Posted on 12/03/2016 1:03:35 PM PST by onyx
The son of retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark heads a veterans’ group committed to preventing law enforcement from evacuating Dakota Access Pipeline protesters. The group plans to arrive at the encampment Sunday.
The group will supplement the few veterans who already arrived at one of the encampments earlier in the week and and demanded that law enforcement lay down their firearms.
Wesley “Wes” Clark Jr. and former U.S. Marine Michael Wood Jr. lead Veterans Stand for Standing Rock. Clark’s father was also a 2004 Democratic presidential primary candidate.
The younger Clark graduated from Georgetown University and served four years in the Army before moving to Hollywood to pursue a writing career. (He does not appear to have any screenwriting credits in his 20-year career.)
Clark, whose Facebook page lists his interests as “history, music, gaming, futurology, foreign affairs, sex and saving the planet,” is a climate activist who protests against oil companies .Law enforcement claims he “supports activists who commit crimes to stop oil pipelines, which he believes is supported by his Christian beliefs.”
He claims the Standing Rock protests are more about issues related to clean water and the U.S. Government acknowledging a promise to pay the tribe revenue created by a river dam. Clark has claimed he would “instantly” turn over to police any protesters committing violence, but then claimed it’s the police who are instigating violence.
However, the North Dakota Veterans Coordinating Council sent a letter to the “Veterans Stand for Standing Rock” group asking them not to go to the southern part of the state where the protest camps are located, the Associated Press reported, because tension would likely increase and place a burden on law enforcement, Council president Russ Stabler said.
Stabler, who said that the Council has no opinion on the pipeline, also said the veterans coming to Standing Rock have been misinformed and should not be advancing a movement that has “broken laws, destroyed property and attacked law enforcement.”story continues
An American documentary film maker from Arkansas who is associated with Wes Clark and Clinton was just killed in Ukraine. For some reason he was carrying a NY Times press ID that expired many years ago.
Now why would Wesley’s kid want to help Russia get this pipeline cancelled?
Kind of curious since Russia financed some of these pipeline protesters.
Clark is a major jackass
Read about when he ordered that Brit commander to possibly fire on Russian troops in the Balkans
Over an airstrip I think
Hi!
Jill Stein appeared at a Russia Today awards dinner in Moscow where Putin also had a table. Same dinner also attended by VIPS’s Ray McGovern of the Valerie Plame /Joseph Wilson CIA scheme against Cheney aide Scooter Libby, and also attended by General Flynn.
Since he didn’t actually fire on it, but was all talk no bite, I think that was just to establish fake “bona fides” for him to advance politically as a “conservative pro defense” Democrat, and nothing more. If anything he has been more of a blessing for Putin than an adversary.
Sure enough he did try to run for office. But his kid protesting a pipeline at a time that Russia also was backing pipeline protesters is indicative the supposed hawk raised a leftwing nut and is OK with the way the boy turned out.
Just a trivia ping to the pipeline protests... Wes Clark’s son was involved, and Russia funded at least in part protests against this pipeline too.
Also, note that the Col. McGregor guy who keeps popping up on the Ukraine issue, was under Wes during the Kosovo war.
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