Before reporting on a spreadsheet about the 49 sheriffs and Bull Connor of the North, I have to share this urgent plea that arrived just moments ago:
URGENT.
My friends in Standing Rock just sent this to me & asked me to share it. They are surrounded by militarized police RIGHT NOW. pic.twitter.com/plR0Tfaagc
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) February 21, 2017
Militarized police have completely surrounded the camp. If you intend to join the camp as a protector, the time is now.
I don’t have any reports on who is surrounding any of the 1,172 odd miles of the DAPL pipeline. Seems to me that turn about would be fair play. Yes?
I have created a spreadsheet that lists all 50 counties and their sheriffs where the DAPL pipeline runs.
The columns are as follows:
A – Name of County
B – Name of Sheriff
C, D, E, F – street address, town, state, zip code
G – Sheriff’s email (if they have one)
H – Phone
I – Fax
J – Link to Wikipedia on county
K – County population
L – County area (in square miles)
M – Population density
N – Geohack URL from Wikipedia that lists numerous map resources for that county (This is especially important for planning purposes.)
(Apologies! I forgot to link to the file: dapl-counties-sheriffs.xls)
Reasoning that you may want to concentrate your monitoring of DAPL for breeches in areas of low population density. While you may stand out, there are fewer people to notice you in such places.
Someone asked me earlier today if DAPL could be breached using explosives, to which any number of government publications, FM 3-34.214 Explosives and Demolitions, Steel Cutting with High-Explosive Charges, and private publications, Cutting Techniques for Facilities Dismantling in Decommissioning Projects, all answer in the affirmative. Cutting Techniques… includes coverage of a number of cutting techniques, including explosives.
If anyone asks you to use explosives to interrupt the DAPL pipeline you should, of course, decline, but if, nevertheless, they persist, give them this advice:
- Under no circumstances use explosives (commercial or homemade) so as to endanger law enforcement personnel, members of the public or even yourself. Many law enforcement officers are avid hunter and care as much for the environment as anyone. Don’t make yourself “special” by endangering or harming members of law enforcement or the public.
- Always use commercial explosives. Homemade explosives as seen on the Internet are dangerous and a trap for the “independent” minded. Sure, you can waste your time, energy and endanger yourself by attempting to make homemade explosives but why? Yes, there restrictions on the sales of explosives but there are laws against human trafficking as well.
The Trafficking in Persons Report 2016 — Complete Report (PDF) reports that despite being illegal, human trafficking continues. I’ve seen it reported that 200 to 300 children are trafficked through the Atlanta airport, every month. Somehow I doubt the existence super effective enforcement efforts on explosives.
A longer post is coming but remember that investors, even investors in pipelines, are risk adverse. Should it come to pass that even a passing mention of DAPL creates waves of panic over the potential for entirely lost pipeline investments, the investment environment of and interest in pipeline investments will change.
After all, who wants to invest in 1,172 miles of sporadically broken, virgin pipe that has never carried a drop of oil? Yes?
PS: If you don’t know 1960’s civil rights history, the moniker Bull Connor of the North may escape you. Bull Connor used fire hoses and dogs against children marching for civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama. He, like the Bull Connor of the North, is a stain on the history of law enforcement in the United States.