Literally Too Many Veterans Have Signed Up To Join DAPL Protests

Last week, the newly formed group ‘Veterans Stand for Standing Rock’ called on veterans to nonviolently stand up to militarized law enforcement at the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Since its initial call to action, the veterans’ movement has grown exponentially.
Last week, the Facebook event, which was launched by Army veteran Wesley Clark Jr. and former Marine and Baltimore cop-turned-reformist, Michael A. Wood Jr., received widespread media attention. This boost helped increase the number of attendees from a couple hundred veterans to their maximum capacity of 2,000.
A standard email response from the group (as of Saturday) reads:

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Nov 29, 2016.

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