{"id":64221,"date":"2017-08-23T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64221"},"modified":"2017-08-22T16:00:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T21:00:31","slug":"64221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64221","title":{"rendered":"Punch Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The builders of the Dakota Access Pipeline are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sayanythingblog.com\/entry\/whoa-dakota-access-pipeline-owners-file-racketeering-lawsuit-nodapl-activists\/\">suing the racket of &#8220;environmental&#8221; groups that spent half a year obstructing their work<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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,\u00a0blocked roads and set fires and harassed pipeline workers all in an attempt derail the project.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t work.\u00a0Oil 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For all the fawning coverage MInnesota Public Radio gave the protests and protesters, I&#8217;m almost amazed they weren&#8217;t named as co-respondents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The builders of the Dakota Access Pipeline are suing the racket of &#8220;environmental&#8221; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,263,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-activism","category-narrative-for-sale","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64223,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64221\/revisions\/64223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}