[IPSM] Press Release 2010 Olympics Resistance: VISU visit statement by Gord Hill

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Statement by Gord Hill Regarding Visits by Olympic Police Agents

Occupied Coast Salish Territory [Vancouver, BC]
October 19, 2009

Vancouver's Incredibly Stupid Unit (VISU), also known as the 2010 Integrated
Security Unit,
attempted to visit me, Gord Hill, at my residence in downtown Vancouver on
Saturday, October 17, 2009. As I was not home at the time, they left
unrequested junk mail (their business cards) with the following information:

Ken Stolarchuk, Joint Intelligence Group, Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security
Unit
Tel: 604-264-2972
Tel: 604-717-3349 ext. 2029
Fax: 604-264-3151
Cst. Kirk Rattray, Joint Intelligence Group, VISU, RCMP
Tel: 604-264-3254
Cell: 604-376-4013
Fax: 604-264-3151
kirk.rattray at rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Both cards had the address 5255 Heather St., Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1K6

The next day, Sunday October 18, two plainclothes cops repeatedly knocked on
my apartment door throughout the day, although I declined to answer. They
were subsequently observed sitting in a gold-coloured SUV across the street
of my apartment building, with the license plate 925 LBD. Perhaps they
learned something as they sat watching the homeless, the poor, the drug
addicts—casualties of the 2010 Olympics & business greed—who regularily
congregate outside my apartment building near Hastings & Carrall. Maybe they
saw their compatriots routinely harassing, searching, ticketing & arresting
poor people, and thought it unjust. Then again, probably not, cuz they're
the Incredibly Stupid Unit.

I am confident that these visits by the Olympic cops were instigated by my
comments to CBC News on Tuesday, Oct. 13, in which I stated I supported
direct action and would not be opposed to the downing of power lines or
other acts of sabotage. Such are my views, and such are my 'legal rights' in
the nation-state of Canada, which presents itself as a champion of democracy
& free speech, and which whores [sic] itself around the world as a leader of
human rights.

Irregardless of such propaganda, Canada is in fact a routine violator of
human & civil rights and in particular those of Indigenous peoples, who
today suffer the highest rates of poverty, suicide, imprisonment, violent
death, poor health, substandard housing, etc. The Tar Sands in Alberta,
missing & murdered Native women, police violence against Natives (including
the deaths of elder Harriet Nahanee, Frank Paul, Kyle Tait, etc.) are also
forms of human & civil rights violations against Indigenous peoples. Where
is the justice, the alleged fruit of Canada's laws, in any of this?
Furthermore, the government's of Canada & BC lack the legal & moral
authority to govern or carry out business on unceded Indigenous territories.
The 1763 Royal Proclamation, which legally bound the British, and later
Canada, to negotiate treaties before any trade or settlement could occur,
was re-affirmed in the 1982 Constitution and remains law to this day. 'BC'
exists in violation of this law and is an illegal government; consequently,
Canada lacks jurisdiction on these lands. I reject the authority of both the
provincial & federal governments. In principle, no person on unceded
Indigenous territory is bound to follow the laws of an illegal and immoral
government, which in any case only serves the interests of the corporate
elite.

Despite my beliefs, the government will seek to impose its rules on me as a
'citizen' and to force my conformity to its laws. The government, being
little more than organized crime at its highest levels, have at their
disposal their gangs of street enforcers (the police), armed with a vast
apparatus of social control to ensure we all conform to its dictates (which
many do, naively believing in their state & its laws). As such, we must hold
these authorities accountable to their own laws, upon which their legitimacy
to rule are based, and expose their true nature:

●the Charter of Rights & Freedoms, enshrined in the constitution of Canada,
guarantees each of its citizens the 'freedom' to express our views, thoughts
& beliefs, without fear of prosecution, intimidation or harassment, so long
as we do not promote hatred against any group of people. I hereby state: I
would not oppose the sabotage of power lines or other critical
infrastructure of the capitalist economic system. I support all forms of
direct action & resistance against this corrupt & illegitimate government
along with its corporate circus, the 2010 Winter Olympics. We must use any
means necessary to defend the earth for future generations.

●The 1763 Royal Proclamation requires the negotiation of treaties with
Indigenous nations prior to any trade or settlement on their lands. The
government's of Britain and Canada failed to do so in the province of
'british columbia' and instead imposed their colonial regime on the Native
peoples of this land. The imposition of the Canadian & BC governments on
unceded
Indigenous lands is illegal & fraudulent.

In doing so, the government has committed genocide & continues to do so to
this day.
Colonialism & genocide are violations of international laws & covenants (as
well as being forms of systemic violence). That such conditions have existed
for over 150 years shows the futility of negotiations & seeking justice
through the courts.

Due to their failure to follow their own laws, whether it is the Charter or
the 1763 Proclamation, I know I will be proven correct and that the true
nature of the government-corporate system will be revealed. It is a criminal
regime with no regard for human beings or the earth, except as resources to
be exploited. It will defend its criminal activities by any means necessary,
including the establishment of a militarized police state (or the invasion &
occupation of other countries).

This situation, and that of the world in general, with deepening
environmental, economic, and military crises, requires radical social
change. A struggle to transform society which will not be achieved through
purely legal or reformist methods. This is why I believe, and history shows
this to be true, that when the poor & oppressed rise up against their
oppressors, they do so by any means necessary. Ghandi & Martin Luther King,
prayers & pacifism, did not by themselves liberate India or Blacks in the
United States (or anyone, ever).

In this struggle, I stand on the side of the oppressed against the
oppressor. I stand with the earth and for life. Where do you stand? And if
you answer “on the fence,” be forewarned that the fence, along with the
power lines, are sooner or later going to come down. Will it be the land
defenders or Mother Earth? I don't know, but either way I would not oppose
it.

In the Warrior Spirit of Harriet Nahanee!
No Olympics on Stolen Native Land!
Gord Hill, Kwakwaka'wakw
Editor, No2010.com
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