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An increasingly militarized police and the use of new tactics, like facial-recognition software and "informational stops" by fully armed National Guardsmen are being used against "Protectors" while fear and animosity are stirred up by resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Greg Grey Cloud of the Crow Creek Tribe in South Dakota has issued a warrant for alleged participation in the September 3 confrontation between DAPL security and their attack dogs.

Mr. Grey Cloud has been issued the warrant by North Dakota bureau of Criminal Investigation based on surveillance video footage and "recognized" by facial-recognition technology. But here's the thing, during the September 3 action Greg Grey Cloud was in Rosebud at a family barbecue.

Mr.Grey Cloud is a veteran activist. In 2014, he was arrested and charged with disrupting congress after Grey Cloud started singing a traditional Lakota honor song after the Senate voted down legislation pushing Keystone XL pipeline through without review by the federal government.

The subsequent charges against Grey Cloud were dropped.

Various camps have reported that they have been under constant surveillance from helicopters and airplanes. According to the "protectors", these aircraft follow them during actions carried out by the pipeline.

North Dakota law enforcement have claimed no knowledge of who is paying for such aircraft but acknowledges that the aircraft are part of the North Dakota Highway Patrol and have air-to-air communications with said aircraft.

Though, oddly enough, both Morton County spokesman Rob Keller and Sgt Tom Iverson said the aircraft are not directed by law enforcement.

The roadblock that had detoured drivers around the protectors' camp is now downgraded to an "Information stop" by fully armed National Guardsmen whom stopping cars and question motorists for their reason for traveling.

According to Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, He believes that law enforcement is creating a database using the information gathered at the "informational checkpoints."

Incidentally, the North Dakota Highway Patrol (NDHP) spokesperson Sgt. Tom Iverson, said a licence plate reader had been installed and collecting is currently collecting information at stop points.

North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple has convened a state panel asking for a loan of up to 6 million dollars from the state-owned bank Bank of North Dakota to further arm and militarize state police against unarmed protestors.

The reason for the loan is the flood of unsubstantiated reports of protesters supposedly stealing hay, cutting fences, blocked roads, and fear of going out alone on the roads. Presumably the later from self-induced fear or media induced paranoia. even with a low number of actual cases ,

Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeyer has asked for even more help against unarmed protesters. Kirchmeyer solicited the help of the National Sheriff's Association, and according to Danny Glick it is an unprecedented eventis the association's history.

"When we get a call from Sheriff Kirchmeier, we will be ready to assist," said Sheriff Glick of the Laramie County, Wyoming, sheriff's department, to the Bismarck Tribune.

Greg Grey Cloud said "I think they are targeting Indians unfairly," I have to agree with his statement. There is a history of violence and use of overwhelming force in order to pacify the indigenous population in order to extract resources.

What we are seeing here and now is hundreds of years of violence localized on the reservation spilling into to the national scene.