Editor,
I am voting for Hillary Clinton for president because I think she is capable, intelligent, compassionate and a feminist; however, she has not yet opposed the Dakota Pipeline.
I am not voting for the Green Party’s candidate Dr. Jill Stein because the Green Party has not organized enough around the country to have any chance of her election, unfortunately.
I do commend Dr. Stein for her civil disobedient action of spray painting on the Dakota Access Pipeline, a destructive and felonious act of terrorism on such a good thing as the Dakota pipeline. The 1000-mile plus pipeline over five states will destroy more of the Earth, continue dependence on dirty oil, damage cultural and sacred places of the Standing Rock Sioux, be dug under the Missouri River thereby threatening their drinking water and, once again, dishonor treaties with indigenous peoples.
As I said to a fellow member of the Eureka UU, “I will have to move to Mexico if Trump gets elected.” He replied, “You’ll have to pay for a wall, then.” Actually, I would not move out of my birth country. I would stay to fight creeping fascism, the continuing destruction of the Earth, and racist economic inequality.
I hope Hillary will oppose the pipeline.
T.A. Laughlin