[IPSM] KKK Marching on Caledonia to "solve Indian Problem"

[Macdonald Stainsby]

"OVER AND OVER, I'LL BE A FOOL FOR YOU" - KKK MARCHES INTO CALEDONIA TO 
SOLVE "INDIAN PROBLEM" AT SIX NATIONS.



MNN.  May 2, 2006.  Things are on schedule!  The flyers in the hands of 
Caledonia residents, Ontario Provincial Police and a few Six Nations 
people reads:



Citizens of Caledonia -

Meeting tonight - 7:00 Sharp!  (no location, no date)

Agenda:  Discussion of  the "Indian Problem".  "What is the final 
solution?"

Full dress meeting.  Wear your sheets. (This is no joke.  This is what 
the flyer actually says.  This ain't the movies, folks.  This is real 
life).

Special Speaker - all the way from Burning Cross Mississippi, Bobby Lee 
Raspmas, Veteran of  the 50's, 60's, 70's.

Hear about the "Final Solution".  (How come Canada is letting him in and 
they won't let Indians cross the border to support us?)

Three-fourths of the flyer has a picture of a KKK meeting with sheets on.



We were waiting for this one!  This flyer was given out for last 
Friday's rally and march onto the barricades at the site of the illegal 
housing project that the Six Nations People are trying to stop.  It's 
being given out again for the Friday, May 5th rally at 7:00 right at the 
barricades this time.



The press has been asking Caledonians where the flyer came from and 
nobody seems to know.  Janie Jamieson said, "If the non-native rioters 
come here and it gets out of hand, the OPP will declare they can't 
handle it.  Then the army will be brought in".  Based on past experience 
we suspect that even putting this flyer out is supposed to create a 
panic.  We've seen it all before.  The same thing happened in the Mohawk 
Oka Crisis of 1990.



We have given no reason for the army or the RCMP to come in.  If these 
rioters create chaos, the Caledonians will be screaming for the big guns 
to come in.  In 1990 the people of Chateauguay were incited to riot 
night after night at the boundary of Kahnawake.  It was exactly exactly 
the same kind of threats, screaming, insults, trying to rush the 
barricades and yelling for the army to come in.  It split the community 
up and gave it a "red neck" label that still taints its reputation 16 
years later.  What can be done?  How do the people of Caledonia feel 
about being identified with the Ku Klux Klan?  Hey, neighbors, can't you 
see it?  You are being set up to get a bad name.



David Peterson, the Ontario negotiator, has probably been given orders 
to demand that the barricades be taken down before talks can begin. 
They want to create a situation so they don't have to negotiate. 
"Remove your barricades and then we will talk", it says on the colonial 
script.  Every time we object to oppression, this is the same procedure 
that has been followed.  Peterson is probably going to try to make it 
look like the Indigenous people are being stubborn, belligerent and 
non-compromising.  That's what Bernard Roy and Alex Patterson did in 
Kanehsatake in 1990.  They were getting angry because we kept on wanting 
to talk about the land issue.  Throughout we were peaceful and 
non-violent.  They got impatient and suddenly cut off negotiations. 
Then the army closed the perimeter around us and kept us there under 
siege for almost another month.



The term "final solution to the Indian problem" was coined first by 
Indian Affairs superintendent, Duncan Campbell Scott, to describe his 
genocidal policies in the 1920's.  It's not surprising to find the KKK 
has taken up the banner of his cause.  So they're not the first in line. 
  Remember Hitler?  He found Canadian and U.S. Indian policies very 
inspiring.  Unfortunately, World War II was not enough to end such 
disgusting initiatives.



Has Canada no sense of pride?  Aren't they ashamed to be doing this 
again?  This tired out old tactic is digging a hole for Canada's 
reputation.  Rather than settling with the Indigenous people, Canada 
would prefer to use scare tactics to get a little bit instead of 
settling the big issues.



Take a stand against the KKK.  Take a stand against police and military 
solutions to legal problems.  Ask you Member of Parliament how it is 
that the KKK is able to import speakers to incite racist violence.  This 
flyer was put out a week ago and nothing's been done since then.  We 
still need people to stand with us.  Any help is appreciated.  Keep 
writing the Governor General, the Prime Minister, the Queen and 
everybody in the world.  Tell them what's happening to us.



Kahentinetha Horn

MNN Mohawk Nation News

Kahentinetha2 at yahoo.com

www.mnn.mohawknationnews.com


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Macdonald Stainsby
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In the contradiction lies the hope
    --Bertholt Brecht.