{"id":69330,"date":"2016-12-09T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69330"},"modified":"2016-12-09T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T15:54:00","slug":"dapl-and-standing-rock-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69330","title":{"rendered":"DAPL and Standing Rock Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll admit that I haven’t been paying much attention to the Standing Rock protest. One of my main issues is “jobs” and getting America back to work and this protest seemed to be against putting America to work, so I just didn’t give it the attention that I should have. Scott Faith at Havoc Journal<\/a>, however did pay attention, so that when a group of veterans showed up he wrote something more coherent than I could;<\/p>\n

After responding to a (fundamentally misguided) call to action to support the Standing Rock protest, hundreds and perhaps thousands of US military veterans were left without basic necessities, without leadership, and now (after being asked to leave by the protest organizers), without a mission.<\/p>\n

After literally rallying the troops through \u201cVeterans Stand for Standing Rock\u201d and raising over a million dollar through GoFundMe, and apparently having accomplished their real mission of calling attention to themselves, far-left social justice warrior Wes Clark Jr. and his compatriots seem to be\u2026 absent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When a Wesley Clark gets involved, my attention span shrinks. This Wes Clark, Junior seems to be a bigger asshole than his father. When he got veterans assembled at Standing Rock, he led them in an apology to the tribal elders for all of things that none of those present had perpetrated against Indians;<\/p>\n

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Wearing a half-assed Army \u201cdress blues\u201d uniform top and cavalry Stetson, Clark and a rag-tag group of (assumed) veterans gave a half-assed, self-serving, very public \u201capology\u201d to a Native American leader, kneeling before him and begging forgiveness for things no one in the room had anything to do with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The apology;<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of us, me particularly, are from the units that have hurt you over the many years. We came. We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we broke. We stole minerals from your sacred hills. We blasted the faces of our presidents onto your sacred mountain. When we took still more land and then we took your children and then we tried to make your language and we tried to eliminate your language that God gave you, and the Creator gave you. We didn\u2019t respect you, we polluted your Earth, we\u2019ve hurt you in so many ways but we\u2019ve come to say that we are sorry. We are at your service and we beg for your forgiveness.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n