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April 14, 2007
Canada's Military Invasion in Northwest Territories
"TERRORIST INVASION" OF DEH CHO INDIGENOUS TERRITORY - CANADA ARMED FORCES "GUNS FOR HIRE" BY MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS
by Kahentinetha Horn
Mohawk Nation News
April 14, 2007. Indigenous people everywhere - watch out! Is this more of Canada's "might is right" mentality. Or have the military, police, RCMP, secret service and government bureaucrats become "guns for hire" by the multinational corporations? Are they all under the same corruption that is going on in the RCMP?
Canadian armed forces plan to ignore indigenous sovereignty by invading Deh Cho territory. The crime is planned for Monday April 16th. It's at Norman Wells and Ft. Simpson, Northwest Territory.
"Operation Narwhal" is being conducted despite the expressed opposition to this operation and to the McKenzie Valley Pipeline that Canada wants to build through their land. The Deh Cho never agreed to become part of Canada though they are willing to work with Canada. They want the colonial power to implement their "Land Use Plan", in keeping with their rights as interpreted by the Supreme Court of canada and under international law. Canada rejected the Plan. The Deh Cho insist the pipeline cannot cross their land without their approval.
The Deh Cho want to stop the environmental destruction by corporations and their government and military puppets that are bent on removing all "restraints" to "business". This pipeline is part of a massive exploitation of land across all of Turtle Island [North America]. The "slash" and "pollute" mentality will affect everyrone living on it as well as the environment worldwide.
Let's not kid ourselves, this is really an end-run around the Dene opposition. The Canadian govenrment press release says that 40 Joint Task Force North military personnel will take over the airport from April 16-27 from imaginary "terrorists" as part of "a sovereignty operation for the military". Another 240 troops will be stationed at Norman Wells. They claim these two places are "possible terrorist sites" because of their location on the pipeline route.
Despite leaving the Deh Cho out of the loop, "Imperial Oil" and "Enbridge Gas", two of Canada's largest energy companies, are in the thick of the action. More than 200 soldiers will mass to practice their response to their fantasized terrorist attack. Lt.-Col. Kevin "TNT" Tyler of the Yellowknife-based JTF North said there will be a fictional "al Qaeda" sleeper cell from Edmonton. "This is supposed to be a small cell of two terrorists who have explosire devices to disrupt the flow of oil.
Are they hitchhiking up there? Is there a road? Why are the troops in the middle of a town? Why not in the middle of nowhere? Is it because the troops need to be close to a bar?
After the attack at Norman Wells the RCMP will call in the military for help to protect Imperial Oil fields west of Great Bear Lake along the MacKenzie River. It is served by the 870-kilometer Enbridge pipeline designed to carry up to 30,000 barrels of oil a day.
The operation will bring in 150 reservists from the Maritimes. Aurora surveillance aircraft, Griffon helicopters and Twin Otter airplanes based in Yellowknife will bring in 140 staff and air crew. The RCMP, Emergency Preparedness, Imperial Oil and Enbridge areall part of the gang. Of course, it will all be under U.S. command.
These video maniacs are all looking forward to having a lot of fun. It sounds like a big party at the expense of the Dene, the Canadian taxpayers, the people and the environment.
The military was never known for its intelligence. Soldiers will be armed, without live ammunition. Does this make sense? In a real life situation will a gun be of any help? Are they going to shoot the bomb? Hope they bring enough 'duct tape' for the holes they're bound to make in the pipeline.
Sgt. Larry "Obey" O'Brien in Yellow knife said RCMP officers that are not in Ottawa testifying about ocrruption will be consulting with military officials.
This is simulated warfare to simulate their "phony baloney" sovereignty on our land. But the assault on our land is real. Three years ago the military had an exercise in the waters off Pangnirtung, an Indigenous nunavut community on southeast Baffin island. They pretended that a "foreign" country was trying to retrieve a satellite that had fallen into Davis Strait. The question is why do they have to fight over that? Everyone knows that the U.S. is the main bully falsely claiming our Arctic waters.
Recently Canada claimed sovereignty up there by taking a shipload of Inuit, the real owners, on a cruise through Arctic waters. In their heart of hearts, they know they are in Inuit space.
The Deh Cho won't give the invading troops a warm welcome, like moccasins for their frozen feet. It's just one colony telling another how to click its heels. The Deh Cho are not intimidated by foreign troops being sent in using imaginary "terrorism" as an excuse to hoist their flag on our land.
The Deh Cho think their plans for oil are completely insane! This follows on the heels of the recent military training manual flap where they referred to Indigenous people as "insurgents".
The Deh Cho are asking for support. Canada is conducting an illegal invasion. The title holders have not been consulted nor gave their consent. Are Canadian forces planning to stay until Canada breaks down Deh Cho opposition to their pipeline, or until it finishes building it to take gas to the U.S.? It's the same trampling over our rights as ever before. Can somebody help get a court injunction?
Contact:
DEHCHO FIRST NATIONS BOX 89, FORT SIMPSON, N.W.T. X0E 0N0 TEL: 867-695-2355
FAX 867-695-2038 http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=dcfn@dehchofirstnations.com or http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=mstainsby@resist.ca
Send your concerns to: Prime Minister Stephen Harper http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=harper.s@parl.gc.ca; Governor General of Canada http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=info@gg.ca; Indian Affairs Canada http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=infoPub@ainc-inac.gc.ca; Queen Elizabeth(?); NATO; United Nations http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=tb-petitions@chchr.org; Environment Canada (?) ; & anybody you can think of.
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Natives decry 'provocative' military exercises
By Kevin Libin
National Post
Friday, April 13, 2007
Calgary • When troops descend on Fort Simpson in the Northwest Territories on Monday, they will pretend an attack is afoot in Canada’s Arctic. But the Deh Cho First Nations, who claim sovereignty over the area, is calling the department of defence’s mock exercise a genuine incursion on their territory. And Grand Chief Herb Norwegian is accusing Ottawa of using Operation Narwhal as a provocative show of force."Here they are right out of Afghanistan, right into the Deh Cho. This is pretty serious stuff," Mr. Norwegian said yesterday. "We seem to be gearing up for some psychological warfare."Though Mr. Norwegian said he has not yet determined his response to the perceived violation, he said, "I think we need to remind people that here they are coming into a territory where they're not welcome … if push comes to shove we have a right to defend ourselves."For 12 days, Canadian Forces, the RCMP and two energy firms will test Canada’s response to a terrorist attack on its northern energy infrastructure. The scenario will see two soldiers posing as agents from an Edmonton-based "al-Qaeda type" sleeper cell stage a mock bombing of oil facilities at Norman Wells, NWT.Military personnel will respond with patrols in Norman Wells and Fort Simpson while surveillance aircraft and Griffon helicopters take to the skies over the region.Operation Narwhal, which has been planned since 2004, involves nearly 300 military personnel, RCMP and representatives from Imperial Oil and Enbridge Inc. But Mr. Norwegian said Ottawa did not consult with natives. "I only heard about it yesterday," he said. "Normally, with these kinds of things you have to consult and bring people onside."Captain Bonnie Golbeck, public affairs officer with Canada Command, said yesterday that organizers met with Deh Cho leaders in Fort Simpson months ago. "Our planning staff met with the community leadership to make sure they understand the scope of the exercise and what was required so we could be open and allow any concerns to be raised on either side." She was "not aware of any concerns" raised by the Deh Cho about the operation.Relations between the federal government and the community of 10 First Nations have strained over a lingering land claim dispute. The 7,000-member band is the sole holdout in negotiating a land-use framework for the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline, which will deliver Arctic natural gas south to Alberta.Though Ottawa and the energy industry have struck arrangements with all other affected northern bands to allow passage of the $16-billion natural gas corridor — 40% of which will pass through lands claimed by the Deh Cho — the band has made cooperation contingent on land settlement, including controversial demands for powers to tax pipeline property.Indian Affairs minister Jim Prentice has suggested that lacking a deal with all Indian groups, the government may nevertheless proceed with pipeline construction on disputed lands, leading some observers to wonder if Ottawa might face confrontation with the militant Deh Cho."When you look at the way that this [Operation Narwhal] is being put together, its almost subliminal messages that are being sent to us," said Mr. Norwegian. Ottawa should have staged the exercise somewhere where locals are more "pleasant" toward the federal government, he added.Gurston Dacks, a University of Alberta political science professor, said that sensitivities make Fort Simpson an "unfortunate choice" to train troops. But, he added, "you’d really have to be into conspiracy theories to prefer the explanation that this is some kind of implicit threat."
by Kahentinetha Horn
Mohawk Nation News
April 14, 2007. Indigenous people everywhere - watch out! Is this more of Canada's "might is right" mentality. Or have the military, police, RCMP, secret service and government bureaucrats become "guns for hire" by the multinational corporations? Are they all under the same corruption that is going on in the RCMP?
Canadian armed forces plan to ignore indigenous sovereignty by invading Deh Cho territory. The crime is planned for Monday April 16th. It's at Norman Wells and Ft. Simpson, Northwest Territory.
"Operation Narwhal" is being conducted despite the expressed opposition to this operation and to the McKenzie Valley Pipeline that Canada wants to build through their land. The Deh Cho never agreed to become part of Canada though they are willing to work with Canada. They want the colonial power to implement their "Land Use Plan", in keeping with their rights as interpreted by the Supreme Court of canada and under international law. Canada rejected the Plan. The Deh Cho insist the pipeline cannot cross their land without their approval.
The Deh Cho want to stop the environmental destruction by corporations and their government and military puppets that are bent on removing all "restraints" to "business". This pipeline is part of a massive exploitation of land across all of Turtle Island [North America]. The "slash" and "pollute" mentality will affect everyrone living on it as well as the environment worldwide.
Let's not kid ourselves, this is really an end-run around the Dene opposition. The Canadian govenrment press release says that 40 Joint Task Force North military personnel will take over the airport from April 16-27 from imaginary "terrorists" as part of "a sovereignty operation for the military". Another 240 troops will be stationed at Norman Wells. They claim these two places are "possible terrorist sites" because of their location on the pipeline route.
Despite leaving the Deh Cho out of the loop, "Imperial Oil" and "Enbridge Gas", two of Canada's largest energy companies, are in the thick of the action. More than 200 soldiers will mass to practice their response to their fantasized terrorist attack. Lt.-Col. Kevin "TNT" Tyler of the Yellowknife-based JTF North said there will be a fictional "al Qaeda" sleeper cell from Edmonton. "This is supposed to be a small cell of two terrorists who have explosire devices to disrupt the flow of oil.
Are they hitchhiking up there? Is there a road? Why are the troops in the middle of a town? Why not in the middle of nowhere? Is it because the troops need to be close to a bar?
After the attack at Norman Wells the RCMP will call in the military for help to protect Imperial Oil fields west of Great Bear Lake along the MacKenzie River. It is served by the 870-kilometer Enbridge pipeline designed to carry up to 30,000 barrels of oil a day.
The operation will bring in 150 reservists from the Maritimes. Aurora surveillance aircraft, Griffon helicopters and Twin Otter airplanes based in Yellowknife will bring in 140 staff and air crew. The RCMP, Emergency Preparedness, Imperial Oil and Enbridge areall part of the gang. Of course, it will all be under U.S. command.
These video maniacs are all looking forward to having a lot of fun. It sounds like a big party at the expense of the Dene, the Canadian taxpayers, the people and the environment.
The military was never known for its intelligence. Soldiers will be armed, without live ammunition. Does this make sense? In a real life situation will a gun be of any help? Are they going to shoot the bomb? Hope they bring enough 'duct tape' for the holes they're bound to make in the pipeline.
Sgt. Larry "Obey" O'Brien in Yellow knife said RCMP officers that are not in Ottawa testifying about ocrruption will be consulting with military officials.
This is simulated warfare to simulate their "phony baloney" sovereignty on our land. But the assault on our land is real. Three years ago the military had an exercise in the waters off Pangnirtung, an Indigenous nunavut community on southeast Baffin island. They pretended that a "foreign" country was trying to retrieve a satellite that had fallen into Davis Strait. The question is why do they have to fight over that? Everyone knows that the U.S. is the main bully falsely claiming our Arctic waters.
Recently Canada claimed sovereignty up there by taking a shipload of Inuit, the real owners, on a cruise through Arctic waters. In their heart of hearts, they know they are in Inuit space.
The Deh Cho won't give the invading troops a warm welcome, like moccasins for their frozen feet. It's just one colony telling another how to click its heels. The Deh Cho are not intimidated by foreign troops being sent in using imaginary "terrorism" as an excuse to hoist their flag on our land.
The Deh Cho think their plans for oil are completely insane! This follows on the heels of the recent military training manual flap where they referred to Indigenous people as "insurgents".
The Deh Cho are asking for support. Canada is conducting an illegal invasion. The title holders have not been consulted nor gave their consent. Are Canadian forces planning to stay until Canada breaks down Deh Cho opposition to their pipeline, or until it finishes building it to take gas to the U.S.? It's the same trampling over our rights as ever before. Can somebody help get a court injunction?
Contact:
DEHCHO FIRST NATIONS BOX 89, FORT SIMPSON, N.W.T. X0E 0N0 TEL: 867-695-2355
FAX 867-695-2038 http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=dcfn@dehchofirstnations.com or http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=mstainsby@resist.ca
Send your concerns to: Prime Minister Stephen Harper http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=harper.s@parl.gc.ca; Governor General of Canada http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=info@gg.ca; Indian Affairs Canada http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=infoPub@ainc-inac.gc.ca; Queen Elizabeth(?); NATO; United Nations http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=tb-petitions@chchr.org; Environment Canada (?) ; & anybody you can think of.
Kahentinetha Horn - MNN Mohawk Nation News
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Natives decry 'provocative' military exercises
By Kevin Libin
National Post
Friday, April 13, 2007
Calgary • When troops descend on Fort Simpson in the Northwest Territories on Monday, they will pretend an attack is afoot in Canada’s Arctic. But the Deh Cho First Nations, who claim sovereignty over the area, is calling the department of defence’s mock exercise a genuine incursion on their territory. And Grand Chief Herb Norwegian is accusing Ottawa of using Operation Narwhal as a provocative show of force."Here they are right out of Afghanistan, right into the Deh Cho. This is pretty serious stuff," Mr. Norwegian said yesterday. "We seem to be gearing up for some psychological warfare."Though Mr. Norwegian said he has not yet determined his response to the perceived violation, he said, "I think we need to remind people that here they are coming into a territory where they're not welcome … if push comes to shove we have a right to defend ourselves."For 12 days, Canadian Forces, the RCMP and two energy firms will test Canada’s response to a terrorist attack on its northern energy infrastructure. The scenario will see two soldiers posing as agents from an Edmonton-based "al-Qaeda type" sleeper cell stage a mock bombing of oil facilities at Norman Wells, NWT.Military personnel will respond with patrols in Norman Wells and Fort Simpson while surveillance aircraft and Griffon helicopters take to the skies over the region.Operation Narwhal, which has been planned since 2004, involves nearly 300 military personnel, RCMP and representatives from Imperial Oil and Enbridge Inc. But Mr. Norwegian said Ottawa did not consult with natives. "I only heard about it yesterday," he said. "Normally, with these kinds of things you have to consult and bring people onside."Captain Bonnie Golbeck, public affairs officer with Canada Command, said yesterday that organizers met with Deh Cho leaders in Fort Simpson months ago. "Our planning staff met with the community leadership to make sure they understand the scope of the exercise and what was required so we could be open and allow any concerns to be raised on either side." She was "not aware of any concerns" raised by the Deh Cho about the operation.Relations between the federal government and the community of 10 First Nations have strained over a lingering land claim dispute. The 7,000-member band is the sole holdout in negotiating a land-use framework for the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline, which will deliver Arctic natural gas south to Alberta.Though Ottawa and the energy industry have struck arrangements with all other affected northern bands to allow passage of the $16-billion natural gas corridor — 40% of which will pass through lands claimed by the Deh Cho — the band has made cooperation contingent on land settlement, including controversial demands for powers to tax pipeline property.Indian Affairs minister Jim Prentice has suggested that lacking a deal with all Indian groups, the government may nevertheless proceed with pipeline construction on disputed lands, leading some observers to wonder if Ottawa might face confrontation with the militant Deh Cho."When you look at the way that this [Operation Narwhal] is being put together, its almost subliminal messages that are being sent to us," said Mr. Norwegian. Ottawa should have staged the exercise somewhere where locals are more "pleasant" toward the federal government, he added.Gurston Dacks, a University of Alberta political science professor, said that sensitivities make Fort Simpson an "unfortunate choice" to train troops. But, he added, "you’d really have to be into conspiracy theories to prefer the explanation that this is some kind of implicit threat."
Sovereign Nations: Will Deh Cho become another Tohono O'odham Nation?
Migrant detention center on Tohono O'odham land
Photo by Ofelia Rivas
Photo by Ofelia Rivas
Sovereign Nations: Will Deh Cho become another Tohono O'odham Nation?
By Brenda Norrell
SELLS, Ariz. -- On Tohono O'odham tribal land in Arizona, US troops came in for military maneuvers and never left. The military took over Tohono O'odham tribal land. Now they are everywhere, an occupying army, along with the Border Patrol, immigration agents and the National Guard. They shine spotlights into homes, tailgate people and trample sacred places and fragile desert plants. Every O'odham is under constant high-tech surveillance from the air and on land. They threaten, harass and intimidate O'odham and their guests, with the military prevailing in this militarized zone.
Tohono O'odham tribal leaders have said they are powerless to do anything about the military's presence, because of the risk of losing federal funding. Homeland Security, Border Patrol and immigration agencies have taken over here and taken away the power of decision making from the O'odham people.
The most recent addition is a migrant detention center on tribal land near the border, which most O'odham say is a violation of the fundamental spiritual principle of the Him'daag, which makes people truly human beings.
Canada's unwanted military invasion of Deh Cho:
Indigenous: Canada following path to genocidial terror mapped by US
By Brenda Norrell
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Canada is now following the same blueprint for Indigenous genocide that was designed by the United States and led to the torture, rape, disappearance and murder of masses of Indigenous Peoples in Central and South America.
In the 1970s and 1980s, following a counterinsurgency manual later made public, Latin leaders were trained by the School of the Americas in the United States. The reign of terror spanned decades and Indigenous women, children and elderly were murdered indiscriminately.
At the root of this unmitigated horror were the corporations, including the United Fruit Company, which became Chiquita Brands International. The Bush family earlier had controlling financial interests in the company. Recently, Chiquita admitted hiring rightwing paramilitary which killed thousands of human rights workers, union organizers and farmers in Colombia.
The probe has now led to Drummond Coal and paramilitary admissions that the coal company ships were used by the paramilitary to carry drugs to Europe. Coca-Cola has also been accused in court of hiring paramilitary to kill human rights activists and union organizers in South America.
With this trail of death, Canada is now revealing the same pattern. A draft counterinsurgency manual was exposed, naming Mohawks with international terrorists. Now, Canada announced new military training for Natives. Mohawks ask, "Are they training Natives to kill us?"
It is a simple story, drenched in the blood of Indigenous from the North Pole to the South Pole. Indigenous who stand up for their rights to their land, water and resources will be exterminated by the most powerful militaries in the world. Under the guise of the so-called war on terror, governments seek to sway the public by using misinformation and buy those who can be bought.
With the U.S. torture and secret prisons of the Bush administration only given a casual glance by most Americans, militaries and private security contractors have been given a green light to declare war on human rights activists, peace activists and Indigenous struggling to survive.
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
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Mohawks: Canada plans military training of Natives, after draft counterinsurgency manual exposed. The manual named Mohawks with international terrorists.
Zapatistas: Marcos and Comandantes arrive at southern border of U.S., meet with Cucapa at fishing resistance camp, plan meeting in Sonora, near border, on April 22, 2007, to announce Intercontinental Conference.
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http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
Canada is now following the same blueprint for Indigenous genocide that was designed by the United States and led to the torture, rape, disappearance and murder of masses of Indigenous Peoples in Central and South America.
In the 1970s and 1980s, following a counterinsurgency manual later made public, Latin leaders were trained by the School of the Americas in the United States. The reign of terror spanned decades and Indigenous women, children and elderly were murdered indiscriminately.
At the root of this unmitigated horror were the corporations, including the United Fruit Company, which became Chiquita Brands International. The Bush family earlier had controlling financial interests in the company. Recently, Chiquita admitted hiring rightwing paramilitary which killed thousands of human rights workers, union organizers and farmers in Colombia.
The probe has now led to Drummond Coal and paramilitary admissions that the coal company ships were used by the paramilitary to carry drugs to Europe. Coca-Cola has also been accused in court of hiring paramilitary to kill human rights activists and union organizers in South America.
With this trail of death, Canada is now revealing the same pattern. A draft counterinsurgency manual was exposed, naming Mohawks with international terrorists. Now, Canada announced new military training for Natives. Mohawks ask, "Are they training Natives to kill us?"
It is a simple story, drenched in the blood of Indigenous from the North Pole to the South Pole. Indigenous who stand up for their rights to their land, water and resources will be exterminated by the most powerful militaries in the world. Under the guise of the so-called war on terror, governments seek to sway the public by using misinformation and buy those who can be bought.
With the U.S. torture and secret prisons of the Bush administration only given a casual glance by most Americans, militaries and private security contractors have been given a green light to declare war on human rights activists, peace activists and Indigenous struggling to survive.
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
Latest Censored news....
Mohawks: Canada plans military training of Natives, after draft counterinsurgency manual exposed. The manual named Mohawks with international terrorists.
Zapatistas: Marcos and Comandantes arrive at southern border of U.S., meet with Cucapa at fishing resistance camp, plan meeting in Sonora, near border, on April 22, 2007, to announce Intercontinental Conference.
Mohawks: Canada plans training camp for Native military
“INDIGENOUS SOLDIERS” & “BIGGER BAZOOKAS” ARE CANADA ’S MILITARY SOLUTION
Kahentinetha Horn April 13, 2007. “The Canadian Army was itching to kill us in 1990”, said a young Mohawk, referring to the Crisis at Kanehsatake. That’s when the army surrounded us for 78 days. We didn’t want the nearby town of Oka to put a golf course over our burial and ceremonial site. We saw Indigenous faces sticking out of the tanks and standing around with their fingers on the trigger ready to kill us. It was sickening! Now Denis Coderre, Liberal Defence critic in Ottawa , wants Canada to build a special Canadian Forces base to train native soldiers.
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What’s going on? Are they planning to send native soldiers against us like they did in the past? This announcement comes right after Canada put out the National Defense training manual calling us “domestic insurgents”, with tactics on how to attack unarmed Indigenous civilians. They categorized us as “Taliban”, “Tamil Tigers” and “Al Queda”. They are, in all reality, “freedom fighters”. The Mohawk Warrior Society are not criminals. They are standing for the rule of law and for colonial states to obey the laws.
Is this how Canada tries to deal with recent worldwide criticism over their continued genocide of our people? The idea came up because natives are crossing the border to join the U.S. armed forces. There is no border for us. It is an imaginary colonial line.
What is the army doing? We are told that the military mission in Afghanistan is supposed to “win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people”. How are Canadian forces under U.S. command trying to win their “hearts and minds”?
Recently, the Canadians were helping the locals fix a power generator and water pump. They needed spark plugs, which they should have brought with them from Canadian Tire before they left home? 20 soldiers decided to go almost 100 miles away to Kandahar in four heavily armored vehicles. These roads are always under the protection of the Taliban. Was this provocation! As the Canadians traveled, they kept firing warning shots at cars or trucks they thought might attack them. One of these shots caused a truck to go off the road. It rolled over and over causing many injuries. Compare the cost in ammunition and human misery for not remembering to bring spark plugs from home!
Is it any wonder Afghanis don’t trust anybody? Even as the soldiers distribute medicines and civilian aid, they are creating more need for it. Soldiers are assuming that everyone could be a Taliban. It isn’t safe for anyone to come within firing range of these so-called “saviors” carrying machine guns and riding around in their supped-up tanks.
Canada wants more efficient killing machines. They just bought new air-conditioned Leopard tanks from Holland . Now the soldiers can sit comfortably while they go on playing this real life version of “halo”, a “shoot and kill the enemy” video game.
Canada knows we don’t trust their military. Do they think we’ve forgotten how we felt when they pointed their guns at us at Kanehsatake, Gustafsen Lake , Ipperwash, Tyendinaga, etc.? Is recruiting our men and women to fight for them what they call “appeasing” us for all the lethal gestures the military made against us in the past? This is not an olive branch they’re extending. It's a death trap for our people to fall into.
This first training base in Canada would be built in the Restigouche area where government and corporations create high unemployment.
Mr. Coderre said, "… we have to show “sensitivity” since Canada is also composed of first nations”. He uses a bizarre adjective to describe Canada and U.S. past history of brutality against us. There was Champlain’s attack on us, the war on the Metis, on Riel and George Washington’s campaign of genocide with the help of the rabble sent over from Europe! When have Canadians and Americans ever taken up arms to defend us and our lands? Never!
We have to stop and think. Remember when Indians wore foreign uniforms to attack us? Remember Apache warrior, Geronimo? His own men turned traitors and helped the U.S. army to capture him. In the end, they held his family hostage and tried to starve them to death to make him surrender. Then the U.S. turned around, disarmed their Indian helpers and took them on the same train to a prison camp with Geronimo. How’s that?
During WW II, the Iroquois Confederacy wanted to defend Turtle Island against a purported German invasion. We went on the steps of Congress and declared war on Germany. When the war was over, the Confederacy was not invited to sit at the peace table. Technically we are still at war with Germany. But the U.S., Canada and the British would not allow the German Government to make peace with us even though they wanted to.
If an Onkwehonwe soldier is told to kill his own, he has to do it. If not, he will be murdered by his commander. That is why these officers wear the 45’s on their belts. If you disobey, they can shoot you on the spot.
Mr. Coderre said, "I promise to speak about this project with our leader, Stéphane Dion, and I hope that it can become a campaign promise." He plans to meet aboriginal leaders to get their support. How about consulting us. It’s our sons and daughters they want! Coderre, don’t talk with the head of your puppet organizations. If you want our people, speak to us on a nation-to-nation basis.
If Canada is sincere about wanting peace, we’d be glad to advise them. The Kaianereh’ko:wa, Great Law, is the recipe for worldwide peace. These bankers, military, multinational corporations and their government puppets are the only beneficiaries of this cruel dynamic.
History repeats itself. They still want to get the population down to a controllable number. They don’t care if they bomb and kill each other. They will give both sides the weapons to do it. That is what they did here to us. This brought nothing but grief and destruction.
The colonizers trained the Vietnamese to kill Vietnamese, Indians to kill each other and Africans to kill each other with guns supplied to both sides by the same dealer. Let’s not forget how the U.S. and Canada used our own to kill us. Every reserve has Indian police to enforce the colonizers laws of exploitation and extermination on us.
Indigenous brothers and sisters: Why are we letting these colonial brutes put Canadian and U.S. uniforms on us and guns in our hands to kill for them? The Iraqi and Afghans never did anything to you. They are fighting for their country, their resources, their people and their future. The same way as Geronimo, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Chief Seattle, Pontiac and other Onkwehonwe did. They stood up to protect us, our homes, our land, our mother and mostly our freedom.
What’s conspicuously missing is any attempt to make peace with the Taliban. This is where the principles of the Kaianereh’ko:wa, the Great Law of Peace, would come in handy. It may take a few days to sit down and hack things out. Once an agreement is reached there will be no need for their new lethal toys.
Will these Indigenous soldiers come back to us with their minds changed around just like after World Wars I and II? The returning brainwashed soldiers helped the colonial governments impose their foreign systems on us.
When are they going to rescind the order to exterminate the Indigenous people of Turtle Island? The white race continues its genocidal plan to control people of color worldwide.
Any idiot can kill. No one needs training to do that. That’s proven every day. If you guys are so eager to get military training, why don’t you learn how to defend us? Don’t help these colonial foreign states oppress us and take everything of value from us.
In our scenario there’s no place for any “War Czar”. We have more to gain by fighting for the truth rather than swallowing all the lies we’re being fed. Don’t be brainwashed into murdering your own people. We all have the ability to reason.
Kahentinetha Horn
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