If it walks like a terrorist and talks like a terrorist...
A group fighting for their identity as a people is upset that they've been labeled terrorists.
Palestinians? Chechens? Tamils?
No. I'm talking about the Natives in Caledonia. Sad, really.
But what's really sad is that they've earned the label of terrorist. How? By terrorizing people, of course.
We've already seen how the Mohawk Warriors use children to help fight their battles in the Caledonia land dispute:
[OPP spokesperson Dennis] Harwood said Monday's altercation was sparked by minor incidents that occurred Sunday, beginning when Six Nations children cut the middle out of a Canada flag.
"They were taunting at the Caledonia residents, then the Caledonia residents put up some signs," said Harwood.
Harwood doesn't know what the signs said, but he said they were offensive to the aboriginals, who tore them down.
Here's the offensive poster that was thrown down:
Now I think the Natives have a point. Using the label "terrorist" is pretty serious business. It is not to be done lightly. The Natives are fighting for their land. They are not out to terrorize the community, right?
Haldimand County Mayor Marie Trainer, who was present when the rocks were being thrown, said the altercation erupted after aboriginals sparked a fire.
But Trainer said residents were already angry as aboriginals had thrown rocks earlier at the home of an 89-year-old man whose house borders the occupied land.
"They started throwing rocks at his home, and of course that got the neighbours going who wanted to protect him and started throwing rocks back," she told CP.
[Thanks to Halls of Macadamia for the tip]
I'm not sure which is worse -- that these warriors targeted an old man, or that they couldn't even drum up the courage to go after him in person, but threw rocks at his house from a safe distance away.
As pathetic as their actions were, they do count as terrifying. Deliberately so. And that means these people are terrorists.
But what worries me is that the more hot-headed of the Mohawk Warriors, frustrated that their use of children and the targeting of octogenarians is earning them nothing but ridicule and disdain, might decide that if they're going to be called terrorists anyway, they might as well start doing some serious terrorizing. It makes this all the more disturbing:
Yup, that's a Palestinian flag being flown by the protesters immediately below the Mohawk Warrior flag.
[Hat tip to small dead animals for the photo]
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Cheers, thank you for the coverage of this event. But I think you may find this news interesting:
http://start.shaw.ca/start/enCA/News/NationalNewsArticle.htm?src=n080829A.xml
"A spokeswoman for the aboriginals said the ruling has already impacted on talks. Hazel Hill said government negotiators cancelled a meeting Tuesday to address the group's claims of significant archeological finds on the site, saying they would be in contempt of court." Quoted from the article I posted.
So it seem like the provincial government is starting to listen to the court, finally!
Posted by: Crazy Dan at August 8, 2006 05:53 PM
The natives in Caledonia are already known locally as "The red Al Qaeda". It has been quoted in CanadaFreePress.com The link is below.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover062206.htm
The only way to end this is through the court system and the Class Action Suit.
Posted by: Webmaster at August 8, 2006 07:07 PM
Why are the natives flying other countries flags if they are so stuck on everything being theirs
And personally I am disgusted that they are also flying an English flag.
I Know if this sort of terrorism happened in England they wouldnt get away with it and the army would have been there long ago.
Maybe when someone gets seriously hurt or killed your government will get their heads out of their butts, but then its too late.
Posted by: Jacqui Dunbar at August 8, 2006 11:00 PM
Hello,Mike? Hi it's Dalton, How've you been? Good, good. Listen, the reason I'm calling,I've got a problem...right Caledonia, and I remembered you had a similar...right Ipperwash. So, how did you handle ... oh yeah, right I remember now. Uh huh, uh huh, really. And that worked eh? Well I don't know, we were thinking just give them more money and land and see if....well geez Mike you don't have to be rude I'm...Mike...Mike...hmmmm.
Posted by: rick at August 10, 2006 09:24 AM
When will the annexationists get tired of the propaganda machine as a means of strengthening their attempts at mass hysteria. All I ever read on these blogs and hear in the news is one side of the story and it makes one wonder what are you guys afraid of? One blogger mentioned that if the six nations pulled this in england the army would of taken care of business immediately. So what gives the colonialists the right to push their interests on the original peoples of this land? We both know the government will never defend the first peoples no matter how out of line the colonialists get. Just face the fact that your ancestors were outcasts from europe so they crossed the ocean hoping to flee execution and persecution for following their beliefs. Yet those same policies they were fleeing from are the exact same ones that they established here in the pursuit of establishing and furthering their interests and because the first peoples resist they are deemed terrorists? I would associate terrorist more with the likes of imperialist,colonialist,annexationist and so on and so forth. I mean c'mon guys look at the past tactics associated with these labels and I am sure those of you who are enlightened will see that in Mr. Janke's heading, "if it walks like a terrorist and talks like a terrorist" would apply more so to the previously mentioned. It is one thing to walk and talk like a terrorist but to engage in the actions employed by these previously mentioned would indicate to me who are indeed the real terrorists. Add to this a majority voice and mastering the art of manipulation and propaganda along with it's vehicles and it appears to amount to a form of super terrorism. It is widely known now that the europeon nation rose from obscurity to one of great wealth and political power through the theft of lands and the resources contained within them using means that could be identified as terrorism and other crimes deemed illegal and atrocious by the international community. Many think that they were the first to employ germ warfare during the pursuit of these interests. But now when it is mentioned the popular reply is that the past is the past. That may be but because of the past europeons maintain the balance of power to push their interests on others using tactics that were never punished but rewarded giving them the impression that they did nothing wrong or the popular reply of just simply oh well. This would give some the impression of not just terrorism but a highly evolved form of terrorism that only those with a mastermind in manipulation and cunning could attempt to pull off. So again if it walks and talks like a terrorist that's one thing but if it's passed history clearly indicates... then.... well let's just say there is a popular analogy along the lines of something the pot called the kettle.
Posted by: at August 20, 2006 11:22 PM
 
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