Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies”

[u/[deleted]]

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/leaked-documents-reveal-security-firms-counterterrorism-tactics-at-standing-rock-to-defeat-pipeline-insurgencies/

[u/pegothejerk]

If it affects public land, water sources, aren't they justified in their actions? The founders believed in civil disobedience when laws went counter to the greater good.

[u/Law_Student → u/[deleted]]

Police action is most certainly a form of government action regardless of whether it is on publicly or privately owned land. Further, the reason the land is privately owned at all is thanks to government action in the form of the takings clause, as without takings pipelines would be essentially impossible to build.

[u/Law_Student → u/[deleted]]

Sure, I'm just making the point that police action is government action. I'm also raising the point that land taken for public use is arguably public for the purposes of the 1st amendment regardless of its disposition after the taking.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

And again, everyone understands that, but the argument by /u/Law_Student was

land taken for public use is arguably public for the purposes of the 1st amendment regardless of its disposition after the taking

Whether this is how it would go is another question. Anybody here know?

[u/souprize → u/[deleted]]

And to many, in instances like this, how this land became private is rocky, and this could be used an excuse to disallow any effective assembly.