Okay - so most of you know me and know where I live so this won't shock you. This is just to blog worthy not to comment on so.... I take a step towards being less anonymous so to speak...
This protest is a couple of blocks from my house. I can walk up to the barricades in less than 5 minutes. I am extremely pissed off about this entire situation. The government should have dealt with these land claims ages ago. I also disagree with setting cars and tires on fire and terrorizing a neighborhood full of small children...
The news has misrepresented our town. We don't all just think this should be allowed to go on. We don't all support this protest. I support education not occupation. This has reached terrifying proportions and it is real. I also don't like that the town people are throwing rocks at the occupants. This is our home- ALL of us. I really don't think it is okay to run around shouting veiled threats with gas masks and bandannas on your faces. I resent that we have been told as a collective to "go back where we came from" . I was born here - same as you. I have nowhere to go - nor do I wish to. It is hurtful and I have no control over what people I have never met have done - I only control my own actions. Obviously not all Native people feel this way - so I don't wish to imply they do. I just wish to point out that a lot of anger and frustration is being misdirected. I have an open mind and a good sense of what is fair. I accept that all people live together in a bigger picture - on earth. We are all people and all of us deserve to be here.
If this land belongs to the Native people -I hope our government returns it to them or negotiates fairly. Deal with all of the land claims and find some way to put an end to this. Bottom line is - I hold the government and their lack of attention to these matters at fault for this situation escalating to this point.
Now....I think I am going to fly over to Scotland and demand the land my clan lost hundreds of years ago so I have somewhere to live....;-D. JUST KIDDING. That's my twisted sense of funny for you....
Have a lovely Sunday...
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I don't blame you. I don't get this. They are trying to provoke something and nobody is stopping them. And then the rest of Canada with nothing to do says - why not let's go blow up some shit and scare a nice little town today...
Where is the government in all this?
That's my point. The Government needs to deal with this - bottom line is I hold them responsible for this entire thing.
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