So I guess the environmentalist protest against that big pipeline in North Dakota broke up, and – this will completely shock you – it sort of created an environmental crisis.
PHOTOS: Mountains of trash left by ‘environmentalists’ after pipeline protest
I didn’t follow that protest, but now I’m confused. Were they run out of the area with teargas and bayonets, like the Bonus Army? Because I’m seeing wall tents apparently complete with stoves, several teepees (and while I’m quite sure they’d quickly lose their charm in an ND winter, I’ve priced them and they’re not at all cheap) and at least one yurt. In addition to shelves of frozen food and of course the aforementioned mountains of trash.
What I’m saying, if I’m looking at these photos right there’s some serious money just abandoned on that plain. I understand leaving the garbage, progs are pigs. But abandoning all that gear makes no sense.
They don’t care about the environment, they just hate high-tech civilization and capitalism, so they oppose anything produce by either. Their “environmentalism” is just a cloak to hide their anti-Western-Civilization objectives.
All the abandoned gear tell me that here where some serious outside bucks being funneled into the protest. Can you say AstroTurf? And let’s face it most of the protesters where everyone gets a trophy generation brats that have no concept of hard work and paying there own way.
The concerned tribes (using the term both literally and figuratively) apparently gave input then ignored multiple further opportunities to voice their concerns to the Army Corps, etc. before construction started. I have little sympathy. Although, I would love to have a free tipi.
You can have the tipi’s..I call ‘dibs’ on both those racks of solar panels (and the associated batteries/electronics) in the lower right hand corner of the third photo!
Uh, wait, that’s what I meant! Did I say “tipi”? I meant solar panels etc. (I didn’t look at the pics, obviously). Still want a tipi, though.
Don’t forget that these people are, largely, just plain idiotic. I have a pic saved because I enjoyed it so much: an oil-related seagoing item (I think it was a platform) was in Seattle, Portland, or some such place in the PNW, en route to Alaska & environs, where it would be put to use extracting petroleum, as God intended. Countless loons came out to protest its very presence in their sacred, oh-so-environmentally-sensitive city. Thing is, most of the protesters were in plastic canoes & kayaks, which are, of course, made from petroleum products. I’d bet not one of those assholes caught the irony.
As pleasant and convenient it might be to scoff at these protesters, who seem to confirm everything a normal person likes to think about cloudcuckoolanders: The reporting does seem even more biased than common, doesn’t it?
And I found it hard to find any reporting from a different source. So: Who knows? *shrug*