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Talking about Caledonia protest ends peacefully

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Caledonia protest ends peacefully

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A shouting match between about 50 non-aboriginals and 100 aboriginals at the site of an ongoing native occupation in Caledonia, Ont., appeared to be the only tense moment at a protest on Saturday.

 

Breathing a sigh of relief, "no violence", is matched by by the silence of Canduian jurisprudence and parliament over the theft of First Nations land in Caledonia and in hundreds of other silent-for-now Canadian communities.  Do not these two hallowed institutions know injustice when they see it? 

A shouting match is unambiguous violence.  Do not be deceived!  The observer is advised to exercise discretion.  The trouble is between the idea that some people have more rights than others.  White people still think they have the right to North America, South America, Africa, and every region they have visited and are ever more willing to go to war to prove it. The Harper government is our witness.

The end of the protest will loom full-screen when the Canadian people demand that First Nations become what they were before Europens arrived: sovereign.  Canada’s First Nations struggle against incredible racism in the 21st century and at the same time have very good reasons to hope and build on heir gains.  A few goodwill treaties between First Nations and the Canadian government have been signed in the last few decades.

Racism in Canada is as big as ever.  Forget what the media says.  Just ask your neighbour.  Ask your government to end its support or maintenance of racism anywhere in the world.

 

Little Progress after 34, 000 Dead In Iraq

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It is incredible to think that there are still people who actually believe anything the American President and the British Prime Minister say about Iraq.  This duo has convinced some people, mostly media outlets, that the arrival of violence on American soils in September 2001 was a turning point in global history.  That is about as insightful as saying snow in winter is a crisis.
These two leaders are the recipients of an extremely violent heritage.  Britain’s empire days are clearly over.  Britannia can hardly rule the island much less the waves of earth’s oceans.  British leadership is facing the time of their lives trying to convince their own people that the days of prejudice and White privilege are over. The Americans, still considered the most disingenuous entity on earth, once circled the globe, enslaving nations and peoples. need to say something other than let’s get democratic.  The nations of the Middle East and Far East have survived for millennia without western supervision.
The bloodletting that followed the overthrow of Iraq’s government is a lesson for those who think they are leaders in international politics.  Don’t kill anything you cannot resurrect or recreate.
If some-one says that the American initiative in Iraq is a no-good bastard, one would be perfectly right.  Thousands dying each month in Iraq cannot in any way called "better than Saddam Hussein".  The Duplicitous Duo (Bush and Blair) have ruined Iraq, and made sure bad blood will flow between East and West for centuries to come.
Iraq’s wealth is being drained into American pockets.  This may be the only thing that can be called progress in Iraq, and as we suspected, it is progress that does not touch Iraqi lives.
More Americans will die before the kind of Iraq the Duo wants emerges, but far more Iraqis will die to achieve that dying duplicitous dream.
 

An Impenitent Society

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News of nuclear weapons and violence dominates the news as if there was nothing else to report.  The media mills are either trying to appear sensitive to human concerns or they are part of the monger-society selling what attracts people.  If the talk in most homes followed the script of most news items most residents would want a change of address.  Few seem willing to admit that we are a dying race, a race without a goal, and a race with little remorse. The total weight of bad news combines with unapologetic attitudes to crush the human spirit. 

People who are in authority with illusions of themselves as infallible and who refuse to admit their failures are the worst type of person to provide information.  Wars have been fought because mistakes were covered up and worse evidence has been fabricated. It is time for fresh water from the well.  The mantras of “doing the right thing” and “staying the course” are popular and destructive.  No-one benefits from drinking muddy and polluted waters.  

The crimes and injustices of the powerful remain under wraps, yet these are the items most needed on the table.  Apologies are the medicine for our troubled and increasingly helpless societies, but for the time being, everyone is right and as long as one carries a bigger stick than one’s neighbours there is no motivation for penitence or apologize. Only the infallible and God need no apologies. Only the hypocrite claims to have made no mistakes.  Human impenitence is a putrefying sore that has one remedy.  It surely is time for the world to hear the major powers apologize collectively and individually for their religious, capitalist and imperial adventures.  We have the power to avert the collapse of the human family.  No one needs be reminded that human minds can be changed, but can the current course to a curse be avoided?  

Nganjah

A revision of an October 2006 article; typos fixed, no change to the opinions, tags added