Fredericton Police ordered a Sun News Network reporter to move his camera after his attempt to videotape a Native protest was blocked.
Crowds gathered in a Fredericton park Saturday to erect the traditional Native longhouse to protest exploratory shale fracking in Rexton, N.B.











Hi Kate,
The link doesn't seem to work
Tom B.
Is a city park a traditional location for a "traditional Native longhouse"?
The anti-industrial revolution zealots teaming up with the professional grievance committees of the boundlessly racially entitled to attack Canada's most important economic dynamic - nothing to see here folks, get in line with the rest of the media in the institutional left, Sun News! Looting and thuggery for the politically correct narratives is apparently OK.
Bad link.
Try this:
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2013/10/20131027-073035.html
Good comments John - you've succinctly described the politics of this nonsense.
But when Libtards do this its OK.
They are entitled to their entitlements.
This is enlightened behaviour by their standards.
Not turning up to riot is never a failing of these clowns, but the reporters must be respectful, polite and craven.
Shorter MSM : We welcome our Aboriginal Overlords and in keeping with the SCoC Gladue decision on Aboriginal sentencing we will preemptively apply the principles therein at the scene of the crime. Further it has become apparent that "consultation and accommodation" means that any aggrieved Aboriginal groups get exactly what they want. Oh yes...and the poor, mistreated Aboriginal folks just need more money...
There is nothing traditional about a Native longhouse in the Maritimes, but then again all this is made-up Hollywood mythology and nothing to do with actual history.
Alain "There is nothing traditional about a Native longhouse in the Maritimes"
All the Bush Indians in Northern Alberta dress like Sitting Bull so why can't the mostly white Micmacs live in shacks like the virtually white Mohawks. Welcome to Hollywood.
Imagine how skewed the numbers would be, in the activists eyes, if anyone with 1/16 or 1/64th European ancestry was deemed to be a "whiteman" in law.
Sounds like it's time for Sun News to invest in a few high-quality quad-copter borne cameras with audio gear.
Example: that toppled wind fan was shot from a quad-copter.
I think John Robson hit on something which seems to be the root cause of all this Lefty/Native coalition belligerence against resource development. I agree with him that Canada's vast resource industry is extremely vulnerable to sabotage. I think the radical left knows this and they have recruited native radicals to "threaten" the resource industry (most likely with the threat of sabotage of pipeline or wells) - of course threats can be defused with a little extortion payola - greasing of the right palms as it were to "keep the peace" and ensure uninterupted production due to "accidents". - (call it good faith gratuities for "warrior" indulgence of resource development above any beyond any royalties that may be forth coming to a particular band). I believe this is next stage in the Aboriginal entitlement industry - shaking down resource companies to ensue nothing happens to any infrastructure which may cross or be on native land or native claims or to simply quell radials.
Think of it as politically correct protection racketeering.
john robertson "Imagine how skewed the numbers would be, in the activists eyes, if anyone with 1/16 or 1/64th European ancestry was deemed to be a "whiteman" in law."
Riel, the treasonous bastard, was 1/16 Indian. In much of Canada, he would be your typical white burgher. He was a common thief, kidnapper, and multiple murderer. He was the original leader to hold the federal government for ransom - twice. In 1870 the Metis got a cash of land settlement that was so good the same people decided to try it again in 1885.
Many of these activists, warriors, protestors, etc. do not realize it or do not conceive of it in their own minds but their actions are part of a natural historical process. At best they haven't had a citizen's sense of belonging to our nation instilled in them, at worst they have gotten a sense of being of another nation in struggle against Canada. Either way, if we do not understand this process and recognize it is happening, we will one day suddenly notice that we surrendered to them unwittingly. If a nation will not enforce its sovereign authority it will lose its territory to whoever ventures to exercise control over that territory, even if they are just a thuggish rabble like the people in that video.
Perhaps these natives and their police escorts are angry still from the exposè the SUN News did on Chief Theresa Spence and her husband?
Still, it seems to be a race thing going on that prevents SUN from using public lands to video from.
Trying not to mention Caledonia, Ont. here..
Too bad the MSM wouldn't see them for what they are and ignore them. Giving them publicity is what they need. Let them trot their big arses up and down the roads and talk to themselves. If they start destroying property let the law deal with them. If they consider themselves above the laws of this country we must consider them as waging war against us. This stuff is dangerous if it is allowed to grow, it amounts to tyranny. How long can the government allow this to go on? Were they not armed with guns, knives and bayonets? Who do they intend to use them on?
Preaching to the choir here...but how did reporting truth become racist?
"Crowds gathered in a Fredericton park Saturday to erect the traditional Native longhouse"
Ah yes, a longhouse. That's what we need.....a longhouse.
That'll do the trick, that'll fix everything.
Sheesh!
Its best to live nowhere around these paid native green thugs.. Avoid them at all costs because you really are a "free man" with no legal or constitutional rights..
Its the Feds problem.. Its a Provincial problem.. Its a legal problem..
Sadly NOBODY wants to eat the political or legal consequences of confronting these violent thugs.. If you make the decision (not allowed) to enforce the law the politicians and the media will make sure you burn for it.. Your career and life down the tubes for simply doing your job..
God help you if the natives cant shoot straight.. Then its genocide and a human rights violation, with you sucking on the political prisoner pipe for the next 50 years..
Nice, when all you wanted was a good job with good benefits..
So.. There is no decision from above or below when it comes to our Canadian house guests, because it is somebody else's problem.. Move away or find a way for them not to bug you..
Why are they being referred to as 'Natives'?
Anyone who was born here is as much a native as they are.
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Time for the Canadian military to make use of all that Afghanistan training they've received over the last decade. We're dealing with terrorists here and the government seems to be terrified of actually applying the laws that exist on the books (unless it's against white people). A few encounters with the Canadian military might make this group of welfare scum much less likely to attempt any further "protests".
The other thing that should be done is to go after the US organizations who are funding these "spontaneous" protests. Time to do a bit of meticulous auditing of various "environmental" organizations as well as prohibiting any individual from one of these organizations from coming into Canada. It there was a sane government in the US, then Canada could work for RICO charges against these terrorist groups in the US which would result in a lot of people going away to jail for long periods of time.
I think they saw a video that offended them. It was spontaneous, really. The native leadership is doing a speaking tour right now on that topic. A week from now they will say none of that is true, and only a racist would argue about it. (satire off)
"The other thing that should be done is to go after the US organizations who are funding these "spontaneous" protests. Time to do a bit of meticulous auditing of various "environmental" organizations as well as prohibiting any individual from one of these organizations from coming into Canada."
Exactly. We know that some of this auditing and the pulling of charitable status has happened, but we, at least I, do not know whether those organizations trying to disrupt, impede, and ultimately derail resource development are being looked at.
"...the traditional Native longhouse.."
Pray tell, was it the traditional MGM longhouses or those tawdry Columbia Pictures wannabes?
1.So the list is that SunnewsTV, Global TV and CTV news crews were threatened, stolen from and prevented from covering a news event on public land.
That only leaves one major TV news network that wasn't. That would be...?
2. Equality before the law is one of the principles of British Common-Law that maintained the public peace.
That is why the police, who enforce that, are defined as peace officers in the Criminal Code of Canada.
Welcome to Caledonia, where the OPP riot armor is thickest on the back. Because the OPP always faces away from the Indians throwing the rocks and bottles.
People of Canada are discovering the cops won't protect them, one "demonstration" at a time. Can, but won't.
How long before the reverse is true as well? Government planners and police leadership might want to think upon that long and hard. How about when the people start voting for BIG budget cuts to police forces because they're afraid of the cops, eh? That could happen.
Oh and incidentally, how long before the fracking company tells the province of New Brunswick to shove it and moves all their amazingly expensive equipment to someplace safer. That equipment doesn't grow on trees.
Send them all back to Siberia where they belong. First nations my ass.
The National leftist media won't report the threats of violence because they want the violence to escalate.
It's what the left does; it's how they got their way to any Marxist society.
MikeG81 >
“Why are they being referred to as 'Natives'?”
The biggest joke is that they want to live with all the trappings of “nonnative” lifestyles.
Any Canadian aboriginal is perfectly free to wander off into the wilderness and build a little tee-pee village for themselves. They can hunt and fish using traditional methods to their hearts content, if that was what they were really after.
Of course it is not, their stand is about racism and free money for nothing.
The Liberal left lives for any societal discontent; it’s their weapon of choice.
Loki said, "then Canada could work for RICO charges against these terrorist groups in the US which would result in a lot of people going away to jail for long periods of time."
Too bad Eric Holder is Attorney General.
How about Obama and that Keystone XL pipeline, eh?
Would it surprise you if it was discovered that the people who fund the environmentalists in Canada are also Obama $backers or at least big wheels in the Democrat Party?
If the authorities continue to allow these miscreants to flout the law it will only invite vigilante retalliation.
The law enforcement is the part the crown gets to perform, or whomever they have delegated the task to, under the Magna Carta. If the Crown refuses to enforce its own laws, the crown is in breach of its agreement and its authority to rule. The longer people have to go in fear of harm to life and property, the stronger the argument becomes for them to act on their own.
For the sake of a peaceful resolution it behoves the authorities to enforce the law.
"There is nothing traditional about a Native longhouse in the Maritimes"
Have you noticed that all the Big Chiefs in Canada have taken on the wearing of the feathered headdress or warbonnet when they appear at one of their important meetings? Historically, the warbonnet was strictly an honor bestowed on deserving Indians of the Western Plains but apparently there's been a 'revision' and any sort of Indian may wear it now. Either that or it's some kind of provocative statement. Alternatively, like most people today, the Indians are choosing their beliefs al-a-carte. Hmm, this item looks good, I'll take that.
How about we go tit for tat, you treaty us this way and we'll treaty the same right back at you.
Has anyone ever established the number of full blooded Indians on the North American continent?
Are some a few feathers short?
Actually it is, Jim. It is all part of Turtle Island.
Yeah it's sorta like Poles and Austrians wearing kilts and playing bagpipes.
Remember the key to good satire is to somehow include something about bagpipes.........