The monopoly on violence breaks down -- a new order emerges
Though several people thought I was too cynical or just some sort of fascist, it is as I said it would be -- when the monopoly on violence is broken, there is no government, and anarchy reigns.
Until, of course, a new government forms:
Angry residents living near the Douglas Creek Estates housing development occupied by aboriginal protesters say they'll protect their homes and families if the police won't.
Residents say the protesters are using tactics of aggression and intimidation along their backyards to bait Ontario Provincial Police into action, and so far the police response has been ineffectual.
A “resident response plan” has been circulated in the neighbourhood urging fearful homeowners to sound car alarms or horns “in the event a home or resident comes under attack.”
Residents would then gather and confront the protesters to force them back onto the territory they have claimed.
This community group is essentially forming a government. They even have borders:
The plan calls for residents to “repel the aggression by creation of a large presence and advance together as one unit peacefully, if possible, until the offending persons remove themselves from the property and back into their own area.”
David Hartless, author of the plan, said the intention is not to create vigilantes.
Residents would not pursue protesters past the “borderline” (yellow police tape), he said.
All they want is order and safety to be maintain in their area. If Premier Dalton McGuinty is unable or unwilling to maintain order, they'll do it themselves.
Of course, once they realize that they are providing for their own protection, these people might start to wonder just what exactly their taxes have been going towards.
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Steve--I can see it now--the police ordered to go through the joke of a gun registry to see how many of these residents are 'legal' gun owners.
If these people have home alarms they should trip them when the terrorists start something. I bet the alarm companies would demand the police take action. It is their business that would suffer greatly if they too are held hostage by the terrorists.
If it is true that there are Molotov cocktails and guns in the hands of the SN terrorists, and the SN terrorists have already threatened the residents with the burning of their homes, I do not see any justification that the Liberal McLiar government or the OPP can use NOT to go in and stop this. We have the case of security warrants before the SCOC right now--and yet the SN terrorists that have already broken every law are allowed to act with impunity. Something stinks here--and soon it will be the inferno that is started by the terrorists.
Sadly, this is what happens when we give over our rights to freedom and security to a government that could care less about that security and more about political correctness.
Posted by: George at June 14, 2006 10:47 AM
McGimpy is afraid it's going to screw up his Aboriginal/Liberal party kickback scheme, then he won't have any money to buy votes/make backroom deals with.
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Posted by: David Lockwood at June 14, 2006 11:21 AM
It's a good thing that all those native long guns are registered!!!
Posted by: Paul Hansen at June 14, 2006 11:57 AM
MB native blockade of RR(s?) announced for June 29
http://www.firstperspective.ca/fp_template.php?path=20060614rail
Posted by: Rich at June 14, 2006 12:17 PM
The Liberals are hamstrung, fearing that taking the correct action will damage their reputations at the UN, thereby lowering the glass ceiling on their career aspirations.
Posted by: Shaken at June 14, 2006 12:38 PM
Well it looks like Dalton McWimpy's inaction has sent a signal to other native groups - there's talk of a 24 hour rail blockade in Manitoba to protest land claim issues. And Manitobans can expect a soft and mushy NDP (their only strategy in governing so far has been buckets of cash for every problem) to be every bit as assertive as their Queen's Park neighbours to the east...
Posted by: at June 14, 2006 01:02 PM
shaken....
F..k the UN. they are the most corrupt organization on earth and have no right to chastize others.
Posted by: spike at June 14, 2006 01:40 PM
the UN--remember the OIL FOR FOOD program where only the hangers-on at the UN profited at the expense of Iraqi children. I am sure what the UN thinks of anything should be uppermost in our mind--oooh--the UN is upset--so scary, we had better capitulate!
I see the main reason in this 'unrest'--(translate to criminal activity in SN) is that their partners in crime, the LPOC, no longer have control of the purse strings--and they fear that the tap will be shut off to those on the receiving end of Liberal(taxpayer) largesse--not that the average Native prospered at all--just the more equal at the top--sort of like when the Liberals were in charge in the ROC!.
Posted by: George at June 14, 2006 02:32 PM
The reason I think this criminal activity by the SN terrrorists is happening is that the SN is stating that they want the feds at the table--trying to turn this into a federal issue to make Harper and the CPC look bad--hence, in the next election getting the Liberals back in charge of the pursestrings.
After watching as much of QP today as I could stomach, it is obvious that the Liberals are just treading water until they can overthrow an honest government. What a display of ignorance and self-interest. And this is the government that was in charge of our freedom and security for the past 13 years--and we dare not ask why the criminal elements in Canada are doing their damndest to get their partners in crime back in charge?
Posted by: George at June 14, 2006 02:40 PM
Natives have always been exempt from the gun registery after they complained to the feds at the outset.
Posted by: Loony in LotusLand at June 14, 2006 03:55 PM
Question: I do not know Canadian Law. But is there anything wrong (legally) with the following (ie Can one "hide" or "move" a wanted person):
TORONTO (CP)* - "Aboriginal leaders say seven protesters wanted by police in connection with violent incidents last week in Caledonia, Ont., have been removed from the area.
The government says it agreed to resume talks with Six Nations leaders aimed at resolving the long-standing dispute once aboriginal police pledged to deliver the protesters.
But those leaders now say the seven are no longer at the site of a housing project that's been occupied since late February.
The Six Nations Confederacy says the group appeared before confederacy chiefs and clan mothers Sunday to discuss the accusations, which range from robbery and assault to the attempted murder of a police officer."
*exerpt from a Canadian News Service
Posted by: Jon at June 14, 2006 04:19 PM
Canadian law doesn't seem to matter to the SN terrorists or our leaders. I watched a bit of Duffy today and he asked the Chief he was interviewing if this land(DCE) was on the land claims list(which is about 1000 and counting) and the Chief said no, maybe, should be, yadayadayada--and Duffy let him get away with it.
Posted by: George at June 14, 2006 04:28 PM
What`s with this terrorist bullshit George. You`re talking about the housing developers I assume. If not you`re a real piece of work.
Posted by: Rick at June 14, 2006 08:16 PM
We can also note this weekend that another apparently unrelated investigation of the Jane Creva Boxing Day murder led from Toronto steet gangs back to reserve natives, who have developed extensive organized crime activity in drugs and guns.
So there is, as Steve has indicated, quite a network of native business in cigarettes, gambling, drugs, guns, and evidently, land claims.
The native actions this weekend changed from mere "protests", to "assault", "attemted murder", "kidnapping" and even got ICE (US Border Patrol) attention. Not one of the better public relations efforts by First Nation activists.
Criminal investigations quite often interfere in criminal activity, especially if they destroy white mans' guilt in land extortion business. So the barricades quickly disappeared and we can return to negotiate over white mans' justice.
Posted by: john at June 14, 2006 08:19 PM
Excuse me Rick,
But how on earth are the land developers "terrorists"? They legally bought a piece of land, obtained permits to develop it, and were in the process of doing so. There was no violence or terror involved. It was purely legitimate business.
Some of the SN resdients, in contrast, are using violence and intimidation, targeted agianst innocent people, in order to obtain a political result. This is, by most definitions, terrorism.
Just because you sympathize with the terrorists does not change the nature of their activities.
Posted by: GM at June 14, 2006 10:10 PM
Just added another term to my lexicon.
"Caledonia" Conservative.
Note thats with a big C
Posted by: gimbol at June 15, 2006 04:49 AM
The citizens of Caledonia have the right, in the absence of direct and immediate police intervention, to defend themselves against any immediate or imminent threat to their physical person by what ever means is neccessary to stop the threat or apprehend the perpetrator and hold him for police.
What these citizens are doing is exercising the ancient British right of self defense and collective community defense in the absence of funtional rule of law or effective police intervention.
Dolton has hung these people out to dry in a state of lawless peril and is more politically interested in the well being of renegades than the charter rights of citizens in his constituency. He should pay a political and legal price for not enforcing the rule of law as his oath demands.
Posted by: wlyonmackenzie at June 15, 2006 08:37 AM
Rick--when I say terrorists I mean the Six Nations terrorists--I thought I made that clear. What would you call someone who intimidates, threatens, assaults people, and attempts to kill? Look up the definition of the word 'terrorist'. I call a spade a spade.
Posted by: George at June 15, 2006 08:51 AM
Curiuos about info on election funding by Hill, Montour, GRE in regards to McGuinty last election campaign, or to the Lib Fed's campaign.
Posted by: skyclad at June 15, 2006 09:02 PM
Steve, allow me to demystify this land grab.
Daltoon is doing nothing to stop the land-grabbers, because he is himself the biggest land-grabber in all of Ontario. The Toronto greenbelt? Hellooo!!??
The reason why government never does anything about gangsters is because the government IS a bunch of gangsters. Gangsterism couldn't even exist unless the government turns the citizens into sheep first.
Mafiosi and Indian gangs are no different than your everyday politicians, bureaucrats and police, except that they couldn't be bothered going to the trouble of worming their way up the Party hierarchy, or filling in an application form, or getting a college diploma in criminology.
Posted by: at June 16, 2006 09:43 PM
 
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