For a moment there, I was worried they were cutting off Fort MacMurray;
Ontario Provincial Police shut down Canada's busiest highway early Friday morning west of Kingston due to native protesters in the area, who had earlier blockaded a section of secondary highway and a stretch of nearby railway track on the eve of the National Day of Action.Friday morning, the Ontario Provincial Police closed Highway 401 both ways between Napanee and Belleville and were diverting traffic north onto Hwy 7 due to native protesters "being in the direct area, for safety reasons," said Sergeant Kristine Rae of the Smith Falls detachment.
Mark my words - the moment is approaching when a bandana prowling these police protected barricades will end up in the crosshairs of someone's high powered rifle.
And right after that, Dalton McGuinty will blame Americans.
h/t.
Update: At the BBC, forum comments that go horribly wrong.
Related: Speaking of stereotyping and double standards - note the photograph chosen to illustrate this post. Bigot, heal thyself.
Astonishingly, Dawg responds with this: "I'd say some folks do a pretty good job of stereotyping themselves."
Stereotype? When I see a cowboy hat, I think "cattle industry".
In Dawg's "progressive" world, cowboy hat means "racist". Because, as we all know, western rural culture is synonymous with intolerance.
well, I know this area like the back of my hand, and I can say with authority that this little "detour" will add about 1 1/2 hours to anybody's trip....as well, being friday of the long weekend, and with all the folks heading to their cottages, I can guarantee some form of carnage as these secondary highways are not in the greatest condition.....this is one f#$%ed up situation, and it sure would be nice if the cops would do their damn job, and enforce the law
It's just as likely that anyone getting near the protest line may be in the crosshairs themselves. These protesters should now be classified as terrorists. Their spokesman Shawn Brant (a wanted man) has publicly stated that the protesters are armed and will use their firearms if they feel they are threatened.
They need to be shut down, jailed, and treated as terrorists for this reason alone!
Section 83.01(1)(b) defines terrorist activity as:
(b) an act or omission, in or outside Canada,
(i) that is committed
(A) in whole or in part for a political, religious or ideological purpose, objective or cause, and
(B) in whole or in part with the intention of intimidating the public, or a segment of the public, with regard to its security, including its economic security, or compelling a person, a government or a domestic or an international organization to do or to refrain from doing any act, whether the public or the person, government or organization is inside or outside Canada, and
(ii) that intentionally
(A) causes death or serious bodily harm to a person by the use of violence,
(B) endangers a person’s life,
(C) causes a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or any segment of the public,
(D) causes substantial property damage, whether to public or private property, if causing such damage is likely to result in the conduct or harm referred to in any of clauses (A) to (C), or
(E) causes serious interference with or serious disruption of an essential service, facility or system, whether public or private, other than as a result of advocacy, protest, dissent or stoppage of work that is not intended to result in the conduct or harm referred to in any of clauses (A) to (C),
and includes a conspiracy, attempt or threat to commit any such act or omission, or being an accessory after the fact or counselling in relation to any such act or omission, but, for greater certainty, does not include an act or omission that is committed during an armed conflict and that, at the time and in the place of its commission, is in accordance with customary international law or conventional international law applicable to the conflict, or the activities undertaken by military forces of a state in the exercise of their official duties, to the extent that those activities are governed by other rules of international law.
Amazing isn't it one minute you have a common sense revolution, and the next a bonfire of insanities.
With McGuinty and Fantino both content roasting marshmallows. Fantino is such a disappointment I didn't think he'd be such a nut licker.
It probably will take a person thats had enough to shatter the political correct craziness thats took hold of this province since the liberals took over.
The Globe&Mail has its comments area for this story "closed". A bunch of gutless wonders at Old Grey.
Did anyone notice that the Globe & Mail article had no comments section? What's the matter? Doesn't the G & M trust the public to comment on arboriginal protests?
I also note that 72% of the G & M's online poll supports no special treatment for aboriginal lawbreakers.
I think I should call for an ANGLO-SAXON JUDEO-CHRISTIAN day of action and maybe then I can break the law with impunity.
The most disgusting part of this is that the spineless sh** McGuinty will be re-elected in the fall!
So Brant is a wanted man. Funny. Right now,at 7:30 AM EDT, CBCpravda is doing a live interview with him near Deseronto.Guess the OPP aren't that interested in snagging him. Or maybe they don't watch the communist broadcasting corp either,like most Canucks?
Real nice of the OPP to close the 401 BEFORE any barricades appeared. Just in case. Next time I rob a bank, I'll let the cops know ahead of time, so nobody gets hurt. Maybe they will even clear the road for my getaway car.
As for McGuinty blaming Americans, in this case he should, seeing as this Sean Brant fellow is an American.
OPP have become a laughing stock of Canada. Now helping thugs block a major hiway to avoid confrontation. Spineless.
Andrew, can you fill in the missing bits in this statement: "Section 83.01(1)(b) defines terrorist activity as"?
Section 83.01(1)(b) of what act?
The Liberals and NDP are so worried about what other countries may think of us. Try this on for size; a group of terrorists announces an intent to break the law, they carry out their threat, the OPP and the RCMP..... DO NOTHING.
This is refreshing, most natives I am aware of have been incapable of any action.
Would it not be simpler to ARREST the people trespassing the the Queen's Highway, the way you'd do with other vagrants, insane and disturbed people.
Or just let them get run over by the traffic.
This angers me to the point of where it's difficult to speak intelligently about it.
These natives have nothing to be upset about. There are no injustices save for those created by their own leadership. Anyone who doubts this need only go onto a reserve, drive to the chief's house and count the number of SUV's in their driveway - and note that they're all from the current year. They already get tonnes of money - they just piss it away. And they have the gall to demand more and take action like this.
Does anyone here doubt that if a bunch of angry WASP protesters organized something like this to protest something legitimate - such as our tax dollars being squandered in an almost criminal way - that the police would be breaking it up double-quick and with deadly force?
I guess colour of skin does matter.
Anyone ever bothered to chech on what rights these ancient treaties give the white man?
Also, has anyone noticed that the Mohawk's native territory isn't in Ontario nor Canada for that matter?
Does anyone know what Phil Fontaine's annual salary is?
I wonder if it in the same range as these guys, where the top four guys salaries are all over $400,00.00 a year tax free while the band spends $2340.00 for daycare and cut it's solvent abuse program.
I wonder if that contributes to the rotten conditions on reserves?
http://www.taxpayer.com/main/news.php?news_id=368
That is exactly what the ordinary working people of Ontario are saying: just shoot them. The protesters don't have much sympathy here.
The contrast between this story and the car with explosives in Piccadilly is interesting. In London, police diffused the bomb, removed the threat and I'll wager are looking for the culprits. Here, the police have evacuated the area, causing huge disruption, left the bomb ticking and then sit back and wait for the culprits to turn themselves in for arrest.
If it is any consolation, like all idiots, they shall overreach. The next highway to be closed down may hopefully be the Don Valley Parkway. Once the lynch mob of outraged Torontonians exhausts itself, there will be nothing left of these people...
...the natives will not fair too well, either.
Brant sounds like Danny Williams . . . "gimme, gimme, gimme . . you owe me, you owe me, you owe me."
Looking at this, I would now be tempted to start creating my own National day of protests (Using blockades) for issues like these:
- Abolishing the Senate
- Significantly Reduce taxes/reduce the size of Governments : Why pay so much tax for a country who can't even enforce the law? Or deliver a decent healthcare system?
- Close down the CBC
If the cops issue a warrant and/or threatens to remove us and our blockades or for my arrest we'll just tell them we are armed and ready...
Who's with me???
(*Cricket sounds*)
'Thought so...
We pay heavy taxes to keep roads in good condition, taxes to keep criminals off our backs, now we need an anti-moonbat tax for the elimination of dimwitted government employee's. Call it the McGuinty Loon Levy!
"Mark my words - the moment is approaching when a bandana prowling these police protected barricades will end up in the crosshairs of someone's high powered rifle."
Unfortunately, I think you're right... the idiotic actions of a few native nutbars (ie - Shawn Brant) are going to trigger an idiotic reaction from a few white nutbars (ie - KKK members), and all the "white men" are going to be blamed for it.
This is not going to be a good day.
I REALLY hope I'm wrong.
Louise....Andrew's section comes from the Criminal Code of Canada,so, yeah,technically he's wrong calling it an "act". But then most of us aren't that picky.
You racist scum should crawl back into the deep dark hoel yuo oozed from and fester. You are not welcome in my Canada.
Perhaps someone could hold an impromptu bingo game or set up a beer tent, to diffuse the situation.
This was all so predictable. The (non) action of the Government and police in Caledonia has done nothing but embolden these terrorists to commit further atrocities. A very serious precedent was set there and we are now seeing the results of it.
Get a life Jim.
As long as natives cannot buy and sell their property and continue to live on reserves (communes) funded by ordinary Canadians, nothing will change.
A disgusting situation for all.
Make no mistake Jim, blockading and inconveniencing the very people who pay their taxes to fund these communes will do nothing but harm your own cause.
Whoes Cadana.. I mean... Whose Canada?
Oh... the one with verdant stands of timber, and vast, empty stretches of land criss-crossed by nothing but undiverted waterways and about 40 million buffalo?
Perhaps the protesters should dam up the Columbia river.
See if they can drive a beer truck through. Then wait 8 hours, and re-open the highway.
"You racist scum should crawl back into the deep dark hoel yuo oozed from and fester. You are not welcome in my Canada."
Who let this poor little sheep out of the safe confines of his herd?
What is YOUR Canada anyway?...The way you surrender so easily, you should'nt be posting your opinions on blogs anyway...let YOUR (Lefty no doubt) elected rep do all the thinking for you...He'll speak to you via the CBC...
This is friggin unbelievable. If the white guys behaved like that all our butts would be in the slammer. McGuinty has no balls whatsoever. Fantino is a dissappointment. And Ontario will vote the Libs back in.
That Injun is out on parole. Why isn't he back in jail. They are no better than the islamic terrorists. Allow us our guns and we will do the job that the idiot government and the OPP don't have the guts to do.
Everything's going to be OK now:
"Ontario protest leader Shawn Brant says he'll turn himself in to police at midnight after the Canada-wide day of action has ended." [CBC at 0915]
Pretty decent of him and all ...
No need to shoot anyone, just blockade all the roads to and from Casino Rama.
I like the beer truck idea. Start the party early, sleep it off in the Deseronto drunk tank.
Special treat for Shawn Brant, he gets to repair the piece of #2 Highway they burned with that pallet fire. By hand.
Jim, whichever Jim you are, I suggest you calm yourself. You know damn well you'd wake up the morning after and regret it for the rest of your life.
Excellent article on the facts of the Desoronto land claim. Unreal that Ottawa pays for the research that the Indians use to then file land claims against Ottawa. Everything about the claims is sealed privileged files that no one else can view. Old Billy was right "Kill all the lawyers!".
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/columnists/story.html?id=7df81d91-524d-47f7-9bd2-125bba74579e
Though the instigators may be arrested later as the Phantom posted it is too late as the public only sees these criminals getting away with terrorist acts with no visible action by the authorites. It just reinforces the impotency of the police when facing organized ethnic threats. We all know what appeasement leads to.
Setting up a population within a different socioeconomic system in a nation is disastrous. What Canada has done is set up the natives on 'communist socioeconomic' systems - called Reserves. The rest of the country is capitalist industrial, and operates within private enterprise. The natives are not allowed to operate, on reserves, in this manner. Insane.
No private property allowed; no individual may start and run their own businesses. Every business, every bit of work done - the results have to be shared among the community. Not the work; the results.
Communism, a mode of complete sharing of natural and created resources, is only possible within a small group - about 30 people. And - a migratory rather than settled people. Any larger population requires obtaining and storing surpluses to invest for the future - and this has to be done by private individuals authorized to do so.
Then, Canada tried to deal with this by insisting that they 'elect' a leader to make decisions. But if you first insist that there's no private ownership, then, the entire group has to make the decisions - not a leader.
The result is that the 'elected leader' rapidly becomes corrupt, taking the gov't money to himself and his family/kin group. And without private enterprise, there's no economy. None.
My point is only that the basic infrastructure is, as a structure, functionally disastrous in a large and settled population. What should be done?
First - get rid of the Reserve system. Give each adult native a one-time only settlement and that's it. Land claims? No. It's over.
Then, get rid of the monstrous hidden bureaucratic dept of Indian Affairs. This dept, filled with pension-eager civil servants in Ottawa, all brainwashed in the notion of 'the Reserve System' - costs us billions in salaries, offices, pensions, etc per year. Get rid of it.
You cannot have, in a modern industrial society, a hereditary caste system. Yes - that's what we have set up. A caste system. And, the Reserves set up natives within a lifestyle that is completely separate and removed from modern society. They cannot, on the Reserves, operate within a modern industrial economy. But the era of hunting/gathering is long over. So- what happens? They become 'dead people' - welfare bums.
Get rid of the Reserve System; get rid of the gov't bureaucracy that maintains the Caste System - the dept of Indian Affairs. Give each individual (not the band) a once- only settlement, and a once-only educational entitlement. Get rid of the huge civil service parasistic on the Natives....
Justthinkin, thanks. I thought it might be the Criminal Code, but as far as I can see, he didn't refer to it as an "act". That was the word I used. I just didn't know where it was from, but it looks and reads like legalese. Oh, and are you reading something into my comments that isn't there or am I doing that to your comments. To me, your comments have a presumptuous and flippant tone. Like this bit, for example: "But then most of us aren't that picky." Who's being picky? I was seeking clarification. I wasn't "being picky".
Kind of like when the gay wackos closed down the GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE a few years ago during some stupid protest and there were a few motorists who were most likly wanting to run over afew of those gay rights jerks
Papers report that some protestors have announced that they are armed; this of course produced the predictable response from the OPP & Ont. Gov't.....nothing!
There is is certainly something strange and backwards about this whole situation.
If there is an obstruction you would expect the police to remove it.
Instead, here, the police protects the obstruction and prevents normal course of traffic. And politicians and police could not be more proud of themselves.
It must be due to the ‘no fault’ society.
Keep your comments civil
There is a huge gulf between warning of violence and advocating it. Go start your own blogs if you can't behave like adults here.
Whatever the costs were to private companies and persons to have their travel/delivery route delayed, and to pay for police intervention should be sent in a bill to the appropriate band council.
And Ferkissake Harper slam that dickweed terrorist Brant in the pokey for a long time...everything he has said and done constitute donestic terrorism under the definitions in the anti-terror act.
Time to stop treating spoiled bratty kids with respect undue them...Tough love time !
KPD at June 29, 2007 7:59 AM: Canadians need to arm themselves. Then they need to surround the reservation and KILL anything that moves.
Fred at June 29, 2007 8:07 AM: Or just let them get run over by the traffic.
Aaron at June 29, 2007 8:17 AM: That is exactly what the ordinary working people of Ontario are saying: just shoot them.
The Phantom at June 29, 2007 8:27 AM: Presently these Mohawk Warrior dorks will lose interest and wander back to whatever they were doing yesterday. Drinking, probably.
Chicklet at June 29, 2007 9:12 AM: Perhaps someone could hold an impromptu bingo game or set up a beer tent, to diffuse the situation.
Jim at June 29, 2007 9:16 AM: To hell with these red ni**ers, I am fed up with them and the moronic liberals that insist on feeding them. Native land claims should start and end with a six foot deep hole in the rock garden.
Jim at June 29, 2007 9:26 AM: These people SHOULD be shot...I swear, if one of those damned things steps out in front of my truck, they will be washing it off the bumber for the coroner. Those red monkeys are a godsend for the race and hate groups.
Mark at June 29, 2007 9:40 AM: No need to shoot anyone, just blockade all the roads to and from Casino Rama.
Interesting crowd your blog attracts, Kate. Any response to these comments, which either invoke racial stereotypes of Native groups or call for their outright homicide?
Kate commented: "Keep your comments civil
There is a huge gulf between warning of violence and advocating it. Go start your own blogs if you can't behave like adults here."
Well said Kate. I was getting concerned this blog was increasingly reflecting views from the very extreme margins.
It's nice to have you back.
Me: "Interesting crowd your blog attracts, Kate. Any response to these comments...?"
Ah, nevermind. I was writing my comment as you were posting yours.
"Amazing isn't it one minute you have a common sense revolution, and the next a bonfire of insanities."
.......great observation on the schizophrenic personality of Ontario politics Mug. Can I quote you? This is fairly profound.
Ontario went from a belt-tightening downsizing program to get an out of control nanny sate deficit and debt under control..fiscal responsibility, executive responsibility under the rule of law with open government processes....to a kleptocracy of civil servant unionism, a regulatory tyranny of the middle class and land owners, and a dystopia with lying leadership, closed door policy/deal making and 2 tiered justice/ law enforcement that allows minority group terrorism.
McGuinty has parlayed mental illness into public policy in Onterrible.
The seething racism in this comment thread is disgusting. You should all take a step back and think before you post such words. No wonder some Aboriginals feel this is the type of action they need to take to get noticed.
Unfortunately, instead of reflecting on they why it seems many here and around the country would rather spew messages of hate and intolerance.
I am amused as always by the fair-minded highbrow leftie trolls who criticize the vitriol and use of "violent" words. Always condemning the rednecks without once, ever, addressing the substance of the issue!
Can’t we all just get along? Look at me, I am so smart and peaceful and correct.This is my Canada, not yours.
Cowards