Pipeline opponents are becoming more extremist by the day and now want mob justice by petition in defense of their acts of sabotage and domestic terrorism.

Faced with often overwhelming evidence of their guilt—including numerous live-streaming episodes of their own criminal “actions” on Facebook—anti-pipeline eco-terrorists are starting to employ novel legal defense strategies which, for the most part, are failing spectacularly.

One strategy can best be summed up as “justice by petition.”

One year to the day after more than 400 protesters stormed a line of police officers on the Backwater Bridge in an effort to halt construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, a dozen activists with the Lakota People’s Law Project delivered a petition to the Morton County (ND) state’s attorney requesting that all charges be dropped against the violent protesters. But even with 55,000 signatures (many of which were gathered online) the odds are quite slim that the state’s attorney is going to ignore the premeditated and unprovoked violent attack that resulted in numerous injuries to law enforcement and protesters alike.

Other eco-terrorist defendants are asking judges to let them use a “necessity defense,” a unique strategy that involves admitting guilt but arguing that the defendant simply had no alternative but to do something illegal to prevent serious harm.

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