TWO SIX NATIONS YOUTH DEFEND THEMSELVES FROM FIVE THUGS 16.09.2007 11:34:39: ------------------------------------------------------- MNN. Sept. 15, 2007. On September 13th at around 4:00 pm. witnesses saw non-native men running out, picking up weapons and going back into the unfinished house. Inside they had ambushed two Indigenous youth. The kids‚ backs were against the wall. They have a right to self-defense. The two youth had gone into the house. One went one way and the other went in another direction. That's when the older Indigenous boy caught the non-native man beating his younger brother. The OPP had stopped construction that morning at 9:00 am. Meetings were going on between the Six Nations and the "Crown" that afternoon about the land. Stirling construction was illegally building houses on Six Nations land. It is worth noting that the Ontario Provincial Police were there throughout the incident "to maintain the peace". They had not verified that all workers had left or that the area was secure. They stood by and watched the non-native men go into the house with clubs. They did not help the two Indigenous youths who were being attacked inside. The OPP admitted, "We were caught off guard". Or they were using their discretion not to intervene! Apparently two Indigenous youth had entered the "empty" building and surprised the non-natives who were inside. It was the Gualtieri brothers, Sam and Joe, and their three nephews. They started to beat one of the youth, a very young teenager. The older youth walked in and found Sam Gualtieri had his young brother against the wall with a bar pressed across his throat, ready to kill him. He grabbed whatever he could find to save his young brother. Joe Gualtieri watched as his partner in crime Sam took a beating. These burly guys and their nephews were over confident. They had numbers, strength and weight on their side, while the kids were fighting for their lives. The Gualtieris said they were just checking on the "home" which was behind the Six Nations blockade. They stated they were merely "protecting each other" from the boys. Then the Gualtieri stated that the two boys invited them "to have a [schoolyard] fight". "When you enter into a fight willingly, it isn't an assault, is it?" What about when a fight is provoked? The blockade is along the Grand River in southwestern Ontario . The two young boys were part of the group that was defending the land from an illegal housing development by Stirling Construction. It is one and a half kilometers from "Kanonhstaton" which was reclaimed by the Six Nations on February 28, 2006. Corporate media reported that 52-year old Sam Gualtieri was seriously injured. He was in the nearby Hagersville county hospital and shipped to Hamilton for testing. The spokesperson for the Confederacy Royaner [Chiefs] immediately distanced himself from the defenders of the land. He issued a statement condemning the boys and apologizing to the Gualtieri family. The Royaner condemned all defenders by saying "they're on their own". He said they will support "peaceful actions" only. His apology for an act of self-defense by the Indigenous boys shows how even our own members can be ensnared by bad press that always presumes that we are guilty before being proven innocent. Even we can get sucked in by the mythology that blames us for all violence. According to the Two Row Wampum Agreement between independent nations, the Confederacy has the responsibility to investigate the incident before commenting on it. If the five non-natives are at fault, they must be turned over to the colonial authorities to be dealt with. If the Indigenous youth have any culpability, the Confederacy and its people will deal with it. On the other hand, if any member of the Confederacy wipes their hands of responsibility for its people and turns them over to the colonial authorities, then the Royaner has violated wampum 58. Those indigenous people who follow foreign laws have alienated themselves from their nation. They forfeit their title and the gustowi falls from their brow. The office shall always remain with the people. Should the Royaner choose to submit himself or his people to foreign laws, they are no longer in but out of the nation. Persons of their class shall be called, "they have alienated themselves". They shall forfeit all birthrights and claims of the Confederacy and to the territory. These sanctions on the "Royaner" are not imposed without warning. Now that the facts of the situation are known then someone must take the time to warn the "Royaner" of their duties. The clan mothers have the duty to correct any erring Royaner who deviate from their duties according to the Kaianereh:kowa/Great Law of Peace. If the Royaner don't support the youth or the people, then the women have to step in. On-going talks have put development at a standstill. These non-native developers are intruders, instigators, trespassers and law breakers. Mayor Marie Trainor of Caledonia went later to the construction site. Many have noticed that whenever the Six Nations makes any headway in the talks, a diversion like this sometimes happens. The Indigenous youth had a right to question these men who were trespassing. The Gualtieri family were trying to make a political statement. It ended with our boys getting ambushed inside the house and the boys acting in self-defense as they should. According to the Kaianereh:kowa, each indigenous person has the duty to protect the land. If they could have, these boys could have gotten our own authorities to the site. The indigenous people with the chiefs could have gone there to remove these intruders and the youth could have avoided being ambushed. Kahentinetha Horn MNN Mohawk Nation News MNN Link http://mohawknationnews.com/news/singlenews.php?lang=en&category=21&newsnr=529

Native violence becomes blameless

WHAT VIOLENCE? They are upholding the Constitution and laws of Canada!

Ipperwash report effectively legitimizes illegal protests

That is because they ARE legal. Asserting rights under the Constitution can hardly be illegal.

Andrew Coyne, National Post

Published: Saturday, June 02, 2007

(I have skipped the first part of Coyne's piece as I have no interest in Lib-Cons politics or National Post - Toronto Star competitions.)

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Well now. If Mr. Harris was not personally to blame for Mr. George's death, who -- or what -- was? Judge Linden names a number of culprits, notably the OPP for its mishandling of the occupation and the federal government for its failure to live up to a promise to return to local natives land it had seized during the Second World War for a military base. He also takes the provincial government to task, for being too "impatient" to see the occupation resolved and for fuzzy lines of command that allowed the "perception" of political interference to arise.

All of which is true enough. Some OPP officers are caught on tape making appallingly racist comments, far worse than Mr. Harris's exasperated (and disputed) declaration to his advisors that "I want the f--king Indians out of the park."

The Judge found that he said it. Police, lawyers, judges, their job is to determine who is telling the truth. Watch the tape, Coyne. Shifty-eyed, perspiring, stuttering Harris is lying. It is said that when he was told of Dudley George’s death, he said “I didn’t tell them to kill anybody!” If that is true, sounds to me like HE thought he had given an order. hmmm

Operational commanders made a series of misjudgments, culminating in the disastrous decision to deploy the crowd control unit -- not to clear the park, but to force the natives, who had spilled out into an adjoining parking lot, back inside it. The federal government, though it had announced its intention to return the expropriated native land, had failed to do so, 50 years after the war's end, fuelling native frustration. The commissioner's criticisms of the Harris government are also well taken, as are his suggestions for how such situations might be better handled in future.

Yes, yes and yes. But while we are listing those to blame for Mr. George's death, is there no part that should be apportioned to the native occupiers themselves? Whatever their grievances, and however justified these may have been, there is little dispute that the occupation was illegal. Indeed, the provincial park, where the fatal confrontation took place, was not even formally in dispute, being a different parcel of land than the military base.

It is irrelevant that there was no “formal” land claim.

They have a Constitutional Right to assert “existing Aboriginal Rights and Treaties”.

Yup. Read it again. I said they have a Constitutional Right to do it.

“Assert” means they declare them to be in effect.

Once that is done, the government has a legal duty to negotiate an agreement with them.

In the meantime, the government (the ‘Crown’) also has a “duty to consult and accommodate” them in relation to all development on the traditional or treaty land where they have asserted title.

If they say no development, it is no development until the negotiations are completed.

Welcome to the TRUE law of the land.

The natives who seized the park had no mandate to do so from the local band council, and indeed faced active opposition from other band members for having done so.

That is not very surprising. The Band Council is an agent of the Canadian government.

Many of those who participated were not even from the area, but had travelled from as far away as the United States to show their support.

This is irrelevant, but it may serve your purpose of scaring people.

They say racism is based in fear.

No formal warning was offered that the park was about to be occupied. No grievance was clearly articulated beforehand, other than a vague, disputed and intermittently advocated claim that the park contained a native burial ground.

Boy, you really outdid yourself in minimizing that sticky issue!

Yes there is a burial ground there and the government knew it. Harris was told.

Even after the occupation began, the protesters refused to communicate in any way with the police.

To say what? We are having a picnic in the park?

And did the police communicate with them to let them know what they were doing and why they were making that horrific noise by bashing their shields with their batons? I believe the judge had something to say about that.

And in almost every case where police and natives clashed, the violence was initiated by the natives. While the beating of Cecil Bernard George at the hands of several OPP officers, the proximate cause of the events leading to the other Mr. George's death, was clearly deplorable, it came only after the first Mr. George had whacked an officer with a six-foot length of pipe.

The report says “… Cecil Bernard George was EXCESSIVELY BEATEN ON HIS HEAD AND FACE”. “Excessively” means it was not justified, beating someone about the head is never justified in police procedures, unless in self defence, and criminal charges can be laid, should be, but can’t be of course because no one will identify the offending officers. Some of them were not even in the assigned arrest party. It was a free for all … police batons and boots … on an elder! I hope they fuckin die still haunted by what they did, beating an old man like that! 78 blunt trauma wounds. HEAD AND FACE!!

The fatal shooting -- again, as wholly unjustified as it was -- came after natives drove a bus at police.

Teenagers …and a dog … trying to rescue the elder. The bus backfired and seven OPP snipers opened fire on the bus, targeting and wounding the teenage driver.

So the police badly mishandled the occupation, yes. But had this particular group of natives not taken it into their heads to break the law, defy their band council, and seize the provincial park, they would never have come into conflict with the police.

Have you ever gone into a provincial park when it was closed for the season? Did anybody call the cops on you? Did they call the CMU and TRU? Set up a command post? Run at you screaming and beating their shields? Kick your dog? Beat your grandfather half to death?? Open fire on your car? Shoot your brother AND LEAVE HIM TO DIE?

Yet throughout his report, Judge Linden takes the existence of this and other such native occupations as a given.

Yes they are a given. The feds acknowledge that. Ask Barbara MacDougall.

They simply "occur," as if by acts of God,

Actually ... acts of Gov.

Justice Linden was pretty clear in his report about who causes these things to happen. It is the Governments of Canada.

The Indigenous Peoples of Canada have rights under laws that are being broken by the government, the Constitution being the main issue.

The problem isn’t that our government ‘occasionally’crosses the line of the law:

The problem is that that they have never even bothered to catch up to the line of the law!

rather than being the result of conscious decisions by morally responsible adults.

Morally responsible adults who made a morally correct decision to act on their own behalf where the governments have completely failed to uphold the law.

At no time does he call into question the advisability of such a strategy, let alone its acceptability in a democratic and law-abiding state.

The Government is not law-abiding.

Indeed, by his silence, he implicitly ratifies it. What we have here is nothing less than the normalization of lawlessness, the legitimization of violence as a means of political protest. And by a judge!

About time somebody put the screws to the feds!

The law means nothing to them.

The developers in the Haldimand Tract know their titles are not clear, because they searched them all the way back. So they are doing business with the Confederacy, because they don’t want to wait for the government to ‘decide’ what they already know.

Haldimand County Council is only now coming to grips with its legal responsibility to “consult and accommodate”, after the third stoppage of construction. Slow learners, and still in denial.

Native radicals elsewhere can only take the appropriate cues, and be emboldened.

Yes, they have reason to be bold. They know the law. They are well within their legal rights.

And they are right. We cannot continue to destroy the land.

This is a turning point in history.

Andrew Coyne and the National Post - that allows or encourages this sick, whining, racist diatribe - are clearly creatures of a bygone era with little of use to offer the people of Canada in a land where Aboriginal Rights DO exist, and laws are upheld. Kinda reminds me of ...

JohnTory JohnTory .... Pass me the cheese!

"But we have one in Caledonia that is affecting children, affecting neighbours, affecting businesses that's been going on for 400 days, and they won't insist that that come to an end or be phased out in order to continue the negotiations."

Oh pass me the cheez cos this Tory 'whine' is giving me a headache! "...insist..." ROFFLMAO

CaledoniaCaledonia

JohnTory JohnTory .... Pass me the cheese!

"But we have one in Caledonia that is affecting children, affecting neighbours, affecting businesses that's been going on for 400 days, and they won't insist that that come to an end or be phased out in order to continue the negotiations."

Oh pass me the cheez cos this Tory 'whine' is giving me a headache!

Someone please tell this man that "insisting" is laughable. You cannot throw aboriginal people off land violently when they are asserting aboriginal rights under the Constitution and Supreme Court rulings !!?!! "The Crown has a duty to consult and accommodate". The government consulted, they said we are accommodated fine here at Kanonhstaton. Case closed. And remind him also that Chief Allan MacNaughton says "This land has been reclaimed." End of story. And land likewise can be reclaimed and aboriginal rights likewise can be asserted all across Ontario and Canada ... anytime ... because the federal government is is default of all treaties and agreements. We have no land rights. Fortunately the titleholders are kind people. And there is another story coming forward that will make everyone think Caledonia and nationwide blockades were a picnic ...

International Human Rights Tribunal into Genocide in Canada Commencing September, 2007

Indigenous Peoples of Canada bring the Canadian perpetrators of genocide before Aboriginal Justice.

"A symbolic request" (?!?!?) IPPERWASH

Dear Canadian Politicians: It is not "too soon" but it will soon be 'too late' (!!) to return the Camp and Park at Ipperwash to the rightful titleholders, and expect to reap any goodwill for it. Governments have had twelve years to prepare to pay the piper for this abomination!! Why the hell is the land not ready? Why the hell is it not already returned?? Canadians don't care about your stupid, wasteful, inhumane, shameful 'negotiations' to "limit the liability of the Crown".

DO THE RIGHT THING, DAMN IT!!! RFN!!!

It will soon be too late for it to have any effect in improving relations with Stony Point. Another opportunity squandered on behalf of the Canadian people without our consent. Thanks! (not) Canadians despair of their governments. It is absolutely crystal clear that CorporationCanada and its henchpeople, CorporationOntario, etc. etc. DO NOT HAVE THE BEST INTERESTS OF CANADIANS IN MIND when they deal with aboriginal issues. Corporations only care about their bottom line. We'd like to know where all the money is going!! Never mind ... we know ... the wealthy have it all and it has gone offshore to avoid doing any good for the ordinary people, and the middlee class run faster and faster and the poor get poorer. Canada is facing a well-deserved economic meltdown if the Indigenous people follow through with nation wide road and rail blockades. Canadians know that, and the mass of Canadians typically follow our governments like sheep ... but apparently ... NOT ANY MORE! ... a recent Angus Reid survey found that 35% of Canadian adults SUPPORT the BLOCKADES on the Aboriginal Day of Action June 29. SIX MILLION CANADIAN ADULTS ... and growing daily ... would rather see our governments go down in economic flames than continue to support our governments' GENOCIDAL campaign against the Indigenous people who share their land with us. Canadians are disgusted beyond belief. It will never be business 'as usual' for our governments again. SIX MILLION CANADIAN ADULTS and their children would rather contemplate living with Indigenous governance than perpetuate our current corrosive, corrupt and criminal governments.

Hello ... anybody there? WAKE UP POLITICIANS !!! This is not 'a symbolic request'. This is your last chance!!

ON JUNE 29 ... Think about it ... if there is one cop or one soldier near any one blockade anywhere anytime, it can go nationwide in a cell phone call.

If it goes nationwide, CorporationCanada is a goner. Apparently millions of Canadians don't think that is too horrible to contemplate anymore. Apparently many of those millions of Canadians, may be at the blockades!!

And this is not a 'symbolic' statement.

A symbolic request The Canadian Press TORONTO (Jun 2, 2007) The brother of an aboriginal man gunned down by police during the infamous occupation of Ipperwash Provincial Park a dozen years ago wants the land returned to his people -- something the province isn't quite ready to do just yet.A day after the results of a public inquiry into the death of Dudley George were released, his brother Sam George, pictured, issued a plea yesterday for Ontario to return the park to the Kettle and Stony Point First Nation as a way to restore peace. The inquiry report found government impatience and unwillingness to settle aboriginal land claims contributed to the death.Premier Dalton McGuinty said it's too soon to decide whether the province can commit to returning the land."I understand the symbolism that Mr. George is attaching to the future of the land. ... It may be that we can do something with that sooner rather than later."Regardless of any commitment to return the land right away, George said, moving on the recommendations of the inquiry will be a key step to healing old wounds and building trust between aboriginals and government.Creating a Treaty Commission of Ontario and a separate ministry of aboriginal affairs were two of the key recommendations in Thursday's report. Natural Resources Minister David Ramsay said yesterday that "the stars are aligning" to make those recommendations a reality.

A symbolic request The Canadian Press TORONTO (Jun 2, 2007) The brother of an aboriginal man gunned down by police during the infamous occupation of Ipperwash Provincial Park a dozen years ago wants the land returned to his people -- something the province isn't quite ready to do just yet. A day after the results of a public inquiry into the death of Dudley George were released, his brother Sam George, pictured, issued a plea yesterday for Ontario to return the park to the Kettle and Stony Point First Nation as a way to restore peace. The inquiry report found government impatience and unwillingness to settle aboriginal land claims contributed to the death. Premier Dalton McGuinty said it's too soon to decide whether the province can commit to returning the land. "I understand the symbolism that Mr. George is attaching to the future of the land. ... It may be that we can do something with that sooner rather than later." Dear Politicians: It is not "too soon" but it will soon be 'too late' to return the Camp and Park at Ipperwash to the rightful titleholders, and expect to reap any goodwill for it. Governments have had twelve years to prepare to pay the piper for this abomination!! Why the hell is the land not ready? Why the hell is it not already returned?? Canadians don't care about your stupid, wasteful, inhumane, shameful 'negotiations' to "limit the liability of the Crown". DO THE RIGHT THING, DAMN IT!!! It will soon be too late for it to have any effect in improving relations with Stony Point. Another opportunity squandered on behalf of the Canadian people without our consent. Thanks! Canadians despair of their governments. It is absolutely crystal clear that CorporationCanada and its henchmen, Corporation Ontario, etc. DO NOT HAVE THE BEST INTERESTS OF CANADIANS IN MIND when they deal with aboriginal issues. Corporations only care about their bottom line. We'd like to know where all the money is going!! Never mind ... we know ... the wealthy have it all and it has gone offshore to avoid doing any good for the ordinary people, and the poor get poorer. Canada is facing a well-deserved economic meltdown if the Indigenous people follow through with nation wide road and rail blockades. Canadians know that, and the mass of Canadians typically follow their governments like sheep. NO MORE ... a recent Angus Reid survey found that 35% of Canadians SUPPORT the BLOCKADES on the aboriginal day of action June 29. SIX MILLION CANADIAN ADULTS ... and growing daily ... would rather see our country go down in economic flames than continue to support our governments' GENOCIDAL campaign against the Indigenous people who share their land with us. Canadians are disgusted beyond belief. It will never be business 'as usual' for our governments again. SIX MILLION CANADIANS would rather take a chance on living under Indigenous governance than perpetuate our present corrosive, corrupt and criminal governments. Hello ... anybody there? WAKE UP !!! This is not a symbolic request. This is your last chance!! ck

"For natives, a legal free-for-all" as the National Post says? NO! A GENOCIDAL free-for-all for Canada!! GrannyRants

It is media reports or editorials that often fuel my GrannyRants. This week it is this piece of TRASH from the editors of the National Post

http://tinyurl.com/38xp4q

"For more than a decade now, aboriginal lawlessness has been met by official docility. If more blockades and protests erupt this month, it will be in large measure due to the willingness of official interlocutors such as the Ipperwash commissioner to reward such behaviour."

They say that racism is based in fear. If so, then the National Post's Editorial Board is absolutely terrified of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada. Wisely so, given the National Post's genocidal editorial policy. These genocidal rantings belong in a court of law, not a national newspaper!

Canadians who take this attitude or anything approaching it are ignoring ‘the elephant in the room’. The ‘elephant’ is CorporationCanada’s lawless, often murderous and always genocidal campaign toward Indigenous Peoples, and its complete lack of humanity in relations with our closest neighbours and longest allies.

Some examples: Children of traditional Indigenous parents were literally torn from the arms of their parents and removed from their families to a foreign culture. Many still are. This alone is an act of genocide. The death rate for children in Canada’s ‘Indian Residential Schools’ was higher than in most WWII German concentration camps. Persecution, by Canada’s policies, was directed at those who maintained their traditional spiritual and cultural ways. Those who 'assimilated' under threat or reality of abusive punishment "received preferential treatment" and to this day, they remain the long arms of control that Canada holds over Indigenous peoples and their funds. Genocide was conducted to destroy their religion and culture and force them to assimilate into 'the Canadian mosaic' ... without their land, of course. Over half of the children died in the residential death camps, according to government reports. Their parents were never even informed of their deaths, according to the Anglican Archbishop. The death rate from tuberculosis in the schools was 10x the next highest rate ever on record. This does not happen by accident. It was genocide. Missionary/doctors were paid $300 each for sterilizing traditional Indigenous women. That selectivity and payment and sterilization constitute genocide. Their missionary Christian zeal for converting the heathens and stopping them from reproducing was used as a tool by CorporationCanada to devastate the people and steal their land.

TODAY Indigenous Peoples of Canada are denied use of their own land, poisoned with industrial toxins, denied benefit from the resources from their own land, denied control over the land uses, despite the horrific impact of the resource industries on their health. CorporationCanada will not share the income and land it thinks it has cleanly "stolen" from them. Canada funds their communities FAR below the poverty level and does not allow them to participate in the resource wealth that Canada generates from their land. NewsFlash: This constitutes "providing conditions of life that lead to the destruction of a people" ... It constitutes genocide.

In September 2007, the International Human Rights Tribunal into Genocide in Canada will begin its work, under the direction of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada who took their case to the UN. Its purpose is to bring the Canadian perpetrators of genocide to aboriginal justice, including those who abused and murdered children and those who are responsible for government policy and for church implementation of that policy and those responsible for continuing coverup efforts. The truths will be told and there will be no more secrets, and there is nothing Canada can do to stop this as it is out of Canada's hands.

It is no accident that Canada failed to pass a law against genocide until 2000, four years after the last residential school closed. It is no accident that Canada did not include ‘removing children from their group and placing them with another group’ in its law against genocide, in violation of the UN Convention on Genocide. It is no accident that children ARE STILL forcibly removed from their families for placement in residential schools, orphanages, adoption houses, foster homes, group homes ... hundreds of thousands of children. The ‘Sixties Scoop’ went on for 30 years, to the 1980’s, and the inordinately high rate of removal from their families, usually due to poverty, continues today in violation of the UN Children’s Bill of Rights, the Convention on Genocide and several other UN declarations signed by Canada. It is no accident that many of these Indigenous children and youth and young adults are still used as prey for pedophiles and rapists and abusers and murderers. It is no accident that they arrive at houses of luxury for their appointments-with-horror in police vans (Want to see the video?). It is ongoing, horrific, apparently officially sanctioned genocide in Canada today.

It is no accident either that when a uranium mine causes high rates of cancer in an Indigenous community, the doctor who reports it is silenced by Health Canada (Fort Chippewyan, March 2007), to allow the people to continue to die without interference. No accident that 10% of the residents of Grassy Narrows have Minimata disease from pulp mill mercury poisoning, and legions of learning and other disabilities from toxic herbicides and pesticides aerial sprayed on their community as if they weren't there, by clearcutting logging companies operating on their traditional land without permission. It is no accident that a man from Barriere Lake PQ suffered permanent brain damge from an attack by a Domtar logger's machine, lifted up and then shaken off as if he was an annoying insect. In light of all of this, one has to ask ‘WHY?’ Brian Mulroney said it most succinctly on CBC TV recently:

“We stole their land”.

The UN said it harshly to Canada in 2004:

Ever since early colonial settlement, Canada’s indigenous peoples were progressively dispossessed of their lands, resources and culture,

a process that led them into destitution, deprivation and dependency, which in turn generated an assertive and, occasionally, militant social movement in defence of their rights, restitution of their lands and resources and struggle for equal opportunity and self-determination.

Canadians have no legal rights to the Indigenous land upon which we all live. We never conquered them and they never surrendered their sovereignty. We have nation-to-nation peace treaties with them that allow us to live on their land. We have broken every treaty. Thus, Canadians no longer have any land rights in Canada because our elected officials and bureaucrats have not upheld our part of the lawful agreements that allowed us to live on the land and to become a nation. Our nation was founded on a lie that it was "our" land and that the land contained "our" resources. As the Indigenous people say

"Did you bring that oil with you from Europe?"

The truth is that Canada is founded on a criminal empire of corporations whose only interest is raping the land for greed, killing as many people in their way as necessary using increasingly sophisticated means, and shipping the proceeds of greed "offshore" where it cannot become part of Canada's operating funds via taxation. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and we all have to answer for our crimes eventually.

CorporationCanada exists in a complete and utter state of lawlessness with respect to its treatment of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada. CorporationCanada, a violent sociopathic aggressor, now cornered, frantically hoarding its ill-gotten gain, viciously, evilly defending itself with poison darts from the ramparts of its own shame.

Is the NATIONAL POST is the flag bearer for Canada's criminal regime?

It is a criminal act to counsel for genocide.

And it is a criminal act for Canadians to remain silent about genocide.

What is Genocide? What does it look like?

Genocide is the destruction of a racial, cultural or religious group, in whole or in part. One need not murder individuals directly, but their premature death often results from "providing conditions of life that lead to the destruction of the group in whole or in part". The first element of genocide is destroying the pattern of the culture, and the second element is replacing it with the pattern of the dominant culture. Somewhere in the world right now, some ethnic or racial or religious minority may be experiencing this: Blankets, clothing, etc. are handed out to them that are infected with deadly diseases. Members of the group are shot or beaten or placed in deathly situations 'for sport'. Their land is assumed by the dominant society. Their governance and religion and cultural practices are outlawed. Children are removed from their homes and placed with the dominant group, adopted, schooled, institutionalized by the dominant culture. Children may be made wards of the dominant culture on a wholesale basis. Parents may be forced to give the children up or face incarceration, again forcing them to give the children up. Encouragement of widespread physical and sexual abuse and torture occurs, by turning a blind eye and covering up crimes, and/or by actively recruiting abusive staff, to break their spirit, break their cultural pattern. Those who do not 'break' ... i.e., will not cry and beg for mercy ... are subjected to intensive abuse, torture that may end in death. Errors of ommission lead to widespread death: Naturally occurring diseases are captialized upon by using no preventative measures - e.g., children with open tubucular sores eating, playing and sleeping with healthy children. Punishment may involve sleeping with a sick child. Sick children receive minimal care, are essentially left to die. Though well children may be forced to sleep with sick children, they are not allowed to visit them to provide food or water or comfort. Children who flee cannot go home as they will be found and returned, so the children who flee are abandoned by the state, left to their own resources with absolutely no supports, often on the streets of the cities where they must somehow eat and sleep while constantly avoiding capture and return to the institution. A genocidal campaign such as that outlined above may go on for years ... decades ... centuries ... through many generations of victims and survivors, in order to destroy the culture. Taking the land and resources out of their hands is the common and dominant element, purpose and single minded goal of the oppressors. Thus genocide is particularly evident where an indigenous population has been displaced by a colonial society. Modern day genocide may look like ... Industrialization of their lands without consultation or consent, with no precautions taken to ensure the integrity of water, air and land from dangerous toxins in their communities. Warnings are not heeded and the whistleblowers are themselves subject to suppression and oppression of rights. Many people become ill with temporary and permanent disorders, or die as a result of environmental 'indifferent' pollution by the dominant society. Communities are not provided with the same necessities of life as dominant communities, including basic levels of funding and care, and opportunities for individuals and the community to gain a degree of autonomy and financial independence to create development and hope for the future. Despite the pressure to assimilate, become part of the dominant society, if they stay in their own communities they are not funded or treated like full citizens but are kept in a state of dependency and poverty. Criminaliztion of dissent and of poverty or land related activism: Rates of incarceration of the group are many times higher than of the dominant culture or other minorities, though their crimes are minor. Minimization of the state's role in past atrocities, denigration of the people and glorification of the conditions of life provided for them. "It was done in the name of providing an education for them (Implication: "... and look what they have done with it ... nothing.") ... in the name of "limiting the liability of the Crown". Minimization of the damage from genocidal practices of the past: Partial acknowledgement of some 'inappropriate practices' but continued blaming of the 'culture' as the issue, rather than the oppression. Enlistment of those assimilated (by threat or force or dependency) from the culture itself to lead communities in the direction of further assimilation, to enforce silence about past atrocities, and to stifle dissent and public protest about imposed poverty, dependency and especially about the land. Continued pressure and bully tactics to assimilate people into the dominant culture, or to remove their supports and drive them out of the community. Encouragement, by failure to intervene, of stereotypes that connect the distressed state of the people to their character as a cultural group. Thus, the stereotypical "lazy drunk Indian, beat up and lying in the street" is not recognized as suffering the effects of survival of genocide, but as a weak character of little value to society. Victims of genocidal campaigns of denigration and oppression of culture and self are not allowed to learn to love, to parent, to participate and to achieve: They learn only to fear and perhaps to fight, and to drown the pain and to endure the trauma. Intergenerational trauma affects subsequent generations because of violence, fear, intimidation, loss of self and culture, and learning violent and destructive behaviours at the hands of the oppressors, then passing these on to subsequent generations. Either they destroy themselves, or they destroy those around them, imitating the patterns of behaviour of those who abused and oppressed and traumatized them permanently. Indigenous peoples of Canada today have either assimilated, or they continue to fight for their culture and beliefs and ways of life and the right to self-determination, or they continue to exist in a state of permanent post-traumatic stress, slowly or quickly killing themselves with substance abuse, self-abuse and suicide. This is the legacy of Canada's past genocide. And RIGHT NOW ... genocide might look like ... Fort Chipewyan Grassy Narrows Sarnia Right now genocide in Canada looks like ... Criminaliztion of dissent and poverty activism: Rates of incarceration of Indigenous people are six times that of other groups, though their 'crimes' are generally not serious ones. Minimization of the state's role, denigration of the people and glorification of the deathly conditions of life provided for them. "It was done in the name of providing an education for them." Minimization of the damage from genocidal practices of the past: Sexual abuse and physical abuse only, delayed until many victims have died, and ignoring the children who died in the schools. Enlisting assimilated enforcers from the culture to lead communities in the direction of further assimilation, to enforce silence about past atrocities, and to stifle dissent and public protest. Continued pressure and bully tactics to assimilate people into the dominant culture, or drive them out of the community. Encouragement, by failure to intervene directly, of stereotypes that connect the distressed state of the people to their character as a cultural group. Thus, the "lazy drunk Indian, beat up and lying in the street" is not recognized as suffering the effects of genocide, but dismissed as a weak character of little value to society. Victims of genocidal campaigns of denigration and oppression of culture and self may not learn to love, to parent, to participate and to achieve: They learn only to fear and perhaps to fight, and to drown the pain and to endure the trauma. Intergenerational trauma affects subsequent generations because of violence, fear, intimidation, loss of self and culture, and learning violent and destructive behaviours at the hands of the oppressors, then passing these on to subsequent generations. Either they destroy themselves, or they destroy those around them, imitating the patterns of behaviour of those who abused and oppressed and traumatized them permanently. Indigenous peoples of Canada today have either assimilated, or they continue to fight for their culture and beliefs and ways of life and the right to self-determination, or they continue to exist in a state of permanent post-traumatic stress, slowly or quickly killing themselves with substance abuse, self-abuse and suicide. This is the legacy of Canada's genocide. And still Canada continues to steal the land and resourves, by failing to "uphold the Honour of the Crown" or to perform its "duty to consult and accommodate" on use of traditional and treaty land, despite the orders of the Supreme Court; By failing to negotiate in good faith and adjudicate land disputes independent of political influence; By failing even to inform development corporations of the duty to consult and accommodate. By failing to consider that a new model of land use is evolving in Canada: A model where all development on traditional and treaty land is reviewed by Indigenous governance and approved, not approved, or modified to meet their requirements for traditional stewardship of the land and environmental safeguards; Where Indigenous groups are entitled to a share in the jobs and training and revenues from resources, etc. from their land, thus breaking the enforced dependency on government handouts and creating avenues for creative endeavours. This model exists in the Haldimand Tract today, where one land reclamation and one small sentence have the developers lining up to "consult and accommodate" the Confederacy, despite the government's continued failure to negotiate in good faith: And those words were "Thanks for the Windmills!" Because the research shows VERY clearly that if they want to prevent adolescent suicide in the community, you give them hope by implementing self governance and you pursue your land rights. It appears that they are taking control of that, and the best we can do is ask them how we can support them in their goals and struggles.

June 29 2007 ... Be there!

And keep this in mind ... the death rate from TB among Indigenous Peoples of Canada, mostly children in the residential schools, was the highest human death rate from TB ever on record, by a factor of 8x. It was not accidental, not just negligence: It was deliberate ... and it was government policy ... and it was genocide for land ... and it still is. CorporationCanada is not to be trusted. Email dallar@sen.parl.gc.ca and cc info@gg.ca

So ... just who is terrorizing who?

In one week, Prime Minister Harper has finally grudgingly agreed: - to pay some of the province's costs for Caledonia; - to give his negotiators a mandate to actually negotiate; - to allow the negotiators to negotiate with the Haudenosaunee Confederacy representatives, as chosen by the people and the elected Band Council. At the same time, there have been severe intimidation tactics: - a high tech low level surveillance plane circling the reclamation site every night, which must have 'high level' orders; - a 'leaked' draft DND document identifying aboriginal groups legitimately pursuing justice on land and governance issues as "insurgents", for whom death is an accepted outcome; - a Minister/MP raising resentment in Caledonia and at Six Nations by making plans to build a new facility on the reclamation site, which she would not be doing without Harper's approval because everyone knows there is only one voice in Ottawa these days. Seems to me Harper doesn't really want to negotiate, but within the law of the Supreme Court rulings he has no choice, so he's doing everything in his power to create fear and anger and resentment, and sabotage the talks ... seems to me. Somebody should tell Harper that abiding by the 'rule of law' is necessary to keeping the peace in Canada ... but perhaps that is not his purpose?? Last spring, on April 16, the Six Nations elected Band Council voted to turn negotiations over to the Confederacy. On April 18, Harper refused to allow his team to negotiate with the Confederacy. On April 20, at the urging of a federally-appointed judge, the OPP violently attacked, arrested and convicted the women, men and youths on the site (except the non-aboriginal people). The only people with guns were the OPP. The whole community arrived and, led by the women, pushed the OPP back off the site. Then the Six Nations community secured themselves behind barricades prepared for the next attack. I think it is extremely important for Canadians to understand everything that is going on so that if it blows up again, they will know why.

So ... just who IS terrorizing who?

Six Nations UNION EDUCATIONAL MEETING IN SUPPORT OF SIX NATIONS

Six Nations, Caledonia, aboriginal, protest Please contact tom@tao.ca or call 416-526-4255 or visit www.honorsixnations.com for more information. Please be in touch with us to register if you're planning to come to the event. DATE: 11:30AM – 5:00 PM Saturday, March 31st, 2007 LOCATION: Hamilton Horseshoe Club - 170 Brockley Dr ROADMAP: http://tinyurl.com/yonhl2 BUSMAP: http://www.busweb.hamilton.ca:8008/hiwire Community Friends for Peace and Understanding with Six Nations, a grass-roots coalition of community and labour activists is hosting this meeting in order to create a place for trade union activists in southern Ontario to come together to build union support for the Six Nations reclamation. From the beginning of the reclamation, the trade union movement has issued statements of support and made financial donations. However, this support needs to be sustained as well as extended into the rank-and-file of the union movement, as we at the grassroots work consistently to build bridges between the common values and interests of the trade union movement and those of indigenous peoples. Members from the following unions will be present at the workshop: CAW 707, CAW 555, CAW 88, CUPE 3903, CUPE 3906, CUPE 4400, CUPE 5167, USWA 1005, and USWA 1998. 11:30am SHARP Welcoming session: - people from Six Nations welcome union activists to the event - representative from Community Friends (Caledonia) explains the purpose of the meeting - go around and introductions of everyone present 12:00pm – 2:00pm INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY AND HAUDENOSAUNEE RELATIONS WITH THE BRITISH CROWN AND THE CANADIAN STATE: THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND TO THE CONFLICT OVER THE 'DOUGLAS CREEK ESTATES'. The purpose of this session is to provide people with the historical and political background to the struggle going on and to provide people with the tools to convince their fellow union members about the justness and righteousness of the Six Nations cause. Speakers include Hazel Hill from the reclamation site, Ruby Monture, and Rhonda Hill – mother of Six Nations political prisoner Christopher Hill. Other speakers TBA 2:00-2:30pm snack break 2:30pm – 5:30pm "WHY (AND HOW) SHOULD TRADE UNIONS TO SUPPORT INDIGENOUS RIGHTS? HOW DO WE ORGANIZE WITHIN UNIONS TO RAISE AWARENESS OF INDIGENOUS ISSUES AND MOBILIZE THE RANK-AND-FILE TO GET ACTIVE IN SUPPORTING INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY?" Some people argue that trade unions exist for the purpose of defending their membership from their bosses and should only be limited to working around workplace issues. Other people argue that "an injury to one is an injury to all" and that trade unions are powerful vehicles for social justice and solidarity on a wide range of issues not limited to the workplace. This panel discussion will address the question of how trade unions have related to indigenous struggles in the past, how they do so today, and why the union movement can be an important ally for indigenous peoples across the country. The second part of this session will focus on the nuts and bolts issues of how we can work within the union movement to build support for indigenous sovereignty in general and concrete support for Six Nations in particular and address the kinds of problems and challenges we might face in doing this work. Speakers: Lindsay Hinshelwood, CAW 707; Tom Keefer, CUPE 3903; Joanne Webb, CUPE National Aboriginal Council, and others TBA from the Trade Union Movement.

What's Happening In Caledonia

A presentation by Six Nations negotiators cast some light on the history and context of the Six Nations land claim controversy in Caledonia.

Feb. 26, 2007

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy (aka Iroquois) spans the Canada-US border and includes Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, St. Regis/Oka, Awkwesasne, Kanewake, Kahnesetake, Tyendinaga/Desoronto, Wahta and possibly other reserves and communities. It includes the Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Cayuga, Tuscarora and Onondaga peoples.

After the American War of Independence, during which Mohawk warriors fought as allies of the British, the Haudenosaunee were persecuted in their New York territories and so moved north to ancestral territories along the Grand River, which were reserved for them in the Haldimand Proclamation of 1784. The land was gradually taken out of their hands through a variety of sales and surrenders currently in dispute.

On February 28, 2006, members of the Six Nations claimed a construction site in Caledonia, asserting that it is unceded Confederacy land and a site of historical and sacred importance to them. The Ontario Provincial Police tried unsuccessfully to remove them on April 20, 2006. Negotiations with provincial and federal negotiators began May 9 2006, and are currently in progress.

These members of the Six Nations assert ownership over the entire Haldimand Tract. They also assert that their aboriginal sovereignty was never ceded.

What's happening in Caledonia? was the title of a presentation by three Haudenosaunee Confederacy negotiators from Six Nations, sponsored by Amnesty International and the Community of Friends of Six Nations and organized by Dr. George Sorger, a McMaster professor and member of both groups.

Chief Allan McNaughton spoke of the history of Six Nations and their alliances with the European settlers in North America for respect, peace and friendship. The Two Row Wampum Treaty with the Dutch clarified the relationship as "like brothers ... and neither will try to steer the other's boat."

This treaty was carried forward and renewed as the Silver Covenant Chain and is now recognized by the Constitution of Canada. However, this treaty and others were not honoured by Canada. As more and more white settlers encroached on native territory, lands were forcibly surrendered and trust fund money for those lands was embezzled and used to build Canadian institutions and infrastructure.

Sub-Chief Leroy Hill spoke of the 385,000 hectare Haldimand Tract and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy plan for leasing lands to provide income for the "perpetual care and maintenance" of their people via a trust fund. The Confederacy made their plans to afford self-sufficiency for their people. The Canadian settlers and governments failed to honour and undermined these plans:

• Four sections (blocks 1 to 4) were leased for 999 years but payment has either not been received or has been taken from their trust fund with no accounting for the funds.
• Two other sections (blocks 5 and 6) were simply encroached upon by settlers with no payment. They were later granted deeds.
• The Plank Road, a one mile strip along Hwy 6, was leased to settlers on renewable 21 year leases, which were never paid. The government eventually issued deeds for those lots though it had no proper ownership.

Clan Mother representative Hazel Hill talked about the Clan Mothers who are the title holders. The Clan Mothers are responsible for caring for the children and the land that will sustain them, while the men look after the safety of the women and children. She spoke of how the reclamation of the land February 28, 2006 reflects these responsibilities to care for the land for future generations.

The reclamation was supported by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Council which is still the government accepted by the people. In their view, the Band Council system is Canada's government imposed on them in 1924 to facilitate the theft of land and fraudulent misuse of their trust money.

In later years, Canada passed laws forbidding aboriginal groups from using the courts to reclaim land. It was not until 1979 that the government installed the current land claim system. However, many aboriginal and other Canadians feel that the system is so slow and cumbersome that it is not a good faith initiative.

Dr. George Sorger asked participants to sign a petition to the federal government to place a moratorium on lands in dispute. Our governments continue to approve development, logging, mining and other destructive activities on land in dispute, leading to confrontations like Caledonia and Desoronto.

Speakers left ample time for questions and answers from the multicultural crowd of students, staff and faculty. Most questions indicated support for the reclaimers and concerns about the behaviour of our governments. The final question was, "Do you believe our federal government is negotiating in good faith?"

Chief Allan McNaughton responded carefully by saying that the government negotiators have delivered a "legal position" that the Plank Road land was surrendered, but they have not produced documentation to support that, nor have they adequately evaluated the oral history prepared by Six Nations and the accompanying documentation. Consequently, negotiations on that land are at stalemate.

Haudenosaunee negotiators, thus, have begun reviewing the framework for the negotiations and the commitments of both parties to determine whether this agreed-upon negotiation protocol is being followed, or whether there are areas of concern.

Chief McNaughton identified one concern: The negotiations are to occur under the Two Row Wampum Treaty, which specifies that "neither will try to steer the other's vessel".

UPDATE: Chief MacNaughton has now further stated that the federal negotiators have been sent to the table without the authority to negotiate a mutually acceptable resolution to the Plank Road claim. This is in violation of the mutually agreed upon protocol for the negotiations. The Federal government has offered only money, and the confederacy does not have a mandate from its people to accept a money settlement for what is to them sacred land.

Free Speech? Hate Speech? Harassment?

Where is the line?

The session at McMaster last week (What's Happening in Caledonia?) was an excellent session where the Haudenosaunee negotiators spoke directly to a welcoming audience of well informed Canadians who clearly support efficient and good faith settlement of Indigenous land claims. It was a resounding success, followed by an equally energized and successful first meeting of a group of supporters. This highlights the tradition our universities have of academic freedom and upholding free speech in a respectful environment. This tradition is again apparent in the session that occurred two days later in the same location: Palestine and Israel: Roots of conflict. Prospects for peace. Norman G. FinkelsteinStart: Feb 15 2007 - 7:00pm Health Science Center (HSC) 1A1, McMaster University I raise this issue because the only discouraging part of the Haudenosaunee event at McMaster was the harassment of the university president and the organizer by the small but persistently aggressive group from Caledonia and area, and their outside instigators. The harassment continues even after the event. This same group has disrupted and taken control of all meetings about the reclamation that have occurred in Caledonia, to the point where the head negotiator for the federal government said "We were not treated very well in Caledonia ... not well at all." Sadly, this small group constantly demands information but when it is presented, they dismiss it and refuse to listen, drowning it out with their aggressive voices instead: "Bring in the army!" "Two-tier justice!" "Get them off the land!" One of this nay-group recently wrote a letter to the editor chastising the majority of Caledonians who do not come out for their meetings and their rallies. It is quite apparent to many why that is the case: Most Caledonians are peaceful people who want to maintain good relations with Six Nations. They want absolutely nothing to do with the racial slurs and insults and the harassment, threats, intimidation and assaults committed by this small group. Indeed, it is the actions of this small group and the outsiders they have recruited to help them that has created and sustained the aggressive media images now associated with Caledonia. I suspect that the majority of Caledonians would be happy to attend a peaceful, informative session to hear Six Nations negotiators, but it is not clear whether such a session could be held peacefully in Caledonia. That is unfortunate because it cuts local people off from the information, while those outside the area get to hear it uninterrupted. The key is to insist on an atmosphere of respect, and to be prepared to ask people to leave if they speak aggressively or interfere with other people's rights to hear and the presenters' rights to be heard. The key, in Caledonia and elsewhere is for this group to recognize that they are a small group, not everyone is interested in their views, and that freedom of speech carries with it the responsibility to allow all points of view to be heard. It is unfortunate that there has been no leadership in Haldimand to remind people of these civic responsibilities and common courtesies. This leads to a situation where this unrestrained group believe they can and should silence voices outside the area as well. This is not the way it works in Canada. It may be that the tradition and law of free speech is not functioning in Caledonia, but I can assure you that threats to drown it out elsewhere in Canada, especially in educational institutions, are doomed to failure because they are simply not acceptable to Canadians in general. In addition, since the Caledonia rallies now draw the 'premiere' white supremacists of Canada, ordinary people will NEVER agree to participate in that kind of rally or meeting. Indeed, it can be very damaging to one's reputation and prospects to be seen as part of that 'movement' which has as its goal the eradication of non-white people from 'their' white society. Very few 'white' people agree with these aggressive and hateful beliefs. It is my hope that this post will help some of those people let go of their frustration because, indeed, the successful session at McMaster indicates that free speech is alive and well in Canada. All views WILL be heard. This is as it should be, except where those views cross the line of hate speech: There is no forum for that in Canada, because that is a violation of the law. When directed at an individual such as a university president or professor in this case, it is also threat and intimidation, again a violation of the law. These laws uphold the peaceful environment that Canadians prefer above all, to a fault perhaps, but nonetheless, these are the collective wishes and rules of Canada. The only victory worth winning is won fairly. Denying others the right to speak uninterrupted is not fair, nor is it likely to lead to 'victory' in this case, which depends instead on accurate evaluation of a variety of specific details of transactions with the Crown. Some people have, unfortunately, been 'sweet-talked' into believing that what they are doing is free speech. It is not. Those who try to convince you to break the 'hate' laws are doing so for their own purposes: To incite hatred against Six Nations, and to challenge Canada's hate laws, uphold their right to their white supremacist notions of free 'hate' speech. They are exposing you to the possibility of litigation or arrest by using you to make their 'point', without letting you know that this is their intention. They are not your friends. Perhaps there will come a time when the Haudenosaunee negotiators will be able to speak to their neighbours in Caledonia without harassment. I certainly hope so, because there are major issues being addressed and the people have a right to know.

68% of Canadians believe our governments should honour aboriginal treaties

STOP POLITICKING IN THE LEGISLATURE!!

I am so tired of paying politicians to campaign in the legislature! EVERY person who speaks takes time to campaign,

talking about the record of their own and other

parties on that issue, at some length.

Meanwhile important decisions await their precious time …

expensive time … time that WE pay them for.

Party politics have no bearing on the decisions at hand,

the ones we are paying them to make.

We pay them to govern, not to campaign.

'Marshall Law' in Caledonia

** Justice T. David Marshall is 'the law' in Haldimand County where the Six Nations Haudenosaunee people are asserting their aboriginal rights, in accord with the Constitution of Canada. Their claim is for the Haldimand Tract, six miles deep on either side of the Grand River from source (near Orangeville) to mouth (Lake Erie), and includes land 'owned' by Justice T. David Marshall. This is part of their traditional lands, and was reserved solely for them after the American War of Independence. They are also asserting sovereignty as allies of the Crown, not subjects. They fought with the British against the Americans in 1776, and again in the war of 1812, where the Mohawk Warriors of Grand River turned them back at the Niagara River. They are allies of the Crown and sovereign people according to the treaties we signed with them, the treaties that define Canada and give Canadians the right to live on aboriginal land. Jim Prentice, the Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada referred to the Haldimand Tract as "... the oldest land claim in Canada", so clearly the government has been aware of the issue for a very long time, since 1841 with the first objection to the 1841 'surrender' of the Plank Road Tract. With benefit of knowledge of what happens still today, I know that the Confederacy signed an offer from the government, which the government of Canada still today calls "signing a final agreement", just to befuddle the Canadian population. But an offer is just an offer, and the offer goes to the people for ratification and it was voted down in 1841. Today, our government still "stands by" this unratified 'final agreement', because that is all Canada has. The federal government has consistently failed to address the issue in any meaningful way despite letters of concern dating back to 1841, and 29 specific land claims submitted since 1979. Six Nations has been led on a merry dance of filing objections and claims, negotiating ad nauseam without result, finally, frustrated, Six Nations Band Council took the government to court ... for a few years ... then "Now ... let's explore this matter instead ... " ... on and on the dance goes, the government's purpose being to go nowhere. So ... with the backing of the Confederacy Clan Mothers, who hold the aboriginal title to the land, seventh generation leaders of the reclamation have reclaimed the land themselves and finally managed to engage the government in real negotiations, it appears so far. There was an interruption just as negotiations were beginning, though, because Justice T. David Marshall granted the 'owners' and developers of the land a one-party injunction to remove the Six Nations people from the site, and thus no opportunity for Six Nations to respond. Justice Marshall is no dummy: He knew if they were allowed "fair procedure" via a normal two party injunction, they would respond by bringing up the issue of the Constitution and Aboriginal Rights and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Human Rights Code, and all those 'interpretive' laws of the land that it appears he would rather just forget. Justice Marshall lives in the Haldimand Tract, the disputed land. Justice Marshall, in fact, is a major 'landowner' in the Haldimand Tract. The Haudenosaunee people know the laws of the land better than he does. They attended the injunction hearing anyway. They spoke anyway. They told the Judge, through a lawyer, that they were claiming the whole Haldimand Tract and since he was a 'landowner', he had a conflict of interest and should recuse himself (withdraw). He became very upset, redfaced, excused himself and left the courtroom for a few minutes. Then he returned and granted the injunction. Justice Marshall did not recuse himself. He told the Haudenosaunee people present that the injunction would be enforced, but they would be given a chance to leave the site. If they did not leave, they would be arrested and summarily convicted - convicted on the spot with no opportunity to defend themselves in court. Again, the judge was making sure they had no opportunity to bring up that pesky issue of aboriginal rights. The injunction took effect at 2 p.m., March 22, 2006. Haudenosaunee women and children and men lined the entrance to the reclamation site that day, but the police did not come in. For a month, the people on the site were subjected to helicopters and planes flying over the site, a huge buildup of OPP in town, including a tactical squad, news that hospitals were clearing wards in preparation, multiple ambulances parked strategically nearby, more busloads of police officers, repeated warnings from police that they were "coming in tonight", and many many other psychological tactics, but they did not leave the site. Discussions had begun with the provincial government of Dalton McGuinty. Despite public distancing by Prime Minister Harper who called it "a matter for the police and the courts", discussions had occurred with the federal Minister of Indian Affairs and negotiators were being appointed. On April 16, the Six Nations Band Council voted narrowly, and historically, to turn negotiations for the reclamation site (Douglas Creek Estates) over to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy traditional government. On Tuesday April 18, Minister Prentice delivered the news that the federal government refused to negotiate with the Confederacy, and talks 'broke down'. Judge Marshall got (a phone call from Ottawa?) impatient and told police that if they did not remove the Haudenosaunee people from the site, he was calling them back to court to explain publicly why the court's order had not been implemented. The 'owners', Henco partners the Henning brothers, also pressured the OPP through the press with threats of court if they didn't act on their injunction. The Mayor again insisted they must be removed. (She still does.) The OPP brought in more officers, more ambulances, more helicopter flights and the tension in the town was palpable. Later, the police said things had seemed to be 'ratcheting up' on the site. I was there April 18,listening to the drumming by the fire, talking to a Clan Mother. It was beautifully peaceful, or far too quiet ... like the calm before the storm. The only ratcheting up was done by the OPP. Later they also said "there were some New York license plates" as if that alone was a reason to attack. The Haudenosaunee Confederacy does span the border, and friends and relatives had been arriving. Under pressure, the OPP enforced Judge Marshall's order, implementing the injunction by attacking suddenly with 150 Tactical officers at 4:45 a.m. on April 20, 2006. One youth and 5 white supporters were given a chance to leave the site, in fact chased off by OPP waving guns at them. The other youth there was dumped out of the hammock where he was sleeping, jumped on hard, and handcuffed. Fifteen mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters ... young women, some pregnant, kicked awake with guns in their faces. They ran yelling, "We are supposed to be able to leave ! They told us to leave!" They were told by the Confederacy Council to leave the site in case of police invasion. They were chased by police in vehicles and on foot, tackled and brought down hard, men were tasered as they tried to help mothers, wives, sisters. One young man pulled out three tasers and threw them back, trying to attack the shooter, before the fourth finally brought him down: 200,000 volts of electricity. They were beaten if they struggled, and they all did. Some officers also sustained injuries. They were handcuffed and laid out on the ground, "all pretty badly beaten up" according to an eye witness, one of the people chased away who stuck around to witness, despite OPP threats.

150 officers to arrest 16 women and men and youths, and they couldn't do it without beating them up?

Then they were put into police transport vehicles, taken to the station. Four men were left restrained in a closed van for 4 hours in the unseasonally hot sun. All were processed, finger printed and summarily convicted of contempt of court. One who gave his own name instead of the Canadian name assigned to his family in the residential schools, was held several days, was beaten, and had to spend a few days in hospital before he could be released. Meanwhile, tactical OPP had control of the site after 5 a.m., with a few Six Nations people gradually appearing here and there to retrieve things, then a few more, then more and more as hundreds came quietly out of the bush from the back of the site, led by the women who linked arms and walked the OPP back off the land. A grandmother chased a police woman who retaliated, and the grandmother was taken down by five officers and badly bruised by their blows. Then her son and other Haudenosaunee men arrived, and the officers fled, the police woman redfaced, grabbing and gripping a highpowered rifle in her hands fiercely as they drove away. By about 8 a.m., the Haudenosaunee Confederacy people of Six Nations had retaken the site. Police ran away so quickly they left prisoner transport and other vehicles behind. At that point, the young men came forward and smashed windows, etc, until officers returned to retrieve the vehicles and until they drove them away. The very last officer thought he'd try to give them an order to stop, and they had to chase the fool into the vehicle. That got a lot of press. Unfortunately, the press were not there to see the vicious police attack on unarmed and sleeping women, men and youths. This is 'Marshall Law'. This is not the law of Canada. Judge Marshall "erred in law", failed to afford "fair procedure" and failed to acknowledge negotiation as the proper legal solution. He implemented "force of law" when negotiation is always the legal solution, according to the Supreme Court. He violated their basic human rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms for not affording due process of law, and Constitutional aboriginal rights by not acknowledging the government's authority to negotiate as the legal solution. Unfortunately the Ontario Court of Appeal identified Justice Marshall's errors in law too late to prevent the trauma, injury and terrorizing of 21 peaceful unarmed people asserting legal aboriginal rights by sleeping or sitting by the fire, on a muddy moonscape of a development site with its sacred topsoil scraped off.