WHO’S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD COP? NOT I!MNN MEETS COLONIAL “FEAR MONGERING MATRIX” HEAD ON
– Goodfella Fantino fails to whack us!
MNN. May 9, 2008. Fascist state “operachniks” are constantly taking actions designed to generate a continuous state of fear. They think terror breeds obedience. MNN has received various reports warning that it is “dangerous” to go into Ontario, which is partly our ancestral Haudenosaunee Territory. We might be arrested on false charges, abducted, “disappeared” or killed in a simulated accident.
We will not live in fear! The integrity of the Ontario Provincial Police is in question. Every day we are being told of the overwhelming spy and surveillance gadgets that are being developed to control our every move and how this can be done by remote control from satellites. The multi-national military, industrial, corporate, financial and government complex feel they have to hunt down those they perceive as “enemies”. They refuse to live democratically. They feel threatened by differing opinions.
MNN has decided to meet this nonsense head on. MNN has been told to “stay home”. Yes, the threats are real. Yes, the colonial authorities want to squelch any assertion of Indigenous rights. Yes, they respond to our unarmed demonstrations by surrounding us with armies and pointing their guns at us. Yes, they violate their own laws. Yes, we get beaten up and thrown in jail on false charges. No, we will not submit.
Julian Fantino, the Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner, has dressed his OPP officers in “storm trooper” style uniforms. The police cruisers are painted black and white. Every officer is equipped with guns, tasers, batons for beatings, bullet proof vests and flashlights that can be used as weapons. They shave their heads to look like neo-Nazis and wear sun glasses so no one can look into their eyes. They’re trying to look like fat “RoboCops”. Julian Fantino is taking the OPP to an unprecedented time when the police are all powerful and individuals have no rights.
MNN has been warned that we may “vanish” like the 500 Indigenous women who have disappeared; or like the crucial witnesses who suddenly die in accidents before inquiries. Just over a week ago the 5 Rotiskereketeh at Tyendinaga shook hands with the OPP and agreed on a peaceful course of action. They were immediately ambushed, jumped, beaten and arrested by ten OPP goons. This harkens back to the time when Marquis de Denonville in July 1687 invited over 200 Iroquois men, women and children to a peaceful parlay in Hochelaga now Montreal. The goons of the day surrounded, captured and sent them to Europe where they died. After almost 5 centuries of contact, they continue to be treacherous.
Former OPP sniper Kenneth Deane died in a high tech simulated car crash on Trans Canada Highway 401 just before he was to appear at the Ipperwash inquiry. His two superiors also died in car crashes. They were going to explain how the OPP set up the murder of Dudley George over a land issue.
We have been saying generation after generation after generation that all differences between the colonists and the Indigenous people must be resolved peacefully using open and consensual practices in keeping with international law.
Why was Julian Fantino brought in by Ontario? A squatter on our land has no right to threaten us with violence for living according to the Kaianereh’ko:wa, our constitution, on Haudenosaunee Territory. He uses small time criminal and Mafioso tactics against our political system that he knows nothing about. They refuse to deal with us on a nation-to-nation basis according to our agreements. They get out their guns, threaten us, harass us, throw us in jail or kill us.
Last June 29th 2007 on the “Indigenous Day of Action”, Julian Fantino was negotiating directly with Mohawk Shawn Brant, of Tyendinaga to bring peace to the situation. Fantino pretended to be the “peace maker” while plotting to “double cross” him. Behind him were the SWAT Team and the army ready to charge in on unarmed people who were blocking nothing.
Brant later turned himself in for “mischief” after his family was harassed. He was charged, arrested and kept in jail. Then most of the charges were dropped while Michael Bryant, the Ontario Attorney General, was pushing for a 12 year jail term. Now he’s put more fake charges back on him and remains in jail.
This is desperation. What’s behind it? The colonists have no evidence for any of their claims to our lands and resources. Their “bosses” are trying to force us to give it to them illegally and we refuse. So they put us in their “cross hairs.”
The Governor General, Michaelle Jean, also referred to as the “Haitian-against-the-Nation” by the Mohawks, is avoiding her duty to bring out the truth. Instead of peacefully talking to us, she helps point those weapons at us as commander in chief.
There’s no pretense that they are “gunning” for us. We hereby give notice to the Ontario government. Cease and desist sending your heavily armed goons to attack us whenever we exercise our rights to stop squatters from abusing us.
Stop building jails. The $2 million facility being built in the middle of Tyendinaga Mohawk community is meant to increase Indigenous incarceration. This could be a “holding facility” not only for Mohawks but for any Indigenous people targeted by the state. It is a short distance from Trenton Military Airport. Indigenous will be arrested, taken there for transfer to other parts of the world, out of our reach. There is a risk that they will be sent elsewhere on “extraordinary rendition” flights to be tortured and never seen again. Guantanamo Bay North! S.O.B.s, you aren’t going to get away with this.
The MNN editor is providing an itinerary for the year 2008. Since the OPP is keeping track of not only her whereabouts, but on everything she does, she will provide reports on where she goes, what she eats, when she has bowel movements, and when she brushes her teeth. She will provide photos of the lawn she just mowed, the IGA where she shops, the post office where she picks up her mail, the road she drives on, the garden she just cultivated, the pool she is about to open and the tent she just set up for her grandchildren. The full vista of the threats she poses will be made available at no cost to the Ontario public.
On June 9th to celebrate the granting of a university degree earned by one of her adopted sons she will be in Sudbury. Julian, if you see her car in Ontario, you will know where she’s going. She will continue to visit her relatives at Six Nations, Akwesasne, Tyendinaga, Sharbot and other areas of the vast Haudenosaunee territory.
We have to overcome these threats. We won’t let them stop us from maintaining normal family and social relationships. Summer is pow wow time. We have to maintain our cultures.
Fantino, there’s no mystery. We eat, drink and shit like anyone else! You don’t have to spy on us. Stop your delusions! You will never control our society. Your illegal plotting by you and all your cohorts is criminal! You don’t have our consent and never will.
Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News
Matthew Brett is an anti-war activist and freelance journalist based in Montreal. Read other posts by Matthew Brett.
