Reddit reviews Helpless: Caledonia's Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy, and How the Law Failed All of Us
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If you ever want more reason to get furious at Dalton McGuinty and the provincial Liberals, read Christie Blatchford's book on the Caledonia mess. I've always found it ironic that Dalton and his gang used Ipperwash to their own political benefit by stating the Harris government ordered the OPP into the park - they even called an enquiry into it. Yet, here the Liberals clearly ordered the OPP the opposite way - to stand down - and they never suffered an political consequences. Likely because the Conservatives aren't douchey enough to use something like that for political gain.
>The protestors are dissatisfied with actions taken by the province to turn over former Burtch Correctional Facility land to the Six Nations band council rather than the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the traditional government
And what better way to resolve a pissing contest between an elected band council and a hereditary one, than to block public highways and annoy non-Natives who have absolutely nothing to do with this.
Well at least they're not beating people up to within inch of their lives.
" Over the course of the spring and summer of that first year, the criminal actions of the occupiers included throwing a vehicle over an overpass, the burning down of a hydro transformer which caused a three-day blackout, the torching of a bridge and the hijacking of a police vehicle. During the very worst period, ordinary residents living near the site had to pass through native barricades, show native-issued "passports", and were occasionally threatened with body searches and routinely subjected to threats. Much of this lawless conduct occurred under the noses of the Ontario Provincial Police, who, often against their own best instincts, stood by and watched: "
" a home builder named Sam Gualtieri, working on the house he was giving his daughter as a wedding present, was attacked by protesters and beaten so badly he will never fully recover from his injuries"
And police fraternized with these criminals, and the Canadian government was too shit scared to seem to appear to be racist by enforcing the Criminal Code. Pathetic.
https://www.amazon.ca/Helpless-Caledonias-Nightmare-Anarchy-Failed/dp/0385670400
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