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Punch Back

The builders of the Dakota Access Pipeline are suing the racket of “environmental” groups that spent half a year obstructing their work:

From last summer through the first couple of months of 2017 there was an all-out assault on the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Protesters, summoned to rural south central North Dakota by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and a myriad of environmental groups, blocked roads and set fires and harassed pipeline workers all in an attempt derail the project.

It didn’t work. Oil flows through the Dakota Access Pipeline today, but the State of North Dakota did run up a $38 million bill for the law enforcement response.

Anyway, today Energy Transfer Partners (the company behind DAPL) filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing some of the environmental groups involved in the protests of racketeering.

For all the fawning coverage MInnesota Public Radio gave the protests and protesters, I’m almost amazed they weren’t named as co-respondents.

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12 responses to “Punch Back”

  1. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    I wish them well, and maybe, just maybe, those who donated to the groups during the demonstrations ought to be on the hook as well.

  2. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    I have no doubt that those who donated to the groups will be getting appeal letters from those groups, asking for help in covering their legal costs.

  3. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    There are people on the Right who don’t believe in fighting fire with fire. We are supposed to be the serious people, the adults in the room. We are too good to use things like lawfare to strike at the enemy.
    All I have to say to these people is that I hope that they enjoy losing, because they are going to lose, over and over.
    Make the names behind BLM and antifa as well known as the name Koch.
    Sue them. RICO encompasses a lot of activity.

  4. Alt-Good Swiftee Avatar
    Alt-Good Swiftee

    Indeed, MP.

    And of all the delicious ironies, a known leftist terrorist \ hate group provided the template on how to take down leftist terrorist \ hate groups when they took down a racist \ hate group.

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/12/klan.sued/

  5. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    Make the names behind BLM and antifa as well known as the name Koch.
    Sue them. RICO encompasses a lot of activity.

    How hard is it to spell Soros? It is a palindrome for cripes sake.

  6. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    I’m talking about the organizers, JPA. A lot of these people make their miserable shekels off of the government. Kick their asses out on the street. Many of them are students who are in violation of the codes of conduct of their university. Here, for example, is UC Berkeley’s code of conduct for its students: http://sa.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/UCB-Code-of-Conduct-new%20Jan2012_0.pdf
    These so-called “anti-fascists” are terrified of being treated equally under the law. They are not our masters.

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  8. passout76 Avatar
    passout76

    My goodness, it cost North Dakota $38 million dollars in additional law enforcement cost. Someone should remind the ELCA bishops who encouraged the protest of this amount of money. Just think of the free healthcare or food that could have purchased. Do they think they were really serving God with their protests? They encouraged the squandering of precious resouces and for what? The oil flows. The water is clean. I hope this starts a very good trend of companies punching back. As the election of Donald Trump tells us…normal Americans are tired of being kicked around by the crazies and elites.

  9. Mammuthus Primigenius Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenius

    Any person who believes that the commies were driven by idealism should look up Lavrenty Beria, from any source. The man was a monster, a sadist, a sexual psychopath. Beria nearly became the head of the USSR after Stalin’s death. Khruschev was a clever peasant, a true believer in communism, but at least he didn’t make a hobby of raping workers.
    No amount of mistaken idealism can make up for the horrors inflicted by the Russian commies on their own people. If you think that the Russians, unlike the Nazis, were “on the side of history” you need to have your head examined.

  10. Alt-Good Swiftee Avatar
    Alt-Good Swiftee

    If you think that the Russians, unlike the Nazis, were “on the side of history” you need to have your head examined.

    There isn’t enough shrinks to examine all those heads. Better to just round them up into re-education facilities until their minds are clear. Economy of scale.

  11. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    In related environazi news, a report just came out that human race has nothing to do with macro global warming trend. I wonder if anyone has standing to sue algoracle?

  12. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    If you think that the Russians, unlike the Nazis, were “on the side of history” you need to have your head examined.

    Stalin did not sign a peace agreement with Hitler in ’39. Nosirreebob… History is for suckers.

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