Fantino an equal opportunity abuser

July 19, 2008

Now that documents have been released detailing the testimony of Julian Fantino at an August 29 2007 court hearing for Shawn Brant, and transcripts of recorded phone calls between Fantino and Brant from the June 29, 2007 “day of action”, we are able to gain a rare glimpse into the mind of Ontario’s “top cop”.

We know that Julian is a bully when there’s a camera or microphone around to show off for, and we know that when dealing with anything remotely associated with CANACE, he is prone to making bizarre statements about violence and agenda’s that exist only in his head, but what’s he like when he’s dealing with a Native and thinks nobody is listening?

Deseronto Public School evacuated; Students sent home as police monitor Mohawk protests

April 29, 2008

Kingston Whig Standard

Administrators at Deseronto Public School evacuated students and staff yesterday as a safety precaution while police continued to monitor ongoing Mohawk protests.

The school will remain closed today.

Algonquin co-chief to stop her uranium protest to avoid jail

CBC News 

An aboriginal leader sentenced to time behind bars for defying two court orders and blocking a prospective uranium mining site has agreed to stop participating in protests so she can avoid going to jail.

Paula Sherman and Robert Lovelace, co-chiefs of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation, were sentenced to six months in jail by Justice Douglas Cunningham in a Kingston, Ont., court Friday after being found guilty of contempt of court.

Sherman was also fined $15,000 and Lovelace $25,000.

Your chance to change history

Updated October 11, 2007 - As we all know by now, the worst Premier in Ontario history has been elected to a second reign of horror. This is not good news for Caledonia or anyone who cares about law and order in Ontario, but it’s not the end of the battle. The things worth having in this life are not only worth fighting for but usually require fighting for and that is what we will continue to do. 

October 10, 2007

Today is the single biggest chance we have to change the landscape of what’s happening in Caledonia, and all you have to do to make a difference is take a few minutes to put a check mark in a box.

For anyone considering not voting today I ask you the following:

How would you feel if your vote could have been the one that knocks McGuinty out of power but you didn’t bother to do it? Remember the election that saw Bush elected was decided by a handful of votes.

Is the suffering of the children of the Sixth Line not worth taking a few minutes to vote against? Remember some of those who need McGuinty defeated the most are too young to vote, but you can cast yours on their behalf.

If you’re not sure that John Tory will keep his word and end the lawlessness, ask yourself what will Dalton McGuinty do if re elected?

Is that few minutes spent doing something else today worth 4 more years of being grossly overtaxed and knowing that your money is paying to keep illegal occupations, extortion and the oppression on your rights going?

How do you feel about the fact that every tax dollar you pay for the next 4 years will not begin to cover the cost of the OPP sitting in their cars refusing to help as someone is beaten nearly to death?

How does it feel knowing that every time McGuinty smiles for the camera, it’s because his hand is in your pocket?

How effectively can the billions of dollars from the McGuinty imposed health care tax have been spent when Sam Gualtieri was refused a CAT scan at almost every hospital his doctor had to call to beg to give him one?

If the current polls showing McGuinty way ahead are discouraging you, remember those are phone polls and half of those people won’t bother to vote today.

I’m going to spend the time it would take me to write a few more of these questions going out and casting my vote. I sincerely hope that you will all do the same!

Jeff Parkinson

Caledonia Wakeup Call

Canadian Advocates for Charter Equality www.canace.ca

Jeff@CaledoniaWakeupCall.com

Brant’s lawyer decries court security

Sept 27, 2007
Kingston Whig Standard

Though Mohawk activist Shawn Brant is free on bail while awaiting trial on charges stemming from blockades and protests in April and June, his lawyer, Peter Rosenthal, is complaining of excessive security at Brant’s bail review hearing last month.

“Given the way [the Ontario Provincial Police] did act on Aug. 10, it seems to me there are only two explanations for their behaviour. Either they were trying to intimidate the supporters of Mr. Brant’s or investigate for whatever purposes the supporters of Mr. Brant’s. It’s not responsible,” Rosenthal said.

Brant is facing six counts of mischief exceeding $5,000, two counts of breaching his recognizance and one count of failing to obey a court order.

In August, he was released on strict bail conditions forbidding him from participating in any demonstrations or protests and from leaving his house for 30 days without police permission.

OPP Inspector Ron vanStraalen said officers were carrying out the court’s wishes at the bail hearing.

“Security is a court issue, and we were doing what we were asked - to carry out security for the court - and we did,” he said.

Rosenthal said the measures used by OPP officers during the Aug. 10 hearing included asking people to sign in, giving their full name, address and date of birth.

(edit: big shock that Brant’s lawyer doesn’t want security to keep his terrorist clients buddies from bringing weapons into the court room)

Read the full story here

Security tight for Brant trial

Sept 28, 2007
Kingston Whig Standard

Stringent security measures were in place as the trial of three men accused of confronting Canadian military personnel during a native protest last year began yesterday.

Shawn Michael Brant and Jerome J. Barnhart are facing several charges of uttering death threats stemming from the Nov. 15 incident east of Deseronto, in which a convoy of military students on a training mission happened upon a group of native protesters blocking Highway 2. Barnhart is facing an additional count of mischief, while Mario Baptiste Jr. is facing two counts of assault and one charge of mischief.

The proceedings are being held before a Brockville-area judge, Charles Anderson of the Ontario Court of Justice.

As with all court appearances involving Brant this year, the Ontario Provincial Police had strict security measures in place at the Dundas Street West courthouse - those entering the public gallery were asked to empty their pockets and were scanned using a metal detector.

While Baptiste and Barnhart sat with friends and family in the public gallery, Brant was seated between lawyers at the defence table during the day, often taking notes and whispering in the ear of his solicitor, Napanee-area lawyer Rob Smart.

During the early morning hours of Nov. 15, a number of Tyendinaga Mohawk demonstrators staged an event on Deseronto Road in protest of a proposed $30-million residential development on property subject to land-claim negotiations.

What had been a quiet, peaceful protest deteriorated rapidly into a confrontation as the group drove to Highway 2 to cover a sign advertising the development around 11:45 a.m. and a convoy of Canadian military vehicles happened upon the scene.

According to Master Cpl. Stephane Dionne, who was in the lead truck, the contingent of 10-ton vehicles and an army pickup truck were driven primarily by military students who were learning how to operate the machines.

As the group stopped in front of the protesters - a pickup truck pulled across Highway 2 - Dionne got out of the vehicle and approached, unaware of what the demonstration was concerning.

“The first sentence I said was, ‘How are you doing’ - we didn’t know the situation or what was going on,” he said during his afternoon testimony yesterday.

The reaction from his simple inquiry shocked the veteran military officer, who was in charge of the military exercise.

“They just started screaming and yelling … I have never seen people that angry before,” he said. “They said, ‘Go home, you don’t deserve to drive on our land’ … and saying, ‘White s–t, we are going to f—ing kill you.’ “

Before the unarmed group had a chance to turn around and back out of the scene, a protester in a minivan raced to the rear of the convoy and blocked in the last vehicle, he said.

Read the full story here

John Tory takes a tough stand on Caledonia

September 23, 2007

Remember this date ladies and gentlemen as today is the day that the Government silence and inaction on the lawless Native terrorism and extortion in Ontario died.

Conservative leader John Tory visited Caledonia today and made clear the position his PC government will take once in office on the curse that McGuinty has placed on Caledonia, and allowed to spread throughout the Province.

The following is from the official story as sent out by the PC party:

“Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory today returned to Caledonia, the site of the ongoing land-occupation, where he called for new leadership to resolve the current standoff and prevent other illegal occupations in the future.“For over a year and a half Dalton McGuinty has permitted an illegal occupation to paralyze this entire community,” Mr. Tory said, “He has failed the people of Ontario.

“To date, Dalton McGuinty has refused to insist on the rule of law when it comes to illegal occupations. The Caledonia occupation alone has cost Ontario taxpayers $55 million so far. Similar disputes have since threatened communities ranging from Desoronto, Brantford, Hagarsville, the Village of York, and Dunnville.

Tory announced today that he would move to protect Ontario communities from illegal occupations by strengthening existing laws.

“I am announcing today that a PC government will amend provincial statutes, including the Trespass to Property Act to address the breakdown in law that results from an illegal occupation,” said Tory. This new act would respect the valid interests of each side, protect innocent bystanders, and set a policy framework for police.”

He also outlined the new ground rules that a Progressive Conservative government would enforce when confronted with an illegal occupation:

• No negotiation with anyone engaging in an illegal occupation;
• Oppose any group using an illegal occupation to extort concessions or payments
• Insist that the authority of the courts, including court injunctions, are respected and enforced; and,

• Use the justice system to pursue civil action against those who participate in, direct, or financially support illegal occupations.

“I will stand up and stand beside the people of this province to ensure they are protected,” Tory concluded. “For a safe and strong Ontario, leadership matters.”

Vacuum at the top

Wednesday September 19, 2007
Simcoe Reformer

The McGuinty government moves in strange and mysterious ways.

But Ontarians at least can thank the provincial Liberals for laying down a marker that will help voters distinguish them from the pack in the Oct. 10 election.

Elections are about leadership. Sometimes they are only about leadership. Parties with sound policies sometimes fall short because voters find their leaders lacking in this vital area.

The incumbent Liberals were forced to speak about leadership this weekend following a serious assault in Caledonia. Native youths allegedly beat a developer into unconsciousness on Thursday.

The assault occurred after natives occupied a subdivision site because they decided the developers were not respecting new land-use controls that Six Nations has claimed in southern Ontario.

Aboriginals are slowly but surely sterilizing development in communities along the Grand River. They are emboldened by the fact that - after 18 months of confrontation - no one at the provincial or federal level will stand up to them.

Read the full story here

Cowering on Caledonia

National PostThe ongoing illegal actions of native protesters in Caledonia, Ont., has been the focus of many stories and columns in the Post. And in Monday’s issue, it was again the subject of a scathing editorial, titled The Scandal of Caledonia. Readers we’ve heard from have generally applauded that editorial, though few have employed as colourful language as the letter-writer below.
  –Paul Russell, NP letters editor

This was a phenomenal and timely editorial. The first-and-last issue in (any) Ontario election can be only the maintenance of “the basic rule of law” for one-and-all alike.

Mr. McGuinty’s Liberal government — smarmy, politically-correct, pusillanimous, cowering, buckpassing, sanctimonious, immensely well remunerated financially — was sworn to uphold the Law in Ontario:. They have since rendered increasing chunks of Ontario ungoverned and ungovernable, in increasing numbers of places where law-and-order are remote memories.

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Halt to all development on crown lands within the Haldimand Tract

Media Release :
Communiqué:
For Immediate Release
GRAND RIVER TERRITORYSIX NATIONS- Six Nations Confederacy Council negotiators are optimistic movement may be coming from Canada, in right of the crown, over Six Nations land rights.

However, at the same time Confederacy Royanni (Chiefs) are calling for a halt to all development on crown lands within the Haldimand Tract, while negotiators work on a formula to determine how the amount of restitution to Six Nations, will be arrived at. Royanni met in a full day’s session with Canada and Ontario representatives at the Oneida Business Park Thursday.

Six Nations Confederacy Council lead Negotiator, Mohawk Chief Allen MacNaughton said he is optimistic with Thursday’s discussions. “Canada realizes we have land rights here and it is now a case of developing a formula that will determine what restitution will be or is worth.” Chief MacNaughton said the Canada has not ever adequately explained how it came up with the $125 million offer it made several months ago. “There was a ballpark figure thrown out of $125 million, with no explanation, that is not and has not been satisfactory. There was no formula used, there is no satisfactory explanation.”

As a result he said , “it will be up to Haudenosaunee Six Nations, to gain, come up with a solution. We will be working for the next 30 days on a formula .” Mohawk Chief Allen MacNaughton says Six Nations Haudenosaunee want to see an end to direct action being taken by developers on disputed Six Nations lands.

Read the full story here

Aboriginals and anarchy

Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Kingston Whig-Standard

Let us suppose you were entangled in a long, frustrating dispute with your former spouse about who owned the house and the land it was on, how much child support or alimony was due and other important issues.Let us further suppose that your claims were meeting a deaf ear from the other party and there was no prospect of a quick resolution. Then, suddenly, a third party approached a judge to demand access to some of the disputed property.You might feel this was unfair.You might think it was unjust. And you might be right. But would you react by telling the judge it didn’t matter what he ultimately decided because you weren’t going to be party to any court ruling anyway?

You could take such an absurd stand, but anyone watching the court case would expect that, once the judge ruled, his word would be obeyed by everyone, and, if it were not, it would be enforced by a sheriff or police.

It’s called rule of law and it’s the foundation of western democratic societies. Laws exist and judges make rulings, both civil and criminal, on how these fundamental rules work in given situations. The fact that a dispute is stalled, or that you’re not happy with the outcome, doesn’t give you the right to shrug off the court’s determinations.

Yet that’s exactly what has happened in the case of a potential uranium mine north of Sharbot Lake. Two groups of Algonquins, who say the Crown land should have been subject to ownership negotiations, are ignoring a temporary court injunction that orders them to stop a two-month blockade of the area and allow a prospecting company in. Even before the judge’s ruling was made public, the aboriginals said they wouldn’t respect the court. “Aboriginal law supersedes an injunction by a Canadian court,” an aboriginal spokesman told The Canadian Press. “We have taken the position that it doesn’t matter what is issued [by the court], this will be solved through negotiations,” the lawyer for the Ardoch Algonquins told the Whig-Standard. Negotiations with the threat of physical force behind them, incidentally.

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Mine protesters spurn injunction

Kingston Whig-Standard
Saturday, September 01, 2007

More than 200 native and nonnative people shouted down a sheriff who was delivering a court order that called for the immediate removal of a blockade at a proposed uranium mine north of Sharbot Lake.

Yesterday, two sheriffs, escorted by Ontario Provincial Police, were met on the road outside the mine by Ardoch and Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nations warriors who would not allow the court officers on the property. (Edit: The property that they have been ordered off of and should be removed from)

The court order was delivered verbally by a sheriff standing on the road in front of the crowd, most of whom were blocking the mine entrance. As the sheriff issued the order, the crowd drummed, chanted and yelled.Shabot Obaadjiwan war chief Earl Badour, who oversees the security of the protesters at the site, said he met the officers with a group of about 24 warriors. Badour then signalled for the native flag to be turned upside down as a symbolic gesture that “all natives are in distress. And the government has put them all in distress,” he said. (Edit: Stop whining and get off the land that doesn’t belong to you)

The OPP said they have no plans to move in on the protesters this weekend. They visited the site yesterday to assist the sheriff’s office, said OPP Const. Paige Whiting. (Edit: What a shock! The Opp refusing to enforce a Court Order to remove Native Criminals from land that doesn’t belong to them)

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Arrests loom at uranium site after court injunction served

A court injunction allowing police to arrest Algonquin protesters blocking the site of a potential uranium mine in eastern Ontario was formally served Friday afternoon, as required by a legal deadline.

The order that protesters have been anticipating arrived before 3:30 p.m. Friday, confirmed CBC Radio’s JC Kenny from the scene.

A day earlier, Const. Paige Whiting of the Ontario Provincial Police, would not specify what action police planned to take after the order was served.

“We’ll certainly be approaching it cautiously,” she said. (Edit: Cowards)

Read the full story here

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.

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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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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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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Algonquins ordered to end blockade of uranium exploration

August 28, 2007

An Ontario judge has ordered Algonquin protesters to vacate a property where Frontenac Ventures wants to explore for uranium.

Judge Gordon Thomson granted the injunction Monday, giving the mining company “immediate, unfettered and unobstructed access” to the land blockaded by the Ardoch and Shabot Obaadjiwan Algonquin First Nations since June 29.

The injunction also gives police the authority to remove people camped on the property near Sharbot Lake, about 60 kilometres north of Kingston. (Edit: Yeah right)

Although the relationship between protesters and the Ontario Provincial Police has been peaceful up to now, Sherman says that could easily change.

“If we’re invaded and the OPP tries to come in here, there’s going to be confrontation,” she said.

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