I think I heard a shot

Look, I get it. You're all numb. I'm numb. Everyday I'm smacked in the face with corrupt politicians, leaked emails, bankruptcy and scandal, swollen pigs with coke-sniffles grabbing pussies, etc. It's all too much. We let it wash over us and feel nothing. It's a self defense mechanism. We're living in a world that is falling apart as we watch, collapsing down around us. And there's not much we can do. We sign petitions, we use hashtags and we hope it's enough...or tell ourselves that it is. We want to help, but we don't know how. And we're all so fucking tired. What good does any of it do? Nothing ever changes.

So I'm going to keep this as short, as simple and as to the point as I possibly can. Please try and stay awake while I tell you this tale. I'll be brief and won't use big words. I promise.

Wake up. 

The powers of corruption and greed want you to stay asleep. They are using your disillusionment, your weariness and your numbness as weapons against you. They are banking on the fact - literally - that you are too tired to care anymore. They are no longer trying to hide what they are doing. They are blatantly stealing, raping and destroying right in front of your faces, because they know you don't have the energy to fight back anymore. They are literally spitting in our faces and daring us to try and stop them. They have money and power on their side. And we're all so tired, so used to being plowed over and ignored. You've got to wake up now or you may never wake up again.

Long story short: A bunch of obscenely rich oil magnates in Texas decided to build a pipeline 1,168 miles long, costing $3.8 billion dollars that would transport 470,000 barrels of crude oil a day from Texas to Illinois. They used loopholes to get the project greenlit as fast as possible, and kept it all very hush hush.

Unfortunately, they neglected to inform the indigenous peoples whose lands they were planning on ripping up and destroying in order to make this ugly money funnel.

That's illegal.

From Crave:

In a nutshell, the government basically told the indigenous people to go fuck themselves. They were rich and powerful and were going to do whatever the hell they wanted, and use whatever means necessary to get it done...the faster to fatten their wallets, my dear.

Understandably, the Tribes got pissed, and decided to protest. They do so peacefully, without weapons, without threats.

The U.S. Government began unleashing dogs on them. They were shot with rubber bullets. They were arrested, despite the fact that they had done nothing wrong. Americans have a right to protest peacefully, but the government wants this to go away, quickly and quietly, before anyone else can see what's happening. They want you to forget, and go back to sleep, and submit to their power and force. They are afraid of us. They know that, despite their weapons and money and power and authority, they are outnumbered, and if we were all to wake the fuck up and see what's happening, and finally, at long last, stand the fuck up and say: "This is wrong! This is against the law! This is a violation of human rights!" they may actually be forced to listen, and back off.

So why is it so hard? Why can't we say something, do something, take a stand against the bullies? How long are we going to hang back and pretend this isn't happening? They are basically telling us all that we have no rights and no say. Is that correct?

This is every arrogant male sexually assaulting a woman. This is every white supremacist shoving black to the back of the bus. This is every schoolyard bully driving a classmate to suicide. And we are complicit when we do nothing. We, by our silence and our despair, are allowing the gang rape to happen, the beating to escalate and the injustice to multiply. How much is enough?

At the very least, SIGN THE PETITION.

EDUCATE YOURSELF!

Is that so much to ask?