'Treating protest as terrorism': US plans crackdown on Keystone XL activists

[G_j]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/20/keystone-pipeline-protest-activism-crackdown-standing-rock


Documents suggest an aggressive response to possible protests against the oil pipeline amid fears of another Standing Rock

Will Parrish and Sam Levin
Thu 20 Sep 2018 04.00 EDT

Angeline Cheek is preparing for disaster. The indigenous organizer from the Fort Peck reservation in Montana fears that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline could break and spill, destroy her tribe’s water, and desecrate sacred Native American sites.

But environmental catastrophe is not the most immediate threat.

The government has characterized pipeline opponents like her as “extremists” and violent criminals and warned of potential “terrorism”, according to recently released records.

The documents suggested that police were organizing to launch an aggressive response to possible Keystone protests, echoing the actions against the Standing Rock movement in North Dakota. There, officers engaged in intense surveillance and faced widespread accusations of excessive force

“We have to stay one step ahead at all times,” said Cheek, a Hunkpapa and Oglala Lakota activist and teacher. “History is repeating itself.”

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. With the fascist pig's admin in play now, the protesters had better have...

attorneys and multiple cameras. The far right nutters hold too much sway and we will have a massacre.

Disagreement is treason....