Carrots
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I wonder what they will do if they saw a fully loaded semi comming right at them and not slowing down
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Aboriginal protests in Canada.
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I wonder what they will do if they saw a fully loaded semi comming right at them and not slowing down
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Perhaps you need to use a little WAR PAINT! ! HEH HEH
Teeroy-Teeroy-Teeroy- Teeroy!!!!!!
teeroy
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hahahaha....I'm not about to do anything stupid unless there are TV crews there. I will strive to be calm and cool like the dude on the video.Teeroy-Teeroy-Teeroy- Teeroy!!!!!!
I wouldn't do anything like that, I'm paid by the hour. if they make us sit there all day, the oil company will pay. that will be far more effective in making the gov't do something about the blockades than anything, start costing them money....
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ooooh.....that would be awesome!Gots a train horn??
NEED a train horn???
when they had the rainbow pipeline rupture out there a few years ago there was a CBC crew on the side of the road in an approach....they were doing the live reporter interview thing and I laid on the horn...the cameraman gave me the finger lol
I had actually read the treaty pertaining to our area a few years back, and just went back and read it again as I thought there were a few interesting things in it. The first is in regard to the roadblocks.
The last paragraph has it in it "...and that they will not molest the person or property of any inhabitant of such ceded tracts, or the property of Her Majesty the Queen, or interfere with or trouble any person passing or travelling through the said tract..."
Seems to me that what idle no more is doing is a violation of the treaty.
Here's the link so you can read it yourself
The last paragraph has it in it "...and that they will not molest the person or property of any inhabitant of such ceded tracts, or the property of Her Majesty the Queen, or interfere with or trouble any person passing or travelling through the said tract..."
Seems to me that what idle no more is doing is a violation of the treaty.
Here's the link so you can read it yourself
Giv'r Tee.....your the hope of a nation......Lol.
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DaveB
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Bring a copy of the ammo that Bandit provided...show that to reporters....
teeroy
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don't put that on me man, take it back. we'll all be hooched
Isn't it funny how the rules of interpretation work, stuff that favors you, you twist and construe into the word of today . The parts of treaties that they deem not important are never mentioned..............
Arrest them all I guess, this historic document says so.
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Arrest them all I guess, this historic document says so.
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Sounds pretty cut and dried to me...not a whole lot of room for "interpretation"....?
Lol, you mis interpreted me. I did not mean "you" as in Bandit.( his post was very good to point out the Treaty point)
What I meant is that when back in the day when this POS 100+ year document that the Queen of England agreed too, was interpreted into today's context they were very liberal in what things meant. Ie: Medicine Chest back then, today that equals flights into RUH in Saskatoon from Northern Saskatchewan because you have a cough, and unlimited access to hospitals and Doctors.
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They are going to be in for a big surprize when the normally passive "white man" get fed up and demand military action against blockades and the dismantling of past treaties.....
I would suspect the 80% of indifferent will quickly have an opinion....
I would suspect the 80% of indifferent will quickly have an opinion....
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i would be livid if a protester did this to my truck.
I think this is where this part of the treaties need to be applied -"or interfere with or trouble any person passing or travelling through the said tracts, or any part thereof"
I'd pin my truck and get the twin turbos whistling, and then do a nice crisp brake check.
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So maybe someone needs to forward "said" copy of treaty to the media to publicize, and the police can step in and do something,... Oh wait, that'll never happen because they will just cry wolf.
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As a native i do not believe in the blockades. All it does is piss a lot of people off. But on the other hand it is way better then violence. Take the student protests in Quebec or Occupy as an example. Or for the poor Canuck fans the riots after the cup. And as for dismantling the treaties see the pic below lol
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Finally a first nations person who says it like it is!.....THEY ARE TRULY “IDLE NO MORE” !!!!
| Chief Clarence Louie, Osoyoos BC speaking in Northern Alberta : Speaking to a large aboriginal conference and some of the attendees, including a few who hold high office, have straggled in. 'I can't stand people who are late, he says into the microphone. Indian Time doesn't cut it. ' Some giggle, but no one is quite sure how far he is going to go. Just sit back and listen: 'My first rule for success is Show up on time.' 'My No. 2 rule for success is follow Rule No. 1.' 'If your life sucks, it's because you suck.' 'Quit your sniffling.' 'Join the real world. Go to school, or get a job.' 'Get off of welfare. Get off your butt.' He pauses, seeming to gauge whether he dare, then does. 'People often say to me, How you doin'? Geez I'm working with Indians what do you think?' Now they are openly laughing ..... applauding. Clarence Louie is everything that was advertised and more. 'Our ancestors worked for a living, he says. So should you.' He is, fortunately, aboriginal himself. If someone else stood up and said these things - the white columnist standing there with his mouth open, for example - you'd be seen as a racist. Instead, Chief Clarence Louie is seen, increasingly, as one of the most interesting and innovative native leaders in the country even though he avoids national politics. He has come here to Fort McMurray because the aboriginal community needs, desperately, to start talking about economic development and what all this multibillion-dollar oil madness might mean, for good and for bad. Clarence Louie is chief and CEO of the Osoyoos Band in British Columbia's South Okanagan. He is 44 years old, though he looks like he would have been an infant when he began his remarkable 20-year-run as chief.. He took a band that had been declared bankrupt and taken over by Indian Affairs and he has turned in into an inspiration. In 2000, the band set a goal of becoming self-sufficient in five years. They're there. The Osoyoos, 432 strong, own, among other things, a vineyard, a winery, a golf course and a tourist resort, and they are partners in the Baldy Mountain ski development. They have more businesses per capita than any other first nation in Canada. There are not only enough jobs for everyone, there are so many jobs being created that there are now members of 13 other tribal communities working for the Osoyoos. The little band contributes $40-million a year to the area economy. Chief Louie is tough. He is as proud of the fact that his band fires its own people as well as hires them. He has his mottos posted throughout the Rez. He believes there is no such thing as consensus, that there will always be those who disagree. And, he says, he is milquetoast compared to his own mother when it comes to how today's lazy aboriginal youth, almost exclusively male, should be dealt with. Rent a plane, she told him, and fly them all to Iraq. Dump'em off and all the ones who make it back are keepers. Right on, Mom. The message he has brought here to the Chipewyan, Dene and Cree who live around the oil sands is equally direct: 'Get involved, create jobs and meaningful jobs, not just window dressing for the oil companies.' 'The biggest employer,' he says, 'shouldn't be the band office.' He also says the time has come to get over it. 'No more whining about 100-year-old failed experiments.' 'No foolishly looking to the Queen to protect rights.' Louie says aboriginals here and along the Mackenzie Valley should not look at any sharing in development as rocking-chair money but as investment opportunity to create sustainable businesses. He wants them to move beyond entry-level jobs to real jobs they earn all the way to the boardrooms. He wants to see business manners develop: showing up on time, working extra hours. The business lunch, he says, should be drive through, and then right back at it. 'You're going to lose your language and culture faster in poverty than you will in economic development', he says to those who say he is ignoring tradition. Tough talk, at times shocking talk given the audience, but on this day in this community, they took it and, judging by the response, they loved it. Eighty per cent like what I have to say, Louie says, twenty per cent don't. I always say to the 20 per cent, 'Get over it.' 'Chances are you're never going to see me again and I'm never going to see you again' 'Get some counseling.' The first step, he says, is all about leadership. He prides himself on being a stay-home chief who looks after the potholes in his own backyard and wastes no time running around fighting 100-year-old battles. 'The biggest challenge will be how you treat your own people.' 'Blaming government? That time is over.' |
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