[IPSM] Fwd: RCMP holds Navajos for 48 hours using anti-terrorism law

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>
http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=696107&auth=Samantha+Craggs
> 
>
<http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=696107&auth=Samantha+Craggs>
> 
>  From "The Intelligencer" (West Virginia)
> <http://www.intelligencer.ca/>
> 
> Natives arrested en route to protest
> 
> 
>         Posted By Samantha Craggs
> 
> 
>           Posted 1 day ago
> 
> A group of nomadic Navajo Indians en route to
> support the aboriginal 
> quarry protest near Deseronto have been arrested,
> says a member 
> currently at the quarry.
> 
> Twenty-eight members of the tribe, an offshoot of
> the Navajo, were on 
> their way to Deseronto in nine vehicles with 10
> horses in tow to show 
> support and respect for a group of Tyendinaga
> Mohawks, said Spata 
> Desareau, 64, a member of the tribe. They travelled
> across western 
> Canada without incident, but once in Ontario, were
> stopped by law 
> enforcement three times - Wawa, Sault St. Marie and
> finally Kaladar, 
> where they were taken into police custody Sunday, he
> said. "They're 
> saying they're a political organization, which is a
> way of saying 
> they're a terrorist organization," said Desareau of
> the group ranging in 
> age from two to 72. "I could understand if it was
> all warriors coming 
> for a demonstration, but it wasn't."
> 
> The nomadic group travels the desert from Arizona to
> the southernmost 
> part of British Columbia, their starting point in a
> week-long journey to 
> Deseronto, he said. They were coming "to honour
> (protest leader Shawn 
> Brant) and the people that live here. In western
> Canada, we have 
> reserves that are very poverty stricken. There are
> third-world conditions."
> 
> Desareau, who had cellphone contact with the group,
> said he believes 
> they were taken into custody by the Royal Canadian
> Mounted Police to the 
> Kingston detachment, where he heard they will be
> held for 48 hours. They 
> were stopped on Highway 41, he said.
> 
> It didn't ring any bells for OPP Sgt. Scott McRae,
> who said if the group 
> was on Highway 41, the OPP would be policing it.
> 
> "I've been here all weekend and it's been very
> peaceful in that area," 
> he said. "We don't know anything about it."
> 
> No one from the RCMP could be reached for comment
> Sunday.
> 
> The group was unarmed, said Desareau, who didn't
> believe they would be 
> held a full 48 hours. But it upsets him that they
> were stopped.
> 
> "I don't believe they have a right to do that," he
> said. "They broke no 
> laws other than that they're native."
> 
> Under Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act, revised after the
> Sept. 11 attacks of 
> 2001, 48 hours is the length of time a suspected
> terrorist can be 
> arrested and detained without a warrant.
> 
> scraggs at intelligencer.ca
> <mailto:scraggs at intelligencer.ca>
> 
>
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> 
> Text circulated by the Royal Canadian Mounted
> Police.  It explains 
> the "Smart Border Declaration" signed between Canada
> and the US 
> on December 21, 2001, the new Integrated Border
> Enforcement Teams 
> (IBETs), the Kington prison for people held under
> the so-called 
> "anti-terrorist" law (The Kingston prison is now
> called the "Guantanamo 
> of the North"), and asks to give information on
> suspicious cross-border 
> activities.
> 
> Royal Canadian Mounted Police
> Kingston Detachment
> 1000 Gardiners Road, 3rd floor
> Kingston, Ontario K7P 3C4
> Telephone: (613) 384-7201
> Fax: (613) 384-1760
> 
> Kingston is the holding place for people held under
> the 
> anti-terrorism clause.
> 
> One of the initiatives resulting from this joint
> commitment was to 
> formalize and mandate the concept of
> intelligence-led Integrated Border 
> Enforcement Teams (IBETs).
> Intelligence-led policing involves the collection
> and analysis of 
> information to produce a product designed to inform
> police 
> decision-making at both the operational and
> strategic levels. It is a 
> model of policing in which intelligence serves as a
> guide to operations, 
> rather than the reverse. In simpler terms, the
> analysis of information 
> from all sources leads to the identification of
> targets and/or 
> activities involved.
> 
> On December 21, 2001, Canada and the United States
> signed the Smart 
> Border Declaration. As a result, the number of IBETs
> expanded in 
> specific strategic regions/areas along the Canada/US
> border.
> 
> CONTACT US:
> General inquiries regarding the IBET Program may be
> sent to
> IBETS_NCT at rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> <mailto:IBETS_NCT at rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
> 
> If you have information about suspicious
> cross-border activity please 
> contact your local police force of jurisdiction to
> report the activity. 
> In addition, you can report suspicious activity by
> sending
> an e-mail to: IBETS_NCT at rcmp-grc.gc.ca
> <mailto:IBETS_NCT at rcmp-grc.gc.ca> 
> . You may also call the Canada Border Services
> Agency Border Watch 
> Toll-free Line at 1-888-502-9060.
> 
>
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