Matt Konenkamp

It patches a hole in our existing law relative to emergency situations, if we're forced to declared an emergency in response to a public safety need that's triggered by people that are gathering for peaceful protests, to object to the TransCanada pipeline, we will have this hole patched in our existing law.

We support people's right to protest and certainly, in this instance, the Native Americans' right to peacefully and prayerfully gather and note their objections with, second, I would say that there are time and place restrictions on first amendment rights.