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.
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.
Perhaps they should just wear civilian clothes and cover their faces with bandanas.
Waiting for the report to hit the CBC in 3, 2,......
/crickets
Posted by: Doug at June 8, 2006 5:28 PMA liberal got mugged? Probably a conservative now.
Posted by: anon at June 8, 2006 5:36 PMI wonder if Matt could see the irony in this situation if it were applied to the bigger picture of how screwed up our Country is with it's political corectness and delusions in regards to appeasing ingrates?
First he says; "Good liberal that I am, I have always tried to be on the side of the aboriginal inhabitants of North America".
Then after he is abused/robbed by radicals with police looking on he comes to this conclusion; "This is a gang of militant thugs victimizing the law-abiding citizens of Haldimand County, emboldened by the timidity of a province and country paralyzed by political correctness and the fear that one of the occupiers might get hurt."
Now apply these sentiments to the current situation involving the 17 accused radical, disenfranchised, home grown terrorists.
Then Matt, the good Liberal, has this warning for his fellow countrymen "sympathizers should take note: The Six Nations radicals claim all land within six miles of the Grand River. That includes all of Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge. If the occupiers are able to get their way in Caledonia through violence and intimidation, you might wake up next year to find your street under occupation."
Could be worse Matt.
Posted by: Cheri at June 8, 2006 5:53 PMAt least Mike Harris knew how to handle situations of this type. When are the damn Liberals going solve this by sending in the OPP and arresting all the protesters. Not likely anytime soon. It takes courage(balls) which I do not think McLiar has.
Posted by: mike s at June 8, 2006 5:55 PMWhy is this story the most disturbing one of the day!
And why is it not receiving more national coverage?
Posted by: Buffalo Bean at June 8, 2006 6:20 PMSimple solution. Anyone blocks the roadway, arrest them. The rest stage riots, arrest them too. Sympathy riots across the country, book em Dano. This isn't rocket science, though you wouldn't know it the way the authorities are handling this ridiculous situation.
Posted by: Mark M at June 8, 2006 6:23 PMOther Chiefs in Ontario have thrown their support behind the SN--and have warned that there will be more protests. Time to circle the wagons?
Posted by: George at June 8, 2006 6:31 PMSecurity forces were too busy looking spiffy for the cameras in TO, scoring the big over time, building empires, home every night.
400 heavily armed, macho looking, security types in riot gear with automatic weapons to arrest a group of 17 goofballs with no guns.
ahhhh nothing like the soft racism of the Liberal Party of Ontario and their head dufus Dulton McLiar . . .
cut off the cheques, the welfare & the sympathy. Mount a concerted Public Relations campaign - its all about public Safety.
Justr waiting for Svend to show up, CUPE to announce solidarity and for Flap Jack Laydown to say something very stupid.
Posted by: Fred at June 8, 2006 6:56 PMThe Liberal Party of Canada is a nest of perverts?
Hedy is a what? Hedy who?
Any e-mails from Scott Brison to his buddies?
Joe hasn't sent any candycanes out, has he?
But, wait...this has to be verifryed....
"One memorable e-mail invitation to join Hedy Fry this week for a campaign event in Ottawa promised an evening of "dancing with drag queens."
Liberals using taxpayer-funded offices for campaign work, memos suggest
By ALEXANDER PANETTA
OTTAWA (CP) - A number of Liberals are using taxpayer-funded parliamentary offices to promote party leadership bids and would be breaking federal election laws if they fail to refund the public purse.
Supporters of at least eight of the 11 leadership candidates have used MPs' offices on Parliament Hill to distribute partisan campaign material, according to e-mails obtained by The Canadian Press.
During parliamentary business hours, offices have churned out invitations on campaign letterhead to meet candidates, attend leadership launches, or get together with campaign staff.
One Liberal MP called the practice unethical and said it runs deeper than just e-mails.
"This is the tip of the iceberg," he said. "There are interns being used to do (campaign) work, there's the odd phone call to twist a colleague's arm.
"But that's not traceable."
The Canada Elections Act declares it illegal to make campaign contributions when ineligible, and sets out maximum penalties of a $1,000 fine or three months in jail for violating Section 497 of the act.
A spokeswoman for Elections Canada said MPs' staffers are ineligible to work on campaigns while being paid for their time from the public purse.
"These rules are very similar to those applicable to MPs during an election period," said spokeswoman Diane Benson.
She said any work done during business hours should be paid by the individual leadership campaign - not by the taxpayer.
"If a member of an MP's staff engages in leadership campaign work for the MP or for any other leadership contestants during normal working hours, then a proportionate share of that person's salary . . . must be included as a leadership campaign expense," she said.
"The same applies to the use of the member's office facilities or supplies."
Liberal party officials pointed out that leadership candidates still have a year to disclose their campaign expenses. They will be in full compliance with the law if they refund the government for the public resources they use.
One Liberal leadership campaign forwarded at least 17 e-mails to The Canadian Press from different parliamentary accounts that suggest campaign work is being done during business hours.
The e-mails were sent from supporters of Michael Ignatieff, Bob Rae, Gerard Kennedy, Stephane Dion, Hedy Fry, Maurizio Bevilacqua, Ken Dryden and Carolyn Bennett.
At the very least, those e-mails indicate that the leadership campaigns have used a few hundred dollars' worth of office time and equipment.
However, any campaign using office hours on more time-consuming pursuits - writing leadership speeches, lobbying supporters, updating websites, producing press releases - could be using tens of thousands of dollars in public resources.
The e-mails forwarded to CP were mainly brief, poster-style invitations for Liberals to attend campaign events.
One memorable e-mail invitation to join Hedy Fry this week for a campaign event in Ottawa promised an evening of "dancing with drag queens." ...
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/06/08/pf-1621454.html
Time to throw the bastards in jail. I'm getting real tired of this. I have lived through protests like this. I have had to park my vehicle outside the barricade and walk in to my home. I know firsthand how useless the RCMP and both levels of government were at handling it that time too.
One of these days some ordinary citizen is going to get fed up and react by lashing out and someone will get hurt. Then watch the MSM and the goddam liberals pay attention.
These idiots aren't real Indians. They are cowards. Meet them alone some evening on a side street and see how brave they are.
Posted by: John Crittenden at June 8, 2006 7:06 PMI guess Peterson gave up and ran away (crickets chirping...)
May they're just p.o.'ed because their snit has been upstaged by the terrorism arrests in Toronto.
Just when you thought things were getting dull around here...
Posted by: Shaken at June 8, 2006 7:07 PMReally now, give us a break. This tearful contrived tale takes me right back to the 50s when I was a tradesman (carpenter) and occasionally participated in strikes and/or picketikng. It was the strangest thing to see an old couple display an intense interest in a picket line, within an hour of it going up. They would walk by, several times, and they would vent the most extraordinary statements....you would not believe. Then in a few days they would be seen again, as deponents to affidavits protesting the shocking langurage and offensive conduct of the pickets. This is when the employers would ask a judge to order the pickets to leave because of their offensive conduct. It was just too much to bear, they would depose, for respectable persons who just happened to be walking by (three times in one case before they drew a reaction).
I do not have any illusions about the noble red man but this guy who "just" went down to take pictures is a bit much. Why does he not go to the park and take pictures of flowers, they look good, or women, they look even better.
"400 heavily armed, macho looking, security types in riot gear with automatic weapons to arrest a group of 17 goofballs with no guns."
You know Glen, you really ARE an idiot. I suppose you'd still be criticizing the police after one of these "goofballs with no guns" blew up your neighbourhood, huh?
Cheri said: "...emboldened by the timidity of a province and country paralyzed by political correctness and the fear that one of the occupiers might get hurt."
I'd say that's an accurate take. So how do the people of Ontario - most of whom are Liberals and New Democrats - expect the rest of the world to believe that they are "notafraid.ca" when they're scared of everything?
They think Stephen Harper is "scary". They find Gwyn Morgan "disurbing". No doubt the mere thought of enforicing rule of law in Caledonia via reasonable and minimal force is "frightening". They find everything they disagree with "threatening", "offensive", "ominous", etc., etc., often with devastating effect on their political opponents.
So when confronted with a real, actual scary situation, exactly why should we believe they are not afraid? Sorry, I don't buy it.
Posted by: Bob at June 8, 2006 7:15 PMAlthough Glen may actually turn out to be an idiot, Bruce, his comment does raise a point, don't you think? Seventeen guys who buy fertilizer and make plans for terrorism (they hadn't actually done any damage yet) get 400 heavily armed security personnel down their throats, while the Six Nations thugs who burned down bridges, knocked down hydro towers and terrorized a community go practically unchallenged.
Terrorism gets a tough no-nonsense armed response (as it should) but thugs get nothing...maybe the thugs should be treated as terrorists (as they should).
Posted by: Hassle at June 8, 2006 7:27 PMI love that opening line:
"Good liberal that I am, I have always tried to be on the side of the aboriginal inhabitants of North America."
Now I can understand it if he meant as a good Liberal, as in a member of the Unprincipled Party.
But I think he means small-l liberal, but certainly not classical liberal. A classical liberal would consider the facts, not emotionally side with the Indians because it's the "right" thing to do.
Posted by: Mississauga Matt at June 8, 2006 7:31 PMOne eyed Indian extortionist thieves with no apparent vocation all vote lieberal.
You can count on his noble tribes vote, McLiar.
Even the Jack's Newswatch link, Cops on the line reminds me of everything our police officers can't do, the political interference and the dumbing down similair to the border guards not having arms. Just exactly who or what is running this country and who is taking advantage of our "niceness"?
Posted by: Cheri at June 8, 2006 7:48 PMI think the 400 police officers are there more as a precaution against the possible actions of the other 50 terrorist cells operating in Canada as opposed to the handful in their custody.
Posted by: Paul in Poco at June 8, 2006 7:55 PM"Firstly"...thanks for mentioning me Kate...100 hits my way.
"Secondly"...there was a mention the other day of CSIS being unarmed and no "police powers".
I find that appalling considering that the FBI is fully armed...does the same job...and can't hold a candle to this Canadian agency.
CSIS does the most dangerous job I know about and I wonder why they have been denied protection under the law.
Can someone explain that to me?
Posted by: Jack at June 8, 2006 8:11 PMWow Jack I had no idea of that when I made my last comment. But then who woulda guessed our border guards weren't armed with anything but their common sense and a white flag.
Posted by: Cheri at June 8, 2006 8:32 PMC'mon, you guys are just jealous of Dubious Dalton & the "reassuring, obvious Liberal agenda." Those rabble rousing OPP officers are having a meeting about the effect of political correctness on their safety... all because 2 nasty officers were "detained" by peace loving aboriginals, after they trespassed on Indian land.
Posted by: neo at June 8, 2006 8:50 PMMy letter to McGuinty below. Next week I'll let him know I'm funding his political opponent.
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The Honourable Dalton McGuinty
Premier of Ontario
Dear Premier,
It is with no great pleasure that I take the occasion to rebuke you for your failure to carry out your fundamental responsibility of office, namely the equitable enforcement of law on all who, regardless of creed, ancestry or status, inhabit this province. That you acquiesce to the heinous and criminal behaviour of the thugs infesting Caledonia brings the rule and enforcement of law into disrepute, to the detriment of society and your personal shame. I urge you to redress this travesty at your earliest opportunity, that our province may not regress to a state where terrorism and extortion become the norm, the law further disregarded by its citizens, and the authorities held in contempt.
Yours sincerely,
CSIS is not an analogue of the FBI, its more of analogue of the NSA. Its an information gathering org, not a police org. As far as the FBI goes, in Canada the RCMP is it.
Posted by: Skip at June 8, 2006 9:24 PMRe: "Skip"
You could not be more wrong and I will explain in due course.
For now read this...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0606080015jun08,0,1709468.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed
Take care...
Posted by: Jack at June 8, 2006 9:34 PMSkip has it right. CSIS' function is to collect, collate and analyze intelligence. Perhaps their highest risk function is surveillance, which naturally is accompanied by the risk that they will be in proximity of targets and there is always a possibility of the targets noticing them. If they are anticipating interviewing a subject who is deemed to be high risk, they will generally be accompanied by a member of the RCMP, who is, of course, armed. The high risk activities such as arrests an more "close-in" functions are handled by RCMP.
Actually Hassle, my main beef with Greg's post was his somewhat sneering reference to the contention that those making the arrests of the terrorism suspects were more interested in overtime and being "Hollywood types".
From my experience, subjects who have clearly demonstrated a penchant for planning extreme violence, have been observed with weapons, including automatic weapons, must be considered high risk takedown subjects and treated accordingly. No-one, at least on the police side, wants gunfire. A show of force has been proven to intimidate the arrestees and has the proven potential to eliminate most resistance.
As to the Caledonia situation, it sickens me to see the restraints being placed on the OPP.
Posted by: Bruce at June 8, 2006 9:45 PMgarhane asks: "Why does he not go to the park and take pictures of flowers, they look good, or women, they look even better."
Because he's a reporter, that's why.
Posted by: Kate at June 8, 2006 10:24 PMThey aren't subject to our laws dontcha know. They are their own nation. So make them apply for passports... when they eventually get them... with photos... then if they break the law in Canada, passport revoked. Sorry you can't come here.
Sorry I'm not allowed to sell you stuff.
Gas? Sorry can't Help You.
Electricity, sorry you've been cut off, for stealing.
If we broke a law in another country we would lose our passport and be unable to travel.
Posted by: Fergy at June 8, 2006 10:24 PMWampun sorry that's a foreign currency.. can't accept it.
Damn now I'm a racist.
Henry,
May I suggest that you post your letter to McGuinty as an online petition. I'd be the first one to sign it.
It didn't take long for those protestors at Eagle Ridge Bluffs in Vancouver to get hauled away once a court order was put into place. How dare they try to impede road construction!
What the heck is taking so long in Caledonia Oh, I forgot, these people are Natives and our laws do not apply to them, even though they are home-grown terrorists as well.
Posted by: Soccermom at June 8, 2006 11:07 PMIs it too obvious to ask how this story never got picked up nationally? Er, never mind. Carry on as if this were a legitimate nation-state.
Posted by: A. Cooper at June 8, 2006 11:14 PMThe police are there to serve the public. If they can't handle the parameters of the job, they should ask to be re-assigned or quit.
Posted by: lolwhat at June 8, 2006 11:49 PMViolence is the answer in Canada, obviously. Natives get what they want through violence and the lesson is not lost on the muslim savages either - every terrorist attack or arrest brings Canadian media and politicians beating a path to thier doors, which supports more muslim violence, they get what they want through violence too so it's no wonder terrorism has such widespread support in the muslim community.
Posted by: infidel at June 9, 2006 2:24 AMWhile manning the barricades during the last days of the Oka crisis,i had one Native tell me that they knew through regimental records where i lived and about my new born baby..They must have had inside contacts,how else would they have known?
The man sneer'd at me and intimated that harm would come to me and my family..i suggested to him,in no uncertain terms that i would smash his f**king teeth down his throat if he ever came any where near my family..such noble savages they are..
I have no problem with the gov't ending this standoff. They are all thugs and oppertunists as far as i am concerned...
Posted by: kursk at June 9, 2006 3:02 AMkursk:
I had a similar problem after I busted several members of an organized crime group in the 70's. First the bribe efforts came, when that failed the threats began. For months we lived with the fact that, whenever I was working, they would telephone my wife and advise her that they were in the process of killing me (screams of agony in the background), or alternatively, threatened my wife with dire consequences.
After a while, I had an opportunity to have a discreet, frank, and open conversation (no further details available, the statute of limitations is still in effect) with the leader of the organization, and that ended the threats and intimidation.
Moral: At some point, enough is f##ing enough...
Posted by: Bruce at June 9, 2006 4:04 AMOh well. The longer this drags on the greater the chances that at some point the OPP take the opportunity some night to be conveniently absent while a group of concerned citizenry take the law into their own hands.
Can't wait for that memorable quote.
"Vigilantes? We where right where you insisted we where supposed to be. At a respectful distance from the native blockade. How could we know a well armed band of "so-called" non-natives had attacked native protesters?"
Posted by: gimbol at June 9, 2006 7:01 AMinfidel wrote: "Violence is the answer in Canada, obviously. Natives get what they want through violence..."
Folks, this is starting in our schools. I've been teaching for only a few years and have been gobsmacked to discover that when you're dealing with a Native student who is behaving like a barbarian *** shouting "I hate you!" at the teacher as she throws her pencil across the room, punching, hitting, kicking other students, stomping on their feet, stealing things out of others' lockers, doing no work, tearing up tests as soon as they're handed out (with a smile on his face), the list goes on and on *** NOTHING HAPPENS.
Well, it's actually worse. It's not that nothing happens, the world is actually turned upside down. Something happens, alright, and it's that the teacher who reports this behaviour becomes "the bad guy." I know. I've been put in this ludicrous sitation more times than I care to remember.
Oh yeah. One Native student lied about something I had allegedly done causing a bruise to his arm (ARE YOU KIDDING? It's total suicide to your career to get within a metre of a Native student on the rampage), and the principal pussy footed around the parent and basically hung me out to dry.
Now, given that this student had been born in jail and that his mother didn't get out of jail for years after he was born, what does this tell you about his mother? Was it more likely that I caused that bruise or the mother? This family lived on the local reserve and a weekend had ensued before the accusation was made. Hmmm. When the student fessed up a few days later that he'd lied because he was mad at me (I was a strict disciplinarian, not just with him but with all the students in my classes), did the principal make him apologize to me or contact his mother? Not on your life.
"Safe schools" policies mean our schools are safe for the bullies: They get away with everything, very few repercussions, and "zero tolerance" actually applies to any student or teacher who consistently reports on the violent PATTERN of behaviour. We're not talking occasional violence, we're talking consistent and habitual violence.
The inmates are running the asylum and the "wardens," that is the principals, VPs and Board officials, for the most part, are cowering behind their desks. Canadian young people are learning from a very early age, that if you tangle with a Native student, you're going to lose. Resignation sets into the student population and the Native student(s) range(s) through the school causing havoc and mayhem while the principal wrings her hands while lamenting, "Well, this is what they do/say at home, so there's nothing we can do about it here."
Come again? Shouldn't the rule be "This may be what you do/say at home but IT'S UNACCEPTABLE FOR YOU TO DO/SAY THIS AT SCHOOL"?
None of this is hyperbole. This is happening. In our schools. In Canada. I'm not making this up.
Actually the comparison is more properly:
CSE == NSA
CSIS == MI-5 (sans weapons)
And I agree that CSIS should be armed, but I bet that is primarily because of RCMP opposition. The RCMP hates CSIS and calls them the sisters.
Posted by: capt joe at June 9, 2006 8:21 AMAmen , Amen , and Amen
Posted by: Timothy Coderre at June 9, 2006 8:37 AMWell, they say the definition of a conservative is a liberal mugged by reality. This seems to literally be the case with Matt Walcoff.
Posted by: Dave at June 9, 2006 9:42 AMSolution: Send the LIberals to Afghanistan where they can learn something. Arrest and deport all the Native Protesters to Afghanistan where they can learn something. Send the NDP along for company. Toss in the BCTF and the BC Ferry-workers union for good measure.
Problem solved.
Posted by: Mike in White Rock at June 9, 2006 10:46 AMFred made a comment about CUPE showing solidarity. Already long since done Fred, they showed up on the "picket line" as soon as the Mohawk Warrior's Society/biker gang blocked Highway 6.
Incidentally, since this piece was written it has been revealed that Ontario Hydro is paying a -private- security company to guard their transformer station. You know, the one that got burnt down to the tune of 1.5 million dollars damage and blacked out half the county? Also that one of the company's guards got roughed up a bit and had his/her car torched.
Additionally, there is a new "information picket" up in Brantford. Caledonia blockade started with an "information picket".
Point of clarification, just in case anybody thinks "the Indians" are pulling this crap. True, there has been little in the way of protest from the local band council of the Six Nations. But, it should be noted that the Warrior Society is running the freak show, and they ain't local. I'm thinking that anybody on the rez who doesn't like what's going down is keeping a REAL low profile right now, so as to avoid any unpleasantness. Like a trip to the hospital, unexplained fires, that sort of thing.
Fun continues in Caledonia, with no film at eleven on the CBC. 900 CHML is covering it though, as is the Hamilton Spectator. The Spectator is actually the Toronto (Red) Star in disguise, so the coverage is slanted. Like 45 degrees to the Left. Still, they did get kicked off the protester side of the blockade, that's something in their favor.
Posted by: The Phantom at June 9, 2006 12:00 PMEDITORIAL: Canadian border guards to get guns
Neighbor's anti-firearm philosophy hindered public safety
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Feb-21-Tue-2006/opinion/5989982.html
This is a shameful story, & emphasis why Our border guards need guns. The Harper Government is going to do that soon.
The Liberanos could have cared less. Which makes one wonder if they care about Canada at all?
The Native situation in Caledonia is absurd & dangerous. That the police feel free to hassle the law abiding public while sheltering these criminals is more PC insanity of the left =lib mentality.
NO doubt McGuinty thinks this will just fade away. Since he has a yellow stripe bigger than a highway & lives on dogma .
I see no solution unless the Feds get involved. Knowing the MSM & what they would do if one of the thugs got hurt is probably why they have stayed out of it.
Time for a reevaluation. Either we have a rule of law or we don't!
The mindset that its perfectly fine to abuse honest men & women , yet stick up for this mob is unconscionable . The PC thinking is sinking us all.
I will say though that unless something is done about this the bullies will get bolder & more vandalism if not murder will ensue . Like night after day.
Than individuals will take the law into there own hands. They will have had no choice.
I think sensitivity given the RCMP is rotting away moral & is yet another Socialist fantasy & doge from the real world.
I am surprised this is not mandatory for Hells angles & other criminals. In fact why is it not mandatory in Jail?
It seems fine to make the police or army look like animals that need to halted, but serial killers & others get the liberal seal of good huger by getting the vote.
The Liberal strategy for 13 years was to demonize real citizens to have the illusion there rehabilitation programs worked (Which they do not , being voluntary as well. Not so the RCMP or you & me.)& Canada was getting crime free threw the applied principles of Socialistic democratic practice.
Delusion all of it.
Posted by: Revnant Dream at June 9, 2006 2:49 PMAnd now a camera crew acosted, with police looking on. I wonder if these 2 incidences explain why the showdown hasn't been covered by MSM? Were they threatened, robbed, black-mailed, bribed?
Posted by: Cheri at June 9, 2006 9:14 PMHere's the story Cheri mentioned, via Neal News:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&pubid=968163964505&cid=1149889809198&col=968705899037&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News
"The camera operators were filming as part of ongoing coverage of the aboriginal occupation, which started in February when Six Nations members took over a housing construction site.
They say they were videotaping an altercation involving an older couple when the aboriginal protesters came running past police to attack them.
Const. Keith Robb confirmed police were investigating the allegations that officers didn't intervene."
Posted by: The Phantom at June 9, 2006 9:40 PMFrom TheStar article:
"The police were right behind me and I asked for protection," said Ken MacKay, a CH TV camera operator.
"I said, `I'm being assaulted, I need protection, they're trying to steal my camera' and nothing happened.
"(The attackers) wrestled the camera away from me and took it and left me, and they got the tape out."
What is wrong here? How can these people call themselves police and allow this to go unabated despite the obvious orders from the looney left gov. I just don't get it.
Posted by: Bagadonitz at June 10, 2006 12:20 AMBagadonitz; did you read Kate's other link; It's no better for the cops on the line? I don't blame the police. They are damned no matter what they do. Link and comment from Jack's Newswatch:
" This entire situation is a pissing contest between elected politicians and a smart cop is not going to get caught in the middle of it, especially when they stop to consider what happened to Ken Deane."
Political game of chicken. What the Liberals do best with our laws, with our courts, with the citizens and with our police & security agencies.
Posted by: Cheri at June 10, 2006 12:49 AMIts 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?
Posted by: new kid on the block at June 10, 2006 11:37 AMI'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!
Posted by: Baddog at June 12, 2006 11:33 AM