Missing From Discussions About First Nations Partnership...

...are they missing on purpose or by design?

Shame! Shame! Shame!

...where is the outcry from the bleeding heart, leftwing social in-activists? Obiously marching and cheering behind the banner of the storm troopers of those who benefit from a two tier anarchy.

National Post editorial board: More injustice from Caledonia
National Post Editorial Board Dec 27, 2011 – 6:03 PM ET

The Liberal government of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has been rightly criticized for allowing race-based policing to prevail during the native occupation of a land development site near the town of Caledonia, Ont. After natives forced construction activity to stop in a new housing development adjacent to Six Nations land in 2006, native activists also set up blockades on both public and private property. The native protesters were able to act with impunity while the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) concerned themselves with “peacekeeping.” Non-native Ontarians, however, including local residents, still found themselves subject to the law as per normal.
It was a disgraceful period in Ontario’s history. Unfortunately, as a recent criminal case related to the occupation reveals, it is clear that race-based justice remains the norm — for proof, one need look no further than the absurdly light sentence meted out to the native man who beat Sam Gualtieri nearly to death. Read More »

When the State gives any group special status to ‘keep the peace,’ violence is always the result.
By Kathy Shaidle on Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

ANY group. Always.

16.000 Versus 35 Million...

...it wouldn't be a fair fight if the 35M would show some balls!

Pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends-SDA

Barbara Kay: Could Canada be facing a future native insurrection?
Dec 6, 2011 – 1:46 PM ET Last Updated: Dec 6, 2011 5:21 PM ET
ne of my most enduring political memories occurred during the 1995 referendum campaign. The 16,000 Cree Indians in and around James Bay illuminated their resistance to Quebec’s separation from Canada with a reminder that the fate of Quebec’s remote, undefended (and indefensible) hydro-electric facilities was theirs to command. Their not-so-veiled threat awoke me to the obvious fact that Canada’s great territorial mass, a bulwark against external menace, also makes it vulnerable to domestic insurgents.
Most of Canada’s energy and transportation hubs run through native lands. Revanchist natives sometimes taunt Canadians with merely inconvenient road and rail blockades; yet these also semaphore the real economic disaster they could inflict on us if they chose to wage a real, sustained campaign of violence and disruption. Covert, sometimes overt, intimations of an approaching crisis speckle the discourse. Recently, for example, Justice Murray Sinclair, chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, said, “Canadian society must heal the damage caused by the Indian residential school system or deal with the violence that will be undoubtedly unleashed against it.” Read More »

Another Feather In McGoonty's Hat...

As the Caledonian occupation comes to a close in court, its issues linger
Years after the height of the fiery native occupation in Caledonia, tensions over the still-occupied site are set to flare again as non-native activists promised to march onto the site to raise a Canadian flag

Culture of racism behind beating of non-native builder by Caledonia activist: lawyer

Caledonia assault sentencing not a platform, judge warns

...all of the failures in Ontario get the media attention while the following is just a filler

B.C. First Nation buys ownership stake in Enbridge pipeline

CancerAids! Bringing Brevity To The Spoken/Oral Word...

Christie Blatchford: Testing the limits of civil discourse

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“Ahhhh,” my friend Mary said cheerily early one morning this week around the kitchen table where a bunch of us have coffee before our run, “CancerAids.”
I’d been telling the group about the deluge of ghastly email I’ve been receiving about a recent column, and was in mid-description of same when Mary interrupted.
“CancerAids?” the rest of us chorused. Read More »

BLATCHFORD SPEAKS OUT...

Three protesters shut me down once; they won’t do it again

Christie Blatchford

Two Fridays ago, I was driving in fog to give a talk about my new book, never dreaming I was about to join the list of those, most recently the American writer Ann Coulter and the former British MP George Galloway, who have been prevented from speaking at Canadian college campuses.
The difference, as Joe Brean wryly put it in a story in the National Post this week, is that where Ms. Coulter was shut down at the University of Ottawa by an unruly mob (which sufficiently alarmed authorities or her own security people that the event was cancelled), Mr. Galloway banned by the federal government (that decision overturned by a judge, with the result that Mr. Galloway was in Canada on a speaking tour this month), “Ms. Blatchford was shut down by three people and a couple of bike locks.”
 I arrived late to the University of Waterloo to learn that the three, bike locks on their necks, were on the stage, behind the podium where I was to speak, chanting “Racist, racist, racist!”
We were all taken by surprise, I think – me, university spokesman Michael Strickland and a nice campus-police officer.
They asked what I’d like to do and I said I’d like to go on stage and give it a whirl, and that though I’d prefer the trio be removed first, I’d go on regardless. Nicola Makoway, the Doubleday/Random House publicist with me, asked if the police approved of that. The campus cop, who had called in a couple of cruisers from Waterloo Regional Police before I even got there, said no, because if things got rowdy, they wouldn’t be able to protect me.
Before I knew it, he had cancelled the event, and Nicola and I were back in the car, driving home to Toronto.
Now in the days since, I’ve been second-guessing myself all over the place: Should I have insisted on going on stage? Could I have? Should I have made a run through the curtains?
The reason, of course, is that there was something shameful about slinking away. To take liberties with a great line from the old movie Apocalypse Now, I hate the clank of bike lock in the evening; it sounds like defeat.
But I was an invited guest, not the boss of the university, and in those few minutes backstage, I deferred to those who worked for the school. It still feels like a mistake but I’m damned if I know what else I could have done.
The university brass appear to have felt the same way: President Feridun Hamdullahpur quickly phoned to apologize, I have been invited back and am going, and there it sits.
I think we were all mystified. I’m hardly a Coulter-esque stirrer of pots, but a reporter, and my book, which is about the ruination of the rule of law in Caledonia, Ont., during the native occupation there, is most sharply critical of the Ontario government and the senior ranks of the Ontario Provincial Police – that is, the state, which cheerfully threw the town under the bus.
I took pains in the book to explain what it is not about, and while I expected (and the university might have reasonably expected) there might be those who disagreed with that approach, it never occurred to me that anyone would try to stop me from speaking.
In fact, however, as I’ve only recently learned – publishers and their people tend to keep discouraging news from their authors, lest we crawl into the fetal position and stop typing – from the get-go, from the moment they began talking up Helpless: Caledonia’s Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy and How the Law Failed All of Us, they encountered what they call “pushback.”
Some bookstores were reluctant to host signings or events for fear of a native backlash; some news shows were less than keen to touch the subject for the same reason.
Their timidity seems to be all of a piece with what the U of W protesters said motivated them. As Dan Kellar, one of the three locked together on the stage, told Mr. Brean, I am a “settler” on native land who hasn’t come to term with settlers’ responsibilities and am therefore important to silence.
I take from that horse manure what I take from the booksellers’ reluctance: That if one doesn’t bow at the altar of aboriginal self-determination, however criminally it may be expressed, one should not be allowed to speak.
Mr. Kellar went on to tell Mr. Brean that “older members” of Kitchener-Waterloo Anti-Racist Action recalled me “glorifying” the neo-Nazi Ernst Zundel and went on to compare me to a Nazi propagandist.
Now, I knew damn well that I have never done anything of the sort, but before I said so, had Globe and Mail researcher Stephanie Chambers check the record.
She found that in more than 35 years of daily journalism, working for four different Toronto newspapers, I had mentioned Mr. Zundel’s name a total of five times, mostly peripherally.
In the one piece that was actually about him, this in 1994 when he had applied for Canadian citizenship, I defended his right to freedom of speech, but said, “There is no comparable right to citizenship” and concluded, “I am, in other words, wholeheartedly in favour of letting Ernst Zundel say anything in the whole world that he wants or believes – even that the Holocaust didn’t happen. The only four words, coming out of his mouth, that would make me cringe are these: ‘I’m a Canadian citizen.’”
I think I’ll bring my own bike lock when I’m back at Waterloo, with a suggestion where Mr. Kellar might put it.

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