What about the mid-west?

So, does anything happen in the mid-west? Of course, things happen everywhere. I was scrolling through Google news when a story about the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota caught my eye.

People from around the world country, and even the world, have traveled great distance to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. They stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline which is a $3.7 billion investment to move 470,000 barrels of domestic crude oil a day through four states. The people who are protesting are saying that they are fighting against cooperate greed and an environment threat on sacred land. Some of these protesters have been there for months, and there is no sign of them going away. It is granted in the First Amendment that there can be peaceable assembly and protest, whoever sometimes this protest gets violent.

The district chairman of Cannon Ball, a town a few miles away form the protest, is Robert Fool Bear Sr. He has been interviewed about the whole mess of a protest and has revealed that he is against it. Since it is so close to everything, citizens must pass through a police checkpoint to reach it. The pipeline protest is a nuisance and given the roadblocks, residents are often forces to go more than forty miles out of their way.

Fool Bear has had it with the protesters. He said that about two years ago, members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe could of attended hearings to make their concerns known, but they didn't. Now, out of no where, the protesters are out of control and Fool Bear is concerned that it's a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt. A violent protest is no protected by the First Amendment. Other people are against the protest, but very few speak up against the crowds.

The saddest story that has been presented to Fool Bear is when someone approached him with two young kids. Their parents had been arrested so they were practically orphans. They had no one to take care of them. Thinking for a parents standpoint, how could someone be so stupid to get arrested from a protest meaning that they abandon their children? From that alone, the protest should be broken up.

A Standing Rock Sioux flag flies over the protest camp near Cannon Ball, ND. Therefore, we know who to blame in the near future when the protest turns illegal.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/29/us/dakota-pipeline-standing-rock-sioux/index.html