#askwarren Are you, @gatesfoundation, @U2, @RED, @ONECampaign aware of the state violence enforcing your DAPL investment?
The Question should read "intra-state violence" (abrogation of the Founding Fathers intention of having a police force that was not Federalized in order to prevent authoritarianism, thanks to legislation enacted by Bill Clinton), and should include in the query the fact that the private contractors of US energy wars have, with this confrontation, officially come home to roost:
"And while we are inundated with NVDA that serves to protect that corporate state, we bear witness to the full militarization of energy on American soil. A military industrial complex that has come back home to its birthplace in the global race for what’s left. ['TigerSwan Security is in charge of the DAPL Intelligence and overall supervisor of the other security companies’… TigerSwan has offices in Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, India, and Latin America." —Security Firm Running Dakota Access Pipeline Intelligence Has Ties to U.S. Military, Oct 31, 2016] - Part V
Secondary Sourcing: "Security Firm running Dakota Access Pipeline Intelligence has ties to U.S. Millitary working in Iraq and Afghanistan" - Desmogblog
This is circumvention of the Founding Father's prohibition that the military be deployed domestically through use of a privately contracted force. Both these actions initiated with the DAPL protest are unprecedented abrogations of the U.S. Constitution, for Bill Clinton's legislation was created under the excuse of emergency disaster relief, which was assumed to be interpreted as natural disasters. "One of the only other times this compact was deployed outside of a natural disaster was for the Black Lives Matter protests in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray." - "This Natural Disaster Assistance Law is why Police from Other States are Policing Dakota Access Pipeline Protests" - Desmogblog
"#Cringemas it is! -#Cringemas is arms lost to the 1%."
"Bill Gates surely would have known the #NoDAPL protest suppression was completely off the chain by the time of U2/RED’s 2016 Shopathon [he sits on Buffett's Board of Directors], just as it’s surely known Sophia’s never going to get a Secret Santa down her chimney. In fact the Guardian’s hit piece targeting Trump as an investor was timed to target the blame after the attack dogs had been deployed. Actually it was right on cue with when police and military moved on the Oceti Sakowin camp. 141 arrests followed. The attack dogs were unleashed by private security, but they weren’t the ones who got kenneled. We got to find out who they were and that they weren’t licensed to work in North Dakota and were from out of state and may be criminally liable, but we never get to hear who hires them. The Guardian will only repeat Trump’s nigh bogus connection to the project.
However, in terms of modus operandi (if not involvement), BNSF [which Buffett owns] was already using private police to perform arrests in Washington State at protest blockades and they were already being blockaded there by climate protests. The public was much more aware of the oil by rail issue than the media gave credit."
"Yet even Bono managed to outdo himself, by getting named Glamour’s 'Woman of the Year' [for ONE's #povertyissexist] precisely for becoming this sort of paragon of 'consumer activism'.
He literally hijacked feminism and made it #brandfeminism, -merely an adjunct to the philanthrowash of his billionaire benefactors and a philanthrowash the Dakota Access Pipeline, and all of #NoDAPL’s brutality, against women. Lots of Women. Lots and lots of them. We stand with Sophia. We stand with the women of Standing Rock."
Source quotes from "How Bono's RED became the color of philanthrowashing done right for the Dakota Access Pipeline"
Secondary source quotes (article hyperlinks with supplementary news support):
"Woman’s Arm May Be Amputated After Horrific Injury At Standing Rock Protests" - Huffington Post article on Sophia Wolansky (actual photo of injury in this article) Video: "Standing Rock Protector's Arm Blown Off By Police Grenade" - TYT -medical treatment ringing in at over $350,000
Testimony of Vanessa Dundon, who had retina severed by a tear gas grenade. "Standing Rock Protester Shot in Face with Tear Gas Grenade May Go Blind" - TheDailyBeast -#notjustwomen are losing eyes.
Testimony of Floris Whitebull, who was arrested from a prayer circle and kenneled - Josh Fox
Cyndy Coppola is arrested to enforce forcible installation of the DAPL on her own property using eminent domain. - KFYRTV "Iowa Woman arrested on her own property for interfering with DAPL construction" - KFYRTV
Testimony of Caro Gonzales, Guarding Red Tarantula Woman, Chemehuivi Tribe - The Guardian
Testimony of Angie Spencer, Trauma Counselor arrested at the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest - TYT Politics
"Tear Gas, Water Cannons in Sub-Freezing Temperatures, Rubber Bullets, LRAD and Mace" - Digital Smoke Signals
"Indiana Reveals the Arsenal They Brought With Them to Standing Rock" (to deal with unarmed protestors) - MuckRock
"Police win warrant to search Dakota Access Pipeline protest Facebook page" (a Bellingham, WA page, a community which interestingly was a center of activism against oil by rail #bombtrains in Washington State using such pages) - arstechnica