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Dixie currently feels:

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BLOG 22.

This is in Emily's honour!

Tee hee, how ironic, eh Em'?

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...Presenting...

...As created by Dixie Stonehall, upon loving response to a request by Emily Fieldus...

The greatest MindSay quiz EVER!

(...Or maybe not.... )

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WARNING: The quiz is destined to waste precious minutes of your life.

If you put it on your profile, put a link back to stonehalledall and ask the other stealers to do so, too. - I doubt anybody will want to steal this tripe, like.

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Section 1: Knowing you.

Your name? --- You know me, you probably hate me, you can live without me - Dixie!

Your age? --- Sixteen years, five months, eighteen days, one hour, two minutes. [As of NOW.]

Your star sign? --- Libra, set of dodgy scales!

Favoured hand? --- Right!

Colour of one's eyes? --- Green!

Your hair? --- Blonde, just past my shoulders, with a fringe!

Your nose? --- Round and squishy!

Favourite colour? --- Red!

Favourite animal? --- Tiger!

Favourite band? --- Rammstein!

Current favourite phrase? --- CHILDREN OF THE SEA!!!

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Section 2: Heads or Tails?

Hot or Cold? --- Cold!

Guys or Girls? --- Girls!

Coke or Pepsi? --- Both!

Tea or Coffee? --- Tea!

Sugar or Salt? --- Sugar!

Cake or Pie? --- Cake!

Converse or Vans? --- Converse!

Cars or Bikes? --- Bikes!

Rock or Paper? --- Rock!

Glasses or Contacts? --- Glasses!

MSN or IM? --- MSN!

Mario or Sonic? --- Tails! :P

Hero or Villain? --- Villian!

Scotland or England? --- Both!

USA or Canada? --- Canada!

Germany or France? --- Germany!

Love or Money? --- Love!

Goth or Emo? --- Goth!

Early bird or Night owl? --- Night owl!

Guitar or Guitar Hero? --- Guitar Hero!

PS3 or XBox360? --- XBox360!

Science or Maths? --- Science!

Reading or Writing? --- Writing! 

Love Dixie, or Kill Dixie? --- Kill Dixie! :)

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Songs: ---  Wait and Bleed - Slipknot... Rosenrot - Rammstein

Words: --- Catawampus! Machiavellian! Tambourine! Kangaroo!

Letters: ---  A, D, Z, M, S, T

Drinks: --- Cherry Coke, Orange Lucozade & Pepsi Max!

Foods: --- Burgers, Pizza, Pasta, Fried chicken, Oreos & Fridge Raiders!

Sounds: --- Unaccomapanied guitar, head scratching & my scanner scanning. :) 

Books: --- Jacqueline Wilson collection, Diary of a Chav (volumes 1-3), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time & To Kill a Mockingbird. 

Cheese: --- Edam!

Bread: --- Warbutron's!

Soup: --- Cream of Chicken!

Bathroom: --- Nana's!

Fridge: --- Nana's!

Pencil: --- Steadtler!

Chemical: --- Phenolphthalein!

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Section 4: Would you rather eat...?

Vomit pie or blood milkshake?
- Blood milkshake, blood is nice, and so is milk.

Snot ice-pop or roasted belly-button fluff?
- Has to be frozen snot. I eat my snot anyway... Umm... Yeah.

Stir-fried intestines, or spit-roasted arseholes?
- ...Eh, both of them are in contact with shit. Spit-roasted arseholes, why not.

1000 year-old cheese sandwich, or a fresh, steaming dog turd?
- Got to be the sandwich, mould is a penicillin after all.

Live jellyfish or dead snake?
- Dead snake, I like my food to keep still.

Earwax sorbet or toenail stew?
- Toenail stew, I like cheese. :D

A freshly coughed-up hairball or a full bottle of Corvonia cough medicine?

- HAIRBALL, HAIRBALL, HAIRBALL! Keep the Corvonia AWAY...

A used tampon or a freshly-lain pile of elephant droppings?

- Tampon... Though cotton is hard to swallow.

Dandruff rice-balls or toe hair spaghetti?

- ...Hrrrrrm... Rice balls.

Dixie's brain or Dixie's heart?

Okay, so I'm working like usual at the mall, and I happen to look up, and security is leading somebody to the security office (one officer on one side, and a cop on the other).  So I kinda hide in the store and try to get a better look, and I see that it's an old woman, in handcuffs!!!!

Needless to say my eyebrows shot sky high when I saw that, and the only thing I can piece together that she could've done to get arrested would be to steal something, not give it back, lie, and resist the cops, lol.

I'm just amazed, I talked to Cal about it and he said it was actually pretty likely...

Old ladies stealing...what's this world coming to!!!

Blognapped from farrohcious 

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME:
(First pet and current street name) 
--Midnight Canyon

2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME:
(Grandfather/grandmother on your dad's side, your favourite candy) 
--Robert Snowcap

3.     YOUR "FLY GIRL/GUY" NAME:
(First initial of first name, .,  first two or three letters of your middle name) 
--K All 

4.    YOUR DETECTIVE NAME:
(Favourite colour, favourite animal)  

--Black Tiger 
 

--Allen St. Clair 

6.     YOUR STAR WARS NAME:
(The first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name,
(First 2 letters of mum maiden name & first 3 letters of the town u grew up in)  

--Cookespcan 
 

This was actually fun...and I must say that my Soap Opera name is pretty kick-ass LOL....:D

Ongoing reports from behind the Native lines at Caledonia

The following reports are ongoing reports received from Aboriginals observing the ongoing crisis at Caledonia in Ontario. The reports are reproduced verbatim.

The opinions and views stated in the reports are not necessarily those of Taiga Communications Inc., The First Perpective or The Drum.

Photo Gallery

20 April 2006 - morning

4:20 am the OPP attacked to arrest them. Hauled first 9 off. Some protesters took the Caledonia bridge. Reserve people arrived and repelled the cops. At least 150 heavily armed cops. Vans, trucks, paddy wagons, ambulances (for the cops). They repelled them. The cops came back. They were replled again. Now at 9:00 am the people have taken the land in question back. How to get there: From Niagara Falls and Toronto, take Highway 6 straight south from Hamilton to Caledonia. From buffalo take Highway 3 west to Higway 6 and north on Highway 6 to Caledonia. From Windsor take Higway 3 East to Higway 6 and go north. These are backways and cops are not likely to be looking at it too much.

8:30 OPP DISRUPTS PEACE IN QUIET CALEDONIA

The OPP has created an ongoing battle. They sit in their cars, give out false news reports, and wait for reinforcements to come in to squash the Six Nations people but they can’t. Everyone is reporting to everyone.

All police have been chased off the perimeter of Douglas Estates for now. Cop were sneaking behind the unfinished houses. One woman went over. A women cop told her she was under arrest. "What do you mean I’m under arrest. You’re violating the laws, both ours and international law". Other cops came out and wrestled her down on the ground. She fought all of them. They kneed her to handcuff her. She started booting the cops. Then other Indians arrived on the scene and chased the cops off. As they were leaving they shot her son in back with tasers. The big woman cop was carrying a big gun, something like an Ouzi. "It was a big one". Those cops were fully packed, she said. They failed to arrest her because she resisted. There are 9 arrested. They’re supposed to only keep them for 2 hours. "We haven’t seen them back yet". The People are shutting Caledonia down. "We are not armed. We got our land back. Were in! We’re at the fire!"

At the 6th Line where the Douglas Estates comes out on the road at the entrance, out to Highway 6 that goes onto the rez. The bypass that goes around Caledonia. At the 6th line overpass, the people there had been blocking that road, they were attacked by the cops, paddy wagons were there. They fought back. It was a brawl. People started coming from the rez and supported them. Immediately there were hydro poles around which they threw on the road and set on fire. They are cutting off Highway 6 the main supply line that goes goes to Nanticoke Hydro Electric plant down on Lake Erie. It is the main transport truck road to Hamilton. This is being blocked.

Some protesters are still holding Caledonia Bridge, the main artery of the city. It’s total confusion.

If you have satellite TV, look for Hamilton CH which has a live feed. They have helicopters filming everything.

8:00 AM

It is an ongoing situation. 9 people arrested.

There is fighting going on at the No. 6 Line Bridge. It is blocked off. The traditional Longhouse people put a fire there and the OPP pepper sprayed them. But the people started fighting back. The people have moved onto the main bridge in Caledonia. The people moved the police off the land and are going back to the main door and are still there holding on. The cops are still on the road shutting down the bypass. The OPP were chased off by the people and told to get out. OPP got off the land and are in their cars watching and waiting for "orders".

Get the news on the radio stations, newspapers, television.

7:05 am. Two snipers were chased off by the people. They have 50 cops trapped in, who can’t get out. A media black out could work against them. More cops are going to come in. Indians don’t have weapons but they do have tons of cameras.

In Ipperwash there was a media blackout. The only way the information got out was because some of the people told what they saw. That’s why we need people in there. The police showed in that public inquiry there was a deliberate attempt to stop the press from finding out. There were attacks upon people with cameras, those who tried to get the story out. What the police learned is how to do this the right way next time. This is it. They learned all the weaknesses We learned the invaders are psychologically twisted people who pretend to be supporting the law. These are megalomaniacs who think they can say what the law is because they have access to guns. This time they will do it "right". The CTV have made two major movies showing what happens when these twisted personalities are allowed free reign on Indians. We get killed.

There are back room deals in police headquarters to hide the information and protect the police officers that give orders. In the case of Ipperwash, three OPP police officers died suddenly just before they were going to give evidence at the enquiry. What a strange coincidence. It is unfortunate that the poor jerks that are just "following orders" do not realize that they are putting their lives on the line. They are not at risk from Indians, so why all these coincidences?

The Six Nations people have been burning tobacco during this entire occupation for their protection. This is the only weapon that we have. We know the truth is on our side. We are calling upon the natural forces to give us wisdom and guidance through this whole siege. There are repercussions to those involved when you go against people who are innocent and justified in what they are doing. The megalomaniacs who do these kinds of things are only looking out for themselves. They are a danger to all of society. We Indigenous people are within our rights. We want Canada to obey their own laws, and to respect international norms. We want an open and fair hearing. If the colonizers think they own our land, they need to prove it. With this attack they have trashed any pretension to right and decency, democracy and the rule of law. Canada is beginning to slide quickly down the slippery slope of despotism. How can Canada decolonize. The test lies in how they feel toward people who challenge their assumptions. Are they going to use batons, guns and pepper spray? Or are they going to get out their documents and take a serious look at the evidence.

The answer is obvious. Just look at what is happening today. This is a colonial government’s hard core. Canada does not believe in reasoned researched and documented solutions. We are seeing how colonial government is going to deal with any kind of questioning of their "might makes right" authority. These are the signs of how a tyrannical government is going to suppress the people from expressing legitimate dissent against a takeover by the powerful elitist interests that are involved. It appears that individual rights are being eliminated systematically all over Turtle Island. This destruction of dissent at Six Nations is done under the cover of media darkness. This is the way it will be done in the future against all people across Turtle Island. This is an experiment in police state tactics against unarmed people who are exercising our rights.

These are the lessons they learned at Gustafsen Lake in 1995 where 77,000 rounds of ammunition were shot at the Indians. In Saskatoon, where Six Indian boys were found frozen to death outside the city put there by police officers. In Winnipeg where J.J. Harper was murdered by the Winnipeg police. At Ipperwash where Dudley George was murdered in cold blood by the OPP. There are over 500 Indigenous women who have "disappeared" and the police have done nothing about it. In the 1960’s there was a complaint made in British Columbia because men were looking for Indian children to have sex with them in the streets. The police did nothing about it. Child prostitution is an on-going problem in Vancouver. We don’t want the blood lust of Canada’s police force to be whetted by spilling the blood of Indians. This vampire regime is moving in on Indians like sharks who smell blood in the water.

We don’t want the...

6:45 am

Go to Six nations. Take part in the Canadian "democratic" process. Get pepper sprayed. Get beat up. Get arrested. Get killed. No one will know what is going on. Seriously, the media black out is giving the lawless their power. They can do anything they want and who knows where it will stop. Take photos and tell your friends. We don’t want another Chile. The state has been involved in murders before like Anna May Aquash. These attackers find a place where they can live out their bizarre fantasies and manias. These people have a twisted view of society and a gun is put in their hands. No psychological testing is done on these guys in police, armies, and bureaucracies. The only test for surviving is a willingness to "follow orders", not the law. These people have no concept of what the law or true democratic rule is.

6:20 AM

Cops all over the place. People are there. More people coming. Pepper sprayed. So far they let everybody go. Some might have been seized. Don’t know. Canada using Gestapo tactics instead of making things right. Canada following big brother george bush mentality – invasion, containment, imprisonment and torture of Indigenous people and their families. Next Canada will start hunting down those who continue to protect and try to maintain the sov and jurisdiction of our people. lets not be surprised if Canada puts a deck of 52 for its most wanted Indigenous people and their friends and allies. Free land is our land that is free of Indians.

At 5:55 am this morning, Thursday, April 20th, over 150 heavily armed Ontario Provincial Police with Native mercenaries as body shields, invaded Six Nations land. Some carrying M-16's, in riot gear. 6th line is still open. The Rotinoshon'no are not fighting because they are unarmed. Tear gas has been thrown at them. Some were pepper sprayed. The traitors are the same kind of people who stabbed Crazy Horse, Geronimo, and those who fought for our sovereignty and our lives.

One bridge to the property has been closed.

Witnesses required. This will not be on the national news. Go there and see what is going on. This is a scary precedent. Take pictures. Make reports. Let the world know. report. REPORT. REPORT. Help the people so no one gets hurt. we never wanted violence. Canada has opened to the door to covert state violence on a scale that is unprecedented in Canada. This si the end of any pretense of negotiation with Indigenous people. they’re just going to take the land. Canada came in with armaments, guns, paddy wagons (we dont know what's in there).

Don't let Canada become another Chile. Tell the world. The Rotino'shon:we are on our own land.

kahentinetha2@yahoo.com
MNN Mohawk Nation News

20 April 2006 - evening

UPDATE: 6:30 PM STILL APRIL 20, 2006

Canada hasn’t learned its lesson. It wants another Oka summer! 200 RCMP are going to back up the Ontario Provincial Police OPP. Instead of figuring out to negotiate a solution and maybe give back something they stole, they decided to use force again. This is a one trick pony. They are presently waiting at the Hamilton airport where they have choppers and "swat whipping gear" to whip "dem stubborn Injuns" into shape. They have all the toys, gadgets and guns. The whole 9 whistles! If they leave them behind, we can dress them up with feathers and warrior badges, eh!

Misinformation continues.

It is Canada and Ontario who are violating the jurisdiction of the Indigenous people. According to their own constitution, we have to validly give up our lands and sovereignty under Section 132 of the BNA Act. We never did this. This is not a domestic issue, as they say. It is an international issue. We began our r elationship with Britain as allies. When the British split themselves up into Canada, United States and Britain, we never agreed to join any of them. We’ve never agreed to be anything but allies. Under international law one state cannot absorb another without the fully informed consent of the majority of the population. Canada agrees with this formula. In the Quebec Succession Reference, it said that a province could not leave without the consent of a clear majority on a clear question. Canada and Ontario don’t want to play fair. They still want to be colonizers. That’s why they think they can run around like a bunch of big bullies, instead of learning of history and stealing what isn’t theirs.

According to the Kaianereh’ko:wa, the Women are the title holders of the land. We hold it in trust for our future generations. It belongs to our future generation. None of the so-called treaties that Canada claims to rely on are valid. None were signed with the authority of the people. Of course, none were signed by the future generations because they weren’t born yet.

It’s not like the settlers will have no place to live.

They recognize the rights that they agreed to respect. In 1784 General Haldimand made a proclamation on behalf of the British. He promised that Britain would protect the Six Nations right to occupy our land for six miles on either side of the Grand River from its mouth to its source. The public needs to be know that it is Canada and Ontario who refuse to come to the table and deal with laws and documents that back us up. Canadian leaders are announcing they wish they knew how to solve this problem. There is no problem. They just have to stay off our land, take their police away, stop trying to invade and stop giving fraudulent titles to squatters. It’s all in their archives. Canadians just have to look it up.

MEDIA BLACK OUT IS OVER FOR NOW. SIX NATIONS STAND UP TO TOTALARIANISM. WHAT’S NEXT?

MNN. April 20, 2006. 1:45 PM. Thursday. The Rotin’oshon’ni Six Nations, with our brothers, sisters, friends and allies, took a stand against totalitarian might. We could not give into it. It would have had a ripple effect through all of society. We stood up for law and order on behalf of everybody. It’s not over. We repelled the police. Our supporters came and stood with us. We now wait.

Right now 50 Quebec Police SQ are standing with binoculars at the end of Mercier Bridge staring across the St. Lawrence River at us here in Kahnawake. An elderly supporter took out her warrior flag and hung it out on her balcony in a high rise in Toronto. Canadians are angry. They feel like they’ve been lied to. Vital information has been kept from them.

The media black out is over. Our protest is on the front page. But what does all this mean? Why was it blacked out to begin with? What good is freedom of the press if the press is in the pockets of whoever controls the government? The Ontario Provincial Police OPP had a press conference at 1:00 today. They’re carrying out a court order, the legality of which we question. The Ontario government doesn’t want to take the blame. The Canadian government's Indian Affairs Department doesn’t want to take the responsibility. [Why should they? They’re the ones responsible for most of the frauds suffered by the Six Nations in the first place]. They both say. "It’s a police matter".

16 protesters were removed from the Caledonia building site using violence and threats. OPP said they were merely trying to serve a court order taken out by Henco Industries, an American Corporation. No one has explained how and why the courts and the police became puppets of American businesses. No one is taking responsibility for the attack on the Six Nations people. Does this mean that this is a police state? Who rules the police anyway? Are the cops in charge? They seem to be able to do what they want. Who’s next? Welcome to the new world order!

The Ipperwash Inquiry doesn’t seem to have had any effect on the agenda of the OPP. They are now dictating to the government, attorneys general, crown attorneys and politicians. Everyone is afraid of the power of the police, except the Indians. The politicians have made laws giving so much power to the police that they have created a monster that is taking over. They cannot put the genie back into the bottle that they opened.

But the resistance at Six Nations is not what the police expected. To begin with, none of the people were carrying weapons, other than cameras. The news blackout was broken because the story got too big for Canada to control. They could not stop people from expressing themselves, at least not without killing us all off. We must have our say, no matter how hard whoever controls the government tries to shut us up. We see that the public is angry because the media never told them what was going on. Suddenly the issue that has been going on for 52 days is thrown in their faces.

Say the OPP, "This is no Ipperwash [when they attacked Indigenous protesters in 1995 and killed Dudley George]. We are not taking orders from politicians" [Does this mean they’re become a law onto themselves]. The OPP, they tell us, only enforces the law. Monte Quinter, an Ontario politician, said that the whole question of Six Nations lands has been before the Ontario legislature. "We’ve got to negotiate with the people", said the NDP Indian Affairs critic. Most said they wanted a peaceful resolution. The facts have to go before the people. Why is it that the Canadian media never carries any information to inform the public about Indigenous land claims? This is why Canadians are surprised by what happened at Ipperwash, Oka and now at Six Nations. It seems that the Conservative party in opposition are still pushing their agenda. They would like to see the Liberals, who are in power, send the police in to continue the Mike Harris policy of using brute force on anyone who opposes his government. They want the Liberals to make the same mistake that they made at Ipperwash. This lead to a big inquiry and a huge black eye for the Conservatives.

If Canada had gotten away with the media black out, the outcome would been a lot worse. Because Indigenous news outlets sent messages worldwide, Canada could not hide their dirty underwear anymore. We have to thank our brothers and sisters all over the world who inundated Canadian officials with questions. Our people could have been killed and no one would have known about it. It’s strange too that Henco is an American company and the New York Times recently put a story on its front page demonizing the Mohawks. Is this all part of the plan?

Once the news got out, the police had to back off. The Indians had cameras everywhere. The OPP did not want to be on television beating up the Indians. A few Indians were arrested. Then they were replaced by more people. Ontario and Canada are not sure what to do now. This indicates to us that the Canadian demagogues had a plan to see how far they could get by using force and hiding it. If they could have gotten get away with it, they could do it elsewhere. If they could control us, they could do it on anyone, native or non-native. We were at the point of tipping down the horrible slope that the people of Chile and Argentina know so well.

Canada has to sit down with the real owners of the land and not anyone else.

Also, Canada can only negotiate after peace has been established. Canada may think this unfortunate. They have to get used to the idea they can’t grab everything. They have to show the world there is going to be no more violence and threats. Only then can we come forward without fear of being arrested.

We know what was done to our chiefs in the past. In the 1600’s our ancestors were invited to parlay with the government and were attacked, killed or imprisoned. We never saw them again. We still have this mistrust for a very good reason. We want open and transparent assurances. We want international observers. The people are the leaders. The chiefs are merely spokesmen for the people and have no power but to carry out the will of the people. The government and police don’t understand true democracy. Our people will not fall for their old colonial tricks. We will not let any of our people be set up, put on ships and die in Europe.

All over the world despotic leaders are attacking people, putting them in jails, concentration camps, separating them from loved ones, without lawyers or habeas corpus. It’s been creeping closer and closer. Look at Quantanamo. Look at security certificates that can be issued in Canada without letting the accused victim or their lawyer know what the evidence against them is. It has become impossible to put proof forward even cases of mistaken identity.

We want to show what we have to do when the powerful try to take control of the masses. We have been through this many times in the past. We know who we are dealing with. We can’t be fooled into falling for their trap.

The media blackout was a total violation of freedom of speech which is right in the constitution of Canada. The Six Nations had our backs against the wall. We did the only thing we could do in a nonviolent way. We are doing this for all oppressed people everywhere in the world. We want them to see someone standing up to the power of mass control of the human race. We ask all people to stand with us in solidarity. We are doing it for all of us.

We want to help stop the enslavement of everyone who use totalitarian means of brute force. The only protection we have is for the media to tell everybody what is happening. Mediayou’re your job. Don’t black us out. Don’t let the controllers of the government shut you down. Become involved with us.

Kahentinetha Horn
kahentinetha2@yahoo.com
MNN Mohawk Nation News

21 April 2006 - morning

5:20 AM Friday April 21, 2006

PREPARE FOR MILITARY OPPRESSION: OKA BLUEPRINT BROUGHT OUT AGAIN

Brothers, Sisters, Friends and Allies,

We need information about the moves being made against us, solidarity, witnesses to stand with us, alternative communication systems, cameras, food, medicine, runners, people to apply pressure on the Prime Minister, Parliament, Premier of Ontario, Governor General, etc. Addresses and phone numbers are further down this email, contact with and information to media to get the word out, supporters outside of Canada to put pressure on governments, United Nations, protests…. and whatever you can think of to help us prevent bloodshed, imprisonment, persecution.

As happened at Oka they cut off our communication with the outside world. They seem to have already done that at Six Nations. We need reports, to ensure safety if someone gets hurt.

We have learned 1000 OPP have been brought in nearby and WE received the following email:

C wrote:
I wanted to pass on information I heard from an employee who works at the Hamilton Airport. Apparently at 9:30am tomorrow the military will arrive there and begin using the airport as a staging area.

in solidarity,

Thanks, C. What other info do you have? Anything at all. Whatever.
Kahentinetha Horn,
MNN Mohawk Nation News

Thanks to our Canadian supporters who do NOT want to live under a military dictatorship. Yesterday Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited the former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in Montreal. Mulroney was the Prime Minister during the Mohawk Oka Crisis of 1990. One day after his visit with US President George Bush, he came back to Canada and ordered the army to attack us for defending our ancestral ceremonial site and burial grounds. We were under siege for 78 days. It’s really sad to see that Canadian leaders have learned nothing. If Prime Minister Harper is using the Mulroney blueprint, he’s headed for disaster. Look at the botch up that guy made in 1990. If he’s listening to George Bush, we’re all in trouble.

We need negotiation, consent and peaceful coexistence. The Six Nations grievances are deeply rooted, complex and well documented, going back centuries.

7:30 FRIDAY APRIL 21, 2006

EXTREME HIGH ALERT! POLICE MOVE IN FOR THE SLAUGHTER

Twenty RCMP vans arrived loaded with Mounties and weapons arrived. Ambulances nearby. Need people right now! Phone working sporadically. Need alternative communications. Need people to stand with us with cameras, eyes and ears. Contact everybody you can to get the word out. Need some medical personnel to help in case of injury.

OPP and it is believed the Canadian Army are coming in too at Hamilton airport at 9:30 am.

21 April 2006 - continued

9:10 am

Need more people. The Coalition in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty stated that the presence of 1000 OPP was confirmed by CHCH TV news this morning. RCMP are using the Hamilton Airport as a staging ground.

Behind Canadian Tires on Kinross St. Caledonia, there were 18 – 11 passenger vans, great big ones. They are full OPP officers. One seen with gun on passenger side. There were some standing behind the vans. Couldn’t tell what they were doing.

From Marlene: "Yesterday at night at Radio Canada (CBC in french) , at the end of 6:00 pm news they invited a rights specialist, and he told what happens now was highly predictable due to Canada's mistakes on the matter of territories and that your claims might be justificated ( welll....it is still CBC, they won't accept to say you guys are totally right !) . Not surprisingly though, the only coverage of the event shows images of haudenasaunee flags and tires burning, nothing about police violence. This media manipulation is sickening".

10:30 am. On Site

Most of the scouting is being done by the native women, doing groceries, laundry, happen to be driving around window shopping. At the nearby subdivision is the RCMP staging area where they have 20 vehicles parked. Personnel around throughout the area. The military staging area is at the John Munro International Airport in Hamilton Ontario, 12 miles from Caledonia. Unity Road is just north of Caledonia which is closed off. This is the staging area for the OPP. Ambulances and buses all around. Onsight surveillance indicates that the OPP have upgraded from "riot gear" to "tactical gar" which is bullet proof vests, keeping their weapons nearby. One of the concerns of the Indians is that negotiations with band council and the Confederacy chief will be used by Ontario and Canada as a diversionary tactic to distract the people, calm everybody down. As soon as we relax, they will attack. This is what they did last week.

WHAT’S THE MESSAGE? POLICE STATE OFFICIALLY IMPLEMENTED

The Canadian government wants to send us a message that if we ever again lift our heads and demand our rights, they and their goons are coming after us with overwhelming military force. They want to show us they are the conquerors and we are the conquered. They want to tell us we have no rights and, even though we are in the right, they are taking our land and resources away from us anyway. They have never had a public hearing to look at the evidence of the Six Nations. They tell us, "You can’t do anything about it. Too too bad for you". With all their ambulances parked up front, it seems obvious they are out to make another Tianamen Square right in the middle of rural Ontario. They may even come in and bulldoze our houses and put non-native subdivisions on our lands. All Indian communities across Canada can be overwhelmed and bulldozed for developers from all over the world. They are being welcomed to come and take over stolen Indian land. The Canadian government institutions are protecting them. Do the Canadian people want this? I don’t think so. We know about this old strategy. Soon, if we look at them the wrong way we might be eliminated one way or another. Canada is sanctioning this process. In the Six Nations case, neither Canada nor Ontario take responsibility. Is it the police’s? All these public enquiries into police behaviour show is how police can hide the abuse and murders of Indians and how to cover up their crimes efficiently.

12:10 PM There are now between 2,500 and 3,000 OPP and RCMP in a perimeter around the people about 1 mile away. There is 50 sq. mi. squared off.

How to get there: From Niagara Falls and Toronto, take Highway 6 straight south from Hamilton to Caledonia. From Buffalo take Highway 3 west to Highway 6 and north on Highway 6 to Caledonia. From Windsor take Higway 3 East to Highway 6 and go north. These are back ways.

12:55 "KAHEHTI:IO", one of the young men jailed by the OPP yesterday morning for being on the Six Nation Nations land, remains in jail. Following the precedent set by the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Kahehti:io is being kept in jail for refusing to give any other name except the one he has. It means "he plants a good garden". They are asking him for a colonial name does not have. He refuses to be fingerprinted and photographed. He is a young skinny kid who was beaten up by 4 OPP officers. He asked for me, Kahentinetha, to come and take him into my care. I would have to assure them he will be a good boy, without mentioning that I think he has been a wonderful boy so far!

AKWESASNE ROTISKENRAKETE, the men of the longhouse are handing out information on the International Bridge between New York State and Cornwall. They have a duty to protect the land which is held by the Women Title Holders. The decision of the people was for these men to express our outrage at what is happening to our brothers and sisters at Six Nations.

COLONIAL WAR RE-ENACTORS – CANADIAN ARMED FORCES ARE STILL PLAYING "COWBOYS AND INJUN GAMES".

They’re behaving like little kids marching around the kitchen banging on pots and pans. You know how Canada re-enacts old wars, like the Plains of Abraham, Louisburg and other monuments of the colonial past. The fife and drum set clowns around with old flintlock guns just for fun. You can get you photo taken on that guillotine thing. They sure took this seriously, didn’t they? They’re still playing their baby games, but they’ve got serious artillery in their hands.

5:45

URGENT. WITNESSES NEEDED. CANADIAN GOVERNMENT HAS ISSUED ULTIMATIM DEMANDING SIX NATIONS PEOPLE LEAVE THEIR LAND WITHIN ONE HOUR! NO OFFER TO NEGOTIATE. Get over there quick. Support needed desperately. Bring gas masks. anything you can think of that might protect you from pepper spray and tasers or even being beaten up. Bring cameras, tape recorders, cell phones, observors required, friends, walkie talkies, face coverings. Tell someone where you are going so that you will not suddenly "disappear". Stand up for democracy. Stand up for freedom. Stand up for peace.

6:00. GOOD NEWS! THE OPP AND RCMP SAID "IT’S A FALSE ALARM". It was really a normal sadistic police tactic to perfect their psychological strategies to break down the Indians. They want to watch and report on all our movements - who’s on the phone to who, who’s staying and who’s leaving. In other words, they’re testing the waters. So now they know us, they think. It was a test all along. A dry run to see what everyone was going to do. They found out that no one was going to leave the site of the protest, and more came. We can expect them to continue to toy with us in this kind of way. the very fact that they would set us up for a false alarm like this shows that they are functioning in good faith. They are not respecting the fiduciary obligations that the Crown has assumed over the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island.

We were all going to stay and face them for round 2 or 3 or however many rounds they will come at us. if they are sincere about peaceful negotiations, they will show their good faith by burying their weapons underground where they can be washed away in the underground rivers never to trouble relations between them and us and the generations to come.

When we were in the Treatment Center during the 1990 Mohawk Oka Crisis, we got these false alarms so many times that we got better and better at it. We still laugh about it. All the kids learned how to put wet cloths on their faces to stop the tear gas that we knew was going to be thrown at us. Do’s and don’t’s. Do have a good legal defender. At the end of the day, they won't hesitate to use bayonets or whatever other weapons they happen to have at hand. they will use them against unarmed non-combatants and children. they will lay criminal charges for getting in their way. they will not allow a neutral court to consider the legality of their claim to own our land or to have jurisdiction over us.

They will throw heavy criminal charges at you with long term incarceration, that's if you get a Nazi judge. Don’t hold a stick in front of yourself without a mask or you’ll be charged with rioting, disguisement and unlawful confinement. Be ready for such conditions as banishment, being separated from your spouse, your children, your family and friends. So be prepared. Tell everyone what happened to us and that it will happen again and again. prepare your kids and grandchildren beause they will probably have to fight the same fight over and over again. We are standing our ground. Don't forget, everyone has a right to self-determination under international and under the natural law of the Kaianereh'ko:wa. We are not giving up. We still need your help.

[And now to the more important matters...]

I feel like I haven't had time to blog recently.  Tuesday night was Scout night, Wednesday night I had to fix a lawn mower for a friend, last night was groceries.  During the day it's just been work, work, work.  I haven't made any progress (actually in about two weeks) on the course I'm currently in for my master's program.

Tuesday and yesterday I had good jogs.  Tuesday I got out nice and early, and was a little later yesterday; to me, the earlier the better.  Yesterday, though, my battery in my GPS running unit died, so I didn't know exactly when my four mile run was up.  Today I biked the same route (plus some - had to get from home to there) and found I did a 3.9 mile run.  I think that's okay, since it was about four miles and even the training program says to get it approximate.

I did have someone temporarily steal my bike from work yesterday.  I've been riding it off and on from home to work (about two miles) for the past year.  Last year I would lock it up each day, but then I looked around at the shear number of other bikes in the area - many nicer than mine, most worse off - and figured I'd skip the locking up.  Yesterday, I got ready to go to a meeting, and was going to ride there.  I walked out of my building to the bike rack and got a shock when I didn't see my bike! 

I was pissed.  That was just mean.  I figured there was the possibility someone thought it was a community (read: unclaimed) bike, although I would think the rear mud guard and the headlight would have given away that it was nicer than that.  Maybe someone just borrowed it for lunch.  So I walked to my meeting, nearly arrived late and definately arrived sweating much more than I would have had I biked.  I fumed throughout the meeting.  I don't want to buy another basic bike to get me to and from work right now; although it would be about the same price as a tank of gas.

I returned after lunch, hoping that the thief had merely borrowed it to ride to their car and returned my bike after they got back from their lunch.  No luck.

After sitting in my office a bit, checking up on email and the like, I went out to look again.  A coworker joined me, and I was very grateful for his help.  We checked a lot of other bike racks (where it appears to me the bikes haven't moved from in months!  Why can't a thief steal one of those?), and an area folks leave bikes near the parking lot.  There were many nicer bikes than mine, and some just sitting around or lying on the ground, not nicely stored in a bike rack.

As we walked back to our building, we looked across the way to another set of maintenance buildings.  On a whim, we walked that direction, looking at a single bike in the distance.  We got closer and I knew it wasn't my bike.  But then we saw more bikes, and went to investigate them.  The closer we got, I realized I saw my bike up against a wall.  I was relieved.

I went into the building to see if anyone knew who parked bikes where mine was.  I was no longer angry, I just wanted to explain the situation and also let whomever took my bike know I was taking it back.  I'd hate to have someone come out and see what they thought they rightfully took (wait, that doesn't make any sense) was taken away.

I couldn't find anyone who knew about the bikes stored there, although one supervisor told me he was getting angry that people were propping them up outside the door instead of putting them properly in a bike rack.  I told him what I was looking to do and he looked at me incredulously.  He told me if it was him, he'd just take it back.  So I did.

Now I've grabbed my bike lock again.  I hate that I can't trust people, and that I'll go back to locking it up.  I know it's an eight year old bike, which I only paid $200 for when I bought it new, and so it's present value is probably somewhere around $40, but it's the principle of the matter.

The good news is, however, I've got my bike back.  I can keep avoiding driving to work and using up my gas.  I can be healthier, wealthier and wise (to borrow a phrase from my father).  Now, just to lock it up.