2 Tiers of Logic – Greenpeace arrested while Terrorist Freed

August 31, 2007 

Yesterday provided some interesting insight into the logic used in the application of 2 tiered justice in Ontario. There is none.

3 protestors from Greenpeace were arrested yesterday for using civil disobedience to spread their message about coal fired hydro stations, and although their methods were over the line and they did deserve to be arrested, at the same time Terrorist Shawn Brant was freed on bail pending trial on 9 criminal charges.

The same Shawn Brant who voiced his intentions loudly and proudly this summer to target the infrastructure of Canada and the economy as a means to further his political agenda. “ I don’t give a rats ass if I create victims “ and “ Only when every home has suffered as we have suffered will I stop “ are among his many quotes.

Greenpeace delayed the delivery of a shipment of coal to the Nanticoke plant for part of a day, Shawn Brant shut down Canada’s largest railroad and highway, and made it clear he intended to do it again as many times as it takes for him to feel satisfied.

Earth to Fantino… Earth to Monte… Earth to McGuinty…

By Mark Vandermaas – www.VoiceofCanada.ca

Re: Fantino’s comments about Greenpeace’s interference with a coal ship bound for Nanticoke…

“nothing but anarchy”

“I would have seized that ship as a result of it facilitating criminal activity”

“Just think of all the resources at great cost we have had to pull in from elsewhere in the province to deal with this nonsense.”

“Using and enticing young people to break the law is mercenary, and it is despicable. it’s using young people and putting them at risk.”

“It terrorized the people on the coal ship…”

“It…put our officers in harm’s way…”

“It…put the very foundation of the provinces power supply at risk.”

“I learned a lot about the critical importance to our lifeline of having uninterupted power…and I can tell you there is serious potential for disaster when you mess with stuff like this. We can’t afford to take a chance on something that important.”

Man, that Fantino almost sounds like a real, honest to goodness police officer – if the hypocrisy wasn’t covering him like an bottle of Coke that’s been shaken just a little too much. I mean, come on…how can he even make these statements with a straight face given his record in Caledonia and elsewhere?

Let’s see…

• McGuinty spends $25,000,000 to allow Fantino to allow native thugs, gunmen and rapists to have free rein in Caledonia to destroy infrastructure, traumatize innocent residents - native and non-native - and Fantino has never even once referred to their outrages as “terrorism.” 
• Fantino’s goons arrest law-abiding non-natives trying to put up Canadian flags, but not the natives threatening violence against us.
• Fantino threatens elected officials over their secret deal to defame opponents of their brain-dead policies in Caledonia.
• McGuinty’s Solicitor General Monte Kwinter dismisses all complaints against Fantino without investigating them before his own consultant has even finished his report.

Read the full story here much more at www.VoiceofCanada.ca

Fantino takes Two Tier to New Levels

By Gary McHale – www.CaledoniaWakeupCall.com

April 31, 2007

Listening to the words of OPP Commissioner Fantino, as reported by the Toronto Sun, you would think that Fantino has finally realized that he is Police Commissioner and not a UN Peace Keeper. The following are some quotes from th Toronto Sun story:

Calling it “nothing but anarchy” that could have ended with people hurt, OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino warned criminal charges in the Greenpeace protest could extend beyond the young people arrested yesterday.

Fantino states, “Just think of all of the resources at great cost we have had to pull in from elsewhere in the province to deal with this nonsense.”

Fantino, who insists he is for peaceful protest, said this does not fall into that category. “This was dangerous,” he said. “It’s using young people and putting them at risk. It terrorized the people on the coal ship, put our officers in harm’s way and put the very foundation of the province’s power supply at risk.” Any “sabotage” of the power supply, he said, is not acceptable. “This was anarchy and it was masqueraded around environmental concerns,” Fantino said.

Tears almost came to my eyes to hear such strong words from Fantino until I remembered that there is a Court Order to arrest Native Protesters in Sharbot Lake and the OPP are sitting around having a few smokes with the protesters. It truly would be a shame if Fantino could stop playing to the cameras and start enforcing Canadian Laws.

Does Fantino even believe his own propaganda or does he just speak without thinking? Regardless of your point of view this statement from Fantino is as Two Tier as you can get, “Just think of all the resources at great cost we have had to pull in from elsewhere…

Are you serious Mr. Fantino? Have the OPP not spent close to $80 million on policing in Caledonia? Did you not have, at times, 500 officers ‘pulled in’ from elsewhere to deal with not just the nonsense but outright terrorist acts by Native Protesters?

Read the full story here

Greenpeace may have had honourable intentions, but blocking a Lake Erie coal ship was ‘dangerous and despicable,’ OPP boss says

NANTICOKE — Calling it “nothing but anarchy” that could have ended with people hurt, OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino warned criminal charges in the Greenpeace protest could extend beyond the young people arrested yesterday.

“We realize full well the game plan was likely orchestrated at a much higher level than the children used here,” he said last night. “We will investigate it thoroughly and charges will be laid if warranted.”

“If I had the power and authority in law I would have seized that ship as a result of its facilitating criminal activity,” Fantino said. “Just think of all of the resources at great cost we have had to pull in from elsewhere in the province to deal with this nonsense.”

EDIT: How much have you spent to have the OPP play body guard to Terrorists in Caledonia Julian?

But this does not mean the investigation is over, Fantino said, adding that the planners and thinkers should be ashamed of themselves. “You won’t find the main players out there on the water,” he said. “Using and enticing young people to break the law is mercenary, and it is despicable.”

EDIT: But only if those doing it are Non-Natives right Julian?

Read the full story here

Activist granted bail; Shawn Brant led Aboriginal protests

Mohawk activist Shawn Brant was ordered to stand trial on nine criminal charges before walking out of a Dundas Street West courthouse and into the arms of friends and loved ones yesterday.Brant, who has spent the last two months in custody, was released on strict bail conditions including not to participate in any demonstrations or protests and not to leave his house for the next 30 days without police permission.

Brant was also ordered to stay away from the Deseronto Road quarry currently occupied by fellow protesters and to report daily to his mother, Deanna Brant, and family friend Winston Maracle, both of whom put up $50,000 each to the court in collateral to secure his release.

In contrast to his earlier bail reviews, yesterday’s had a publication ban on any evidence presented.

“I have a fair bit of respect for you now,” the judge said. “I have absolutely no respect for your methods. I hate your methods.”

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2 Tiered Justice Spreading like Wildfire

The racist political policing (or extreme lack of) known as 2 Tiered Justice was first referred to regarding Caledonia & DCE, but it is far from contained to one small town.

When Native Criminals took over the building site of what was to be a retirement home in Hagersville, the OPP not only stood and watched but assisted them in erecting a barricade to keep the legal owner of the property off of his land.

On June 29, 2007 the OPP closed the busiest highway in the Country the 401 because a small group of Native thugs said they might do it. No attempt was made to stop any of the blockades led by Terrorist Shawn Brant. Instead the Police we pay to protect us assisted him by blockading the road themselves.

When they laid a claim to the future site of a Wal-Mart in Dunville, nothing was done to stop them and the latest rumors are that Wal-Mart is canceling the building because of it.

When the Criminals showed up at a housing development in Brantford and demanded the construction of 200 new homes come to a halt, the OPP did nothing and the developer stopped.

Local developer halts project after native groups protest

August 30, 2007
Brantford Expositor

A local developer hopes he’ll be able to diffuse a festering native land claim dispute that has put a temporary halt to his Grand River Avenue housing development in a meeting with the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy council.

“It’s frustrating,” said Quattrociocchi. “I want everything to remain peaceful and I want the situation to be resolved. The longer this goes on, the more problems I’m going to have in getting this project done.”He said he’s at risk of losing his financing.

“I’m a small developer and cannot be held up a long time, because I have bills to pay,” he said.

It’s been a week since a group of about five natives showed up at the Mayberry site and told the crew to stop work. Quattrociocchi wasn’t there when they first arrived but happened upon the scene a few minutes later.After they made their claims, he drove off.

Then Quattrociocchi said he noticed a car nearby with two men inside and walked over to ask them why they were there.

He said they were undercover police officers and were observing the action.

“I didn’t believe them at first, but they showed me their badges,” Quattrociocchi recalled.

“They told me they were watching that group of natives as they made the rounds of various local job sites.”

Read the full story here

Governments urged to end native blockade

From Thursday’s Globe and Mail

August 30, 2007

 SHARBOT LAKE, ONT. — Algonquin leaders are urging the federal and provincial governments to diffuse an escalating standoff in this rural Eastern Ontario community before violence erupts.

Doreen Davis, Chief of the Shabot Obaadjiwan Algonquin community, said the group of aboriginal and area non-native demonstrators will continue to block a uranium mining prospecting company’s access to land she says was never surrendered by the Algonquin people.

This follows an injunction this week from Mr. Justice Gordon Thompson of the Ontario Superior Court authorizing police to arrest and remove the demonstrators.

“We feel that this [injunction] places us at war,” Ms. Davis said. “To come in here and force us out of here when we’re standing on our Algonquin land puts us in a position of being at war.”

Ms. Davis said she has been in contact with Mohawks from the Six Nations communities and they are ready to arrive on site should there be a confrontation, which she predicts is “very, very likely” to occur.

“There’s no solution to this except for Ontario and Canada to come here on site and sit in that circle with us and smoke the pipe and pass our feather,” she said.

(Edit: There is a simple solution. OBEY THE LAW OF THE LAND AND LEAVE)

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Natives protest building project

Brantford Expositor
August 30, 2007

A local builder hopes he’ll be able to defuse a festering native land claim dispute that has put a temporary halt to his Grand River Avenue housing development in a meeting with the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy council.Mike Quattrociocchi, owner of Mayberry Homes, will attend the council meeting in the Onondaga Longhouse on Saturday where he will explain his plans for a rental housing development that he started on a vacant lot by the Grand River at Jarvis Street nearly two weeks ago.

In an interview Wednesday, Quattrociocchi, a former city councillor, said he has felt frustrated since he reluctantly agreed to have a crew halt construction of foundations they were installing after the site was visited twice by two different groups of natives last Thursday and Friday, each of which gave orders to cease and desist.

They each claimed the land was part of their respective territories and said they had not been informed of the development — although Quattrociocchi said he believed he had cleared his development through meetings and documents with the Confederacy secretary.

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Fantino testifies at Brant hearing

The head of the province’s police service was called to testify during the third day of a preliminary hearing into criminal charges against Mohawk protester Shawn Brant Wednesday.OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino took the stand for about three hours at the County Memorial Building here to give evidence during the proceeding, which is being held to determine whether there is enough evidence to proceed to trial.

There is a publication ban on the evidence – including Fantino’s testimony – given during the course of the preliminary inquiry. (Edit so Julian got a day off from his duties as a traffic cop)

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