TANTRUMS SHOULD NEVER BE TOLERATED. Dakota Pipeline: Army Corps orders protesters out.

Protesters fighting pipeline construction must vacate property near the Cannonball River in North Dakota — the location of a large campsite for demonstrators — by December 5 or face arrest, the Army Corps of Engineers said Friday.

“This decision is necessary to protect the general public from the violent confrontation between protestors and law enforcement officials that have occurred in this area, and to prevent death, illness, or serious injury to inhabitants of encampments due to the harsh North Dakota winter conditions,” Col. John Henderson of the Corps said in a letter to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe leader.

On Sunday, the Corps issued a new statement saying it wants a “peaceful and orderly transition to a safer location, and has no plans for forcible removal.”

The “right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” doesn’t include a right to violence, or to obstruct the lawful actions of others.