[Indigsol] MNN 6 Nations: Ain't no stoppin' us now!

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AIN'T NO STOPPIN' US NOW!  SIX NATIONS 
CLOSES DOWN FOUR ILLEGAL DEVELOPMENT 

SITES IN BRANTFORD ONTARIO SO FAR . 

by Karakwine of Kanehsatake 

 

MNN.  July 12, 2008.  On Saturday, July 5th, 2008, at the 

Grand Council meeting the women 'suggested' that the 

chiefs stand with those people who had been arrested 

for demonstrating against illegal construction on our 

land known as "Brantford".    

 

On Monday July 7th at 9:00 a.m. the people met at the 

Ohsweken Arena. From there they went to close down 

four construction sites in Brantford.  These four were 

involved in getting the injunction to bring in the armed 

forces if we interfered or stopped construction in any 

way or even went nearby and looked at them.  Staring 

while being Indigenous is prohibited!  

 

The first was "Birkett Lane" where ground was to be 

broken for 120 houses; "Hampton Hill Heights" on the 

outskirts of Brantford near Paris Ontario; and two other 

sites.  

 

At Hampton Hill Heights a large fence had been built

 around the whole site.  It was locked.  40 workers inside 

were operating machinery and glancing over their shoulders, 

scared of being circled by Indians.  They knew that they 

had no right to be there.  Our people walked up to the fence 

gate and moved it back and forth until the whole gate came 

off.  The people walked onto the site.  The foreman called 

the Brantford City Police who were already there.  They did 

not know what to do.  

 

It could be because on that day a decision had just been 

rendered by a panel of three judges of the Ontario Court 

of Appeal in the case of the Kichenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug 

"KI6".  They had received six months in jail for protesting the 

junior "penny stock" mining company, Platinex Company.  

They were planning to dig out platinum over the protests of 

the Indigenous owners of the land and mineral. 

 

As Justice Smith said, "jail only served to acknowledge an 

already weak Indigenous faith" in the colonial courts.  Duh!  

He asked, "How can 6 months in jail create a solution" to the 

intractable problem facing Canadians, who wish to steal 

resources without regard to its Indigenous owners?  They 

know why we're angry!   

 

The judges decried the previous decision to "bring down the 

hammer" on Indigenous people who had already been subject 

to huge bills by the legal process.   Aboriginals' right to protest 

"cannot simply be dismissed a s illusory, flawed or weak.  

Imprisonment, far from being a meaningful sanction for the 

community, had the affect of pitting the community against the 

justice system".   Duh!!

 

Criminalizing and jailing us will never deter us from protecting 

our land, resources, rights and lives.  According to this decision 

if the agents lay a hand on us, they are law breakers.    

 

At the Hampton site the cops grabbed their cell phones and 

video cameras and started to film us and wrote down our l

icense plate numbers.  They are building up files on us for 

"a rainy day" like martial law.  The cops appeared to be 

assigned to identify us only.  Warrants would then be issued 

for our arrest once they invent some 'criminal' activities to 

charge us with.  They wait to execute the warrants when the 

target is vulnerable and alone somewhere.  That's the 

methodology.

 

The workers were aware that the land is subject to actions 

by the Indigenous people.  They cordially asked for an 

explanation of Canada's position.  They said their own 

politicians had been brushing their questions aside or given 

them false information.  After 45 minutes the site was shut 

down and cleared out.

 

According to the Ontario Court of Appeal we have a right to 

demonstrate all we want.  Protecting our land is our duty 

towards the future generations.      

 

"Any new development in this area or on our land has got 

to stop."  Confederacy chiefs - Allen MacNaughton, Ron 

Thomas and Butch Thomas - publicly supported the 

demonstrators.   

 

MacNaughton said, "The city has accelerated things to 

hurry and cover up our land.  They've interfered with our 

people's rights to free speech and tried to silence our 

voices."

 

At the first two sites, Brantfod police inspector Scott Easto 

told the Indigenous people,  "You're breaking the law," 

"You're breaking the injunction".  

 

The rolling demonstrations were largely peaceful, telling 

departing workers to, "Have a good day off!" 

 

So what are the courts and cops going to do now?  When 

this appeal court crumb was thrown to us, it left a great big 

void.  So they will escalate Plan B.   That is, to bring in 

"instigators", "agent provocateurs", "information gatherers" 

and "moles".  

 

The developers and their buddies will bring in skin heads, 

KKK, infiltrators, Indian and non-indian strangers who 

suggest extreme violence or utter confusion in order to set 

us up for the cops, courts and jail.  

 

The infiltrators go into a community and take any side.  Then 

another is sent in to take the opposite side.  They both stir up 

dissensions and waste our time by drawing attention away 

from the real issues and the solutions that would benefit our 

people.   

 

The mole is a long term asset who stays for decades.  Some 

even marry into the community and have families to gain 

complete trust while they do their subversive work.    

 

The others are "short-term" assets.  One dirty rotten trick is 

for an "infiltrator" to start a whisper campaign against key 

people.  They tell everybody, "Don't tell anyone I told you t

his about so-and-so.".  Before you know it, they have 

everybody looking suspiciously and distrustingly at each 

other, ready to fight.  It's an old trick that the "the band 

council" uses to spread all kinds of stories against their 

non-supporters.  On the other hand, the infiltrators that 

appear neutral or benign are just there to gather 

information.

 

Watch out for the "saviors".  That's when somebody 

materializes out of thin air, [like Cathy "Space-Cadet" 

Duchene] who arrived like a locomotive from the West 

to pose as a long lost "Mohawk".  She's "going to 

straighten the whole mess out" at Sharbot Lake, from 

her trailer next to the cop shop.  Just look for the huge 

satellite dish on top.    

 

Remember, don't divulge information to strangers that 

are skulking around trying to pander and stroke us.  

Don't forget the motto, "Loose lips sink ships". 

 

About 5 Six Nations people decided to commemorate 

the July 11, 1990 "Mohawk Oka Crisis" by shutting down 

an illegal construction site in Brantford.  On Friday 

morning they arrived at 4:00 am where the insulation 

factory was being built.  When the workers arrived 

around 6:30 am, they told them, "There's going to be 

no work here today or ever".  

 

The Brantford Police, acting as go-betweens, said 

that their law and injunction were being "broken".  

They informed the cops they were trespassing.  The 

cops videotaped and wrote notes.  More Six Nations 

people arrived.  The workers left with almost everything.  

On Monday they are coming back for their concrete 

forms and office trailers.  They said they're going after 

the city of Brantford for lying to them.  They should sue 

the city for issuing illegal building permits.  

 

Stay tuned!  This ain't the end!

 

Karakwine of Kanehsatake

MNN Mohawk Nation News

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