Canadian Govt now admits over 1,200 missing native girls, not 600

Nazaroo

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We know that Pickton is not responsible for the main problem of disappearing women especially prostitutes, because since the time of his imprisonment,
the killings have continued:



Sex trade workers still getting killed a decade after Pickton’s arrest

May 13, 2014.
...
Experts say the unsolved murders of at least 11 Lower Mainland sex trade workers in as many years are a testament to the dangers still faced by these marginalized women, despite the absence of a prolific serial killer like Robert Pickton.

Between 1978 and 1998, the murders of at least 40 sex trade workers went unsolved in the province, the vast majority occurring on B.C.’s South Coast, according to Vancouver Sun archives.
“The danger really hasn’t changed post-Pickton,” Pivot Legal Society’s board chairwoman Kerry Porth said of the murders, adding that it is nothing to celebrate.
...
The deaths of sex trade workers like Cassell can be very difficult for police to solve because they often involve a murderer who is a stranger to the victim, according to Porth.
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Again, this information underlines the fact that these are not
'domestic' murders or 'on-reservation' murders of Native women
by Native men,
but rather women who may be targets because they are Native,
but who are being killed by non-Native stalkers and serial killers,
as they are plucked off of downtown streets such as Vancouver,
and other Urban centers.
 

Nazaroo

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I just talked to a longtime friend about this issue,
who lived in Alberta for a decade.

He said, "Yeah: The transCanada highway from Winnipeg to BC, -
they call it the Highway of Death."

He related another story that happened while he was there.
A native woman, trapped in her car, fell through the ice and sank,
while a police cruiser stood by. They just drove away.
 

Nazaroo

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First and foremost, Serial killers and crime organizations who exploit
and then murder Native women must be caught, arrested, charged, and
convicted of the henous crimes they have committed against ordinary people.

But it is also important to look at how the situation has developed as it has,
and take steps to prevent and protect people from being victimized.

Obviously those willingly or unwillingly working in the 'sex trade'
are extremely vulnerable to abuse, torture and murder,
and such crimes are difficult to investigate and solve,
compared to domestic crimes.

This is in part because of secrecy and the involvement of organized crime,
and also because the "Johns" or clients of the sex trade are largely
middle class and professionals, including politicians, lawyers, dentists, doctors and police.

An important point is that the reason that Native women are
so disproportionately represented in the 'sex trades', is because of
systemic poverty and abuse going back 100 years.

The new and insane idea implemented in Canada, of 'legalizing' or
decriminalizing prostitution, has horribly backfired in the case of Native women.


On the one hand, it has allowed criminal elements to expand
their operations and cause the 'sex trade' to spread everywhere and
run rampant through Canadian communities,
and on the other hand, it did not significantly protect women from exploitation,
as was promised by secular humanist liberals.

Instead, women are just as exploited as before, just as vulnerable,
and are being murdered at an exponentially increasing rate!





Aboriginal women are overrepresented in the sex trade. Is there a way out?

By Meghan Murphy
Jun 18, 08:47 AM



Sex trade law has occupied the forefront of feminist debate ever since an historic legal challenge to Bedford v. Canada was filed in 2007. The case argued that existing laws that criminalized pimping, public communication for the purposes of prostitution and operating a bawdy house were unconstitutional. On March 26, 2012, Justice Susan Himel ruled to decriminalize brothels in Ontario.

While most feminists would agree that the current laws are problematic as they criminalize women with few other choices but to sell sex, advocates are divided on the best way forward. Issues such as poverty, racism, addiction and sexism define who enters the sex trade, not only in Canada, but worldwide. Still, many talk about the so-called choice to engage in sex work without considering a context of inequity and oppression as central factors that lead women into industry.

Jeannette Corbiere Lavell, president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC), maintains that women in the sex trade should not be criminalized, but she is firm in her opposition to legalizing brothels. She wants the focus of criminalization to remain squarely on the pimps and johns.

A history of racism

“Because of that colonialist mentality, many people think that Aboriginal women were always prostitutes,” said Lavell. She says this is not true, rather that native women and girls ended up in prostitution due to a breakdown of Aboriginal families and cultures. “It’s not part of our traditions. This is not who we are, it never has been,” she said.

“In talking to our elders, they made it clear that, as a women’s organization, we had to make our voices heard,” Lavell added. “Our women don’t want to be prostitutes. They don’t want to live this life.”

But Lavell says many women have little other choice if they aren’t able to earn money any other way and have children to take care of or elders at home. “So when they are approached by pimps and johns, when they are offered money, it seems like it’s the only way. They are drawn into it.”

A study published in a 2003 edition of the journal Social Science and Medicine shows that 70 per cent of prostitutes working in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver are Aboriginal women. Jackie Lynne, a member of the Aboriginal Women’s Action Network (AWAN), was struck by the number of Aboriginal women in the sex trade when she started conducting sex trade research back in 1998.

“I started out volunteering at a drop-in centre in the Downtown Eastside. The majority of the women’s faces there were brown, so that inspired my research question, that is: why are so many native women involved in this?” Lynne, who exited sex work herself twenty years ago, began to trace the historical roots of racism, sexism and classism and found an inextricable link between prostitution and colonialism.

Cherry Smiley is an activist and a front-line anti-violence worker from the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) and Dine' (Navajo) Nations; she says the fact that Aboriginal women and girls are overrepresented in the sex trade is not accidental. Rather, she says, Aboriginal women are “funneled” into sex work as the result of a history of racism in Canada, a history that includes residential schools, the reserve system and the foster care system.

“All of these institutions that we are confronting on a daily basis are contributing to the situation that native women and girls find themselves in. Prostitution is the consequence of those institutions,” she said. “It’s not as if we all wake up one morning and decide this will be our career path because we love having sex with strangers.”

Choice is not a factor

The rhetoric of choice surrounding sex work was brought up many times by the women I spoke with. They challenged the idea that sex work could really be a ‘choice’ within the context of an unequal society.

“The whole idea of North American liberalism loves the word ‘choice’, but it assumes that we’re all on a level playing field,” said Lynne. The problem with the word ‘choice’, according to Lynne, was that it diverted attention away from the issue of demand—who is buying the women and who is perpetrating the abuse. “We need to frame the issue of prostitution within a human rights argument and a framework of women’s equality and I don’t see enough of that happening,” she added.

“If true equality existed, prostitution wouldn’t exist. Prostitution exists because inequality exists.” Lynne said. “If we look at prostitution and prostitution law through that lens, we must ask ourselves whether decriminalizing pimps and johns really makes sense in terms of working towards an equitable society.”

Smiley says that the idea that women simply ‘choose’ sex work as a career is offensive. “If that were the case, then that would mean that native women and girls just like to have sex with strangers way more than white women do, like in disproportionate numbers,” she said. “It feeds into racist myths that say we’re savage, uncontrollable, unintelligent, sexualized bodies, and that’s not true—native women and girls are so much more than that.”

Smiley says that when we focus on ‘choice’, we avoid asking very important questions about the kinds of systems and injustices that lead Aboriginal women into sex work.

Colonialism and patriarchy: it’s the same thing

It’s impossible to separate the arrival of European settlers and the imposition of patriarchal and capitalist systems onto indigenous cultures. Smiley says this truth is a necessary consideration when looking at women in the sex trade.

Smiley says, “prostitution is just another institution of colonialism. So it targets native women and girls in particular ways and this is true not just for indigenous women in Canada, but for indigenous women worldwide. In many cases we have suffered under the same types of forces.

“Colonialism and patriarchy go hand in hand,” she adds. “It’s the same thing.”

And indeed, the history of colonialism in Canada shows inextricable links to the introduction of patriarchal ideas to what is said to be, traditionally, a more equitable culture.

Lavell tells me that, before Europeans colonizers first came to the area known as Rupert’s Land (eventually to become Canada) to establish settlements, women were held in very high regard. Inequality and the idea that women should not have equal rights and decision-making power was “an imposition from the outside Western culture,” Lavell said.

“All I know is what was taught to me by my grandmothers, which is that there was a sense of equality pre-contact. Women were actually free,” said Smiley.

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Cherry Smiley is a front-line anti-violence worker and activist. Photo by Kevin Hollett.
While of course, things weren’t perfect, oppression didn’t happen on a systematic scale until Europeans came over, Smiley told me. “They saw that in a lot of First Nations communities, women were respected and had power and had decision-making ability. They were more on an equal footing with men and I think that pissed them off,” she said.

In Lynne’s 1998 paper, “Colonialism and the Sexual Exploitation of Canada's First Nations Women”, she looked at the ways in which the sexual exploitation of First Nations women is tied directly to colonialism and the ways that it “created our inferiority as a class of people to both First Nations men and non-First Nations men.” She references Kathleen Barry’s book, Female Sexual Slavery, which says demand for sex workers requires an undervalued class of women.

“I can’t think of any more undervalued class of women than native women,” said Lynne.

European women weren’t allowed to immigrate for the first 100 years of colonization, Lynne told me. As a result, colonialist men took what were referred to as ‘country wives.’ These were native women who were used so that fur traders and trappers could gain access to their knowledge. Such information would help the men to survive in this unfamiliar territory.

“These wives were used for their knowledge and for sex,” said Smiley. “In return these women would get some form of safety or food but once white women were allowed over, the native women were kicked to the curb and left with nothing.” There were also, of course, brothels set up at that time.

Based on these conditions, Lynne says that First Nations women became Canada’s first prostituted women. A racist, sexist and classist history of sexual exploitation is not limited to Canada, of course. “If you look at prostitution on a global scale, which is always an important thing to do, you’ll see that it’s mostly women who are prostituted and that within that,” said Smiley. “It’s mostly poor women, indigenous women and women of colour who are in prostitution.”

Smiley also points out that “a lot of native women and a lot of women who are on the street are suffering from addiction issues and mental health issues. What about those issues? That’s a result of patriarchy and colonialism right there. Women are using drugs and alcohol to bury that pain because we aren’t given any real solutions.”

Legislation: criminalize the pimps and johns, decriminalize the women

In terms of sex trade laws, Smiley feels that decriminalizing johns and legalizing brothels is not a solution that will help Aboriginal women.

“We’re in pain and we’re hurting because we’ve lost our languages and we’ve lost our land and we’re offered drugs and alcohol to ease that pain,” she said. “Women should have access to what we need to survive without having to be in prostitution—whether that be homes, detox beds or jobs that are fulfilling and that we enjoy doing—we should all have all of those things. Calling legalized brothels a solution tells women: ‘This is it, this is as good as your life is going to get so don’t even think about asking for more.’”

Lavell agrees and says that Canada should create legislation similar to that which has been set up in Norway, commonly referred to as ‘the Nordic model’. This model includes laws which decriminalize prostituted women and criminalize pimps and johns.

Lavell says she is very unhappy with the decision made by the Ontario courts to legalize brothels and hopes it will be reversed at Canada’s Supreme Court.

“If prostitution is legalized, women are still going to be murdered,” she said. “Our women are very clear and very strong on this. And especially the older women who are still practicing our culture and our spirituality.” Lavell wants Aboriginal women and girls to be given other opportunities, not simply be moved into brothels.

The problem many advocates and women’s groups see with the debate around sex work law is that there is a lack of focus on the buyers—the men.

“I’d really like as much as possible to put the attention back on stopping demand,” said Lynne. “Feminists are being forced to have these ineffectual conversations which don’t hold men accountable at all. These conversations around whether or not to legalize detract from what I consider to be the source of the problem.” She wants men held accountable for their actions and behaviour.

Smiley agrees, and feels like conversations around legalizing brothels distract from the real issues and avoids providing real solutions to girls and women who are living in poverty or are dealing with addiction.

“The same forces that are causing native women and girls to go missing and be murdered are the same forces that are causing native women and girls to enter into prostitution in the first place and be stuck there. Those forces are men,” said Smiley.

“The solution isn’t to hand over women and girls on a silver platter and say: ‘Have at them.’ The solution is to say: ‘Change your behaviour.’”






 
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Nazaroo

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It isn't just one highway that is dangerous for women travelers,
its the whole highway system, which is poorly patrolled by police forces
that are big on lobbying for more money, but appalling at solving real crimes.

In fact, every highway in Canada is a dangerous place,
but there are many shorter highways and 'local' routes
that have become notorious for random kidnapping and murder:



On British Columbia’s Highway of Tears, 18 women and girls have been murdered or gone missing in a period dating back to the 1970s.


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Eight years ago native leaders urged a bus system be installed connecting northern communities to discourage women from having to hitchhike. Oppal repeated the recommendation in 2012.

The British Columbia government has done nothing.

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Note that 12 of 18 of the girls are known to be homicides, but that doesn't mean "solved".
What is known is that less than 1% of missing women are mere runaways.


The police are sadly correct about one thing:
Many of these women are not Native women,
and the cops have been equally bad at solving their murders and/or
disappearances.


The unbelievably callous and careless attitude of the government and police
has been so transparent, and so disgusting,
that officials from the United Nations have internationally condemned Canada.

And rightly so, since the solutions, to prevention at least,
are often so simple, such as the installation of a bus service,
for isolated communities.




UN urges Canada to hold national inquiry
on missing aboriginal women and girls


Law professor James Anaya, the UN’s special rapporteur on indigenous rights, spent nine days in Canada last year meeting with First Nations representatives and government officials



Anaya’s report is based on research done during a visit to Canada last October when he met with government officials and First Nations representatives.

While Anaya flags some improvements, his report reaches sobering conclusions about the state of aboriginal people in Canada, a reality the law professor blames on a failure by governments to invest more.

He said the human rights problems facing aboriginal people in Canada have reached “crisis proportions” and says the relationship with the federal government is “strained.’

“Canada faces a continuing crisis when it comes to the situation of indigenous peoples of the country,” he said.

He said initiatives by the federal and provincial governments to improve the well-being of aboriginals have proved insufficient and the issues deserve higher priority “within all branches of government.”

On education, for example, he said aboriginal people lag “far behind” the general population and said government should work to enhance educational opportunities. The Conservatives have put on hold its proposal to improve on-reserve education after divisions appeared among aboriginal leaders about the plan.

Anaya sounded the alarm about the housing in Inuit and First Nations communities, which he said has reached “crisis” levels. “Overcrowded housing is endemic. Homes are in need of major repairs, including plumbing and electrical work,” he said.

Added to this is the worrisome water quality on reserves, where more than half of the water systems pose a medium or high health risk, his report said.

The health of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people in Canada remains a “significant concern, the report says. While acknowledging improvements in recent years, “significant gaps” remain compared to non-aboriginal Canadians in measures such as life expectancy, infant mortality and suicide, the report said.

Anaya highlights what he calls the “dramatic contradictions” of aboriginal people living in abysmal conditions yet living in territories full of valuable natural resources.

But negotiations around land treaties and claims have bogged down and many First Nations have “all but given up,” he said.

“Many negotiations under these procedures have been ongoing for many years, in some cases decades, with no foreseeable end,” he said.

Underpinning those delays is the government’s attitude that the interests of aboriginals are counter to the best interests of Canadians, the report said.


 

Nazaroo

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The lack of action, and the awareness of a solution to at least some
dangerous situations, are not mere opinion or complaints by Native peoples groups.

Many others including city governments have come to the same conclusions:



cities say B.C. has known how to fix Highway of Tears for years

Vancouver Sun

...
There are the yearly walks. The memorial ceremonies. And the shared frustration that the provincial government has yet to act on dozens of recommendations to protect vulnerable women in B.C.'s north.
First Nations groups and municipal officials say the province should have acted years ago using a blueprint it already has: a 2006 report with 33 recommendations to improve transportation, discourage hitchhiking, and prevent violence against aboriginal women and girls.
That report was endorsed by a public inquiry report released in December 2012, which called for urgent action.
The 2006 report was crafted by several First Nations groups after the Highway of Tears Symposium.
Its first recommendation was a shuttle bus network along more than 700 kilometres of Highway 16 that runs from Prince Rupert to Prince George.
Other recommendations included education for aboriginal youth, improved health and social services in remote communities, counselling and mental health teams made up of aboriginal workers, more comprehensive victims' services, and, of course, money to pay for it all.
Wendy Kellas, who works on the Highway of Tears issue for Carrier Sekani Family Services, wants provincial funding to examine whether any of the recommendations need to be updated. For example, the report called for more phone booths along the highway, while the focus now would be on mobile phone coverage, she said.
Still, she said most of the 2006 recommendations remain relevant, including the need for better services not only for aboriginal women, but also for the families of the murdered and missing.
And the proposed shuttle service is needed as much as ever, she said. For First Nations women who can't afford their own vehicle, there are still few options if they need to travel for groceries, appointments or to visit family.


 

Nazaroo

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Given such a shocking, long term, appalling systemic crisis,
its fair to ask, does anyone in Canada care about this?

The answer is surprisingly simple and obvious:

The PEOPLE of Canada DO care!

But the Government and Police DON'T care.

We only need look at amazing results like the following,
to see and appreciate that Canadians really do care about this,
but our government, which is full of crooks, pedophiles and conmen,
are the ones stalling and backpedalling against any change:




Six questions on murdered and missing aboriginal women

...
Does anyone care?

Tens of thousands have signed petitions calling for an inquiry. Signing a petition is easy, but other actions are more significant.
High school students at Notre Dame College School in Welland, Ont., for example, raised $7,500 — and awareness in the community — with its No More Stolen Sisters campaign. The money went to the Native Women’s Association.

“Young people in this country do care,’’ said religious studies teacher Paul Turner.



 

Nazaroo

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A Disturbing Repeating Pattern:


Ok, so over 1,000 Native women are missing / killed.


Police claimed in a recent press conference that
their 'solve-rate' for both Native and Caucasian (non-Native) cases are 88-89%!

Really?!?!!

But of course the 'sample' here is horrifically skewed, since

1 in 4 of murders/missing cases are Natives
,
while they are only 2% of the population!

The police were able to obscurantize the real stats by lumping them all together, and calling homicides "solved". ...

But where are the perpetrators
? Who was charged?
Sadly, with random murders, the real "solve" rate is more like < 40%,
again with most victims being Natives, for whatever historical reason.

The police do eventually seem to solve a few of these murders:

A man named Fowler (who is now dead) had his DNA allegedly linked to
a missing woman on the Highway of Tears,
and RCMP want to link him to up to six other open cases.



On September 25, 2012, the RCMP announced a link between the murders and deceased United States criminal Bobby Jack Fowler. His DNA was found on the body of Colleen MacMillen, one of the presumed victims.[6] Investigators first compiled a DNA profile of the perpetrator in 2007, but technology available at the time did not yield a strong enough sample. New technologies allowed police to reexamine the DNA in 2012, leading to the identification.[4] Fowler is also strongly suspected to have killed both Gale Weys and Pamela Darlington in 1973.



The RCMP believe that he may have also killed as many as ten of the other victims.[6]
Despite identifying Fowler as the killer in these cases, investigators are doubtful that they will ever solve all of the murders. They do have persons of interest in several other cases, but not enough evidence to lay charges.[4]



But this is typically how many cases are "solved":
Find a guy already guilty of one crime, and pin the rest on him,
and close the case.

But since the serial killings continue,
often with no statistical dent in the numbers,
long after each individual serial killer is caught or dies,
its difficult to give these "solved" cases any real credibility.

Recently one man came to trial finally,
arrested back in 2011 after 4 women were murdered:



Cody Alan Legebokoff A trial is about to start for Legebokoff, a B.C. man charged in an alleged serial killer case. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-B.C. RCMP




But how did this case get solved so easily and quickly?

Although there is a publication ban now on the details,
It was already publicly acknowledged that the immediate victim
was a 15 yr old white blonde lesbian:




Lesbian murdered in northern BC

By Jeremy Hainsworth
Published Thu, Dec 16, 2010 7:00 pm EST




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Fifteen-year-old Charity Funk says she doesn't know how anyone could look at her girlfriend, Loren Donn Leslie, 15, and hurt her in any way. The couple drew stares and insults since they were open about their relationship, Funk says, but they didn't care.
"I knew she loved me, and I loved her," Funk says.
But on the night of Nov 27, Leslie's body was discovered after police saw a truck pulling off an unused logging road onto Highway 27 about 22 kilometres north of Vanderhoof.
Given the time and area, the Fort St James officer pulled the truck over. The officer spoke with the driver and, based on his observation, detained the man.
Police summoned the assistance of a Conservation Services officer in order to conduct a thorough search of the area.
"The conservation officer followed the vehicle tracks back into the area from which it had emerged," says RCMP Cpl Dan Moskaluk. "The area with fresh snow cover was undisturbed by little else, if anything, but the truck which had been stopped by the officer."
Shortly after, Moskaluk says, the conservation officer found the Fraser Lake teen's body a distance away from the side road.


...



Even when the police did stop a suspicious character pulling out of forest park area,
they didn't even bother to search themselves.
Instead they found a Conservation Officer (Park ranger),
and sent him to look in the forest.
And had a police officer been the searcher instead,
we doubt they would have actually found anything,
judging from their performance elsewhere.

Once a real body, dead only hours, was found however,
and it was discovered to be a white lesbian,
the cops went into high gear, even sending DNA evidence to the USA!



Autopsy work on Leslie's body included flying it to Pennsylvania for further examination. No details have been released.



No such action is taken over Canadian Native girls, you can be sure.

In fact, typically, we find a completely different systemic pattern:

Native girl is murdered, suspect is questioned, and let go.
Case is closed for SEVEN YEARS.

Same guy then murders a white chick,
they re-open the case
, but stay quietly out of the way
until the white victim's case is dealt with,
then charge the guy for killing the Native girl, seven years later.





Calls for national inquiry on missing, murdered woman after arrest in slaying




By Chinta Puxley, The Canadian Press June 2, 2014 12:40 PM
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Myrna Letandre is shown in an RCMP Manitoba handout photo. A joint police squad tasked with solving cases of missing and murdered women in Manitoba has arrested a man in the slaying of a woman almost eight years ago.The remains of Myrna Letandre were found in May 2013 in a Winnipeg home. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ HO-RCMP Manitoba



Investigators with Project Devote, a unit made up of RCMP and Winnipeg police officers, took Traigo Andretti into custody in British Columbia and charged him with second-degree murder. Police said Monday the 38-year-old, who was convicted in the first-degree murder of his wife in British Columbia in April, was being brought back to Winnipeg to face the charges.
Winnipeg police Supt. Danny Smyth said investigators worked with the Vancouver homicide unit and waited for them to complete their investigation before bringing their own charges in the Manitoba case.
...
Grand Chief David Harper, who represents Manitoba's northern First Nations, said an arrest in Letandre's case may bring some closure to her family, but there are still hundreds more looking for answers.
"Where else in the world are there over 1,000 women missing?" Harper asked. "We heard of the missing school girls in Africa and there was a public outcry. Here we have over 1,000 and still no call for a missing and murdered women national inquiry."
Dennis Whitebird, political liaison with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, criticized police who he said don't work in partnership with aboriginal leaders. Derek Nepinak, the assembly's grand chief, was not able to attend Monday's news conference because he wasn't given enough notice, Whitebird said.


"That's the kind of relationship we currently have with law enforcement. We're invited to come and make the report look good," he said.

...
Andretti was given a mandatory life sentence with no chance of parole for at least 25 years in April after admitting to the first-degree murder of his wife, Jennifer McPherson, who was also a longtime Winnipeg resident.

 

Christ's Word

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Governments are too busy trying to control law abiding citizens to be bothered with the mundane task of protecting women and children. Limited resources .....don't you know?
 

Nazaroo

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Governments are too busy trying to control law abiding citizens to be bothered with
the mundane task of protecting women and children.
Limited resources .....don't you know?


The most dangerous and deadly enemy of government is
free and open access to information and an honest press.
 

Nazaroo

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Interesting Sidebar: Kevin Annett - ex-United Priest, activist

Interesting Sidebar: Kevin Annett - ex-United Priest, activist

I want to pause a moment to borrow some choice observations
and words from a person who has been involved in exposing
the abuse of Native peoples for a long time, Kevin Annett.

From his blog, he posted an interesting column in January 2013,
providing some background and perspective:

Here are a few excerpts:



kevinannett.com
Elder, Elder, Who’s got the Elder?
Posted by admin on January 7, 2013.


...
'All of the data indicates that nations at war suffering mortality rates exceeding 25% are permanently traumatized and destroyed, for they are incapable of ever recovering their pre-war integrity. They become for all practical purposes ghost societies.' - United States Air Force Manual on War and Counter-Insurgency, Washington, spring 1983
...
And the hard historical truth is that all genuine indigenous nations were historically uprooted and expunged by European colonialism within a few generations of contact. All of them.
On average, more than 90% of the indigenous people and their nations in the western hemisphere were eventually exterminated by European weapons and diseases, starting with the oldest people, the learned, and the carriers of tradition and authority. The butchery began in 1492 in the Caribbean and ended around 1910 on Canada’s west coast.
Killing off ninety percent of a people means, effectively, killing off all of a people. Recovery and continuity is impossible, especially after the children of the remnant populaces endure the massive brainwashing and cultural re-cloning fondly called Christian Education.
What remains today in the wake of this worst massacre in human history are not even pale imitations of those original nations, but something altogether new: namely, “ab-original” societies, manufactured by the conquering powers of church and state. For ab-original means, according to any dictionary, not of the original group.
Native people, like all of us, have been manufactured.
In none of the hundreds of native groups I’ve worked with over the decades have more than a handful of people known even a smattering of their original languages; nor do they practice their traditional ways, since those ways are gone.
...
In Canada, as in America, the Pale Eaters – otherwise known as white people, since Assimilation means to eat someone – keep chewing up and swallowing ever more of the colonized peoples. They do so literally, by grabbing their children, their future, their lands and resources, and symbolically, by making the colonized perform for them to assuage their guilt and maintain the lie that Genocide didn’t really happen in their country.
...
But back to the realists: the mostly poor and dying authentic Indians who are honest about the fact that they have been killed and stripped of everything.
The hundreds of such people whom I work and live with never speak of their traditions, or of “the Elders”, or of “Protocol”, or any of the other Indigenously Correct terms thrown about in the Professional Indian world.

They don’t exclude “whites” from their ranks in a false pride of being better, or demand more money from the government. Nor do they cozy up to the christian churches that killed their people and blabber about “healing and reconciliation” with such criminals.

On the contrary, the realists know what is true and they speak about it, which is why they, and not the Professional Indians, have been the ones to occupy churches, and demand that the guilty face judgement and return the bodies of the children they murdered.

It has been these unassimilated refugees from a lost world who have forced the Canadian Genocide onto the world stage, while the Professional Indians cower and equivocate and avoid everything until the television cameras show up.
There is no authentic Indian leadership in Canada; how can there be, after all,
...
I hope you understand that I’m not picking on the Mohawks. To their credit, they have gone further than any other group in trying to bring the forensic evidence of the genocide they faced into the light of day. And naturally, the government operatives and divide and conquer experts were on hand quickly to scuttle everything and discredit me and the project.

But that wasn’t the problem, ultimately. ...

So what does it all mean?
Actually, a lot, once we drop all our blinders.

The indigenous nations that we all once were have vanished, chewed up by a corporate global machine, and we stand now in need of a new definition that embraces our collective humanity and the natural law that has always been our true bedrock.

We, humanity, are in a final war for survival. But as long as we cling to all the false divisions and labels imposed on us by the rulers, we’ll remain what we are: appendages of a thing that is killing our children, our souls, and our world. And we will all go under, regardless of our political correctness.'


 

Nazaroo

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More and more evidence of government run and sponsored pedophile rings
keeps surfacing:




Officer involved in 1992 child porn arrest said five suitcases stuffed with letters suggested links to establishment and senior clergy


...
The Metropolitan Police did investigate the letters, but the now retired Mr Shutt says many of the most important leads were not followed up.
He claims it was seen to be more important to protect the establishment.
A confidential Hereford and Worcester Social Service report from the 1990s said the letters from Righton’s home suggested links to clergy, civil servants, social services and and education staff, according to the BBC.

 

Nazaroo

New member
In case people thought we were exaggerating about Organized Crime
and systematic abuse and murder of Native girls,

Canada was stunned recently when a woman investigating the
missing women was brutally murdered.


This has Organized Crime written all over it.

Halifax is a notorious center for kidnapping, recruiting and
exploiting underage girls, usually from low income families and
who happen to be native "First Nations" people.



CBC News Nova Scotia:
Loretta Saunders murder case: Uncle lunges at 2 accused in court


The third day of a preliminary inquiry into the case of two accused of murdering Saint Mary's University student Loretta Saunders got off to a dramatic start when the victim's uncle lunged at the accused in Halifax provincial court.


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Loretta Saunders was studying the issue of murdered or missing aboriginal women when she was killed. (Facebook)

Victoria Henneberry, 28, and Blake Leggette, 26, of Halifax are charged with first-degree murder in the death of the 26-year-old earlier this year.
Members of the Saunders family grabbed Saunders's uncle, Herman MacLean, before he could reach the accused.
The ruckus prompted authorities to hustle the two accused into a secure corridor while sheriffs from all over the building rushed into the courtroom.
After the incident, members of the Saunders family pleaded with MacLean to calm down.

...
National search

The slaying of Saunders renewed calls for a national inquiry
into missing and murdered aboriginal women.

She was Inuk, studying Canada's many missing and murdered aboriginal women.


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Victoria Henneberry, 28, and Blake Leggette, 25,
have been charged with first-degree murder. (Craig Paisley/CBC)

​The 26-year-old disappeared from Halifax on Feb. 13.
Henneberry and Leggette had been subletting Saunders's apartment in Cowie Hill. T
hey were arrested in Ontario with her car five days after she disappeared.
Saunders's body was later found in a wooded area off the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick on Feb. 26.

On Monday, defence lawyers for Henneberry and Leggette made the standard request for a publication ban, which was granted.

Publication bans protect the suspects' right to a fair trial. Preliminary hearings determine whether there is enough evidence to require a trial.


 

THall

New member
It is not just the
American and Canadian
Governments that have
ignored their main duty
to protect their people.
This is happening all over
the world.
 

Nazaroo

New member
It is not just the
American and Canadian
Governments that have
ignored their main duty
to protect their people.
This is happening all over
the world.
Yes, but the point is,
all the large international Pedophile rings
are government-operated and bankrolled by the WEST.
 

genuineoriginal

New member
humanitarian investigators and experts across the world
have identified and utterly condemned the horrific and shameful treatment
of natives in Canada:



Canada's treatment of aboriginal people faces global scrutiny (CBC NEWS)



UN and human-rights groups to visit Canada within the next year


Wow, the cure is worse than the original problem.

The UN is harder to get rid of than a cockroach infestation.
This reprehensible behaviour by the U.N. needs to be exposed,
and stopped!
 

Nazaroo

New member
Wow, the cure is worse than the original problem.

The UN is harder to get rid of than a cockroach infestation.


When the U.N. is calling your country crap,
it is certainly worth a look,
even though the U.N. on many issues is a political embarrassment
and agenda-driven nightmare.

The reason I give the U.N. some cred on this one issue,
is because, being a powerful wealthy organization in bed with Western political groups,
I can't find a reason why they would call Canada out on
their treatment of Native peoples, if there wasn't some
real horrific truth to it, that got the attention of a wide number
of other countries and groups.

Like any committee or consensus, the U.N. is vulnerable and prone
to manipulation and often gets it wrong, especially when the
participants are the very diverse countries of the world,
already in competition over resources and power.

That doesn't mean its always wrong on everything.

When they do get something very wrong,
they need to be brought to heel.
 
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