"APOLOGIZE (TO YOUR ATTACKERS), OR ELSE!" JUDGE ORDERS KANEHSATAKE MOHAWKS
All Mohawk territories are presently targeted. Why? We need your
kind assistance. Nia:wen Kahentinetha
MNN. December 15, 2005. Judge Nicole Duval Hesler told lawyer for
the Mohawks, Jeffrey Boro, she wanted them to apologize to the
victims (Who? Themselves?). From looking at them she didn't think
they looked sorry, but rather the opposite.
Quebec Courts are appointing judges who will carry out the
government's agenda. Driving people into poverty through malicious
court actions against them is one of a number of tactics being used
on these people. They are poor people who cannot afford lawyers.
Eventually Canada hopes the Indians won't be able to fight back.
The long term goal is assimilation so the government and the multi-
national corporations can grab their land and resources. They want
to privatize the land, get some of the Indians to start businesses
that will fail and then grab it.
On December 11th, 2005, 13 Mohawks were being sentenced after being
convicted for rioting and forcible confinement during an incident
that took place on January 12, 2004. They were being invaded by 67
hired mercenaries. These mercenaries had taken over the community
police station, ousting the community police commission. In other
words, it was a coup. They had high-powered weapons and a mandate
to try to find something criminal on particular people. They had a
hit list of 55 names of community members who they described
as "armed and dangerous" and were to be taken down on sight. Most
of those charged and convicted went to the scene and stood there and
watched. People from all walks of life responded, from elderly
grandmothers to babies in strollers. They couldn't believe this was
happening in their community. It was the coldest day of winter but
they wanted to defend democratic law and order.
Twenty-four were arrested. The trial was a sham. Rather than
calling the defendants the "accused", throughout the whole process
Judge Duval Hesler referred to the Mohawks as "rioters" in front of
the jury. The Crown Prosecutor, Francois "Hates the Mohawks with a
Passion" Briere used that word "rioters" 18 times in his closing
argument to the jury. Said one supporter, "I heard one time that we
are innocent until proven guilty". (Not if you're an Indian. The
rule book goes out the window). The judicial system wanted Mohawks
to hang. They needed to put the responsibility of what happened in
Kanehsatake on January 12th 2004 on somebody because, if the truth
came out, the machinations of the Canadian government would be an
embarrassment, especially with the `Gomery Sponsorship Scandal'
unfolding. The Liberals were on a damage control mission after $250
million disappeared into the pockets of public relations companies
connected to their party. Canada had hired one of the key players
in the scandal to spin the Kanehsatake story for the public.
Judge Duval Hesler wanted them to say, "We were morally wrong and we
apologize" (for making you cry). There's no way anyone should
apologize for being threatened with murder and violence. Media
reports have been correct in one light. The people armed with riot
gear, carrying high powered weapons and with their faces covered in
the confrontation were the goons that Canada sent in. Community
members who defended themselves and their community are being made
to pay for this. The court is being used to absolve the Canadian
government for the responsibility they hold for what happened. They
provided the $900,000 secret envelop of cash to pay for the
operation. At the end of the day even school girls murderer Karla
Homolka's rights were better protected than these innocent people.
Then Judge Duval Hesler made fun of the initiatives that defendants
had made such as distributing Christmas gifts and posting
informative peaceful letters on the internet. The lawyers said that
the Crown had failed to produce a victim. Judge Duval Hesler
said, "Don't tell me there's no victims. The Chief's house and the
police station were burnt down." (Maybe they should apologize to
the house and station, eh!) They aren't even being charged with
these! She was implying that they were responsible for burning
James Gabriel's house and the police station when there was no
evidence to implicate any of those convicted. She suggested to the
lawyers that they were being lied to and used by their clients. She
tried really hard to cover up Canada's illegal actions. So she
apologized to the lawyers, "I'm really, really sorry". After the
lawyers pointed out how obscene she was, she had no choice but to
apologize to the Mohawk Nation.
A community supporter yelled in open court, "You are a racist.
Incredible!" He got thrown out of the court room. "She wants us to
apologize like good little Indians!", he continued out in the
hallway. She was narrow minded and naïve to infer that the
political problems would be resolved by an apology. If the United
States took over Canada, would everything be hunky dory if Canada
apologized. We don't think so.
The wrong people were charged. The Government of Canada, the
Kanehsatake Band Council Inc., and their goons should have been
charged for their violent attack on the people. The Quebec Police
Beaupre Report revealed the province was ready to hold those people
accountable – the federal government and their peons – because it
was against the police law and there was insufficient evidence of
criminality. When proper procedures are followed, you need evidence
of a crime first. Then you try to find out whodunit. You don't
target persons and then try to find a way to incriminate them. They
threw in armed guys with a hit list telling them to go after these
particular guys and kill them on sight. Crown Briere said, "It was
Indians against Indians". No it wasn't! Who hired the guns? How
dumb do they think we are? It was never pointed out that they were
the hired guns of the corporations called Canada and its Indian Act
Band Council.
The judge really wants to make the Mohawks kneel, but they just
won't. The Grand Chief, Steven Bonspille, spoke very well on record
at the court. "These 13 men should not be convicted. It won't
resolve anything in Kanehsatake".
This is the kind of training our children are getting from the
dominant colonial society. They're making sure our kids are
getting first class training in the methodology of oppression.
That's so they won't stand up to these injustices themselves. It's
a colonial scare tactic. They don't want anyone to be brave enough
to fight back. But it's not working!
Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation news
Kahentinetha Horn
cc. Governor General of Canada info@gg.ca; Paul Martin, Prime
Minister, Canada, pm@pm.gc.ca; UN Office of High Commission for
Human Rights, UN Plaza, NY 10017; Rudolpha Stavenhagen, Internation
Commission for Human Rights, P.O. Box 16, CH-1211, Geneva 20,
Switzerland; Kanion'ke:haka Kaianereh'ko:wa Canon'ses:neh, P. O. Box
1016, Akwesasne (NY) 13655; Minister, Department of Indian Affairs,
10 Wellington St., Ottawa K1A 0H4; Coalition for the International
Criminal Court %WFM, 708 3rd Ave., 24th Fl., NY 10017;
cicc@iccnow.org; The Hague, Anna Paulownastraat 103, 251 BBC, The
Netherlands; Pope Benedictum XVI, Joseph Ratziner, St. Peter's
Square, Vatican City Rome, Italy; Province of Quebec. All Media.
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