Kahentinetha Horn, Katenies (Mohawk Nation Elders)
attacked at the border - Cornwall
If Canadians are so damned sorry about the abuse of Native people, why is this still happening? Why do people remain silent when Mohawk elders and grandmothers are attacked like this?
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A few months ago, Julian Fantino put out the word, warning Kahentinetha not to set foot in Ontario or else.
Kahentinetha Horn is well known in Canada as a former model, current publisher of MOHAWK NATION NEWS http://www.mohawknationnews.com, and an international Indigenous activist. She is currently in hospital, moved from Cornwall to Ottawa, after suffering a heart attack during her arrest with her daughter Katenies, during at a routine border crossing within the Akwesasne/Kahnesatake border community. Our prayers are with her. (Updates below.)
ONE ELDER SAVED BY A HEART ATTACK - ANOTHER ELDER MISSING IN ACTION:
MOHAWK GRANDMOTHERS ATTACKED AT CANADA-US BORDER CROSSING ON UNCEDED HAUDENOSAUNEE LAND
by Iakoha’ko:wa of Sharbot Lake of Haudenosaunee Territory
Monday, June 16, 2008
Mohawk Elder and Grandmother, Kahentinetha Horn suffered a heart attack,
Saturday, June 14, 2008 during a vicious, unprovoked assault by OPP and
border agents at Cornwall, in Akwesasne community. She had been beaten
and handcuffed when she collapsed. Earlier when she was pulled over,
Kahentinetha immediately contacted her brother, a lawyer, on her
cellphone. The entire incident was being filmed as her brother rushed to
the scene just in time to call an ambulance for her.
Meanwhile, Elder and Grandmother Katenies of Akwesasne was beaten and
taken prisoner to an as yet undisclosed location. We are very concerned
about her safety. We demand to know of her whereabouts and that she be
released immediately.
A few months ago, Julian Fantino put out the word, warning Kahentinetha
not to set foot in Ontario or else... She is the publisher of MNN and
regular internet reports that are very critical of police and government
actions toward Indigenous people. Her articles often clearly state the
legalities/realities of the situation that Canada is a corporation
plundering unceded Turtle Island. The land and resources belong to the
Ongwehoneh people. Canada's huge debt to us will bankrupt them forever.
The other day, while Stephen Harper was making a public apology to
Indigenous for the crimes of the residential schools, he was also
preparing to send the army in at 6 nations. Brantford city mayor has
requested it, stating his city police cannot handle another "Mohawk
uprising", in other words, peaceful protests against housing development
where non resident, nonNatives attack the protesters while the police
watch. The Ontario Conservatives call for military intervention every
day.
On Saturday, border agents were pulling over every Native person.
Kahentinetha and Katenies were traveling in Akwesasne in the course of
their regular activities and were caught up in the dragnet. Did Fantino
set up a trap for the two outspoken, Mohawk grandmothers? We suspect that
Kahentinetha would have been killed at a secret location had she not had a
heart attack and been taken to hospital.
Immediately following this incident, many Mohawks and supporters started
to gather at Akwesasne.
Kahentinetha and Katenies' attackers want them to accept being Canadian or
else they will kill them and anyone else who resists colonization. This
low level warfare is playing out on the "border" between Canada and the
US, an imaginary line drawn right through the Mohawk community of
Akwesasne and through Haudenosaunee territory which is a vast area on BOTH
sides of the Great Lakes.
This Great Lakes area is also a proposed center for the NWO. Many
military plans are underway including nuclear submarines in the Great
Lakes and JTF2, Aerospace Warfare Center and NATO FOB (Forward Operating
Base) at a new base being built at Trenton, near Tyendinaga Mohawk
community. Tyendinaga was attacked by OPP/SWAT in April when Mohawks
protested housing development there.
If Canadians are so damned sorry about the abuse of Native people, why is
this still happening? Why do people remain silent when Mohawk elders and
grandmothers are attacked like this? We are under constant surveillance
and threats and attacks while our land continues to be plundered and
pillaged. Was this a failed assassination attempt ordered by Julian
Fantino, commissioner of OPP and head of the biggest gang in the area?
We must demand answers and get answers. This attempted genocide must
cease. We will never give up.
Call or write to politicians, media, action lists including international.
Get the word out now!!!
K..... will be speaking with Kevin Annett on live radio today at 4:30 pm
Montreal time.
Iakoha'ko:wa
Sharbot Lake, Haudenosaunee Territory
PLEASE SEND YOUR OBJECTIONS TO: QUEENIE ELIZABETH II, Buckingham Palace,
LONDON UK; Governor General MICHAELLE "Haitian-Against-the-Nation" JEAN, 1
Rideau Hall, OTTAWA, ONTARIO info@gg.ca; Canada Prime Minister STEPHEN
HARPER, House of Commons, OTTAWA, ONTARIO harper.s@parl.gc.ca; Ontario
Premier DALTON McGUINTY, Queen's Park, TORONTO, ONTARIO
mcguinty.D@parl.gc.ca; United Nations unat@un.org; Indian Affairs Minister
Strahl.c@parl.gc.ca; Brantford Mayor Michael Hancock 519-759-3330
nborowicz@brantford.ca; Ontario Attorney General 416-326-2220 or
1-800-518-7901;
Minister Ontario Aboriginal Affairs Michael Bryant % Lars.Eedy@ontario.ca
;
Neil Smitheman, Brantford ambulance chaser n.smitheman@fasken.com
416-868-3441;
Aaron Detlor adetlor@sympatico.ca; Bev Jacobs bjacobs@nwac.hq.org; Julian
Fantino
OPP Commissioner julian.fantino@jus.gov.on.ca; s
"Paul Leblanc of \"Indian\" Affairs" , Sylvia
McKenzie Justice Canada , Emanuel
Chabot Public Affairs 7 Emergency Preparedness
, Louis-Alesandre Guay <"Justice Canada lguay"@justice.gc.ca>, Gilles Rochon Aboriginal Policing
, "Chuck Strahl Minister of \"Indian\"
Affairs"
See http://www.mohawknationnews.com
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UPDATE re Kahentinetha Horn - Mohawk Grandmothers Attacked at Canada-US Border Crossing
June 16, 2008 1pm
Kahentinetha Horn has been transferred to an Ottawa hospital while the whereabouts of Katenies remain unknown. Outrage is growing in Indian country. Who will be next in the roundups?
There is no doubt that this incident 'an attempt to take a human life', of Kahentinetha Horn - makes the false apology given by the Harper government to Native peoples for past tortures and maltreatment completely null and void.
Token drugstore Indians like Phil Fontaine paraded around on TV to receive this apology are all on government payrolls. They represent and speak for no one but the government. It shows the hypocrisy insidiously embedded in the Harper government.
This incident was not carried out by regular border patrol personnel. It was carried out by a team of professionals who are installed at this particular border crossing for the sole purpose of apprehending Miss Horn and doing away with her permanently.
Behaviours and actions like this only come about when ordered and sanctioned by the highest levels of Harper's government and CSIS. This attempt on Miss Horn's life failed this time, but we are confident that Harper, CSIS and Fantino will continue in their efforts to silence Ms Horn forever. This attempt is just a variation of extraordinary rendition where one is whisked away to an undisclosed location, tortured and later found dead in a ditch somewhere.
Karakwine will be speaking with Kevin Annett on live radio today at 4:30 pm Montreal time.
Stop the Genocide. Speak out while you still can!!!
Iakoha'ko:wa
Sharbot Lake, Haudenosaunee Territory
PLEASE SEND YOUR OBJECTIONS TO: QUEENIE ELIZABETH II, Buckingham Palace,
LONDON UK; Governor General MICHAELLE "Haitian-Against-the-Nation" JEAN, 1
Rideau Hall, OTTAWA, ONTARIO info@gg.ca; Canada Prime Minister STEPHEN
HARPER, House of Commons, OTTAWA, ONTARIO harper.s@parl.gc.ca; Ontario
Premier DALTON McGUINTY, Queen's Park, TORONTO, ONTARIO
mcguinty.D@parl.gc.ca; United Nations unat@un.org; Indian Affairs Minister
Strahl.c@parl.gc.ca; Brantford Mayor Michael Hancock 519-759-3330
nborowicz@brantford.ca; Ontario Attorney General 416-326-2220 or 1-800-518-7901;
Minister Ontario Aboriginal Affairs Michael Bryant % Lars.Eedy@ontario.ca ;
Neil Smitheman, Brantford ambulance chaser n.smitheman@fasken.com 416-868-3441;
Aaron Detlor adetlor@sympatico.ca; Bev Jacobs bjacobs@nwac.hq.org; Julian Fantino
OPP Commissioner julian.fantino@jus.gov.on.ca; s
"Paul Leblanc of \"Indian\" Affairs" , Sylvia McKenzie Justice Canada , Emanuel Chabot Public Affairs 7 Emergency Preparedness , Louis-Alesandre Guay <"Justice Canada lguay"@justice.gc.ca>, Gilles Rochon Aboriginal Policing , "Chuck Strahl Minister of \"Indian\" Affairs"
See http://www.mohawknationnews.com
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Mohawk grandmothers attacked by Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA)
guards
--> The report below is also linked at:
http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2008/06/cbsa-attack.html
--> Background articles and interviews are linked at:
http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2008/06/katenies-cbsa-background
.html
Update ... Katenies is out on bail. Kahentinetha is still in hospital. The Mohawk Nations is considering how to address this attack.
ReplyDeleteFamily furious with Customs
ReplyDeleteAccuse officers of causing heart attack
Posted By BY TREVOR PRITCHARD, STANDARD-FREEHOLDER
Posted 6 hours ago
The family of an Akwesasne woman allegedly assaulted by border guards last weekend say they're outraged and plan on launching a lawsuit in the coming weeks.
Frank Horn says his sister, Kahentinetha, suffered a heart attack June 14 after guards at the Cornwall border crossing allegedly dragged her from her car and put her in handcuffs so tight she lost feeling in her hands.
"It (the lawsuit) is going to be done, because this was a completely unprovoked attack," said Horn, who practices criminal law in Cornwall and Akwesasne.
"You just can't turn your eye away from it. This was beyond a little slap on the hand."
Border agents stopped the car at 2:30 p. m. to arrest Janet Davis, a passenger wanted on an outstanding warrant.
While there are different accounts of what happened next, Horn said he arrived about half an hour later to find his sister "breathing very, very heavily."
Paramedics took her to the Cornwall Community Hospital, said Horn. After a visit to the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, she was released from hospital Wednesday, he said.
Horn said the shock may have caused permanent damage to her heart.
"She's 68 years old. She's not a young woman. And she's being treated like this by those officers," said Horn.
"I thought it was totally, completely outrageous what was going on."
The lawsuit will be filed after the familiy consults with an attorney familiar with civil law, Horn said.
John Boots, 67, lives near the customs office and showed up on the scene after getting a call from Davis' mother.
He said he saw Kahentinetha Horn being taken out of the customs office on a stretcher.
Boots said she later told him that border officials had "swarmed" her and were screaming at her inside the office.
Boots said the encounter was the latest in a string of intimidating acts by local border guards against Mohawk women.
"They want the right to carry these pistols," said Boots, referring to the federal government's ongoing plan to train and arm Canada's border guards.
"If they create sufficient incidents then the powers that be will say, 'Yes, you can have these pistols.'"
Border guards have the right to forcibly remove anyone unwilling to get out of their vehicle once they've been flagged for inspection, said Canada Border Services Agency spokesman Chris Kealey.
Davis was "unco-operative," Kealey said, and guards did use force to remove her.
Kealey was adamant that no one was beaten or injured. He said he couldn't address Kahentinetha Horn's allegations because there was "nothing on the public record related to her."
"To discuss what her situation was otherwise would be a breach of confidentiality and privacy within the Customs Act," he said.
The CBSA is now conducting an internal review into what happened last Saturday -- standard procedure whenever an officer uses force, Kealey said. He expected the review would be completed in the next few days.
Davis, 43, was wanted on three Customs Act charges from 2003. She had also been charged twice for failing to appear in court -- once in 2004 and again in 2006.
Her next court appearance is July 14, and Boots -- a local native rights activist -- promised protests at either the city's courthouse or the border crossing.
Human rights activists from Montreal would likely be joining in, he added.
"It's a bad situation," said Boots. "There's a lot of anger (in Akwesasne)."
Saturday's encounter is not the first time tempers have flared at the border crossing, which traverses Mohawk territory.
In November 2005, guards walked off the job after what their union described as a confrontation with Akwesasne residents over a random vehicle search.
Article ID# 1083230
http://www.standard-freeholder.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1083230
BORDER CROSSING
Woman, 68, assaulted by guards, family says
The Canadian Press
June 21, 2008
CORNWALL, ONT. -- The family of a 68-year-old Akwesasne woman says they're outraged after she was allegedly assaulted by border guards last weekend.
Frank Horn says his sister, Kahentinetha Horn, suffered a heart attack on June 14 after guards at the Cornwall border crossing in Eastern Ontario allegedly dragged her from her car and put her in handcuffs so tight she lost feeling in her hands.
"This was a completely unprovoked attack," said Mr. Horn, who practises criminal law in Cornwall and Akwesasne. "This was beyond a little slap on the hand."
Border agents had stopped the car to arrest a passenger wanted on a warrant.
Chris Kealey, a Canada Border Services Agency spokesman, was adamant that no one was beaten or injured.
The CBSA is conducting an internal review into what happened last Saturday - standard procedure whenever an officer uses force, Mr. Kealey said.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080621.BORDER21/TPStory/National