campgottagopee wrote
ScottyJack wrote
campgottagopee wrote
ScottyJack wrote
The pipeline scumbags
I don't know anything about either one of these two topics.
not suprised
I was surprised when you called pipeliners scumbags. That seemed like a bit of a stretch to me. The ones I know are all homeowners and pay their taxes. Far from the scumbags you paint them to be.
Most of these folks are working people just like anyone else trying to feed their families. I think this situation shows how the people on the front lines are just pawns or puppets of the orchestrating masters. Even the cops on the front lines macing and shooting rubber bullets at the protesters most freaking likely aren't happy about the position they are in but they need to keep their own safe so they follow orders.
Either way, this story should be the biggest thing in the news right now, not those two fucking clowns and the election. This is some serious shit where our government is continuing the inhumane injustices against Native peoples for profits. It's about our justice system and how it favors the white and the wealthy. It's also about their own government and their corruption.
I think it's more than that even though, this isn't just about the Natives, this is about all of us and how our so called democracy is more of an illusion and in the end it doesn't matter what the will of the people is.