Don Maroc-Cowichan Conversations Contributor
Here is Cowichan Conversations contributor Don Maroc weighing in once again. This time with his views on the ‘Idle No More’ protest and a shadow boxing out manouvered Prime Minister Steve Harper.
The Natives are just as diverse in their views and beliefs as we are and yet the media expects them to present one leader and speak with one voice. Our Parliament shows the folly in that.
How in the devil do we deal with this Idle No More bunch? There’s no leaders, there’s no policy, no organization, no tent camps.
How’s our Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who 60 percent of Canadians voted against in the last election, to respond these shadows?
Our head bully is punching smoke when he should be stabbing First Nations’ leaders in the back. When, with the help of a near totally corrupt media, he could be twisting, spinning, and ripping to shreds Idle’s policies, infiltrating and sabotaging their organizations. And finally unleashing the over-armed and armoured militarized police forces on their encampments, cracking bones with truncheons, choking with pepper spray, dumping libraries in waste dumps, and trashing free medical clinics.
Sounds very much like the treatment meted out to the very un-Canadian Occupy movement, of which the mindless media triumphantly claims, “they’re gone, we told you so.”
Of course the Occupy Movement which left us the 99 percent versus the one percent and the knowledge that Wall Street is screwing Main Street, has resurfaced under a number of different names and missions. Still with no leaders and little organization.
You can expect the same annual rebirth from the Idle No More. They have not only rejected PM Harper, but walked passed and ignored their chiefs, elected in elections to chief-and-council governments, designed and limited by Whiteman’s laws.
Our born-again prime minister does not seem to understand the brotherhood of all humankind as prescribed by Jesus of Nazareth.
What Harper believes in is assimilation, change all Indians into disadvantaged dark-skinned Canadians. Break up communal reserve land, give a portion to each First Nations’ person. Then slick, disreputable speculators can con the people out of their newly acquired land, and the problem will be solved. The Indians will silently fade into the sunset, completely homeless at last.
With those people out of the way our wonderful world of finance can dig anywhere and deep for tar sands, and uranium, blow off mountain tops to get at the gold, and remove the forests and pollute the water to make room for pipelines. And Harper can buy fighter-bombers and drones, and join the big boys waging technological warfare against barely armed, helpless people around the world. People whose only sin is wanting freedom, democracy, their own languages, cultures, and security from the ravages of international corporate domination.
Good work Idle No More, the bullies are frustrated, striking out wildly. They are helpless so long as they have no leaders to jail, no encampments to destroy, no policies to denigrate. Harper has to turn you into weak Whitemen before he can dismiss you as irrelevant. Soften him with round dances, dominate him with drums, and destroy him with non-violence
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What’s your take on the ipsos poll? http://www.ipsos-na.com/news-polls/pressrelease.aspx?id=5961
A job well done by the obedient corporate media driving Harper’s message, the shameless (baseless) release from Deloitte-Touche and the governments refusal to really have an accounting. Let us have a proper look see by the Auditor General and an examination of the Harper Governments shameless lack of needed action to prevent first nations people from freezing to death in unheated tents and cabins.
They are blaming the victims and sadly Ispos Reid did their work after the MSM frame was constantly repeated and repeated.
Mississippi stand back. We will show you real racism, take notes.
That maybe the case, but the average Canadian doesn’t support the Idle No More movement. hat’s all I am saying.
Oh you have consulted all average Canadians, have you Patrick?
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I am willing to be that the Average Canadian thinks Ezra Levant is a jerk, ignores much of what he spews, has seen Harper operate, and knows the conditions of the majority of FN people, and would therefor likely support what we are seeing. Just sayin
Very likely Patrick and Ipsos-Reid’s numbers are close to correct which only shows that most Canadians are ill-informed about the evolution of First Nations’ culture since the 18th century.
Locally here in the Cowichan area it is almost impossible to come to an agreement on a land-claim treaty, not necessarily because either side is obdurant but because 150 years ago the very corrupt government of B.C. gave about half of southern Vancouver Island to a man, who was at the time a member of the legislature, as a reward for building a railway from his coal mines to the British naval base at Esquimalt (the E&N Grant).
As a result there is virtually no Crown land available to return to the Cowichan people, whose land it was that was given away.
It is almost too painful to discuss how the right to fish was stripped from the Indians, how they were not allowed to vote in elections until 15 years after many of them fought for Canada in World War II, how the law said Indians were not allowed to discuss among themselves or with a lawyer a treaty or land issues, how they could not sit with Whitepeople in the movie theatre.
This is not even the tip of the iceberg Patrick, the only thing the First Nations of Canada have ever been applauded for is trying to be a Whiteman. In the end no matter how good they are at that game they can never be more than mud-sill for the often racist European-Canadians.
The truth is contained in a number of books, some available at our local library, but we both know that not many Canadians will read them.