MNN. Feb. 17, 2013. Department of National Defense DND sees us Indigenous as foreign insurgents, according to their field manual on counterinsurgency for its soldiers and officers. Canadian Forces field manual They obviously recognize our sovereignty. The Crown should be negotiating with us as their landlords. Under international accords that Canada has signed, all countries must resolve differences by diplomatic means. War and weapons used to dominate are illegal.
Lt.Gen. Tom Lawson, Chief of Defense, Peter Mackay, Minister of Defense.
The people and all resources belong to Mother Earth for future generations. We have the duty as caregivers for the future children. Nothing on Great Turtle Belongs to the multinational corporations and banks. They are corporate visitors. Prime Minister Harper has to be brought before the International Criminal Court in The Hague for declaring war against us illegally, putting many of us in danger.
The manual says, “Insurgent wars are characterized by their tendency to be local and often popular movements, rather than the traditional military conflicts between states. This type of irregular warfare has confounded US and NATO forces in Iraq and Afghanistan respectively”, and “successes are few and far between”. US and Canadian military need practice in reaching for their guns and riot gear by confronting unarmed Indigenous civilians here.
In the war on terror the enemy is the insurgent. We are labeled as insurgents, which is a declaration of war against us. When we are detained or stopped by police or military, we have no civil rights or due process.
Maj. D.J. Lambert, the lead author of the manual, points out that “Canadian Forces are actively engaged in various levels of confrontation with at least three ongoing insurgencies – in Afghanistan, Haiti and with domestic Indigenous organizations in Canada, such as the Mohawk Warrior Society”.
Left, right, left, right: “We are marching to Attawapiskat… “
The manual goes on, “Indigenous resistance in Canada are insurgencies because they are animated by the goal of altering political relationships with both the Canadian government and at the local level – within Indigenous reservations themselves – “through the threat of, or use of, violence”. We are trying to defend ourselves against their violence and make them obey their laws. This is a foreign army on our land, falsely criminalizing us and imposing their military law on us.
“Canadian Forces have been used by the federal government in high profile land confrontations with Indigenous communities and protestors in standoffs with the Mohawks of Kanehsatake in 1990 and with the Ojibway at Ipperwash in 1995”. DND admits the military was at Ipperwash. The sniper who murdered Dudley George might have been a soldier and not an Ontario Provincial Policeman. Corporal Deane and two other OPP key witnesses died in mysterious car crashes shortly before they were to appear as witnesses at the Inquiry.
The Canadian military is the aggressor delivering death sentences to defenseless civilians, including infants and children, without a charge or trial. We sense Canada wants to provoke a confrontation to justify attacking or killing us. We won’t give them that.
Gen. Leslie said, “The enormous resources invested by the government in the transformation of Canada’s armed forces are clearly not for Afghanistan alone. It is logical to expect that we will go somewhere fairly similar to Afghanistan and do much the same sort of activity.”
They plan to attack us. This is premeditated murder of innocent people by a corporate army. Peace loving people who are concerned about Canada’s war mongering and targeting of Indigenous people should contact the Canadian government harper.s@parl.ca, the Governor General gg@gc.ca, the Queen press@royalcollection.org.uk and the Canadian military www.forces.gc.ca.
As CCR sang in “Fortunate Son”: “Some folks are born, made to wave the flag. Oooh, that red, white and blue. And when the band plays, “Hail to the Chief”, oooh, they point the cannon at you, lord. It ain’t me, it ain’t me. I ain’t no senator’s son. It ain’t me, it ain’t me. I ain’t no fortunate one.”Creedence: Fortunate Son
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