Revisiting one of the racist diatribes I’m famous for;
What seems to have been overlooked is that the majority of crimes commited by aboriginal offenders are against other aboriginals. As a result, the majority of aboriginal victims of crime receive “two-tier” justice as well. For example, the battered aboriginal spouse is more likely to see her abuser released back into the community than had the crime occured in a non-aboriginal relationship.
With that in mind, you need to read between the lines to figure out who’s assaulting whom in this curiously incurious Globe and Mail item;
A new survey says aboriginals are far more likely to be victims of violent crime than non-aboriginals.
The report by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics says four in every 10 aboriginals over age 15 reported being victimized in the previous 12 months, compared with a national average of 28 per cent.
It says aboriginals were twice as likely to be repeat victims, three times as likely to be robbed, assaulted or raped and 3½ times more likely to suffer spousal violence.
Between 1997 and 2000, aboriginals were seven times more likely to be murdered.
These findings seem to suggest that the solution to the problem of the “disporportionate incarceration rate” – which continues despite a Supreme Court decree that “mandatorily requires sentencing judges to consider all available sanctions other than imprisonment and to pay particular attention to the circumstances of aboriginal offenders” – is to stop prosecuting aboriginal on aboriginal crime at all.
(Stats Can figures on Canadian homocides.)
Darcey has a more personal take. Go read it.
And here it is in action. Excerpt.
A murdered Ontario woman’s family received their wish on Friday as the killer was found guilty of first-degree murder. But despite the verdict, they say the justice system failed them.
Robert Linklater, 24, is set to spend 25-years behind bars for the April 2004 murder of Miriana Ivancicevic.
However, the victim’s sister, J.J. Daniele, says she is unable to forgive Ontario’s justice system for freeing Linklater after he stabbed and slit the throat of another woman, his ex-girlfriend.
“He should have been in jail,” Daniele said Thursday.
She believes her sister’s murder would not have happened if Linklater had been serving time for the previous vicious attack.
The woman survived the attack, but Linklater was never sent to jail for the crime, despite having 57 prior criminal convictions.
Court transcripts obtained by CTV News showed that the judge gave Linklater a conditional sentence which he would serve in the community.
Justice Harry LaForme cited a federal government directive to reduce the number of native Canadians in jail.
“It is my duty to endeavour to remedy this crisis of drastic over-representation of aboriginal people in our penal institutions,” LaForme said.
Both Linklater and the judge are native Canadians.
Eight weeks after being released Linklater was caught on a surveillance camera leaving a Sherbourne Street high-rise apartment building. The prosecution asserted he had just murdered Ivancicevic because she rebuffed his sexual advances.
Complete article at;
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060601/linklater_trial_060602/20060602?hub=Canada
I heard this reported on the news this morning, and the first thing that came to mind was that aboriginals are probably also committing a higher percentage of crime against aboriginals. The reported didn’t seem to have any comment as to why aboriginals were more often victims. Strange to omit that part, when it’s so obviously staring you in the face.
Interesting information on the CBC site regarding
… and Muslims are killing Muslims in the Middle East.
One more time with feeling. ..
· Tribalism does not work in large populations with a globally connected industrial economic base
· Multiculturalism promotes isolation and too many of our First Nations people are isolated similar to the Muslims who Car-B-Q in the Paris banlieus or plan subversion in Toronto.
· Assimilation is the answer.
A suggested solution:
Because our history has trapped the First Nations in a vicious circle of welfare addiction, we need to find a fair set of solutions. Perhaps we should offer one more round of Brinks delivery trucks with bags of money offered but with a choice:
Take a large amount of money to the rez and don’t come back for more. Also, a condition is a sign-off on land claims and waives rights to the Canadian social system.
Or
Take a lesser amount of money than those choosing the rez, but the money is conditional upon waiving land claims. Welcome this group to assimilate with the rest of Canada. Don’t come back for any more than our system offers to all Canadians.
But either choice is conditional upon putting to an end the addictive Liberal gravy train, which only enriches the Chiefs.
This Conservative solution is more compassionate than what the Liberals have offered over the last century. The Liberals cynically hoped the First nations people would simply die off of chronic diseases such as diabetes or drug and alcohol addiction. Conservatives would like to see a more pleasant outcome, but the choice is up to the First Nations people to pull themselves up by the bootstraps.
We have to stop treating Natives like Government property. Indian affairs or whatever its called today has ALWAYS been a sea of corruption, long before confederation.By every party.
This has resulted in whole groups of people being viewed as property to exploit. They have taken away there dignity as human beings. By this system of aparthied. The South Africans used out reservation set up, as there model for Townships.
The worst though is the crimminal gangs taking over said reservations. Cliques of familys soaking in any government monies , than doling them out to family & friends. On some reserves in Alberta you have chiefs with seven marcedes benz or there eqivelents.
Democray on reservations is almost dead. On others they don’t even fake it.
Add the fact the native community like the blacks in the US have a chip on the shoulder & now expect all freebies is a more of a culture killer than social assimulation will ever be.
Lets face it folks. At least 1/3 of this culture is Native. Assimulation works both ways.
Most Nayives I know at work NEVER go back to the reservation, unless to see relatives.Some are even threatened by the band chiefs.
After this many centuries , like the anglo saxons before the Norman invasion. Get used too it. North America will never be a hunting grounds, or a gather, hunter, land ever again.
I see no reason why Natives can’t keep there culture considring a whole lot of it is our culture & Americans as well.There are some lessons still to be learnt from them.
Instead the free money &entitlements have chined them to a vicious circle of Govvernment dependance.No wonder there angry. No slave in the end , no matter how gilded the cage, can never be satisfied as second class citizans.Treated like children. Out WEST we know all about that.
In addition to the very astute and intelligent remarks thus far considered, I add my own… AARRGH!
What I mean to say is, that it is soooo frustrating that intelligence and common sense are swallowed up in political correctness when it comes to anything that involves non-WASP race or religion issues.
My gut reaction is to “throw up my hands” and give up. They are NOT going to get it no matter how well articulated.
Canada is the only industrialized country in the world where the rural crime rate exceeds the urban crime rate.
the skewed stats?? reserves -totally the reserves.
its called “acculturation” and it works, except when it is decapitated by politically correct culturalists who insist aboriginals are too stupid to live in the present and must live in the past.
Imagine if the tables were reversed – aboriginals insisting that the ROC live on farms, use horses instead of tractors and forego modern medicine ??
One big step is to get the money to individuals not band “leaders”. The leaders can then tax it back, but then they have to deliver.
First step in breaking the welfare trap.
The whole aboriginal affairs issue is a real tough one. I’ve never seen such a situation where everyone (often the aboriginals themselves) see the problems in the system…but everyone (especially WASPs) are afraid to say anything.
In my younger years, I lived in coastal British Columbia. I could tell many stories…but, I’ll just share one:
There was a tribal community whose band council misappropriated funds like you wouldn’t believe. And they made absolutely no effort to even cover it up. The family of the band’s chief had one particularly interesting annual family tradition: Every year, each member of the entire family of six would get a brand new SUV. Every year – like clockwork – whenever the latest models came out. In the last few months before the release of the new SUV models, the family would take to running their previous year’s model into the ground before off-loading them onto “less fortunate” members of the community or (if they were still in good enough condition) sell them. Of course, frequent trips to distant tropical places were also common place. Parties for the band members…lots of booze.
Meanwhile, the community was in shambles. The dilapitated houses with the boarded-up windows that we have all seen on TV, etc.
However, they had no shame in complaining openly about how the government didn’t care about them and how they deserved better living conditions…yadda…yadda.
And all the while, everyone (including the members of the community itself) turned a blind eye. I have no idea exactly what the government people knew for sure. But, there is no way that this could have gone unnoticed. It’s one of those things where everyone knows what’s going on…but no one says anything.
I guess everyone is afraid that if they say something, then we’ll have something like another Oka.
We claim to live in a society where “fairness” and “equality” are of paramount importance. Shouldn’t living up to that ideal start with us all saying “nobody’s special?”
“is to stop prosecuting aboriginal on aboriginal crime at all.”
Well thats what I do with my children if one has been good all day and commits one infraction I spank them while if another is a little terror the obvious solution is to do nothing at all maybe give them ice cream and tell them their brother sister opressed them.
friggin insane,
Urban crime rates for Aboriginal people are 4 ½ times higher than the non-Aboriginal rate in Calgary and 12 times the non-Aboriginal rates in Regina and Saskatoon.
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/gs/soci_e.html
So if they are 12 times as likely to commit a crime they should be as likely to be incarcerated as the white guy next door who commited 1/12th of a crime?
AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
One of my newer neighbours is a native guy. He showed me his GST refund form. He’s getting a bit over $1000 for a refund. I guess it’s some kind of total tax refund deal. Not too bad I think, .. sure beats the refund I’m getting on all my income.
I wonder what other special financial advantages there are? I think everyone knows about the cigarette and gas tax exemptions.
Not that we could say these are incentives not to commit a crime, could we? I wouldn’t dare suggest that.
Reverse racism is still racism.
The comparison to Apartheid is accurate.
If a simple blue-collar schmoe like me can see it, I’m sure many others can. I’m sure the federal government sees it too.
So…Why do they fear implementing solutions? Some good solutions have even appeared on this thread. Is it an assumption of public backlash? I think that is a bad assumption. Fear of media/left backlash? More likely.
Now is the time to start making the changes to remove Apartheid in Canada. It will not go away as long as it is institutionalized.
Shutting down the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs would be an obvious first step. Land claims settlement would come a lot easier once the entitlement mentality was removed.
It may take a generation or two to see the disproportionate ratio of Aboriginal convicts go down. But delaying won’t help…
Go read Darcy’s post at Dust My Broom!
If the general public knew some of the shenanigans that go on in the name of ‘justice’ and ‘social welfare’ vis a vis natives in this country, they’d never sleep at night. Wife-beaters made into ‘spousal assault program directors’, recently-relased native inmates being comissioned as probation & parole officers, pedophiles and other sex offenders given custody of native foster children simply because of their native status…the list goes on and on. I knwo this first-hand because I did a stint as a Probation Officer for 7 years.
And no-one blows the whistle because: a. they’ll lose their job, most assuredly, b. they’ll be accused of being racist, and c. Canadians, sheep that we are, would still rather spend money and resources on ‘programs’ that don’t work, if only to keep up the appearance of actually ‘doing something’; the intent is what counts, not the results.
We are one seriously f@cked-up country!
Darcey’s post is excellent. It has to come from within, and instead of just leaving it at that, he suggests how to help that: programs like Cadets giving the kids a glimpse of hope, a dream of something better. To that I would add, it’s up to all of us who live near reserves, who meet people from the reserves in our communities, to make them welcome. How are they going to choose, from within, to aspire to something better, when all they get from the outside is something worse? Suspicious looks, sniggers behind their backs, taunts to their faces . . . it all goes on. I know. My brother is a native, adopted, and he had an awful start to life, bouncing between foster homes and his birth mother, but he did manage to become a basically happy kid for a couple of years with us, until he started school. Then he hit all that community hostility. They made sure he knew he didn’t belong. Eventually he drifted back to his birth relatives and the native community in the city, and right into that vicious cycle of alcohol, anger, and violence. He gets it double because he doesn’t fit in there, either; he’s too well spoken and has too strong a work ethic.
I should give him more help than I do, more of my time, even just to listen. Trouble is, you get drawn into it. And there is an urge to pull back, to preserve my own safety, to safeguard my own goals and dreams. If he had a little more of that same urge, he might not need my help.
I suppose some of the community hostility is just that same urge to protect yourself, to be on your guard. But it does so much harm. Sometimes I just want to scream at this town, “Look what you did to my brother!” I know it’s not that simple, either. But please, be careful what you teach your kids, by your words and your example. Whatever they hear you say, they amplify it on the schoolground. And there’s only a couple of years of opportunity to make a difference in those kids’ lives.