PHONE ACTIVISM to stop uranium mining and support First Nations

SLIMEY "BOTTOM FEEDER" CAUGHT IN SHARBOT LAKE

SLIMEY “BOTTOM FEEDER” CAUGHT IN SHARBOT LAKE MNN Sharbot Lake. Feb. 10, 2008. The phoney “Algonquin” protest to stop a uranium mine at Robertsville, near Sharbot Lake, has started up again. The original protest encampment at the mine gates started last summer. It’s one hour north of Kingston Ontario. Chief Doreen Davis of “Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation”, Robert Lovelace of “Ardoch Algonquins” and six other people face charges in mid February for contempt of court and a $77 million lawsuit launched by Frontenac Ventures Corp. The land in question is the area south of the Ottawa River which is part of Haudenosaunee Territory of the Mohawk Nation. The “Algonquin” visitors are claiming this land and trying to make a settlement with Ontario and Canada. Who is Rem Westland? Why is he concerned about what MNN writes? He contacted MNN. He has a cottage at Sharbot Lake. He graduated from the Royal Military College in Kingston in 1970. He taught at Carleton University in Ottawa and then entered the civil service. He worked at the Privy Council Office (PCO) from 1989 to 1991. He became Director General of Claims and Treaty Land Entitlement at Indian Affairs from 1991 to 1995. He became Director General at Ontario Aboriginal Affairs from 1995 to 1997. this guy sure knows how to rise to the top and siphon off the cream. At National Defense he became Director General of Realty Policy and Plans and then Assistant Deputy Minister from 1998 to 1999. What a choice resume! Don’t you just wonder how he got to be born under such a lucky colonial star! The Privy Council Office (PCO) is made up of unelected people who run the government behind the scenes. There are 16 secretariats with catchy Orwellian names like "Social Development Policy", "Machinery of Government", "Foreign and Defense Policy, "Security and Intelligence" and "Orders in Council". They write policies and give information to the Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers. In other words, these are the guys that pull the strings. Forget about Demcoracy 101. They issue a lot of “Orders in Council”. This is a nifty way to do an end run around Parliament. It lets the shady powers that be do as they please. Rem Westland has been involved in military and colonial confrontations with Indigenous communities like the Mohawk Oka Crisis in 1990, “Ipperwash” in 1995 and nuclear testing at “ Nanoose Bay ” in 1999 in British Columbia. After the Mohawk Oka crisis Rem moved on to Indian Affairs and became the Director General of Claims and Treaty Land Entitlement. His associates were Indian Affairs Deputy Minister Dan Goodleaf [a Canadian of Mohawk ancestry from Kahnawake] and Associate Deputy Minister Rick Van Loon, all Mulroney appointees. They did everything they could to force Liberal Minister of Indian Affairs Ron Irwin to hand over the Lubicon Cree of Alberta issue to their pre-prepared base at the Justice Department. According to Fred Lennarson, advisor to the Lubicon Cree for over 25 years, "Federal negotiators deliberately broke down Lubicon negotiations in January of 1989 with a "take-it-or-leave-it" offer. They knew it was unacceptable as it made no provision for the Lubicon Cree to become economically self-sufficient." Then Indian Affairs created the “Woodland and Loon Cree First Nations” nearby to throw the Lubicon claim into total confusion. The Woodland Cree leadership was offered $30,000 for every Lubicon they could recruit to join them. Doesn’t that sound familiar? Rem was at Ontario Aboriginal Affairs when Dudley George was murdered by the Ontario Provincial Police at Ipperwash on September 6 1995. Rem’s name comes up in the Ipperwash Inquiry Report as a shady government character throwing his weight around. How do you like that? In 1998 to 1999 at National Defense Rem as Assistant Deputy Minister of Infrastructure & Environment and Director General of Realty Policy & Plans oversaw five other directorships: Nuclear Safety; Environment; Military Engineering; Infrastructure & Environment which includes Human Resources, information management and language quality; and Canadian Forces Housing Agency. Is that why their houses are almost as bad as the Ongwehonwe. Hey, man! This guy’s got more power than the Prime Minister. At Nanoose Bay Rem negotiated the Nanoose Expropriation crisis in 1999. The U.S. military leased the area to test nuclear torpedoes in the Georgia Straits off Vancouver Island. The lease was going to end in 1999. The U.S. wanted to renew it so they could keep their nukes splashing around in the bay and their nuclear submarines cruising the waters. Each sub, two football fields long, can carry and launch enough nuclear missiles to "destroy every capital city in the northern hemisphere." [Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility] "...Naval nuclear reactors in BC contain as much radiation in their core as several nuclear bombs, and use uranium fuel 133 times more enriched than a CANDU reactor. Nine nuclear propulsion reactors already litter the ocean floor along with 50 "lost" nuclear war heads”. OMG! That is dangerous! The sea water is going to eat into them. What a legacy for the future generations! Westland signed an agreement with B.C. negotiator Lorne Seitz to keep nukes out of Nanoose Bay. David Anderson revoked it, which probably was the plan. The Pentagon gives $1 a year to Ottawa who turned it over to B.C. for the rent. We hope B.C. doesn’t go crazy over this windfall! As Director General of Realty Policy and Plans from 1997 to 2003, Rem predicted and reported on "realty support" for defense, such as "lands, facilities and works". Facilities include bio-defense and research labs such as MREL [Mining Research Engineering Limited] at the Robertsville mine site. Last July the Mohawks caught MREL making and testing bombs and radiation dispersal devices. Nearby the military practiced maneuvers on a swing bridge at Ragged Chutes. Works includes roads, water and utilities. There is an army base, prisons, military colleges, universities and other military support institutions throughout the area. They need to get us out so they can set up extensive military installations on Haudenosaunee territory for who knows what? Once the bit of uranium is dug up at Sharbot Lake and the people have fled the radiation, what military plans are in place to inflate Canada 's self-proclaimed image as an "energy and military superpower"? Rem gathers financial, legislative and legal information for Defense. He has the Indian Affairs and Defense background to grease the wheels involving the pretend "Algonquins", the uranium mining companies and the military establishment. He is now vice-president of “Corporate Research Group” as “team leader for Aboriginal Affairs”. They have contracts with Indian Affairs to pave an agreement between the Quebec Crees and Canada and Quebec for more dams and hydroelectric development on the many great rivers in Cree territory. Rem’s specialty is to advise Aboriginal groups to buy land or businesses. If the Aboriginal group is in good standing with government officials, he can arrange financing. Rem and his company advise the colonial governments, agencies and multinationals on how to cut to the chase by separating rights and business agendas. It sounds like he can ram through a uranium mine before any Native land claim is ever settled. In his association with the Sharbot Lake Property Owners Association he publicly takes the environmentalist's point of view, but does the opposite behind the scenes. The association is part of the Federation of Ontario Cottagers Association (FOCA) committe which is currently reviewing the Ontario Mining Act. They want subsurface rights for their "properties" so they can decide on a uranium mine instead of prospectors coming in with $25 claims. What about the real owners of this beautiful area, the Haudenosaunee? Who are the other property “owners” working with him. Rem doesn’t work alone! Rem sent a very telling email to MNN on February 8th: "I think the "Algonquin Claim" negotiations are very vulnerable, and will not settle, for a very long time...unless the parties … feed the historical facts onto the negotiations table. There is a great reluctance to do this … because there is a great big fiction going on which works well enough for some people..." [Is he referring to himself. Robert Lovelace and Doreen Davis, to name a few?] "What should really be a Mohawk/Huron/Algonquin [Haudenosaunee] claim in the Frontenacs is misrepresented as an Algonquin claim - and people of First Nations descent must register as Algonquin to participate - simply for reasons of… historical denial…. because the record is very clear that the Algonquin did not have residency after the Mohawk came in [with the Hurons who are also Haudenosaunee. Both were there forever], and [the Algonquin] only began to establish residency long after contact. It serves the purpose of governments (federal and provincial) to support the fiction of continuous Algonquin presence." Canada and Ontario put funds through “Algonquin Nation Negotiations Directorate” ANND, incorporated by Ontario, to pay for this fraud to steal Haudenosaunee territory. The ANND board is native and non-native. MNN answered Rem on February 8th as follows: “You seem to be making the assumption that "settling" your fraudulent claims to our land is desirable for our people. Can't you see how unsettling it is? As you yourself admit, this is Haudenosaunee land. There is nothing to settle and never will be. All you have to do is just stop lying about history. That’s all there is to it! “There is no legitimate Algonquin land claim in that area as everyone knows. There is no point getting back to square one because there is no square one. The whole deal is a totally non-sensical fraudulent scam. Are you the architect of all this b.s.? “…There's no doubt about it, everyone involved is committing a crime. They have knowledge that they do not own what they are dealing with and they have the intent to dispossess us, the rightful owners. You know full well that we never gave you or anyone else the right to negotiate for our land. There is nothing to talk about. Go home and stop making money from everything that you are stealing from us. You are scamming the Canadian public, … chattering about something that you know nothing about and have less authority over it than a blue jay sitting in the tree where his ancestors have nested for millenia. “ … go back to wherever your ancestors came from and look after your ancestral homeland which must be neglected because you have been here far too long. … go there and [see] if you really believe that your lethal military bases and chemical weapons are good for humanity, go sell it to your own relatives. “ … you'd better stay off Haudenosaunee land if you have a single honest bone left in your body. You are a trespassing interloper and a bad guest. We know what you’ve done. Because of this, you are not welcome”. kahentinetha Rem told MNN this mediation was supposed to be a “done deal”. The truth MNN put out derailed the criminal conspiracy. How many scumbags like Rem are running around doing all this dirty work for their corporate masters? You guys can’t hide forever. You’ll be found and outed! You may be able to fool a few people right now, but the coming generations will be able to see what you’ve been up to - if you don’t destroy the earth, that is! The Canadian government seems to be a magnet for crooks. The courts are biased in favor of the bureaucracy. They've supported the illegal colonization of Indigenous peoples for centuries. How can such criminal opportunism be stopped? Iakoha'ko:wa near Sharbot Lake, Haudenosaunee Territory Write Rem at . Or call him at 613 748-3945 (home) or 613 596-2910 x525 (office) or 613 279-2143 (cottage). His mailing address is 157 Acacia Ave., Rockcliffe, ON K1M 0R4 Sources and Notes: http://www.ccnr.org; http://www.dnd.ca; http://www.nisto.com; http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca; http://www.slpoa.ca; http://www.thecrg.com; http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca;[/b]

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