A “good Liberal” checks out the “noble struggle of members of an oppressed minority asserting their civil rights”;
I had no intention of involving myself in the dispute, but I thought it would be cool to snap a picture of the barricades from a safe distance for posterity. I stopped my car on the other side of the street, away from the disputed property. I clicked the button and prepared to be on my way.
How foolish of me to believe the laws of Canada were in effect in Caledonia.
Then he’s assaulted and robbed.
Via The Politic.
It’s no better for the cops on the line;
…officers who have been told not to wear riot gear or tactical uniforms when dealing with native protestors, are being sent out without proper back-up and are left wondering if commanding officers and the courts will back them up when they try to enforce the law.
Riot gear = bad optics. Read it all.
Perhaps they should just wear civilian clothes and cover their faces with bandanas.
Its a good thing not all the librono’s and ndippers turned in their guns, becase the Indians have stockpiled guns and ammo in most areas of the country and are ready to take their country back by force.
We have destroyed their pride and culture, not by residential schools but by kindness and welfare. The more we give the more they want and if and when someone has the testicular fortitude to say no more they will go to war. Only those living next to a reserve can know how much they hate us {boat people}.
The youth have no reason to get up in the morning no future to look forward to and nothing but drugs and despair. Cash today buys what they think they need. Trust me we will see a civil war in Canada some day unless these and other protesters are put down!
Scott said about Native Canadians, “We have destroyed their pride and culture, not by residential schools but by kindness and welfare.”
I basically agree with Scott, but would like to add that “we” didn’t actually destroy anything; how many people know that 80% of Indian Chiefs ASKED the Canadian government to educate their children and, thus, the existence of Residential Schools–which, by the way, church folk were asked by the government to run, for a pittance, BTW, seeing as church folk were alreay on the scene?
These Chiefs understood, like the dunderhead Chiefs today don’t, that the only way forward for their people was to learn English, so that they could live and prosper in the vast North American continent, populated by the early 1900s by a majority of English-speakers.
Further, how many people know that the Natives did not, at first, sue any church? They understood, better than most, that the Christian Church in the past couple of centuries had actually been a benevolent agent of support for their families and communities. It’s the Chretien government that countersued the churches, to spread the “blame.” Cretin.
The great irony is that the first diocese to succumb and go under due to lack of funds (because so much money had to be syphoned off each diocesan budget to pay legal costs) was the Diocese of Cariboo in B.C., a largely Native jurisdiction. So, suing the Church (thanks to Cretin and blood-sucking, money-grabbing lawyers) has had the unintended consequence of afflicting the very population that was, supposedly, to benefit the most.
What is wrong with this picture?
And now we have Caledonia. I’ve always liked the line *** from Shakespeare, I believe *** that “sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.” Any parent knows this. Sometimes you have to come down hard on your kids when they’re clearly doing unacceptable things or pushing the limits to their and your disadvantage. Saying no, setting limits, exacting logical consequences, are all part of successful parenting and to not do these things is to severely limit the ability of your child(ren) to become responsible and accountable members of their community.
Good governments take on a “parenting” role to the extent that they have to enact laws which curb anti-social and unproductive behaviours in the population under their jurisdiction. When a government fails to enforce the laws put in place to the benefit of all citizens and makes a decision to go easy on a certain segment of the population, in this case the Mohawks in Caledonia, they fail in their governing role as law makers and enforcers, to the detriment of all of us. They fail not only non-Natives in this scenario; they also fail the Natives themselves.
Which comes around to Scott’s point. By setting up the system so that Natives have “money for life,” whether they work or not, whether they flout every law of the land or not, we do them a great disservice–and they do themselves an even greater disservice by going along with the charade. They’re living in a parallel universe that has no connection with reality, no connection with living in a free democracy.
McGuinty needs to get his ass in gear and do something about this lawless standoff/insurrection in Caledonia. He may have to do something cruel *** like move in some kick-ass law enforcement officers to restore law and order and arrest these Mohawk law breakers *** in order, in the end, to be kind: to let these anarchists know that they live in a democracy, where their kind of lawless behaviour won’t be tolerated for the good of not just the rest of us but for the protection of their own freedoms and those of their children.
McGuinty had better start taking a long view of what’s going on, because allowing this Native insurrection is making a laughing stock of our law and order (come again?) democracy, he supposedly supports and became Ontario’s Premier to defend.
Who’d know?
I’m begging to think that I might have to set up a road block somewhere myself because I’m being racially discrimated against. I was born in this country but had the misfortune of being born white. I was born here and yet I have to pay taxes. This is wrong. It is racial discrimination that the indians don’t have to pay taxes and I do. If I were to set up a road block stopping traffic, I would probably be arrested. Again, racial discrimination.
I would like to thank the media, and the liberals for their continued racial discrimination in order to be “politically correct”.
Thank God this is happening in Canada. We would shoot the sons-of-bitches as soon as they laid a hand on us down here. We wouldn’t want that to happen!