It's been five years since native-Indians in Caledonia, a town in Ontario, Canada, invaded private land and have been illegally occupying it ever since. The government of Canada - along with the police force - have turned a blind-eye to injustice and have, in fact, enabled the lawbreakers to continue intimidating and terrorizing lawabiding citizens of the town.

The non-native-Indian people of Caledonia haven't rolled over and played dead all these years, but have stood their ground attempting to defend their land and their rights under the law. One family took the government and the police to court for failing to protect them after their house was surrounded by the native-Indian blockade. The case was settled out of court after the government bought them out for an undisclosed amount of taxpayers' money on condition they drop all charges and keep quiet about the deal. See ALONE AGAINST TERRORIST INDIANS & CANADA COPS TIM-BIT GRANNIES

After that the story of Caledonia dropped off the radar until a book came out a few months ago, written by a journalist who specializes in cases of law and order and had attended the trial of the aforementioned couple. What she learned there shocked her - and then inspired her to investigate the situation thoroughly and report on it to we the Canadian people.

Christie Blatchford's book HELPLESS: CALEDONIA'S NIGHTMARE OF FEAR AND ANARCHY, AND HOW THE LAW FAILED ALL OF US (scanned above) is her contribution toward truthseeking and truthspeaking on an issue that is vitally important to all involved - and we're ALL involved.

The reason Caledonia affects all Canadians is because injustice done to some of us is injustice done to all of us, and unless it is stopped, it will continue and will escalate. The native-Indians have been emboldened by getting away with their illegal activities in Caledonia and are threatening - and actually gave notice last week* - that they intend to disrupt hydro, pipeline, mininig, forestry and other commercial activity on land they own, and on land they claim to own, around a town in British Columbia. The government and police are making no plans to stop them.

Yesterday, on the fifth anniversary of the Caledonia occupation, the townspeople attempted to erect a statue on the place where it all began - now public-owned property bought by the government with taxpayers' dollars - but they were prevented from doing so by native-Indians, their supporters and the police.

Christie Blatchford was there and summed it up by saying, "For sheer abuse of raw state power, nothing  touches Caledonia".

To understand what she means, read her book - she deserves a medal of bravery for writing it. ~ Jackie Jura

Interview with Christie Blatchford (on Helpless in Caledonia), The Agenda, TVO

Caledonia Land Claim timeline

For sheer abuse of raw state power nothing touches Caledonia
by Christie Blatchford, Globe & Mail, Feb 28, 2011
...I was in Caledonia on Sunday for Mr. McHale’s latest rally. Two buses brought in supporters of the Six Nations – students mostly, one load from Toronto, one from Waterloo and Guelph. They disrupted Mr. McHale’s rally, outshouted and outnumbered his small group. The OPP, as ever, was there – videotaping, for the most part, and blocking traffic as the pro-native group marched down Argyle Street to the DCE site. The Dalton McGuinty government long ago threw this town under the bus. The Tim Hudak opposition Conservatives are more interested in buck-a-beer slogans. The people of Caledonia themselves don’t even bother to show up for rallies anymore. As one of them said, “They used to come and it did no good and they gave up.” From start to finish, this story is but a stain on the Canadian landscape, the lesson that anything – criminal conduct, lawlessness, state abuses – is tolerated if it is done in the name of aboriginal self-expression.

Caledonia Wake Up Call, website of Gary McHale, creator of Canadian Advocates for Charter Equality

Rally set to mark 5-year-old native land-claim dispute
by Linda Nguyen, National Post, Feb 24, 2011
It's been five years since tensions erupted over a controversial native land claim in Caledonia, Ont., and some residents are still waiting on the government and police to apologize for how the incident was handled. "This will not be forgotten about," said Gary McHale, one of a number of protesters arrested during the dispute, told a news conference Wednesday. "This will not be overlooked and they must take responsibility for what they did." McHale, who is also the executive director of the Canadian Advocates for Charter Equality, called on the provincial government, the Ontario Provincial Police and the Six Nations group in the community southwest of Toronto to apologize for the wrongs incurred during the years-long land occupation.

On Feb. 28, 2006, members of the Six Nations reserve occupied 40 hectares of land known as the Douglas Creek Estates on the basis of a claim that it belonged to the group. The land, which was eventually sold to the province, remained occupied for years as clashes began between natives and non-natives in the community. Tensions escalated as the protesters [the native occupiers] defied court orders to leave and instead wielded baseball bats, hockey sticks and set fires on the land. Throughout the standoff, the OPP [Ontario Provincial Police], then led by current Conservative Member of Parliament Julian Fantino, were instructed to continue a non-enforcement approach in Caledonia. McHale, and other non-native residents, have alleged that this failure to act by both the police and the government was a form of racial-based profiling. He was arrested for breach of peace in September 2006 at one of the biggest clashes between the two groups during the dispute.

Over the weekend, McHale and other non-natives will hold a rally and erect a temporary monument to mark the upcoming anniversary of the occupation Monday. Longtime resident Merlyn Kinrade, who was at the news conference, said community relations have yet to move on to the "healing" stage. "It's still a strained relationship," he said. "I think members of each community tolerate and hopefully encourage one another that we must get along." Mark Vandermaas, with the Caledonia Victims Project, said it was equally important that the Six Nations group acknowledge how the dispute has left lingering effects on the community of Caledonia. "If you drive down the street in Caledonia today, you are probably not going to see anything burning, but that doesn't mean there's justice in Caledonia," he said.

* Indian Band announces "service disruptions" starting next week
Kamloops Daily News, Feb 23, 2011
Band has own duty to consult If there’s one thing we don’t need, it’s another long, hot summer of native blockades. Skeetchestn Band chief Rick Deneault hasn’t given details of what might happen if the band doesn’t start getting action on grievances involving corporate operations on band land and traditional territory, so we can only speculate at this point. What’s clear is that he and his council intend to ramp things up with what they’re calling “service disruptions” beginning March 7. It’s hard to say exactly what that might entail, but it’s a good bet it involves interfering with access to roadways, railways and even the Trans Canada highway. That potentially represents a high cost to the economy of the region and a major inconvenience to the public.

The blockade was once a major and all-too-common tactic for Interior Indian bands demanding action on a range of issues. Such disruptions haven’t occurred for many years, but anyone who lived around here back then will well remember the tension and anger that poisoned relations between natives and non-natives. Deneault and his band need to understand that unless such methods are surgically applied they will quickly escalate beyond a disagreement between protesters and corporations or governments, and into a counter-productive confrontation with the public at large. No good can come of such a situation. The band at least owes it to the public to clearly articulate its concerns and to give notice of its intentions. That should be accompanied by a strategy that minimizes the impact on the general public.

It’s unfortunate “service disruptions” are even on the table. Through aggressive negotiation, the Skeetchestn band has been the beneficiary of deals involving the Tobiano development and the New Gold mine, the latter involving a significant revenue stream. From the little the band has said, that’s not enough. It says several major corporations have not come to the table to negotiate. West Fraser Timber, Teck Resources, BC Hydro, CN, CP, Spectra Energy, Pembina Pipeline and International Forest Products are on the list. “We’d like them (the corporations) to come to the community, sit down and talk with us about impacts and benefit agreements,” Mike Anderson, the band’s natural resources manager, told The Daily News this week. “Anything we do we will do peacefully.” One has to think a positive signal from at least some of those corporations should be enough to avoid disruptive tactics and potential confrontation. Between now and its declared deadline of March 7, the band has its own obligation to consult — with the public that stands to be impacted by its actions.

Blatchford wanted to speak amidst protest (says police should have removed students occupying stage)
MacLeans, Nov 15, 2011
Globe and Mail columnist Christie Blatchford regrets not being able to give a scheduled talk at the University of Waterloo on Friday. Her speech was cancelled after a group of protesters occupied the stage and taunted Blatchford as a “racist” from the audience. The protest was in reaction to Blatchford’s new book Helpless: Caledonia’s Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy, and How the Law Failed All of Us. Blatchford’s publicist and university security did not permit her to take the stage for fear they would not be able to protect her. The columnist would have handled things different if she were in charge, according to the Waterloo Record. “If it had been my university, I would have had the police remove them from the stage,” she said.

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ALONE AGAINST TERRORIST INDIANS

CANADA COPS TIM-BIT GRANNIES

EVERYONE WANTS TO BE INDIAN

INDIAN CLAIMS IN NUTSHELL

CANADA GOING TO THE INDIANS

INDIAN LAND CLAIMS DISBELIEVED

INNUIT HELL IN HANDBASKET

GREEN INDIAN LAND GRAB

TAKING CANDY FROM INDIAN BABY

I WON'T ACCEPT INDIAN BLAME

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