Among the hundreds of people arrested in North Dakota for protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Native Americans faced the most serious charges. More than two years after the protests began, federal judges are now handing down lengthy prison sentences to the protesters. One of the Standing Rock activists, Red Fawn Fallis, was sentenced Wednesday for her role in a shooting incident during the protests. As part of a plea deal, the 39-year- old will serve the longest prison term of any Dakota Access protester: four years and nine months in federal prison for one count of civil disorder and one count of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a felon.
Click for Full Text!
Poster Comment:
I don't know what will become of us. We simply cannot do the environment OR the Bill of Rights this way. All pipelines rupture, it's a form of russian roulette among cities, towns and farms what area will be the lucky one(s).
This problem is a direct result of the problem almost nobody notices -- overpopulation. If we had only half or 1/4 the population in North America, there'd be half or 3/4 less the pressure on the environment AND our rights and freedoms! With sane border policies utopia could virtually have been ours, but no, we wanted to INNOVATE.
Certain crowds among us did, that is.... the very title of this article shows forth the syndrome: it referred to "Native Americans" but I fixt it since the injuns came here from somewhere else just like our ancestors.