Update: Rosie O'Baglow
When Noam Chomsky says Canada's famously defrocked United Church minister Kevin Annett is "more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than many who have received it in the past," you can take his word for it if you want. And if you like, you can believe Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Corrigan-Maguire of the Belfast Peace People when she calls Annett "a courageous and inspiring man."
It's important to be fair, and to allow that sometimes people say things without really knowing what they're talking about and they might one day regret the things they've said.
But if you do believe these things, I'm afraid there are quite a few more things you are going to have to believe, because you can't have it both ways. If Kevin Annett really is prize-worthy and courageous, you will also have to believe this:
-One of Canada's most respected First Nations' leaders is trafficking in children from Northern British Columbia in a profitable pedophilia ring that's run out of the West Hastings Street premises of the swish Vancouver Club. His clients are Vancouver judges, politicians, and church leaders.
-Back in the 1930s, a team of German doctors arrived at the Kuper Island Indian residential school and began conducting strange medical experiments on the children. Employing large hypodermic needles, they injected some sort of toxin directly into the chests of the school's young inmates, and several were killed as a result.
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These are just a few of the stories Annett has been circulating since the early 1990s. He has failed to produce a shred of evidence. RCMP investigators who have looked into Annett's allegations always come up empty. Some of these stories the RCMP hasn't investigated because nobody's reported them, for reasons Annett explains as a distrust of the police.
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You might also be pleased to know that Annett is back with a new name (he has lately taken to calling himself Eagle Strong Voice) and his followers have established a new group, called the Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared, and they're off on a "wave of church occupations" across Canada.
Their routine is to show up with the media in tow, and then issue eviction notices, and then submit unanswerable demands that the churches confess to the mass graves they've been hiding. And then they demand that the churches return the remains of the children they've killed to the tribes they came from.
Hmmm sounds like Eagle Strange Voice has studied at the feet of our Human Rights Clousseaus. Typical that some of the same fools who support the Muslim Thugs suing Steyn and Levant also support Strange Voice. Recently a few participated in a "Mass Graves in Canada" Blogburst, decrying that the MSM has not picked up on this story. Somehow I think the MSM got this one one right.
Thanks to Terry Glavin for his fine report, the rest is here.
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Truth and Native Abuse: How one man's wild claims threaten success of Truth and Reconciliation
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- and the bishops dine on roast children
- and the local diocese was on the verge of inventing a "native" bomb
- and...(fill in favorite anti-Catholic Gossip here)
Food for looneys, not surprising Dawg drank this jonestown punch.
I always get a kick outta Dawg. He is such a throwback. I wonder that he won't implode one day should even a sliver of self-awareness penetrate.
Dawg, is your old style lefty, who needs to update his operating system to the 21st Century,
Just read about this Annett business by Glavin.
I believe Glavin because what he writes rings true -- because very similar things have happened to me.
What I fail to understand is why such allegations are readily believed. From my perspective it appears the lefties are easily manipulated; like they already bear a grudge.
Why is that? Why does my neighbour, for example, want to believe in global warming, that all glaciers are receding, that it was colder when Davidian Scarezuki was a boy in London Ontario? Even when the recent average global temperature is decreasing, when some glaciers are advancing, and when the Winter temperatures in London Ontario in the mid-40s were warmer.
Why don't lefties, in particular, check things out?
When one mentions freedom of speech atrocities (yes, they ARE atrocities) NDPee-ers appear, at first, sympathetic. But when they hear of their beloved Taliban Jack lending support to a Jew-hating Islamofacsist-terrorist, their eyes glaze over, and they want to change the subject fast.
Why is it that the lefty hates his country so much that s/he wants to give muzzi ingrate imports free rein (and reign!) to do us in even faster than they could manage on their own?
But much worse than that -- why do these same types (normally on the left) find the rantings of sociopaths, bipolars, or schizophrenics so appealing -- and convicting?
noel, I guess you're being rhetorical, but the short answer to your questions is that resentment is an inherently delusional state of mind, for all of us, no matter what real injustice it might grow from. If you study resentment in the spirit of Generative Anthropology, answers will come... the basis of our human symbolic language is our ability to refer to what is *not* present, and hence to what is not real. Whether we refer to the absent, the ineffable, in a spirit of love or resentment, this is how we defer conflict over real things, like, say, David Suzuki's car (he came around a corner and sped by me, poor pedestrian, the other rainy day, looking sheepish!). I want his car and I demand you recognize my right as a victim of his smug, speeding, conceit, to bring him down to size.
But it's not really about his car, it's about my sense of alienation from the sacred that Suzuki has wrongly co-opted. So ultimately it's about God. That's what's real, in human minds at least.
So if I can convince you that I'm more holy than Suzuki, then maybe I can modify by claim to his car, and settle for a share of his hot air time.
Oh, that pesky "rule of evidence" stuff. You know, like actually producing any evidence...
LOL good to see you James G.
Racist and Holocaust Denier maligns Residential School survivors and their advocate, Kevin Annett Eagle Strong Voice, in Tyee magazine
Statement by the Indigenous Elders of The International Human Rights Tribunal into Genocide in Canada (IHRTGC)
For International Media Release
30 April, 2008
Squamish Nation Territory ("Vancouver, Canada")
We are shocked and disgusted by an article that appeared this week in the west coast magazine "The Tyee", authored by Terry Glavin. This article is nothing more than a racist denial of the claims of residential school survivors that children died and were buried in mass graves across Canada.
The article is also a scathing and unsubstantiated personal attack on the one caucasian man who has fought consistently and with great self-sacrifice for residential school survivors in Canada, Reverend Kevin Annett, who has been given the sacred name Eagle Strong Voice by our elder and IHRTGC judge Chief Louis Daniels, and adopted by him into the Anishinabe Nation. We therefore consider any attack made upon Reverend Annett to be an attack on the Anishinabe people, and on us.
We consider The Tyee to have violated and dishonoured our people by printing this hateful and misleading article, and we demand its formal retraction and the public censure of Terry Glavin by the magazine and by all concerned citizens.
Until The Tyee takes these steps, we call upon all people to boycott this publication.
For generations we have fought against the kind of ignorance and racism spouted by Mr. Glavin, who is basically calling our people liars.
For example, Glavin insultingly refers to eyewitnesses' accounts of residential school graves as "urban legends ... like alligators in New York sewers" (!).
In effect, Glavin is saying that there are no mass graves of native children, when the very body he claims to support - the government's "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" - has already cited evidence that children in these schools were buried "four or five to a grave".
This is not an "urban legend", as Glavin sarcastically claims. This is the truth, as witnessed by Sylvester Greene, who personally buried an Inuit child at the United Church school in Edmonton in 1953; or William Combes, who saw a priest bury a child at the Kamloops Catholic school in 1964.
Is Glavin calling these men liars? Why has he not interviewed them, and given their story the same exposure as he has his hatred against Reverend Annett?
And why does Glavin falsely claim that the RCMP have "investigated" these claims and "found nothing"? This is an outright lie, for on countless occasions, we have taken this evidence to the RCMP, who have flatly refused to investigate. For they, like Mr. Glavin, are actively concealing this crime of genocide against our people.
With typical colonial arrogance, and speaking in the same tongue as our church and government abusers, Terry Glavin states that all our claims are already known, and that the history of the residential schools is not hidden. What a lie this is! The real story of these schools has only begun to be told, as is evident in Glavin's and The Tyee's refusal to reprint or comment on any of the evidence of murders, forced sterilizations and mass graves that we have submitted to them over the past four years.
Rather than help our people, Terry Glavin engages in the worst kind of character assassination and yellow journalism by attacking Rev. Annett personally, belittling and mocking the physical attacks made against him, and subjecting him to the same kind of cruelty that has been inflicted on him by those in church and state who are responsible for the torture and death of our children in residential schools. We therefore must ask if Glavin is working for these same destructive parties.
We are especially appalled that Glavin is posing as a "supporter" of our people while conducting such a hateful and destructive assault on our work and the word of residential school survivors. Lacking the honesty or courage to attack us directly, Glavin targets Reverend Annett, who he portrays as being the author of the claims of murder and mass burials at residential schools.
Let this be clear: the claims that Glavin is attacking concerning the murder and burial of residential school children do not emanate from Kevin Annett, but from hundreds of eyewitnesses who saw these killings, participated in burying children, or personally experienced the brutalities documented so accurately by Reverend Annett since 1996. Reverend Annett is simply the messenger of these accounts.
In that regard, we stand by every statement made by Reverend Annett concerning crimes in Indian Residential Schools, and we challenge Mr. Glavin and The Tyee to refute them with evidence of their own.
In addition, on March 16, 2008, Reverend Annett was appointed as the personal agent of hereditary Squamish Chief Kiapilano, on whose land Mr. Glavin lives and The Tyee is published. We therefore consider Terry Glavin and The Tyee to have violated their occupancy of Chief Kiapilano's land, and Chief Kiapilano's hospitality, and we call upon both Terry Glavin and The Tyee to vacate Squamish territory immediately.
Let us conclude by saying that we consider Terry Glavin's article to be an outright assault on all residential school survivors and their struggle to be heard and believed. Glavin and The Tyee have set back the clock and added to the crushing burden on our people by undermining that struggle.
We insist that, once it has relocated, The Tyee immediately open its pages to those residential school survivors who can speak of the murders they have witnessed, and the burial sites they know exist. If it refuses to, we must assume that the Tyee endorses the racist and irresponsible garbage written by Terry Glavin.
We call upon the world to endorse our condemnation and expulsion of Terry Glavin and The Tyee, and to boycott this magazine and person.
Sincerely, we are
The Indigenous Elders of the IHRTGC, coming from the Squamish, Cree, Metis, Anishinabe, Lakota and Six Nations under the traditional Land Law Jurisdiction of Turtle Island.
Chief Louis Daniels, presiding elder
contact: genocidetribunal@yahoo.ca
30 April, 2008
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