Category: First Nations

No sooner had one judge, Superior Court Justice David Marshall, finally done something right (ie, actually enforcing the law instead of trying to make it), along come another bunch of magesterial marsupials to bugger it right back up again. And they wonder why people have lost faith in the country’s courts.

More on this as it develops.

Proving yet again that they know where their priorities are, the McWimpy government is waging a desperate battle to get back to the business of doing nothing. Attorney General Michael Bryant is going to court to argue that endless chinwagging is better than actually doing something to resolve the situation in Caledonia. Being typically Grit, Bryant seems to think that the law just doesn’t apply to everybody.

On Tuesday, Ontario Superior Court Justice David Marshall knocked the wheels off this little bullshit bandwagon by ordering that there will be no talks between the protestors rioters and anyone until the law of the land is followed and a previous court order to vacate is obeyed. Let’s face a nasty truth here, boys and girls. No matter what some of the lefty-lovers try to say, everybody with a brain in their head knows damn well that if these were white people pulling a stunt like this, they’d have been dragged off to the pokey long ago, using any force necessary.

This puts the provincial Grits in one hell of a bind. No longer able to hide behind the “but we’re doing all we can; we’re talking to them” BS, they are still going to be expected to do something about the problem. Grits hate having to solve problems. Problems keep people distracted from Liberal incompetence and malfeasance so, obviously, it is in the Liberals’ best interest to drag every “crisis” out for as long as possible. Without any looming politically correct disaster to dazzle the masses, they start asking hard questions that Grits, with their wishy-washy, mealy-mouthed absence of guiding principles, are utterly unable to deal with. Conservatives (both big and little C), on the other hand, seek out such challenges and meet them head on; hence all the lib-left media fearmongering about us.

Got that? For Liberals, the logic is: problems good, solutions bad. Come to think about it, it’s kind of like a scaled down version of the way that Mideastern despots rail against Israel lest their people realise that it is their own leadership that is the author of most of their miseries. Hmm.

The natives, meanwhile, have been taking every opportunity to drop not-so-subtle insinuations that, without talks ongoing, the only alternative is mayhem. More proof of their thuggery.

Hazel Hill, a spokeswoman for the group, calls the ruling “an act of aggression.” What bullshit. Attacking an elderly couple in their car and trying to run over a cop are acts of aggression.

Rioter mouthpiece Janie Jamieson even has the nerve to imply that it’s up to the townspeople to keep cool heads. “There is a constant push from some (residents) to see bloodshed and they’re going to keep on creating situations until it happens,” she barfed.

When will this hypocrisy end?

Well, that didn’t take forever, did it? Only about six months, right? And hey, what’s six months of crass lawlessness compared to the warm, fuzzy feeling that we all get from being nice and politically correct? After all, it’s not as if the “non-native” residents of Caledonia can actually expect the same rights and security as everyone else now, is it?

In case you haven’t heard, Superior Court Justice David Marshall has pulled the plug on the appeasement tactics of the McWimpy government and ordered that ALL talks with the rioters protesters be called off until they get the hell out of Caledonia. Saying that “It is common knowledge that the people of Caledonia, after five months of occupation, have seen security in their town replaced by lawlessness, protesters in battle fatigues, police officers in riot gear,” Marshall displayed a rare convulsion of judicial common sense and made it clear, in no uncertain terms, that ignoring the law of the land is not going to get you what you want. It also shows the Ontario Grits that they’re not going to get away with jerking off a bunch of home grown Robert Mugabe wannabes, pretending that they’re actually doing something. The Grits, however, don’t seem to be getting the message.

Many, including a lot of Caledonia residents, are worried that this is just going to throw gas on an already smoldering woodpile. Guess what, kids? The fire is already lit. These thugs have clearly gotten in into their heads that bullying is the way to get what you want. If this isn’t stopped dead in its tracks, you can all bet your arses that we will be seeing one hell of a lot more of this in the future.

No one wants another Ipperwash or another Oka. We may not want it, but it may be what’s needed.

Well, it may have taken a little longer than I expected, but the inevitable seems to have begun in Caledonia. After nearly six month of Grit dithering and bafflegab, residents of the small Ontario town are finding themselves with little or no patience left. Things started getting ugly a little after midnight last night and if you think it’s just going to get worse, you’re probably right.

Gutless waffling by the McSquinty government has emboldened the natives to believe that the law just doesn’t apply to them. From arson to swarming an old couple in their car, to attempted murder of a law officer, to letting the suspects get away with hiding on the reserve, the provincial Grits have done nothing but sit on their hands. Apparently they’re scared shitless that they’ll end up with another Ipperwash on their hands.

Well guess what, Dolt? If you don’t knock off the Pontius Pilate act and get the hell off your sorry arse, and right quick, most of us with two brain cells to rub togeather think that you’re going to find yourself in one hell of a bigger mess quicker then you can say “Dudley George.” You demand restraint and civil order from one side while letting the other run roughshod over our laws as they see fit. Haven’t you ever picked up a history book in your life? This is a recipe for an explosion of violence.

When that happens (and don’t fool yourself, numbskull, it will happen. You can only push decent folk so far before they decide to push back . . . hard), it will be all your fault. And everyone will know it. There will be no excuses that you can make because everyone is going to know goddamned well that you could have stopped this, but didn’t.

Holy double standards, Batman. Will somebody please explain to me just why it is that when the HypoGrits go talking all tough, they’re saving the whole world but when a Tory talks tough, he’s just being a big, mean, nasty, intolerant, backward, anti-whatever knuckledragger?

What’s that, you say? I’m just being a stereotypical, paranoid, right-wing nut-job? Well then, just chew on these examples, why don’t you:

Schools
First off, there are the soothsayers of doom and gloom at TO’s school board who are howling the same old same old once again. “Schools and pools are closing, oh my! Send money before it’s too late!”

The TDSB had themselves a little chinwag earlier this week to stage their latest production of the long running hit, Chicken Little Knows Best, and declare in duly prophetic and ominous tones that 64 schools and 77 pools will need to be closed if the Grits don’t pony up a great, green glob of government goodies, and damn quick. Now, why does this sound so familiar? Waitaminit, I heard it last year; and the year before that, come to think of it. Hell, when the Tories were running the show, they turned this little begfest into something resembling an annual pilgrimage, complete with a Grim Reaper prancing about in front of one news conference and prophesying apocalyptic consequences if the moochers didn’t get everything they wanted.

When Chainsaw Mike and Evasive Ernie were running the show, it was headline news whenever these bozos pinched a loaf about funding. Remember that these are the same 77 pools the board threatened to can in ’99, 2000, ’01 and ’02 that we’re talking about here. Now that the Natural Governing Party is in charge, it barely rates ink. For a guy who wants to be known as the “Education Premier,” McSquinty sure is heading bassackwards on this one. Education Minister Sandra Pupatello was equally befuddling yesterday:

“I don’t know if it’s the same clip I’m seeing or if it’s just a re-run clip from last year,” she burbled to the press yesterday. “They are the largest landowner in the city of Toronto … they are sitting on a lot of very valuable property but they have declining enrolment, 10,000 fewer students, yet they have had an 11% increase in funding.”

If I didn’t know better, I’d think Sandy was channeling the ghost of Paul Christie. You remember him, right? The mean old board supervisor the Tories appointed who was demonized in the press for noticing the same things as Pupatello.

Elections
Second, we have Harper’s plan for fixed dates for federal elections. The TO Red Star crowd freaked out, with letters to the editor asking how ol’ Steve can have the gall to “arbitrarily change the parliamentary system into the American model in the blink of an eye?” Huuuhhh??? Harper suggests something and these bozos drop bricks in their BVDs but when McSquinty went ahead and did the same thing, nobody so much as broke wind over it.

For all that fuss, the fact remains that all fixed election dates do is to pull the “we can call an election whenever the polls are good for us” rug out from under the sitting government. This is not such a bad thing. And besides, whatever criticisms I may have about the Yanks, they are still a democracy. We’re talking fixed election dates here, folks, not fixed elections.

Courts
Then there’s Caledonia. Highway 6 is still blocked, there is no end in sight, and the province was called on the carpet yesterday to explain to superior Court Judge David Marshall just why the hell his court order to remove the protesters hasn’t been enforced. Now I wonder what would happen if Tories were to bang heads with a judge?

Ontario is supposed to be governed by the rule of law, but McSquinty and his gang have instead decided to deal with this by throwing a bunch of taxpayers’ cash (we don’t get to know just how much) to the town, local businesses and the developers of the disputed land. Nothing at all about dealing with the “occupiers” of the disputed land.

The fact is, if you allow lawlessness in one place, it just primes other malcontents to break the law somewhere else. Don’t believe me? Consider that natives have set up an information picket at the Brantford casino, saying they own that site. If this sounds familiar, it’s because that’s how the Caledonia clusterfiddle started out, and Tory critic Bob Runciman was looking for answers in the House yesterday:

“Can you advise us if you’re taking action to deal with the Brantford challenge, or are you once again going to sit on the sidelines until the situation deteriorates and becomes Caledonia Two?” Runciman demanded to acting premier Gerry Phillips.

Sorry, Bob, but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one if I were you. The Grits are far more interested in politically correct optics than in law and order. After all, it’s not like anybody is trying to take over one of their homes.

Enough is enough. The time has come for the federal government to knock off the Pontius Pilate act and take action on the situation in Caledonia. If the natives have a legitimate claim to make, let them do it through the courts like everybody else. No other group in this country could pull a stunt like this (and so frequently, too) and get away with it. If a bunch of whites were to try such a “stand off,” the riot squad would dispatched posthaste and the “occupiers” would be cooling their heels in no time flat.

The mayor of Caledonia gets pilloried for saying that locals are being hurt economically by the protest and is accused of implying that the protesters are on welfare. Correct me if I’m wrong, but they had been occupying the site for about two months at that point; what kind of boss lets you just pick up and take that much time off to go and man a barricade? No boss I ever worked for would.

Phoney KKK pamphlets were distributed. There’s nothing like playing the race card, don’t you know?

Henco Industries, the developer of the land that all this fracas is is being raised over has been told that he can have back valuable documents that were looted from the site on April 20 – but only if the looters get paid for them!

It’s gotten so screwy that even the judge that issued the original order to have the natives removed back in April is starting to demand answers.