31 Replies to “Well, They Wanted Self Government”

  3. “There are ongoing questionable individuals entering the community unregulated.”
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    This is interesting. My first question. “Do they speak Spanish?”

    1. Better question
      What “regulation” is determining who may and may not enter the community?
      Do they have to have a special passport or do they get armbands?

      1. Civil liberties aside, I can’t help noticing that the Opaskwayak Cree did not sign onto the Indigenous Policing policy that would allow the RCMP to set up law enforcement in that community. A number of the other Cree did.

        So, were I a Mexican Drug Cartel looking for a good place to set up shop in Canada…I’d consider a self-policed community one of the easiest to bend to my will. I’d have plenty of destitute lackeys to work the grunt jobs. I’d have the potential intervention by federal or municipal law enforcement non-existent on almost an adversarial basis. And, I’d have an extremely poor community who might look the other way in exchange for the chance to secure financial benefits beyond anyone’s dreams.

        My point is that it might be interesting to see if the other Indigenous tribes that don’t allow the intervention of the RCMP are having the same problems as the Opaskwayak.

  4. Taxpayer funded racial ghettos under the thumbs of their well paid nobility and federal bureaucracy, nowhere near employment prospects, and incentivized (paid) not to assimilate with the real world. What could go wrong?

    1. Everything! Unless you’re one of those chosen nobility or a bureaucrats, of course, in that case grift on…

  5. Just over 3k population.
    With western values, this would be a sleepy small town. With “culture” it’s a chess pool.

      1. Defunded the police … criminally. To levels that allow criminals plenty of get-away time.

        When the SAME 7-11 is hit two nights in a row … you kinda wonder why there is no budget for setting-up a sting operation … to protect local businesses. Oh well … when Oakland becomes a food desert … they’ll just SUE 7-11 demanding they maintain stores in the hood.

  7. These reserves are starting to look like the townships in South Africa. How long will it take before they put The Pas in lockdown too? I assume that’s where the criminals go when there’s not much action on the reserve.

  8. Residents urged to leave fishing boat key fobs outside the door to avoid violent confrontations.
    They just want your boat…”they don’t want anything else.”

  9. Back in the old days, natives had ways or methods of making problems disappear.
    Seems they’re getting soft, just like whitey’s Justice system.

    1. The natives who made problems disappear are now working for the problem. The natives who make and enforce the rules are working for the problem. And a large number of people on the rez probably owe the problem money; the rest will be terrified of them because the problem now runs things.

      This isn’t any different that organized crime any place else — including in rural areas. There are none of those safe, bucolic neighborhoods left anymore; if the neighborhoods appear that way it’s only because you’re dealing with a smarter and more subtle class of criminal and not the head bashers society allows to operate in less nice areas.

    2. Yeah, they put the troublemakers on a plane to Winnipeg where they would be met by an indian gang recruiter and then they are Whitey’s problem. Amazing that a supposed independent ‘Nation” can dump its problems on another Nation without consequences.

  10. I’m going to give the First Nations a pass here. This is a symptom of two problems. First, yes First Nations are not well organized. They will need time to become their own “nation”. So baby steps there. Second, is the problem of drugs and gangs. This has hurt the First Nations communities harder than most, but it’s also a huge problem in Manitoba and Saskatchewan overall (I’m thinking Winnipeg, Flin Flon, Thompson, Saskatoon). Whenever I travel in these two provinces I’m warned about leaving my truck with anything of value inside visible for theft. Every parking lot is covered in broken glass. In Missinipe, gangsters walked down the middle of the street shooting into buildings as a warning to those who had unpaid drug bills. These people are untouchable. Even the RCMP retreated to their vehicles. No arrests.

    We need to get really tough with gangs. Then the First Nations communities will revert to just being poorly managed but can get better over time. For now they are sitting ducks.

      1. Checks his notes … is that the robot from the Day the World Stood Still?

        1. Sarcasm? Or not aware of Beverley McLachlin’s “Gladue” decree from the SCOC that injuns are to be treated as it’s always Whitey’s fault and therefor less or no jail time is required. Plus, injins with criminal records still get unfettered border crossing privileges.

          1. Yes, I believe it was Beverley McLachlan who said, “Gladue verada nikto!”, which is Latin for “yes, Gladue actually chopped off her toes”, or so I’m advised. As the result we have the lawyer’s saying: in the US, you get due process, here you get Gladue process.

    2. First Steve: They are not a Nation. They are a tribe. One of over 600 in Canada who are wards of the Federal government. The most needy people in Canada.

    3. “Then the First Nations communities ”

      I never, ever use their preferred terms. Why should I bow to them and call them ‘First Nations’ when they weren’t first, they weren’t nations and they refer to me as a ‘settler’ or a ‘colonizer’? When they continually accuse me of ‘genocide’ and refer to their people who went to school as ‘survivors’?

      ‘Natives’ is good enough.

  11. “You should move to a small town,where the Rule of Law still exists.
    You will not survive here.
    You are not a Wolf,and this is the land of Wolves now”.

    —— Alejandro Gillick
    Sicario (2015)

  12. Why from only 2am to 6 am? do drug deals not happen during the day? or is that just when they get their dander up and act like barbarians?

  13. There are numerous reservations where people are afraid to leave their houses. Especially old women who live alone. Terrorized by the punks they helped raise.

  15. There exist reservations that are excellently run, with good roads, low crime, and are rolling in cash from gasoline and tobacco, and now pot. Better run than some small towns, in fact.

    1. “There exist reservations that are excellently run, with good roads, low crime, and are rolling in cash from gasoline and tobacco, and now pot. Better run than some small towns, in fact.”

      That’s true. I can think of at least three here in BC…but those aren’t the ones that get the publicity, are they?

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