Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 10:33:01 PM
Subject:
BORDER GUARDS GONE - U.S. DRONES PATROL
AKWESASNE
MNN. June 18, 2009. Mohawks refuse to
have
guns.
We wanted to keep our people safe.
The Haudenosaunee and our allies are
the
custodians
of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence
River
watershed
which we never surrendered.
We are the “keepers of the Eastern
Door”
of Great Turtle Island.
According to the Jay Treaty 1794 the
US-Canada
border is meant for the visitors, not
for any
Indigenous.
The colonists can put whatever restrictions
they
can get away with on their own people.
They
can’t interfere with the inherent right
of the
Ongwehonwe to traverse our land free
from
harassment by the occupation forces.
We will decide what kind of identification
we
will use to traverse our territory.
The Canada and US border services agencies
shut
down their imaginary line on May 31 2009.
Now they want to combine their border patrol
on
the south shore of the St. Lawrence River.
Why did Canada want to put in this gun policy
at
Akwesasne knowing we would object?
Border agents were encouraged to create a
confrontation. We did not react and made
no
justification for the guns.
The US and Canada know we are sovereign.
It’s a nation-to-nation issue.
Legally they have to go through the
Governor
General or US President to speak to us.
It looks like Canada wanted to open the
door
for the US military to legally enter
Canada.
Canada’s Minister of Public Safety,
Peter Van Loan,
announced on June 18th that the US is
going to
fly unmanned predator drones over Akwesasne
from
Fort Drum near Watertown New York.
These can accurately fire missiles at
specific
houses, buildings and even people, just
like in
Afghanistan and Pakistan. They can take
pictures
and listen to conversations 30 miles into
Canada.
The fake situation in Akwesasne is meant
to
justify this surveillance across the
continent
to spy on Canadians.
Since we have been illegally declared as
enemy
combatants, they can take away our civil
and human
rights and fire any kind of missiles at us.
They are doing this in Pakistan, violating
their
sovereignty.
Conservative government’s reaction to our
position
has been violent. Tyendinaga Mohawks were
attacked
by what looked like military commandos.
Why?
A militia is now being set up in Caledonia
to go
after the Six Nations people.
Presently they are unarmed and not in
uniform.
Ron Moran, president of the Customs and
Immigration Union, said the majority of
the
guards have been advised not to return to
work
as long as the border crossing stays on
Kawenoke,
Cornwall Island.
Not having guns could have adverse health
effects.
We are being used in a phony labor
management
dispute. It looks like the border guards
are
going to be removed and replaced by the
military.
Canada and Big Tobacco deliberately created
the
downward spiral of our community trying to
bring us under trusteeship. We have been
harassed,
criminalized and can’t get jobs. We have
been
put in a helpless position and in personal
debts
of millions of dollars in bogus fines for
as much
as $50 million for conducting trade and
commerce
to feed our families. Big Tobacco of the
UK does
not want competitors.
They took our ceremonial tobacco and turned
it
into a multi-billion dollar business.
Randy Hillier, Member of the Ontario
Government,
said on June 18, 2009, “The Mohawks only
arrived
in Canada after the American War of
Independence
and were granted reserves”.
He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Ontario, Toronto, Canada, Hochelaga and
Donnacona
are all Iroquois place names. He stated
further
that Prime Minister Stephen Harper can arm
border
guards if he wants to. He’s insinuating
that we
have no rights. He’s using anger at us to
stir up votes to become the Ontario
Conservative
Party leader.
Recent Federal Court of Canada orders bear
out
the plot. Two Mohawk women were brutally
assaulted
on June 14, 2008 at the Akwesasne border.
They could not bring charges against the
border
guards unless they paid court costs.
Prothonotary Mireille Tabib made an order on
October 23, 2008 that Mohawks residing in
Akwesasne and Kahnawake are not residents of
Canada.
Yet someone coming from South Africa, if
assaulted,
can lay criminal charges for free!
The Canadian judicial system has made us
persona
non grata with no rights to be protected by
their
system like everybody else in the world.
This violates the International Covenant on
Civil and
Political Rights, Article 1.
Crown agencies such as the RCMP, OPP, CBSA
and the
Attorney General of Canada have refused to
investigate
this crime. Subsequent orders supporting
Tabib are:
Judge Francois Lemieux on January 29, 2009;
and Claude Morissette on March 16, 2009.
[613-952-4238].
Is the incident at the border a pretext to
show how
the Canadian and US military and police are
going to
treat people? The siege and surveillance
look like
growing martial law. Laws have been passed
to protect
the military and police from anyone defending
themselves from them. Cops can now sue their
victims.
The multinational corporations used this same
tactic
to shut down the environmentalists.
Europe and the US are fighting over Canada’s
resources.
The Europeans have the money, but not the
soldiers.
They control the banks, car companies, mines,
etc.
The US has the bombs, soldiers, planes and
war
machinery. The US economy is now deflated and
headed toward bankruptcy. Monied people
bought up
everything at low prices, like companies,
houses,
infrastructure, factories, and roads.
The US is in hawk to the banksters, becoming
a
vassal state to Europe. Economically
desperate US manpower can be used as
mercenaries
by
the banksters for global conquest.
This scheme was concocted a long time ago and
being
played out to bankrupt and create 350 million
desperate
poor US and Canadian people. Are the US and
Canada
trying to provoke and trap us Mohawks into
defending
ourselves just like the Palestinians so they
can
come in and do away with us first and then the
rest
later?
Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News,
www.mohawknationnews.com
kahentinetha2@yahoo.com
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