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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

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

Monday, June 04, 2007

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.

Sunday, June 03, 2007

"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
"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.

My Canada includes rights of Indigenous Peoples.
LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT!
Peace.

Two Row Wampum Treaty

Two Row Wampum Treaty
"It is said that, each nation shall stay in their own vessels, and travel the river side by side. Further, it is said, that neither nation will try to steer the vessel of the other." This is a treaty among Indigenous Nations, and with Canada. This is the true nature of our relationships with Indigenous Nations of 'Kanata'.