However, I just a few minutes ago finished speaking at great length with a Family Court Judge from Charleston, South Carolina, an African American here for a legal conference, and he explained to me that for example Dylan Roof will be tried for multiple counts of murder in the very church that this Honorable Judge goes to, and tried in both State and Federal Court for Murder. This was the choice and prerogative of the Department of Justice, whose two Obama-term Attorneys General, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, are both African Americans.
The AG has tremendous power to shape and guide and shift the priorities and the day to day policies of his or her department. With all due respect to Senator Sessions, I don't know much about his record the Senate; I have heard that he opposed some legislation that facilitated prosecution of race related hate crimes, but I am sure that because he was a US Senator from Alabama that his Senate confirmation will be smooth sailing in general.
What happens next, to start off the next four years? If you are President, you give a Cabinet appointment to someone who will see eye to eye with what you want to do, and/or with what your advisors are telling you to do. That is what concerns me, what do the unknown advisors want Trump to do, and how will all of that play out, starting in late January?
If Donald Trump appoints the Milwaukee Sheriff as Secretary of Homeland Security that will tell you a lot right there, and Trump is meeting with him about the time most readers will be reading these lines, on December 5.
Does the North Dakota Governor have a leg to stand on legally after today's decision to disallow this particular route for the pipeline? A new friend from the next Sioux reservation over told me today that in North Dakota, Governors and Sheriffs and State Legislators and State Police do whatever they want to Indians, because no one cares and besides, no one pays any attention. She said for sure that a CNN Media truck is definitely changing the modus operandi.
I suspend judgment and prognosis on what will happen, until I see what happens tomorrow with all the Veterans and the State Police. Will they roast buffalo hot dogs around the campfire together and all the parties start singing Kumbaya and We Shall Overcome? Hell, no.
So don't be naà ¯ve about these recent developments in North Dakota. Mark my word: the coming confrontations in Arizona over John McCain's plant to privatize the Tonto National Forests and turn it into North American's largest copper mine will make this stupid boondoggle pipeline look like playing Monopoly, especially when you add in the factors of the Apaches' anger, and also the moral revulsion of most Americans towards destroying our national forests: this will have to be overcome, swept under the rug, lied about by corporate soothsayers and mendacious "experts."
It won't be pretty, but I have to fear this as coming just around the corner. They have been widening the roads down there to accommodate the kind of earth movers that can dig a gash a half mile deep, five miles long, and a mile wide.
That deal is with an Australian and British conglomerate, the Aussies are called Rio Tinto Mining, so Google and hit images to understand just what I am talking about.
So, with all of that having been said as a long boring preface, here is the news, just what MSNBC wants us all to believe (and in this cae I do believe it!)
SUMMARIZED FROM THE MSNBC report by DANIEL MEDINA and CHIARA SOTTILE (see the superb videos in MSNBC article)
CANNON BALL, N.D. -- The Army Corps of Engineers Secretary told Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II Sunday that the current route for the controversial Dakota Access pipeline will be denied.
Archambaut told NBC News after he heard the decision that he was "thankful that there were some leaders in the federal government that realized that something is not right even though it's legal."
"This is something that will go down in history and I know that it's a blessing for all indigenous peoples," he said.
The Army Corps of Engineers released a statement saying they will not approve the easement that would have allowed the proposed pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe, a large reservoir on the Missouri River in North Dakota.
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