The Truth About Standing Rock

SSG Michael Hartsfield - Why don't you tell me what you "think" happened in light of the evidence presented/discussed in the video?

It didn't "just happen" Their water intake was already being built. It was a decade long plan that was conceived of when in 2002 a drought caused issues with water entering the intake at Ft Yates.

“Thompson also stressed that this project has been in the works for more than a decade, and was prompted by more than just the age of the Fort Yates facility. Back in 2002 serious drought conditions lowered water levels in the Missouri River system to the point where the Fort Yates intake had problems. He said that the Mobridge intake was much deeper than the one Fort Yates and would be more resilient during droughts.”

2.5 Millions Miles of Pipe lines in America and 18000 places where they cross under rivers, streams, and lakes. Interesting how its THIS one they have an issues with.

I personally do not believe any of them are environmentalist due to the fact they left Trash, Raw sewage, and created an Environmental disaster during their protest. last week as they were being forced off of people private property where they were squatting they lit their camps on fire, Plastic tarps, tires, shanty shacks with fiberglass insolation... ya really environmentally sound thinking there. As for the Tribe...

I keep coming back to all these reports about this

“Even though the pipeline never crosses the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, Energy Transfer Partners has attempted to be a good neighbor by offering water testing and monitoring, as well as significant community support to the tribe,” the source said. “But time and again the tribe rebuffed or ignored the company’s offers demanding, instead, a toll on the crude that passed through the pipeline, an ultimatum that showed the tribe’s true desire — easy money.” "The company wouldn’t agree to the condition, but offered to pay for infrastructure improvements on the reservation prioritized by the tribe. The company even purchased a 7,600-acre property called the Cannonball Ranch that is adjacent to the reservation, offering it to the tribe as part of a settlement proposal, say sources privy to the talks."

I am sure at this point the Tribe will deny this to the death as it would make them look like the biggest hypocrites. All I have is the 8 or 9 different stories on the net that reference this or a conversation similar to this.

After all of the above lets touch on the doctored photos, fake outrage at assaults that didn't happen, media covering up the violent protesters actions, attempted murder, destruction of private property, trespassing on private ranchers land, cutting fences, killing live stock.... ya real peaceful and environmentally sound protest they had there.

MSgt James Mullis - What I "think" is irrelevant, just as what you "think" is. Neither one of us is on the ground there and have nothing more to go on other than reports from Democracy Now, that started reporting this story, and this one that says everything was on the level and the people there are just bitching. BLUF, the people that actually live there and would be impacted by that pipeline had and have a problem with it being built.

SSG Michael Hartsfield - OK. But that doesn't mean that as the video states, much of the "generally accepted facts" about the protest were untrue.

Now you got it.

OK.