Caledonia militia
The term militia is commonly used today to refer to a military force composed of ordinary citizens[1] to provide defense, emergency law enforcement, or paramilitary service, in times of emergency without being paid a regular salary or committed to a fixed term of service. It is a polyseme with multiple distinct but related meanings. Legal and historical meanings of militia include:
Defense activity or service, to protect a community, its territory, property, and laws. Is a Militia required for Caledonia. Are all residents being afforded proper police protection and equal application of law? It is a fine line everyone walks to maintain peace but at what expense and level of respect? This has been going on for years now and no resolve. |
A militia isn't required. What we need is for everyone to come to the table and solve the land claims dispute.
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They may be unarmed now, but by the time this mess is over with, someone is going to be dead. No question.
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How much more of their land has be taken away? How much more native culture and heritage must be destroyed for Canada? Haven't we taken away enough already? Weren't the 50,000+ native children that government murdered in the residential schools not enough? Was genocide not enough? How many more natives need to be killed and raped to satisfy Canadians?
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Who knew suburban expansion could bring out the worst in people? :rolleyes:
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Vid: it's not an emergency? Just ask the people who live in Caledonia. Taxpayers expect some return for their investment. It is an emergency so they have some right to a normal life. Put yourself in their shoes for several years of uncertainty and look at a map the land claim goes from 5 miles each side of the Grand river that is alot of lost property and homes.
DH: I agree with your statement but not in resorting to violence. However people will get pissed off and their reaction will escalate with inaction on the part of the government. hard to govern emotion. Sorry to say but this is 2009 and most of the people involved in the original isue are long dead. Be realistic these were sins of out fathers or if your family imigrated after that. there is no original cast of characters. |
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How would Caledonians like it if the Six Nations could, on a whim, decide to move them all to Port Dover, because they "had other intentions for the land"? The Canadian government (and its predecessor governments) did that many times to First Nations communities. Forced relocations, removal of land and rights, forced assimilation and abuse in schools and from members of the community created and continue to exacerbate these problems. The "original cast of characters" is dead, but their problems are still very much alive. |
They've been urging for government action since 2005. All they get is people like David Peterson, Jane Stewart, Barbara McDougall, etc. all getting paid well over $200 an hour. It's been years, 2005, and still nothing has been resloved.
If the government can't do anything and the OPP ignore the problems, especially with Julian Fantino it's no wonder a militia was created. |
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It is easy to render an opinion from afar. Please check out the blogs in the hamilton spectator.
http://thespec.typepad.com/specthrea...igilantes.html In every conflict depnding on what side you favour some are called freedom fighters and some terrorists. it is not right to defy civil authority and block public highways or two tiered justice. Funny the mohawks are called warriors and wave flags with covered faces and camoflage clothing and the citizens try to organize in an open hall for support and they are vigilantes. WOW |
You know that their tax-free status, free education and housing and so on are entrenched in the very agreements that allow Canada to legally exist on this land, right?
What they are doing isn't right but countering their wrong with another is even worse. Forming a militia will only exacerbate the gravity of the situation and probably result in deaths, and that's the last thing we need. This country needs a better way to deal with land claims disputes, and it needs non-native people to press for this because the government never gives a shit about native issues when natives bring them up themselves. |
I support anyone's right to form a militia. Although militias are usually formed by citizens in order to defend themselves from an increasingly tyrannical government. There is nothing wrong with people forming armed militias. They simply need to act responsibly, not kill citizens, or they will be held responsible.
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What more needs to be done to make the natives economically equal, Vid? They get free education and don't have to pay any taxes. A native person could be living in Winnipeg, have no connection to their aboriginal culture and still be entitled to these benefits because of their race. Is that equality? It is amazing what the Canadian education system does to people. Quote:
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They get free education, but it isn't their own culture they learn. Native organizations frequently have difficulty getting funding unless they programme their education curriculum the way the government says they have to. They don't have enough flexibility in that area to foster language and culture retention and our schools refuse to invest much more into that than "Native appreciation day". Yeah, it is amazing what the Canadian education system does to people. |
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If we're going to assert causal relationships as you are doing, then we should be able to make hypotheses and predictions of the type I'm suggesting and test the strength of the hypotheses by looking at actual data. What native groups were most/least affected by these hypothesized causal factors? All other things being equal, are those groups the worst off/best off today? If not, or if the correlation is small or non-existent, maybe we need to adjust the hypothesis or consider other causal factors. |
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