Oil Industry Unleashes Attack Dogs and Pepper Spray on Native American Protestors
For the second time in as many weeks, Americans are learning that their 1st Amendment right to free expression, including freely expressing themselves by peaceably assembling to protest and petition for a redress of their grievances, is being assailed as first, unpatriotic and now, “unlawful.” Actually, it was North Dakota’s Lt. Governor Drew Wrigley, a Republican, who labeled Native Americans, environmentalists, and private property owners’ protests against a Keystone-like oil pipeline “unlawful” and ‘increasingly dangerous” due to the number of protestors growing to “as many as 4,000 people.
One isn’t entirely certain if the right to assemble is “unlawful” because there are many non-Aryan Americans involved, or because the protest is against the oil industry, but it is likely… Read more…