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.”

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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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OPP hesitates after judge’s ruling; Police take no immediate action on uranium mine blockade

A group of natives and police officers huddled inside a screened tent yesterday to discuss a judge’s order to remove protesters barricading a proposed uranium site near Sharbot Lake.All eyes were fixed on Insp. Garry MacPherson, head of the OPP’s Aboriginal Relations Team, as he spoke to the group in slow, measured words.

Dozens of non-native onlookers crowded around the tent’s perimeter to listen to the man in the dress shirt and tie and to the native leaders around him.

MacPherson arrived yesterday morning at the scene of the blockade by local Algonquins who have been preventing a uranium prospecting company from entering the site since June 29.

A judge on Monday ordered the Algonquins to leave the site or risk being forced off by police.

MacPherson said OPP lawyers haven’t gone over the written order, which was released Monday, and didn’t yet have any plans to act. If it’s determined the OPP must follow the judge’s order, the OPP will warn the protesters ahead of time, he said.

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Contact First Nations first priority says committee chair; Feel the move is long overdue

KAREN BEST
Dunnville Chronicle
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 – 05:00

Local News - Coun. Lorne Boyko’s first priority as chair of the newly established First Nations Relationship Committee is contacting leaders in Six Nations.He hoped to make direct contact with Six Nations Confederacy chiefs, Six Nations band council members and other groups within their community as soon as possible to inform them about the committee and its purpose.

Boyko is chair of the committee set up to coordinate and address First Nations land claim issues and actions affecting the county.

The committee will also work with leaders in Mississaugas of the New Credit, a First Nations community near Hagersville.

In considering the committee’s role, Boyko wanted to promote a flexible framework differing from methods employed in the past. “You’ve got to be fluid,” he said.

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Security tight as inquiry opens; Mohawk activist Shawn Brant accused of mischief, breaching bail

A preliminary inquiry for a Mohawk activist accused of mischief and breaching his bail conditions by leading two railway blockades and disrupting traffic on Highway 401 earlier this year began yesterday.Shawn Brant, 43, faces nine criminal charges in relation to the disruptions – one in April in the Napanee area and three in June in the Deseronto area.

Mohawks and their supporters ran a 30-hour blockade on the CN Rail tracks in Napanee on April 20 to protest the operation of a gravel quarry on land subject to negotiations between the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and the federal government.

Security was unusually tight at yesterday’s hearing in Napanee Court.Spectators and witnesses entering the court had their bags searched and about six uniformed OPP officers guarded the stairs and waiting area outside the courtroom. The officers also made people turn out their pockets and swept a metal detector over each person.

Peter Rosenthal, Brant’s Toronto lawyer, pointed out that unlike his client’s last court appearance when more than 100 supporters attended a failed bail application, few of Brant’s supporters came to court for him yesterday.

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Algonquins ordered off mine property; Allow company onto uranium site, judge rules in interim injunction

A judge has ordered a group of Algonquins blocking access to a proposed uranium mine north of Sharbot Lake to leave the property immediately.The order is directed at members of the Algonquin and Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nations, who have been stationed at the entrance to the site near Clarendon Station, about 60 kilometres north of Kingston, that is being prospected for uranium.

Justice Gordon Thomson issued a written interim injunction yesterday ordering the protesters to leave the property and allow the company, Frontenac Ventures Corporation, on the land.

“Frontenac shall have immediate, unfettered and unobstructed access to the subject property including the field office, access road and all of the identified exploration property and the Clarendon site,” Justice Thomson wrote.

The company is also allowed to have an archeologist visit the site to “determine aboriginal burial sites” and other items of significance.

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Another native protest gathers steam

August 28, 2007

KINGSTON, Ont. — Aboriginal protesters blocking access to a proposed uranium mining site in eastern Ontario are calling for the provincial government to settle the dispute after a judge ordered them to leave the property.

Ardoch Algonquin First Nation co-chiefs Paula Sherman and Randy Cota again called on Premier Dalton McGuinty or Aboriginal Affairs Minister David Ramsay to step in and help resolve issues that led to the protest.

Justice Gordon Thomson of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Kingston issued a new injunction on Monday, after Frontenac Ventures asked the court to remove the protesters from the land.

The company, which is prospecting the property for uranium, is also suing the protesters for $77-million.

Members of the Algonquin and Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nations have been camped out since June at the entrance to the land near Sharbot Lake, about 80 kilometres north of Kingston.

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