To: Governor Mark Gordon
Tell Gov Matt Mead to bring our Troopers Home!
Tauli-Corpus UN Observer [...] said the US should defend those protesting the construction of the four-state-long pipeline, saying “The US authorities should fully protect and facilitate the right to freedom of peaceful assembly of indigenous peoples, which plays a key role in empowering their ability to claim other rights."
Why is this important?
The Standing Rock Sioux and the 6 other Tribes designated in both 1851 and 1868 Fort Laramie Treaties; the United States is directed to protect Native Americans from US citizens (remember they weren't citizens until 1924) and to preserve and protect their Treaty Lands. We (the U.S. Government) immediately violated those treaties.
Our Constitution guarantees all citizens the right to free assembly and protest but Gov. Mead and Gov Dalrymple (ND) have chosen to ignore the Constitutional rights of an entire Sovereign Nation of people joined by thousands of non-Indian people to protest the illegal (tied up in Court) Bakken Pipeline through their lands. These people are protecting one of our most important national resources - our water supply; yet these two Governors (and more) have, instead of protecting indigenous rights, declared riot conditions and moved in hired and borrowed troops to "control" the situation. A big show of military force here is entirely unwarranted. The Tribes are unarmed!
Tell Governor Mead that he is in violation of International Law, has helped to create an International Incident on American soil and is derelict in his duty to use our police resources with discretion - not to protect his own personal interests in the OIL industry! Tell him to BRING OUR TROOPERS HOME TODAY!
Our Constitution guarantees all citizens the right to free assembly and protest but Gov. Mead and Gov Dalrymple (ND) have chosen to ignore the Constitutional rights of an entire Sovereign Nation of people joined by thousands of non-Indian people to protest the illegal (tied up in Court) Bakken Pipeline through their lands. These people are protecting one of our most important national resources - our water supply; yet these two Governors (and more) have, instead of protecting indigenous rights, declared riot conditions and moved in hired and borrowed troops to "control" the situation. A big show of military force here is entirely unwarranted. The Tribes are unarmed!
Tell Governor Mead that he is in violation of International Law, has helped to create an International Incident on American soil and is derelict in his duty to use our police resources with discretion - not to protect his own personal interests in the OIL industry! Tell him to BRING OUR TROOPERS HOME TODAY!