Colonial Tricks

Mar 06, 2008 10:08

HOT FLASH! The Infinite “Red-X” discovers Secret Instruction Manual: "Advanced Strategies on Stealing Indigenous Resources” - TWO DIRTY COLONIAL REPTILES - CHRIS “ODB” REID & ROBIN “ROTTEN EGG” AITKEN CITED AS SLIMEY “AUTHORITIES”

MNN. Mar. 4, 2008. “All the tricks of the colonists are now revealed”, sayeth the infamous Indigenous sage, Red-X. “It’s a manual on how to try to cash in on our land and resources”. It was used at Dehcho and it looks like they’re fine tuning it at Sharbot Lake too.

Here are some of the key hints on their dirty tricks and how to counter them.

Colonial Dirty Trick #1: Call it “democracy” and make sure you keep control. Invite the Indigenous to conferences on “self-governance”. Make sure they go to lots of fancy cocktail parties with open bars, with colonial big-wigs like Governor General Michaelle Jean and other “heavies. Give them tiaras to try on and a taste of “life in the fast lane”. Make sure they’re too drunk to notice they’ve sold out their people.

Colonial Dirty Trick #2. Make sure Indigenous are

outnumbered three to one at every meeting. Red-X

says, “Don’t go to Ottawa, Vancouver or Kingston or

any big city. Hold them meetings at home in your tipi,

longhouse or your condemned Indian Affairs

bungalow with the cracked window panes and

asbestos contaminated floors and walls”.

Colonial Dirty Trick #3: Put out colonial law as if it’s

Indigenous law. Ignore Indigenous legal processes.

Only look at what counts according to the colonial

Supreme Court.

The Red-X says, “Let’s take a look at how two colonial

reptiles played out the “life and death” game against

our people of the Northwest Territories”. Red-X goes

on to reveal the “Colonial Cheat Sheet” used to try to

pull the wool over our eyes.

CDT #4. Information is power - the colonists have two

control strategies: collect, horde and keep it to

themselves. When necessary they make it disappear.

The other option is to put out a whole lot of lies, like

false history and myth making. Even create "Indians"!

CDT #5. Put some “heavies” at the table. The bigger

the title, the longer the resume, the fatter, the better.

At the talks with our Dehcho brothers and sisters,

the “heavy”, Minister of Indian Affairs, Robert Nault,

said, "The signing of these agreements is an

acknowledgment of a new relationship between

the Deh Cho, Canada and the GNWT". What he

really said was, “I hope I confused you because

I’m f-king confused myself.”

Michael Nadli, a sell-out band councillor, said, "We

look forward to Phase II to begin substantive

negotiations on the more fundamental elements

of Deh Cho Governance." Translation: “I’m being

played. They’re making me read a script I don’t

understand”.

CDT #6. Use hierarchical colonial criteria with

with the colonists sitting at the top seeing

themselves with guns and money in hand.

We are supposed to be down there somewhere

out of sight. They always beat around the bush.

CDT #7. Design an extreme “offer-concession

strategy” to bowl the Injuns over if we kick up a

fuss or raise awkward questions, like, “How’re you

gonna clean up your filthy mess?” That’s when

the "operatives" throw the chair back and pull

away from the table. We can stop these sleazes

even when they threaten to take the “bribe” money

with them.

CDT #8. The colonial "hoods" will walk out if

they lose “control”. That’s when we know the

whole is falling. Translation: “We ain’t playing

with you bad ‘Injuns’ anymore!”

CDT #9. Look for weaknesses. These gangsters

may even use a “good cop” and a “bad cop” strategy to

throw those Injuns off balance. We all know there’s no

“good cop”. They’re all “bad”. They then threaten us

with illegal injunctions, jail time and law suits. At the

January 6, 2008 Kingston meeting “ODB” Reid’s

pal, “Algonquin Would-be”, Robert Lovelace, was

sent back in to talk to the Mohawks after the

“carpetbaggers” stomped off in a huff. Would- Be’s

job was to side track the Mohawks with his

“Cointelpro” charm. The next day these “air

punching” carpetbaggers disappeared to a secret

hideaway. The Mohawks found them and once

again they slithered off into the darkness.

CDT #10. The carpetbaggers don’t like the people

you bring along. They will suggest taking your

sell-outs into another room to make a deal behind

closed doors. ODB Reid was overheard telling

“Need-to-be-Algonquin-to-settle-a-phony-land-claim”

Lovelace, “The next time we should meet with

George White of Frontenac Ventures alone with

no lawyers”. They’re trying to make a deal on

uranium mining on Haudenosaunee land at

Sharbot Lake. When we tried to ask questions,

they fled again with their coat tails flapping.

CDT #11. They want targets. In the

1990 Mohawk-Oka Crisis at Kanehsatake, we

sent in different spokespeople every day. Alex

Patterson and Bernard Roy, the negotiators for

Quebec and Canada, got spitting mad. Their

threats were ignored. They picked up their toys

and left. Negotiations broke down.

CDT #12. The colonial agents stuff

their side with ‘know-it-alls. Warns the Red-X,

“This does not intimidate us. We just have

more foul smell to cut through. Just keep

telling them this is all our land, we are sovereign

and they are trespassers”.

Our Basic Way is simple: Report daily to the

community. Get their instructions. Select

new negotiators each day to avoid getting

targeted and becoming too cozy with the

adversaries.

Indigenous men cannot meet with adversaries

without consulting the women. We all have

diverse knowledge, abilities, expertise and

responsibilities. We have to use the Great

Law traditional decision making process to

bring in everybody’s ideas. Separate private

“tete-a-tetes” are meant to force us into making

secret deals with the devil.

The meetings must be 2 sided - the Indigenous

People on one side and all the pirates on the

other side - with a neutral third party approved

by both sides to mediate. This is required by

international law.

The Dehcho Coercion Process involving

Chris "ODB" Reid and Robin "Rotten Egg" Aitkin.

The “Dehcho Nation” is in the southwest corner

of the land known to the colonists as the

“Northwest Territories”. It covers roughly 210,000

square kms. There are 10 communities. The

colonial vipers wanted their land and resources

and to put a pipeline through their territory. It’s

not a place where the vipers themselves dream

of living or raising their families. But they sure

do salivate after the resources.

Red-X warns, “Watch out for “ODB”. Reid.

It is believed he was the double dipping negotiator

and lawyer for the Deh Cho [(867) 695-2355 or

(416) 466-9928]. Look out for Robin Aitken who

was the Chief Federal Negotiator from Indian

Affairs [(819) 953-1018]. Don’t let Bob Patterson

slip away. He was the Chief Negotiator for the

Northwest Territories [(867) 873-7167]. "They brag

about their prowess with Indigenous people”.

said Red-X. Check out their websites. See what

they think of us. Their using similar dirty tricks in

the current “mining and land claim strategy” at

Sharbot Lake.

The Deh Cho process started in 1998 when former

Indian Affairs Minister Jane Stewart sent in her patsy,

Dr. Peter H. Russell, to look at Dehcho “lands,

resources and governance” on behalf of industry.

She’s now trying to organize Six Nations according

to this Manual.

“Patsy” Russell teaches political science at the

University of Toronto [phruss@aol.com] and speaks

on the “Lessons of Ipperwash and Caledonia -

Learning to be Treaty People”. [This title is sooo

patronizing! Try not to barf!] He works at the C.D.

Howe Institute, a Conservative think tank, that plans

and schemes against us. He also spent time among

the Australian Aborigines. After his visits to Dehcho,

agents were sent in to start managing them. George

Erasmus, who gets put on all kinds of government

boards and commissions, was put in as chief

negotiator for Dehcho.

First there was an “Interim Measures Agreement”

signed in May 2001 to let the Dehcho take part in

their own land and resource management. Wow!

What progress! [They have been doing this for

thousands of years!]

Canada wanted an “Agreement-in-Principle” in

five years and a final agreement two years later

so that industry could get their claws on the

resources, oil, gas and diamonds and to put in

the pipeline. Dr. Russell recommended something

called “interim measures” and then an “Agreement-

in-Principle”. There’s no science behind their spin

on names for their theft!

On May 21, 2001, Dehcho, NWT and Canada signed

something else called a “Framework Agreement”

that was supposed to be based on the fraudulent

Treaty 8 of 1900 and Treaty 11 of 1921 and 1922

with Canada. If the Dehcho scrutinized these treaties,

they might find they don’t meet international law

standards.

Some other fancy names to awe us into being

coerced might include “Land Use Planning”

funded by Canada; “Interim Land Withdrawal”

to temporarily protect lands not presently needed

by industry; involve the Dehcho in the “Mackenzie

Valley Resource Management” to make them feel

important, meaning “we’ll let you talk to us but we

don’t have to listen to you”; National Energy Board,

an outsider, will authorize oil and gas activities with

a benefit plan for someone; Canada will let Dehcho

watch them turn their land into a park; and “joint

ventures projects” called “Interim Resources

Development Agreements” will let Canada and

industry steal the resources and give a few pennies

to the Dehcho.

Resources like wildlife and fish will be used,

managed and protected without specifying by

whom and at whose cost.

In August 2003 the Dehcho stopped surface

and sub-surface development for five years,

probably on the land that has no resources

that industry wanted. The mining companies,

environmental groups, prospectors and oil and

gas companies were probably involved in deciding

which 34% of the lands were withdrawn.

In the “Interim Resource Development Agreement”

of April 2003 the Dehcho would benefit only if

there was oil and gas development. Dehcho got

12.25% of the first $2 million [$250,000] that

Canada collected in resource royalties from the

Mackenzie Valley each year, and 2.45% of any

more royalties. The Dehcho could only get up to

50% each year to a maximum of $1 million. “You’ll

get an allowance if you behave yourselves”,

Canada told them. Canada will hold the balance

in trust so that they can dip into it for their own

needs. This is an old trick. At the final agreement

in 2005/06 the Dehcho got $1 million. The oil and

gas companies are taking out at least $1 million a

day if not an hour from their land.

Dehcho had to agree to issue oil and gas exploration

licenses and prospecting permits the first year and

every two years after that. Mining companies can

go to individual Dehcho communities to make separate

deals. This is all so underhanded.

Canada says they are giving the Dehcho a chance

to "hit the ground running" when a final agreement

is completed. Yes, we’d better all run away from

these salivating reptiles! This means they will give

the Dehcho an advance on their allowance which

will be deducted from the final settlement. If it doesn’t

go through, the Dehcho may have to pay it back.

In September 2004, the Dehcho sued the Mackenzie

Gas Project, suspending land, resources and

governance negotiations. In the out-of-court

settlement of July 2005 Canada agreed to pay

Dehcho $31.5 million over three years through

“program funding” and “new funding” which the

Dehcho have to get anyway. It ended up as $3.5

million per year to make it look like the Dehcho

were taking part.

The “Framework Agreement” sets out how Canada

would set up an illegal municipal government to

avoid legitimate nation to nation relations. “Yeah,

we’ll let you “regulate” your own land and water as

long as you go by our "rules”, which are in the best

interests of industry!”

The Dehcho role in the Mackenzie Valley Land &

Water Board was to bring their land and resources

under the same overall controlling regulations. We

hear they got two jobs from the oil and gas exploration.

Did ODB Reid get this for them?

Derek Neary of the Deh Cho Drum, Fort Simpson,

wrote about the distrust of federal negotiator,

Robin “Rotten-Egg” Aitken. Rotten Egg repeatedly

said that Canada doesn't have anything up its sleeve!

He said that the Dehcho made him push the

negotiations. Do we believe that? It’s always

the other way around.

An Old "Indian" Trick We Learned from a White Man:

Canada made agreements with “metis” to put

pressure on Dehcho to go along with the land

and resources giveaways. Who are these “metis?

Anybody who wishes to be native, like the “paper

Algonquins” at Sharbot Lake who are negotiating

away Haudenosaunee land? The “Congress of

Aboriginal People” CAP is the federal government

creature that signs up anyone who wants to be an

“Indian”. If this keeps up, every Canadian could sign

up and be part of this subterfuge. As Red-X said,

“They can never be Ongwehonwe!” The Red-X

advises, “Brothers and sisters, we must use our

natural world strategies against these beasts”.

Kahentinetha Horn

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Deh Cho First Nation's Interim Resource Development Agreement.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-yga&p=Deh%20Cho%20First%20Nation%27s%20Interim%20Resource%20Development%20Agreement.

All Deh Cho updates here http://nwt-tno.inac-ainc.gc.ca/dehcho/wn_e.html

http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/nr/prs/m-a2001/2-01150_e.html

http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2002-05/may2_01edit.html%20copy

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The Business Journal of Phoenix - May 9, 2005
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