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If corporations with a history of property theft, and property, human and ecologic destruction came through my neighborhood, I hope my neighbors would join me i
by a3n 5y ago
If corporations with a history of property theft, and property, human and ecologic destruction came through my neighborhood, I hope my neighbors would join me in protest too.
- koheripbal 5y agoProtesting is one thing. Destroying other people's stuff is when the police should get involved.
- klyrs 5y agoIf you leave your stuff on my land, why shouldn't I destroy it?
- koheripbal 5y agoThe pipeline was never on Native land. This is a popular lie propagated in social media. The pipeline was specifically routed AROUND native land, and was indeed even placed exactly on top of an existing 40 year old pipeline.
- wyre 5y agoIt all Native land, perhaps not legally, but at one point it was until it was appropriated by white men.
- vkou 5y agoWhen a protest destroys stuff, the police inflict violence on the protesters. When a pipeline spill destroys people's stuff, do the police then inflict a proportionate amount of violence on the pipeline's owners? If a broken window's worth a tazing, an arrest, two nights in jail, a single court date, and a short or suspended sentence, how many thousands of years of prison should, say, the Exxon-Valdez spill have been worth?
- koheripbal 5y agoPipelines are the most secure method of liquid transport. Leaks are extremely uncommon and far less common than the alternative - trucks. Also, there are plenty of fines and enforcement actions on spills. Police would inflict violence on corporations if corporations break the law. ...which is why they don't. Protesters should try that simple trick.
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