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Rally for native cause

Published: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 by Eric Lloyd
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A Six Nations' rally throughout the city attracted more than 100 native and non-native supporters to raise awareness for land claim issues.

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granny wrote:   Mike and Ed: Developers have fallen victim to our governments that evade our laws. If you run into problems despite your 'permits', then take your complaints where they belong: To the city and province that issued the permits in violation of the law.

Your problems are not for Six Nations to solve: It's our governments that operate outside the law, causing problems for developers.

With the knowledge now available to everyone, any developer who continues to 'purchase' land under claim by Six Nations needs to take his head out of the sand and give it a really good shake!

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Bottom Line wrote:   Granny and Sakoieta' have fallen (or leapt) into a collectivist trap. But that's ok, they're not the only ones.

The truth is, the land belongs to neither the crown nor to impostors claiming the birthright of their forefathers. It belongs to whoever brought it into productive use. The land was UNOWNED. The fact that Mike, for example, could not build on the land without paying tribute to the city is irrelevant.

The crown never owned the land, and neither did those claiming to speak on behalf of this factitious entity known as "Six Nations". Land rights belong to individuals, not groups. Native land claims is pure racist BS. If natives want justice, then abolish the reserve system, legalize private property for natives, and stop embracing socialist slavery as a sacred heritage.

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TIM REYNOLDS wrote:   Fictitious?!Bigotted comments that have no historical or fact base.The reality is bottomline you wish to keep up the same standard of theft going.Shame on you.

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Bottom Line wrote:   Tim, theft presupposes a victim. Who are the victims? A group of people who, through the accident of birth, happened to be born in a certain region? If there are any theft, it is the band council and tribal "leaders" who presume to speak for them. And yes, the Canadian government,which continues to uphold the racist Indian Act. In a way, the native activists and their white groupies are the systems most dutiful grunts.

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Respector wrote:   I respect the indigenous people of this land. They lived in great hardship.

They've all been dead for centuries.

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