll never set foot in their Casinos.

[Smokin Joe]

On 1), a lot of them are paid by one of Soros's entitites or environmental groups.

North Dakota has proposed a slick way to keep some of them at bay at risk of committing further criminal behavior:

http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/north-dakota-wants-hired-pipeline-protesters-to-pay-income-taxes/

Ultimately, IIRC, Al Capone was nailed on tax evasion, too.

It's time to shut these gangsters down. The tax laws have been there all along. Now, they can abide by them and pay up, or pay the price.

[Smokin Joe]

Some questions come to mind:

1) Who is supporting these folks? Who can go on a camping vacation like this for months?

2) What did they use to burn the site? These enviro extremists who love mother earth by using petroleum to protest petroleum? I like all the nylon and plastic products they have, essentially, petroleum products they claim to be against.

There are literally hundreds of gofundme accounts related to the protests.

They're "water protectors" (If you believe their bullsh*t), not "air protectors".
Leftists always trash out their area of operations. It's what they do.

There is a reason some tribes were nomadic: it gave nature time to recover from the time they occupied the sites. (Think people and horses in a relatively small area for a couple of months before porta potties, and you get the idea, not to mention food scraps and other waste.)

[goatprairie]

Even burning your own stuff can be illegal, particularly if it endangers others.

When I moved to a house in the country some years ago, I had a burn barrel. The county  made them illegal shortly after I move in.  I burned a lot of stuff in it anyway before I moved to another location after getting married.
It's amazing how much stuff you  can burn in a burn barrel.  Mostly paper of course, but petroleum-based containers, like milk jugs, went up as well.  I burned stuff about once a week for almost three years and was never cited by the county.  But my days of being a scofflaw ended when I got married.  No more burning trash for me.

[thackney]

When I moved to a house in the country some years ago, I had a burn barrel. The county  made them illegal shortly after I move in.  I burned a lot of stuff in it anyway before I moved to another location after getting married.
It's amazing how much stuff you  can burn in a burn barrel.  Mostly paper of course, but petroleum-based containers, like milk jugs, went up as well.  I burned stuff about once a week for almost three years and was never cited by the county.  But my days of being a scofflaw ended when I got married.  No more burning trash for me.

I still do that today.  No county law against it as far as I know in Brazoria, Texas.

[rodamala]

Dakota Access campsite goes up in flames: Protesters set fire to their tents as deadline to evacuate looms and activists warn they are 'ready to go to jail'
Daily Mail, Feb 22, 2017, Associated Press

Protesters camped out on federal land near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation are torching their tents as the deadline to evacuate approaches and the National Guard gears up to move in.

Those at the six-month-old camp have until 2pm local time to get off the land before authorities go in and give them a simple choice: Go home or go to jail.

But the threat of being locked up hasn't moved some, who 'will engage in peaceful, civil resistance ... holding hands, standing in prayer,' according to American Indian activist Chase Iron Eyes.

With the clock ticking down, tents were being burned at around 5:30am local time - despite the falling snow - for 'cultural reasons,' NBC said.

Other structures, which appeared to be made of wood - including what appeared to be a yurt - were also spotted engulfed in flames and acrid black smoke.

Those who are willing to leave the camp - located between the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and the pipeline route - will be bused to Bismarck, around 70 miles away, and given tickets back home.

Those who aren't face jail time.

Morton County sheriff's deputies are empowered to arrest people who won't leave, and while Army Corps rangers can't make arrests, they can write citations that carry a maximum punishment of a $5,000 fine or six months in jail.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4249330/Dakota-protesters-set-tents-fire-evacuation-nears.html#ixzz4ZR4xv8fU

If I were the land owner, I woulda had a firetruck spraying water on these camps nightly from first frost in September.

[Wingnut]

The last of the 25 to 50 cockaroaches should be removed today. 

[thackney]

If I were the land owner...

You are.  It is federal government land, "owned" by Army Corps of Engineers.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-dakota-access-pipeline-camp-deadline-20170220-story.html

[verga]

The Native American version of "Occupy Wall Street".
I wish I had the freetime and financial resources that these clowns have.

[Mod2]

Merged related threads.

[truth_seeker]

Developers in SoCal must budget for the predictable claims of "Indian burial grounds," for any project.

There are Indian burial grounds consultants. They wear Turqoise bolo ties, western style shirts, and carry briefcases.

Inspect the site, pray a bit, write reports, and collect their wampum.

(I get the turquoise, but not the shirts and western hats, which are styles taken from their oppressors)

[Wingnut]

Peace in the valley

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — The Latest on the closing of a protest encampment near the Dakota Access pipeline construction site in North Dakota (all times local):

2:40 p.m.

Authorities have declared a Dakota Access pipeline protest camp in North Dakota officially cleared after going through the camp and arresting the last remaining holdouts.

Nearly three dozen people were arrested in Thursday's operation. It took about 3½ hours. Officers methodically checked buildings and arrested anyone they encountered, including a man who climbed atop a building and stayed there for more than an hour before surrendering.

As officers worked, cleanup crews began razing buildings on the square-mile piece of property on federal land.

Most protesters left peacefully Wednesday when authorities closed the camp in advance of spring flooding, but some remained overnight in defiance of orders to leave.

Authorities gave them a last chance to leave Thursday before entering the camp. No one took up the offer.

http://pilotonline.com/news/nation-world/national/the-latest-north-dakota-protest-camp-cleared/article_ba15e0aa-9bd6-5a25-897d-e1f58d09a15a.html

[Wingnut]

Liberal scum does what liberal scum does...shit over everything and make the world worse wherever they go.

annon Ball, N.D., ahead of the evacuation deadline. Tom Stromme / Bismarck Tribune

Earlier this week the State of North Dakota was operating an assistance program for #NoDAPL protesters willing to leave the area peacefully.

Those participating received a bus ticket, a hotel room voucher, and supplies. But the program didn’t last long.

Cecily Fong, spokeswoman for the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services, has confirmed to me that the state’s transition center, as it was being called, has been shut down after at least one room hosting protesters was vandalized. UPDATE: I’m told that the state is still offering bus tickets.

Fong told me that four hotel rooms at the Comfort Inn in Bismarck had been checked out to protesters. She said state officials were monitoring social media traffic last night urging the protesters with the rooms to invite other activists there to vandalize them.

I guess that’s what happened. Fong said the Comfort Inn will no longer honor vouchers from the protesters, and the state apparently isn’t giving any more out.

Fong wasn’t 100 percent on the specifics, but said it was her understanding that only four hotel vouchers had been given out. She didn’t know how many bus tickets were purchased for the protesters. UPDATE: Fong now tells me that a total of five bus tickets were given out, only three were used.

I am working on getting a police report for the incident and will update this post when I have it.

Closure of the transition program was also confirmed with Mike Nowatzki, spokesman for Governor Doug Burgum.

http://www.sayanythingblog.com/entry/north-dakotas-assistance-program-nodapl-protesters-closed-hotel-room-trashed/