Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) is doing just that to mohawk people returning to their homes in Kawehnoke. understand, this is not entering canada. it is traveling from one part of our territory to another part without ever leaving it. this is revenge for not allowing them to have armed guards on our sovereign territory. the CBSA has been seizing their vehicles since september, unless a $1,000 bounty is paid to CBSA.
this is just their latest tactic. a few months ago they surrounded our community, isolating it from the usa and canada. they also had military drones flying over us just like they use in afghanistan and pakistan. after all, canada lists mohawk people as terrorists with al qaeda.
so what are your thoughts about this? this is happening on the border between new york and canada. how many americans have even heard this is going on within your sight? do you condone your government treating people like this? or does the silence say it all? why are people concerned about human rights in distant countries but ignore these violations that continue in your own?
are you calling me a liar?
Mohawk border crossing blocked
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/06/01/akwesasne-guards-border-guns001.html
Army manual lumps radical natives with Hezbollah
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070331/native_manual_070331/20070331?hub=CTVNewsAt11
U.S. launches another drone plane to patrol Canadian border
In eastern Canada, the focus of the Predator is the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory, which straddles the St. Lawrence River near Cornwall, Ont., and sprawls across the border of New York state.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/06/22/drone-great-lakes022.html?ref=rss
so tell me mr i-lived-through-idiocy, since you lived through oka, would i recognize you? would a rock in your hands make that easier?
we have contacted "her majesty" several times, and sent wampum carriers, official spokespersons to see her and she remains silent. its apparent her majesty doesn’t give a sh**
it is amazing that some will say if they are seizing your cars you must be smuggling. because we all KNOW the government would never do anything wrong..especially canada right? can’t handle the fact that the world is finally seeing the real canada that first nations people have seen all along? no response to the news stories showing that what i say is truth? perhaps you are too busy piling stones..you know just in case.
for those who may want to start following some things:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GWYA_enUS348US348&q=native+american+news+sites&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
cher..your suggestions do make sense. and many of them we have in place in one form or another. with the internet, we are geting the word out through our own news association, various action groups, and yes…the UN has heard from us many many times. we have come to the conclusion that if WE don’t do this alone, it won’t get done. in canada this is all over the news, as the first answerer shows, they don’t listen toboth sides, just the propaganda. whenever a country or state gets into financial trouble, they MUST find someone to point a finger at. one would think us natives spent all their money and left them nothing the way they come at us because we will not collect taxes for them. but this issue is about putting armed guards on our sovereign territory without our permission. we said no. imagine russia drawing a line through anchorage and then sending armed soldiers to patrol and decide who can pass through one side to the other.
the word is out there and all over the net. therre are native news sites that do carry this type of news, not just for us but for all nations. but i see the problem like this; in the minds of most non native people we are rooted only in the past. they see us only as ghosts of a former era. the media stereotypes and mascots keep us there in their minds. so if we are from the past, why be concerned about us in the present? i’m sure you know just by YA how little people really know about us even though they live in the same country. i don’t believe it is a matter of information not being out there so much as people simply do not think of us as 21st century nations facing unique issues.
if i am not mistaken, a goup of mohawks has gone to geneva recently to take canada to the world court. i will have to find out the results and get back to you.
thanks for all the suggestions and the "outside insights"
