The Nebraska State Patrol (i.e., the state police force for Nebraska) has sent some of its troopers to North Dakota to help control protests over the pipeline project. Why? If that doesn’t prove sufficient to suppress popular expression of opposition to governmental action, will Germany, or France, or Korea (both North and South?) be asked to send troops? Will NATO, and perhaps the United Nations, eventually be called upon to war against the political order’s greatest foe: human beings?

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