MNN. June 12, 2006. Flash! ATF agents, US Border Control vehicle, eye in the sky, encircling and victimizing the Indigenous people. It suddenly occurs to us that US President George Bush might be testing his killing machine in Canada before he does it on his own people. He wants to make sure his network of spies, deportations and killings work out somewhere else first. We Indigenous people are the only ones publicly standing up to this. Everyone else has been scared into silence. It looks like he's got the cooperation of his puppet, Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. People like us are dangerous to anyone with these kinds of designs. It might be too late for Canada. Bush's plan seems to already be in motion.
There are now warrants out for 7 of our Six Nations men. One is even charged with "attempted murder". We didn't see any weapons or any premeditated criminal intent. The only people doing something they planned in advance were the OPP and ATF Border Patrol. The two incidents on Friday June 12th, 2006, were obviously orchestrated. Everyone knows our people are not going out in the middle of the night into Caledonia to attack their hired "vigilantes" who are brought around quickly to the site to wave their professionally made "Bring in the army" signs. We are not going to the police lines to bother them. We are quietly standing ready to protect our people and our territory. Every human being has that right! Why are we being treated as an exception?
The story of our stopping the gray car from running us down and our capturing the ATF spies were in the mainstream media. What seems strange is that there is absolutely no embarrassment about the collusion with the 'US Border Patrol', as if everyone should think it was normal for US policing agents to have free reign on Canadian territory. Manipulated media presentations claim the U.S. Border Patrol vehicle was "swarmed", forgetting to mention the vehicle was trespassing. They say the "vehicle was "stolen", forgetting to mention that it was being used in a wreckless and illegal manner. In this day and age, when hosts are being made responsible for drunk drivers, why should it seem odd that the vehicle is taken away from drivers who are obviously behaving irresponsibly? The media did mention the vehicle was later returned. Since when has keeping somebody's property safe from misuse deemed theft?
They know that whatever the public hears the first time is what they remember. By the time this goes to court, the charges will be changed because there are no witnesses or evidence. Look at Ipperwash. 10 years later they have an inquiry and the main OPP witnesses are mysteriously dead!
Even to the Confederacy chiefs, the reality is different. They are made to look like they are distancing themselves from it. Recent incidents are meant to prime the public so they will accept armed rule in Canada, starting with the invasion of our territory. Our men, if arrested, would be "prisoners of war" because they are defending our territorial jurisdiction as a result of intense orchestrated provocation by the enemy
They want to shoot, kill and maim our people. They don't want to deal with the land or genocide issue. It's a trumped up murder charge that can't possibly stick. Our people have been here peacefully the whole time. They can't deal with us in peace. So they want to create a violent atmosphere which is the only way they know how to deal with us. They're totally lacking in imagination. They have no training in the methodology of peace. They're running around with weapons and only approach us in aggressive ways. We haven't heard so much as a public apology for the well-documented theft of our land, let alone a proposal that we get together and work out a viable solution.
The army does admit it's around because of the alleged presence of the KKK, skinheads and other provocateurs. They haven't admitted that they encouraged these people to come and have created a situation that is a magnet for unstable people prone to violence, with a little help from them. All the violent incidents have been provoked by these people. Not one of them has been charged. What gives? Why?
They don't want Canadians to questions why US agents are being invited to conduct operations against people that Canada claims are their citizens. Do Canadians really want the "Wackos from Waco" in their presence? We caught them, for which we should be congratulated. Here we have two nations, Canada and the US, colluding against a third, the Six Nations. Grass roots Canadians, like grass roots Americans, do not want gang wars in the government. Yet the OPP is in shameless collusion with the elements in the American government that want to undermine democracy by using violence for control. Our warriors seem to be the only ones with the strength to stand up to this institutionalized hooliganism. Canadians seem to have forgotten what we have done for them.
It reminds us of 1813 at the Battle of Queenston Heights when 80 Mohawk warriors held off 2,500 Americans for three days. The British ran all the way to St. Catharines, while the Mohawks retook the guns at the Heights. This is a good example of why the Confederacy, prior to the American Revolution, refused to enter into the war on one side or the other. Even though we had people fighting on both sides, we would not fight against each other. The US does not have any jurisdiction here. These two nations are related by blood but are not original nations on Turtle Island. They are transplants from Europe. Is British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, on his way here too? Is he sending in British commandos to make a third coalition? Is the US preparing to invoke the Patriot Act and in Canada, martial law?
They are doing everything they can to provoke native people into falling into the terminology of "terrorist" under their 'new world order' [Anglo-American empire]. They want to be able to arrest us and put us in their secret prisons with no charges because they say we are dangerous. Wake up, Canadians and Americans! If you don't know your true history, you don't have a future!
The initial response by the US Border Patrol and their original stated reasons for being here are false and ridiculous. The media spin is that they are here to learn from the OPP!! Run that by us again! Who's had all the high tech toys? They said they were here just to "observe" how Canada is dealing with the protest. Then they will know what to do when they have the same situation in the US! Next thing you know they'll probably offer to sell the Brooklyn Bridge to Ontario!
This is provocation by the US with the help of Canadian control freaks. They did not expect the kind of reaction they got from our men, so swift, so thorough. The ATF exposed themselves! Who knows how long they've been here? Their purpose has come out, which is provocation.
They're making it look like there is reluctance and noticeable lack of leadership by the Ontario and Canadian governments. Is it deliberate?
This is the way they're thinking. Canada absolutely cannot afford to be just, to follow the rule of law, to abide by their constitution, to honor treaties and commitments, to apply human rights in this situation. If they recognize one Indigenous community, one nation or one territory, then there will be a flood of other Indigenous nations seeking the same justice. If they were to apply true justice, it would have a domino effect, which has already started. One move and they all fall. The only way they have ever dealt with such serious situations as this is by full violent force. Kill everyone! The ones who live, charge them and put them in jail. They are waiting for the right incident [another Batoche?]. If it does not come along soon, they will make up one and then come in with the army and heavily armed law enforcement. This would be invading and attacking a peaceful foreign nation and a historic ally.
We will continue to act only in self-defense. We are not going on the offensive. We have never been aggressors. But we will not hesitate to defend ourselves. Look at every single confrontation, when Indigenous land is involved, we fought only to defend ourselves. They know we will defend our land and our people.
In New York State at Moss Lake when we took back our territory in 1975, over a three year period we were never the aggressors. We only protected and defended. We stood fast on that. In the end New York State saw that they could not justify the use of violent force. Instead there were 250 meetings with us within a three year period to settle the land issue. Ganiengeh is a precedent. It's a model Indigenous community in upstate New York and a major employer of non-Indigenous people.
That is what has to happen at Six Nations. We will continue to protect. We are ready and willing to talk for a fair and just resolution. We cannot let these orchestrated incidents be played on us so we become the aggressors. The true aggressors will always be the colonizers. We still have no weapons, which is a last resort. We will always stand as a People. When Canada finally talks itself out of existence with its own words, we will still be here standing.
Any of our men will stand up head to head, man to man, without weapons, against any aggressor and we will prevail. That's what happened on Friday. That's why they've laid the exaggerated charge of attempted murder against one of our men. In the past we could stand unarmed against an army that is 100% trained and with the latest weaponry. They will be forced to become murderers. The OPP, Quebec Police, RCMP, Special Ops and the Canadian army know this about us. That is why lately they have not actually shot unarmed men, women and children. That would not be self-defense on their part. That would be murder. Canada is skating on thin ice. They are close to committing murder, as they've done in the past. But now the world is watching.
The Cavalry fired on unarmed men, women and children at Wounded Knee in 1876 That is not man to man. They couldn't ever face the Lakota man to man. Just like Attica Prison, they shot and killed guards and prisoners like fish in a rain barrel. This could happen if they come in and committed murder because they’re frightened, panicked and enraged. They could shoot everything that moves including their own, like Corporal Marcel Lemay of the Quebec Police who was shot by his own men in 1990.
That is their system. We must and will hold our ground. You, Canada, will have to murder us to change the ground. If you don't want to murder us, then you are welcome to come to the peace talks and work out a just resolution.
Kahentinetha Horn
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