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Wet’suwet’en

February 2020

We now have our own version of Standing Rock here in Canada, involving real people who live as they have for millennia on unceded territory in British Columbia.

Under the Indian Act, it was decreed that there would be elections on reservations etc., to run those reserves and those who won the brass goose would be called elected chiefs.  Problem is that like almost every politician in North America, they are subject to the bribes or threats of the corporate powers whose only interest is money.  These elected chiefs in Wet’suwet’en,  for whichever of the above reasons, fell in line with the power structure (read corporate right and profit versus peoples’ rights) and here is where the whole problem arises. 

The elected chiefs are there to run their reserves as businesses and in accordance to the scraps given them by federal and provincial money, and even smaller scraps by corporate powers plundering their lands.

The Hereditary Chiefs are there to ensure that the way of life, the land, the waters and the air are not irreparably damaged for those yet to come. They too are the keepers of history and tradition and that includes sacred lands where their ancestors are buried.

The Hereditary Chiefs are not bound by threats of less money or the promise of more money as that is not their way.  Their way is the way of the land as it has been for thousands of years.  Because of their stewardship of the land, air and water it is all still there for their people and they are trying to make sure that it will be next year, next decade and next century.  Don’t try and tell them they can’t get by without money, for money is only a new imposition upon them since the foreigners attacked and stole some of this land a few centuries ago and introduced them to European ways of treachery.

Under the leadership of the Hereditary Chiefs, there are still animals to trap, water to drink and clean air to breathe and life experiences to be taught to the young people; that is all under attack by corporate greed with elected people from Canada and BC in full agreement.  

 Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned
and the last fish has been caught
will we realize that we can’t eat money  (Native American Proverb)

So what is happening in the unceded territory of the Wet’suwet’en is an affront to all those who agree with and have signed on to the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.  Can you imagine the outcry if the Algonquin territory upon which our capital is built, was to be taken back and turned into a massive amusement park? Oh, actually I suppose it has already if you have a twisted sense of humour, for it is becoming more and more difficult to differentiate between politicians and willful children pretending to have fun.

 If this is what it means when the PM reiterates over and over again that the most important relationship the government has is with our First Nations, Inuit and Metis, then we are in a period of time travelling with Alice through her looking glass.

 What have we become Canada?

A guest column

“the Law’s delay, the insolence of office”  (Shakespeare/Hamlet)

 

                                             By Robin Mathews (March 2018)

 

One of the most important legal cases in the history of Canada is presently in shadows as three B.C. Appeal Court justices weigh arguments in the Crown-appealed case (Jan. 15, 2018) against socially-challenged and recovering heroin addicts, John Nuttall and Amanda Korody.  Put simply – they were charged as Islamic Terrorists intending death and destruction to innocents on July 1, 2013, at the grounds of the B.C. Legislature.

The case is one of the most important in Canadian history because the jury conviction of ‘guilty’ was erased by Madam Justice Catherine Bruce as part of a truly gigantic decision that the whole expensive, months-long activity operated from the RCMP Ottawa head office into the B.C. Fraser Valley (and to Victoria) was undertaken to lead, entrap, and criminalize the two accused … in a plan to mislead and misinform Canadians about terrorist activity in the country.  The mere possibility that State operatives in Canadian democracy might be engaged in such a way points to a possible development of Fascism here that should send a quiver of fear (and outrage) down the spine of every Canadian.

In addition, the matter is hugely important as the apparent uncovering – the revelation – of a “False Flag”, – in short a dark, political action  (possibly ordered from the Stephen Harper Prime Minister’s Office) to victimize the incompetent and innocent pair on behalf of “Western”  desires to paint Islam as an inhuman breeder of despicable brutalities. (Fortunately, Justice Bruce had no need to go near that matter in her reasoning or judgement.)  So far – across the West – the power and tightness of control by “the Deep State” has been so effective that an undeniable finding of State “False Flag” activity has been impossible to achieve anywhere.  Some will say that such a finding has been impossible because in a fair review of facts … no such finding could be made.

This case is, nonetheless, unique in that – if the judgement by Justice  Bruce is upheld – it will confirm from the highest level of justice that government-created False Flag criminal events to indoctrinate and brainwash populations are in fact possible and do in fact take place

With brilliant care and detail, Justice Bruce unpicked the verbal and film evidence submitted by the RCMP. The RCMP representative was presented to the accused couple, she concluded, as wholly sympathetic to violence, as building a strong friendship with the pair accused, financing (for the couple) travel, hotels, meals, transport – even, allegedly, nudging them towards the choice of terrorist device … and … perhaps even helping to assemble the false bombs. (As well as dissuading them from seeking advice from an Islamic Holy Man about the religious validity of blowing up innocent people.)

In a case of such compelling importance (ignored almost completely by so-called Mainstream Press and Media in that regard), Canadians have to think of the kinds of pressure that are exerted on the three, presently engaged, B.C. Appeal Court judges.  We want to believe their review of the case is completely unencumbered by “influence” of any kind.  And that may be the situation.

But the federal Cabinet has already made clear where its loyalty lies: it is “with, right-or-wrong, the RCMP” (a very, very dangerous stance).  My letter to major Cabinet members asking for a Public Inquiry into RCMP behaviour and actions was funnelled to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness – the Honourable Ralph Goodale.  His reply to me did not mention that the letter concerned a Public Inquiry.  Instead, he thanked me for my letter about the RCMP’s “major crime technique”. And Minister Goodale urged me to support the RCMP.

If the actions of the RCMP in the matter of the Nuttall/Korody case reveal the exercise of the Force’s “major crime technique”, then any Canadian may fairly believe the Federal Cabinet (not incorrectly termed “the Crown” in criminal cases) openly approves of the RCMP as a criminal organization – doing the bidding of government insiders and their ‘handlers’ … however criminal the bidding. (A more alarming possibility is hard to imagine.)

The justices on the case have an unenviable task.  Justices Pamela Kirkpatrick, David Harris, and Elizabeth Bennett are experienced jurists.  But they are not “better” than Justice Catherine Bruce, repeatedly praised for her clear head, her conscionable independence of mind, and her skilful judicial reasoning.

The Appeal Court justices are acting in the face of enormous power – not an unusual situation for higher court Justices.  But … in relation to the higher courts of Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia I believe that, in recent years, I have been able to detect real attempts to control (that is, to manipulate) judicial action and its fair operation  … in short, to use the higher courts to achieve criminal ends.

That means, in this case especially, Canadians should be aware and vigilant.  Especially since they won’t be urged to be those things by British Columbia’s “Mainstream Press and Media” whose hands, I believe, have been blackened (repeatedly) in their work “reporting” to British Columbians about major court actions of deepest interest to the people – and to the rule of law – in the province.