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Swastika painted on Jim Smith's Caledonia home.

A reader with native members in his immediate family who has personally suffered at the hands of native lawlessness in Caledonia poses a question that seems to be on a lot of people’s minds after the attacks on Brantford Police and subsequent threats against the city made by Steve Powless when one of his goons was arrested: 

• VoC, July 14/08: Fantino & McGuinty should apologize for assaults on Brantford Police officers

Should we call in the Canadian Forces?

“They’re going to have one hell of a fight now,” said Steve Powless, who spoke on behalf of the protesters. “This is going to be Caledonia Part 2. They don’t understand what they’re in for.”

Is Six Nations going to hire the Mohawk warriors?

If so learn from Oka, Ipperwash & Caledonia call in the ARMY!!!

Jim Smith

VoC REPLY: Hi Jim. I appreciate your sentiments. I think if the police just do their jobs and arrest those committing or encouraging the crimes, the incentive to commit them will disappear. Law abiding native people will also breathe a huge sigh of relief; we’re hearing reports about how embarassed and concerned they are about the sociopaths in their community following the latest attacks on police and threats against Brantford.

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UPDATE 2140 EST July 15/08:

CD98.9, July 15/08: Six Nations Assault Police  [PDF] - Dwayne Scott Maracle charged with Assault, Resist Arrest, Obstruct Police, Mischief. Police still looking for second man who punched an officer.
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Less than one day after CANACE released three hardhitting editorials criticizing the harebrained plan by Brantford developers and their ‘Haldimand Tract Good Neighbours Coalition’ to sell out the rule of law in Canada, the thugs who were to benefit from the scheme demonstrated, for all to see, the mindnumbing folly of the plan to ask municipalities to pay native extortionists with taxpayers’ money.

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I received two ‘Letters to the Editor’ from Caledonia residents who sent them to media outlets for publication, but have asked us to reprint them. Both women have been very much impacted by the occupation of the Douglas Creek Estates and, apparently, didn’t think much of Fantino’s pathetic PR appearance at a Caledonia Tim Horton’s on March 02/08 while we were protesting at his home in Woodbridge.

Mr. Fantino, this is not a game
by Pauline McDougall

To: Christina Blizzard
Subject: Concerned Citizen

Hi Christina,

Just read your article about property in Caledonia. Great article [reprint]. Thanks for keeping our town in the papers. I’m writing to tell you that we are also stuck in the middle of this mess and hostage taking.

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“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
Winston Churchill

Source: Belleville Intelligencer
Date: Feb 22, 2008
Title: No charges yet in police assault [reprint]

On Jan. 30, two plainclothes officers with the OPP’s Major Event Liaison Team arrived at the Thurlow Aggregates quarry on Deseronto Road and asked to speak with protest organizers.

They were told to return to the site after dark - around 8 p.m. - for a meeting with “elders”, according to police.

It is believed the officers were pushed to the ground, pelted with snow and their vehicle was damaged by those at the scene. Neither officer, however, was reported to have been injured.

Feeding the crocodiles in Deseronto

Readers will recall that the Belleville Intelligencer once ran an editorial applauding Deseronto town council and the Royal Canadian Legion for refusing to rent rooms to us so that we and Caledonia citizens could inform people there about the realities of Two Tier Justice, and the steps we were taking to peacefully oppose it.

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UPDATE 2054 EST Feb 01/07: On Jan 30th, the National Post published a full-page, absolute-must-read, op-ed piece entitled ‘Sacrificial lambs at the alter of Ipperwash’ written by Caledonia lawyer John Findlay, who is also the author of the Caledonia Class Action lawsuit. Don’t miss ‘Lawyer John Findlay blasts Caledonia’s “real interlopers.”
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‘National Post takes the blinders off MSM’ was originally written and published on the CaledoniaWakeUpCall.com blog by fellow civil rights activist and CANACE co-founder, Jeff Parkinson.

Jeff has been laid up for a while due to temporary brain damage caused when an OPP officer threw him to the ground during the attack on Gary McHale in Caledonia on Dec 01/07.

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Mark Watson, a Caledonia resident, has written a wonderful rebuttal to all those who would put their heads in the sand rather than stand up and fight for their civil rights during the native occupation of his town.

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On December 04, 2007, 3 residents of Caledonia, along with Gary McHale, held a news conference in the media studio at Queen’s Park to tell the Ontario government they had enough: enough with illegal smoke shacks selling tainted cigarettes to children; enough with landclaim lawlessness; enough with OPP ‘peacekeeping’ and enough with Julian Fantino trying to deflect criticism for the failures of his force by blaming Gary McHale.

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UPDATE 1425 Dec 08/07: The Managing Editor of the Brantford Expositor has accepted my offer to reprint the entire disputed editorial on VoiceofCanada in place of the short excerpt quoted in the original version of this article. 

UPDATE 1720 EST Dec 07/07: Brantford Expositor responds. See Brantford Expositor: “at no time do we condone violence”
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Since last Saturday’s events, we have been busy reviewing evidence, and preparing for yesterday’s news conference at the Queen’s Park Media Studio which was attended by MPP Toby Barrett, Haldimand’s new CAO, Don Boyle (thank you for coming!) and at least one OPP officer.  You can find complete coverage at CaledoniaWakeUpCall.com.

Hamilton Spectator, CHTV assist in vilifying Gary McHale 

On November 09, 2007 the Hamilton Spectator published a complete transcript of Susan Clairmont’s interview with OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino in which he accused “McHale and company” of - among many other things - wanting civil war, violence and a Pakistani-style dictatorship. So far, we have written a total of 5 letters to the Spectator, including to Editor-in-Chief David Estok, asking that we be allowed to respond to Fantino’s irrational accusations, and to meet with them to help them understand the truth. So far, the Spectator has not given us the courtesy of a response.

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Holocaust Education Week is almost over and Remembrance Day is upon us. It seems sad, yet telling that OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino chose this week - of all weeks - to once again publicly disparage Gary McHale for exposing and opposing the many injustices suffered by innocent people in Caledonia.

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UPDATED 1107 EST Nov 11/07

Last night I had the absolute honour to meet and listen to the words of Sibylle Sarah Niemoller von Sell at a Holocaust Education Week event hosted by Christ’s Church Cathedral on James Street in Hamilton. According to the event’s program, Ms. Niemoller von Sell, or ‘Sarah’ - the name she took upon conversion to Judaism - and her family were active participants in an underground railroad that aided Jews and were heavily involved in the attempt to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944.

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UPDATE 1912 EST Sept 17/07: Donna Pitcher of Haldimand’s Unheard Voice talks about her chat with Liberal candidate Lorraine Bergstrand, and comments on the need for the OPP to be replaced in, My Chat with Lorraine Bergstrand.

UPDATED 1425 EST Sept 17/07

After doing a mini-protest in Brantford in support of a builder who claimed the Six Nations Confederacy was extorting money from him, we spent approximately 5 hours at the OPP barricades near the Stirling Street building site where Sam Gualtieri was brutally assaulted by a group of native thugs.

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The following letter from Gary McHale was published Sept 08/07 in the Brantford Expositor under the title, “Strife moves to Hancock’s backyard.” It was sent in response to the illegal occupations and intimidation of land owners in the area.

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Last September I booked a room at the Lions Hall to help residents of Brantford understand what was happening in Caledonia, and the effect it was having on innocent residents and builders being victimized by an illegal occupation and the threats that come with these occupations. (more…)

UPDATE 1544 Aug 21/07: See Resolution 863-07: Haldimand’s attack on your privacy for wording of the resolution passed by council.
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After witnessing the shameful events of the past week culiminating in the vote last night at the Haldimand County council meeting (see ‘Democracy takes a huge hit in Haldimand’, and BULLETIN: Mayor Trainer needs your help NOW!), I sent the message below to Mayor Trainer.

I welcome your comments in support of the mayor. I’ll wait a few days and then mail her - and the snoops now reading her mail - a hard copy of this post with your comments.

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UPDATE June 22/07: Mary-Lou LaPratte and Ipperwash finally had their stories told by a main-stream media outlet, the Western Standard magazine. See, Truth emerges as Ipperwash Papers go ‘main stream.’

This is the third in VoiceofCanada’s “The Strength of a Woman’ series of articles designed to honour the women who have both inspired and shamed us with their courage during the struggle against Two Tier Justice in Ontario. The title was inspired by Robin McGraw, wife of TV’s Dr. Phil - see ‘The Strength of a Woman’ - Lisa Parent.

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If there is a hero to be found in the Ipperwash story, it is a remarkable woman by the name of Mary-Lou LaPratte. She lived through it all: crime and intimidation from natives over an invalid land claim against her home and those of her fellow residents; an eventual Supreme Court victory; threats; a home invasion; an assault; ongoing OPP refusal to enforce the law; DND failure to enforce the law; abandonment by the OPP when they fled Ipperwash to save themselves after the death of Dudley George, and psychological trauma so acute during the events of September 1995 that her hair fell out in chunks.

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UPDATE 1002 EST May 05/07: Comment by Mary-Lou LaPratte

For those of us who have been engaged in this awful, must-win struggle against violent sociopaths, Landclaim Terror deniers, a corrupt police force, and fearful, appeasement-minded politicians who would destroy the Rule of Law and democracy along with it this is truly a day to remember for this is the day that a champion has thrown down the gauntlet to take up our cause.

John Tory has released part of his election platform today saying, “Under a PC government no one will be beneath the law, above the law or beyond the law.” Even better, he released it in a speech to the Ontario Association of Police Services Boards convention just one day after OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino told the same group, “There is no two-tier justice system in the OPP.” The Conservative’s ‘One Law for All’ commitment is hard-hitting, no-nonsense and a wonderful shot in the arm for the struggle against Two Tier Justice and Landclaim Terror.

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