Minot Daily News: DAPL demonstrates who really cares about North Dakota

The spectacle of Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) protesters attacking their own protectors, attacking North Dakota civilians, damaging property and killing ranchers’ animals offered a stark contrast to how the rioters were portrayed in national media: as some kind of 1960s activists challenging “the man” on behalf of the “little guy.”

Nothing could be further from the truth, with protesters aligned with powerful forces in the White House, with Hollywood celebrities, and with plenty of money behind them from wacky anti-capitalist financiers.

Who cares about North Dakota? Who is a good neighbor? Have those who financed the rioters stepped forward to offer to pay a cent for the clean-up of the destroyed public property; to cover the cost of the investigations of the crimes committed by protesters?

We know the answer. None. Folks seem to think temper tantrums by the advantaged, spoiled class are fine and that working people should pick up the bill for the mess.

Enter DAPL. Dakota Access Pipeline, LLC, has donated $20,000 to first responder departments in each of the North Dakota counties through which its pipeline passes. The company presented checks totaling $140,000 to emergency management departments in Mountrail, Williams, McKenzie, Dunn, Mercer, Morton and Emmons counties Tuesday.

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