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This is the only update I could find:/santa_clara_police_chief_calls_on_union_to_drop_49ers_boycott_threat_ "As distasteful as his [Kaepernick's] actions are, these actions are protected by the Constitution. Police officers are here to protect the rights of every person, even if we disagree with their position." Unh ... ya. Police officers do not get to dictate politics.

"hatred" has nothing to do with it. Change happens. I understand that it's difficult for workers and their families when an industry changes or stops operating and jobs are lost. Blacksmiths and stable hands were upset when cars put them out of business. Etc etc Change happens. And the change from fossil fuels to renewable energy is happening, can't be stopped. .

It's certainly a big factor: Northern Gateway pipeline approval overturned: Federal Court of Appeal finds Canada failed to consult with First Nations on pipeline project June 30, 2016 But I also recognize that there are people in the energy industry who understand that the industry must diversify. .

Energy companies are working on that:oil-gas-companies-moving-towards-viable-renewable-energy-future/

Oooo ... are we supposed to be scared?Thugs are thugs. When they expose themselves as thugs ... protesters win!! ? .

That is for the court to decide.But the company - Energy Transfer Inc. - obviously believed it because they sent the bulldozers in to try to destroy any physical evidence as soon as the site was identified in court filings. And they attacked protesters with dogs and mace. And now the world knows it. Obama approved an immediate temporary injunction against the company, halting work until the case is heard. Now Energy Transfer goes to court with 'unclean hands', looking like the vicious corporate monster they are for using dogs to attack peaceful protesters who were using the courts to pursue their case. It's not looking good for their pipeline. Energy Transfer ... corporate thugs ... going down. .

The only way the switch to renewables has happened and will happen is if we obstruct the fossil fuel industry. It's working.

Maybe I'm just exposing people who defend the white supremacist dipsh!ts. /thread drift We can't afford the damage done by pipelines. It takes a lot of effort and a lot of people to stop them. But only Indigenous people have legal recourse. The malicious action of the company is pretty disgusting, sending bulldozers to desecrate ancient sites as soon as those sites were identified in court filings. .

Nah. Chase em away. .

The tide has turned. Sell sell sell. ?

Their stated purpose of racial trolling is disgusting to all but other white supremacists, who instead deflect and attack. .

Pipelines will be. .

Army Corps backs restraining order against Dakota Access Pipeline #NoDAPL resisters clashed with private security guards at a Dakota Access Pipeline construction site near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, on September 3, 2016. Photo by Dell Hambleton In a sign of solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, the Obama administration is supporting an emergency temporary restraining order against the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hasn't changed its position in the underlying lawsuit, which was filed by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The agency still believes it fulfilled its duty to consult with the tribe about the impacts of the controversial pipeline on cultural and historic sites. However, since the matter remains of great public interest, the Obama administration believes a temporary restraining order is warranted against Dakota Access LLC, the Department of Justice said in a court filing on Monday. Construction near the #NoDAPL resistance camps has been the "subject of several recent confrontations," government attorneys wrote, including one on Saturday in which several people -- a pregnant woman and a young girl among them -- were injured in a clash with private security guards working for the pipeline partnership. "The Corps acknowledges that the public interest would be served by preserving peace near Lake Oahe until the court can render its well-considered opinion on plaintiff's motion for preliminary injunction," government attorneys wrote in the short filing. "The Corps therefore does not oppose this short and discrete temporary restraining order." In a footnote, the Obama administration also said the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe's concerns about Dakota Access "engaging with or antagonizing" the #NoDAPL resisters warranted a restraining order. Those were private security using dogs and mace. It's a worldwide phenomenon, wherever corporate capitalism wages war on the earth and the people who defend it. I will add ... The people walked forward and stopped the bulldozers. The people can't be stopped.

BS. This is the result of conservatism gone amuck and revealing its racist underbelly. .

None of our streets need to be patrolled by 'soldiers' of racial hatred.These creeps are white supremacists, nothing more, nothing less. Whether they are violent or not, their presence is intimidating and frightening. .

Yes, we can't be allowing immigrants ("illegal aliens"??) to "vote and drive" ! Good grief! ? Not my community. ? They're not taking my street back.Does your street need taking back Bryan? Where are these mythical streets that need taking back? .

Argus you've been asked to provide links to back up your claim. Or is this just a bald-faced lie? .

Maybe they'll get bored and go away ... http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/soldiers-of-odin-europes-notorious-anti-immigration-group-beginning-to-form-cells-in-canada Operating in a structure very similar to a motorcycle club, the group has opened chapters in Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario, British Columbia, and possibly more in the past two months. ... In the club's Canadian charter, they explain its reasoning for forming in the great white north: "Between the allowing of illegal aliens into this country and giving them the ability to vote and drive, accepting refugees from countries that hate us while Canadians are on the streets, releasing confirmed terrorists back to their organizations to cause more harm against Canada, and demonizing anything that has to do with European Culture to try and create racial tensions to turn citizens on one another; we as Soldiers Of Odin realize that it is time to take back our streets, provinces, and country." How noble. Now we have to take back the streets from them.? .

I vote Argus. .

Argus, there are no magically valid "screening tests" out there. It's absolute nonsense. And the irony of Conservatives screaming for a test of homophobia and misogyny is ... quite rich. Leitch better have all Conservative MP's tested on that magic test first. Wow. Now we've really come full circle. OK ... So we're going to test applicants for immigration using tests we don't have for values that some Canadians don't have, including some MP's and the Catholic church and those values aren't extended to applicants. Gee ... sounds quite a boondoggle wrapped up in a dilemma to me. I say scrap it. .

You may be overrating yourself just a wee tad, Argus, or maybe a big dram or two. And I challenge you to support your straw man false nonsense about me. Sheesh! Talk about an extremist! .

Boycott is a peaceful and effective means of protest - freedom of expression. Your right of freedom of expression means you don't have to agree. .

They can't boycott regular duties.But I'm going to guess that this is a voluntary private gig. .

Ya me too.I think the police union is out of line here. The job of the police is to uphold the right to protest - ie, protect freedom of speech/association. .

I can guarantee you that your "standards" and mine are not the same. .