By Deborah Dupré

The U.S. Army and Homeland Security partenered with Big Oil in one of the chemical mafia’s dirtiest of tricks in history against protesters. The petrochemical military industrial complex targeted 4000 Native Americans and others in sweltering heat, protesting the chemical mafia’s plan to poison 18 million people at the cost of $3.8 billion, by removing all drinking water at the demonstration.

Across North American, tribes and other communities have sent delegations to a North Dakota campsite to demonstrate against a proposed pipeline. As numbers of protesters continued swelling at the site they have been occupying, authorities barged in and removed all their drinking water.

The historic protest is against Dakota Access, a subsidiary of Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners, and its planned pipeline to carry some 570,000 barrels of sweet crude oil daily, fracked from North Dakota’s oil-rich Bakken Formation, down through other states, poisoning the water supply of millions of people, protesters say. They have succeeded in shutting down the construction of the pipeline. Without water, however, they have had to re-organize, as hundreds more arrive.

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“I feel like I just got shot down,” said Johnelle Leingang, executive secretary to Standing Rock Sioux Nation Chairman Dave Archambault II and the nation’s emergency response coordinator said after officials stole the protesters’ water. “It’s very hurtful,” she added, according to the Bismarck Tribune.

Removing the drinking water, however, has not turned around protesters from coast to coast heading to the campsite.

“I’ve been getting notifications from tribes all over the country that have caravans in route, so it’s continuing to grow.”

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North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple had issued a state of emergency declaration Friday,  calling on federal authorities to quell the protests Monday. Highway patrol, police and private security have been deployed.

Instead of the department of justice issuing a restraining order against the fossil fuel company threatening lives of 18 billion people by poisoning them, the protesters received a restraining order.

A North Dakota federal court issued a restraining order on Aug. 18 against the protesters. Developer of the pipeline, Dakota Access, citing that worker and law enforcement safety was at risk, had requested the restraining order.

Tribe chief, David Archambault II had told Indian Country Today, “We don’t want this black snake within our Treaty boundaries.”

Chief Archambault was arrested at the campsite protest.

A federal lawsuit has been filed to stop its construction, and a judge will rule on the request for a temporary injunction on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

Over the past two weeks, authorities have arrested 29 protesters, including the Standing Rock chairman, Dave Archambault II, and have used aircraft to disrupt cell phone reception, among other tactics, according to protesters.

State law enforcement working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could begin ticketing and removing what they label “unauthorized campers”, according to the Bismarck Tribune.

Native Americans and environmentalists have been fighting the pipeline since January when it was approved for construction, successfully halting its construction by blocking a major highway on Aug. 17.