Wake up Canada!! Its time to put your differences aside and stand together against the threat called the United States and their goals to assimilate us. America is the biggest threat to our distinct cultures that make us Canadian.
The recent SPP Protest in Montebello Quebec and the Police infiltration should be the wake up call everyone needs. The whole point of the conference is to remove our currency and our Canadian freedom to adapt to a new currency called the “Amero”. Doing so would place your money in the hands of the USA and their Federal Reserve Private Bankers. American corporate Imperialism called freedom is trying to control and kill our country. Its time to stand up and say, “bugger off” to all American influence.
I feel like I’m in a Star Trek episode and America is like the “BORG” , they say, “Resistance is Futile”…the Conservative Government doesn’t have the balls to stand up for Canadian Interests and instead they bend to American political and corporate wishes. Just as they have always done with examples such as with Free Trade, and the Avro Arrow.
Not only has the Harper Government turned down a public inquiry into the incident at Montebello, they have denied Canadian citizens their right to know. It is as if Harper personally ordered undercover cops to infiltrate a peaceful protest to incite a riot. That is a tactic the Nazi’s used in the 1930’s. Can it be proved, no, but he is the commander in chief and therefore he is responsible. So why has he decided not to hold an inquiry? Why isn’t the press all over this?
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Stand Up Canada!
This is a rally cry for all of Canada’s people. Stand up and DEMAND our exit from Afghanistan by the spring of 2008. The Liberals and Conservatives should never have put our soldiers in harms way! We support our soldiers 100% that is why we want you to bring them home!! “Get Up, Stand Up”, stand up for your rights!
If your MP’s cannot pledge to you that they will oppose the things killing our nation such as the War in Afghanistan, Concentration of Action to reduce Global Warming, Removal of International Bankers control on our Currency, and to exit the Security and Prosperity Partnership, then its time to vote for someone who will take action!!!
I will not sit by and watch my country bend to the USA anymore!! Stop buying American products, don’t buy insurance from their companies, don’t eat at their restaurants, stop buying their cars, demand a War crimes trial against the USA for waging aggressive war in Iraq and for committing war crimes such as the phosphor bombing in Fallujah Iraq.
Documentary 2005 "Hidden Massacre”
Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre is a documentary film by Sigfrido Ranucci and Maurizio Torrealta which first aired on Italy's RAI state television network on November 8, 2005. The film documents the use of weapons that the documentary asserts are chemical weapons, particularly the use of incendiary bombs, and alleges indiscriminate use of violence against civilians and children by military forces of the United States of America in the city of Fallujah in Iraq during the Fallujah Offensive of November 2004.
The film's primary themes are:
Establishing a case for war crimes against civilians committed by the United States.
Documenting evidence for the use of chemical devices by the US military.
Documenting other human rights abuses by American forces and their Iraqi counterparts.
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Send an e-mail to the “Office of the Prosecutor” at the International Criminal Court of Justice on behalf of the Canadian people. I have, and you should to. Here is the information;
International Criminal Court of Justice Web
Office of the Prosecutor e-mail address;
otp.informationdesk@icc-cpi.int
…And if you don’t have access to a computer then send a letter to the Hague.
International Criminal Court
Maanweg 174 - 2516 AB The Hague
The Netherlands
Att: Office of the Prosecutor
Here is the Court case number I was given. Please use it. “OTP-CR-231/07”
Call your Political Representative:
Demand that your country invest in renewable energy and new technology to combat Global Warming! Don’t let us fall behind the world in technical solutions or industry. Don’t let the American insurance companies undermine all our provincial Medicare systems. Stop them from eroding our everyday life pleasures such as children’s sports, or unsupervised swimming in lakes and rivers or making us pay to insure everything under the sun. Demand that the Canadian Government stop siding with American War Criminals from Washington.
Siding with American War Criminals like George Bush and Dick Cheney makes Canada look bad in the international community. We do not want any part of their Fascism!! Restore our honour, we are NOT a warring nation, we are a peaceful nation. Government is supposed to work for you, not the other way around. Stop International bankers from enslaving the Canadian people to debt. Remove the central Banks lawlessness on credit and debt before they take everything from you in an economic crunch! This is the only chance we have. Do it now before your freedoms disappear!
Yours Truly,
Stewart Brennan
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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What Really Happened at Montebello Quebec,
ReplyDeleteI wasn't entirely sure what to expect when I arrived in Montebello on
Monday morning, to protest the Security and Prosperity Partnership
(SPP). I had left from London the Saturday prior, travelling by carpool
with other activists. None of us had any experience with protests of
this intensity or magnitude. Long before we reached the town limits we
had been exposed to a non-stop campaign of disinformation; the residents
of Montebello didn't want us there, they were closing businesses, there
was only going to be a few hundred people protesting, etc. . . Nothing I
had seen or heard prepared me for the surprise that awaited me.
We hadn't even reached the town yet when the police presence became
noticeable. After passing through two police checkpoints, we drove
through Papineauville. In this small Quebec town, around 6km east of
Montebello, the police were guarding a boarded up McDonald's restaurant.
This blatant display of the corporate-state alliance came as a shock
even to the seasoned activists within our ranks. In total we were told
that around 3000 police were present, including police from the Quebec
Provincial Police, Ontario Provincial Police, York Region Municipal
Police, Peel Region Municipal Police, and the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police.
We continued our drive through Papineauville, and the police presence
only became stronger. Police were now standing ever 10m along the side
of highway 148, heading towards Montebello. As soon as the 3m high
security fence surrounding Chateau Montebello, the posh resort where the
secret meeting was taking place, came into view our car was stopped
along with two school buses filled with protesters. Eventually we were
allowed to continue into the town.
Protesters had congregated near the independent media centre around 600m
down the street from the front gates of the Chateau. The town itself was
quite beautiful; a quaint yet picturesque Quebec resort town. It seemed
on odd setting for another battle in the war against globalization, but
it was here that the ruling classes had decided to hold their meeting
and it was here that we would give them a showdown.
After parking our car on a side street, we managed to join the parade to
the front gates of the Chateau Montebello. We grabbed goggles to protect
against teargas, bandannas to protect our identities, distributed
first-aid supplies amongst our group, and picked up our drums. Marching,
we flew our upside-down Comerica flag emblazoned with the slogan "UNITED
WE FALL", all the while keeping a steady march beat.
The parade was impressive in-and-of-itself. Over 10 000 activists and
Montebello residents filled the streets. We came from a variety of
causes; there were anarchists, communists, environmentalists, LGBT
activists, and other progressives of all sorts. Despite our differences
we were able to stand united against secret, anti-democratic deals,
corporate power, and most of all the SPP.
Making our way through the crowd, me and my group came to be near the
front where the police were blocking the march from making it to the
gates of the Chateau. Initially the baton-wielding police were in a
loose formation but upon seeing the sheer mass of our movement they
consolidated their lines across all four lanes of highway. All the while
we continued to drum, and the protest remained peaceful.
It wasn't long before the police, clad in olive and from the Surete du
Quebec (Quebec Provincial Police), began pushing against the crowd. I
managed to get to the front to help hold our line and put my bucket drum
between myself and the officer in front of me. I asked questions such as
"Why are you doing this to us?", "What have we done that warrants
this?", and "Aren't you concerned about what's going on inside of the
closed-door meetings?". The only reply I garnered was "Go back!" and a
baton to the jaw.
Unfortunately not all were as lucky when it came to this direct
confrontation with the police. Kevin Lomack, trade unionist and member
of the Council of Canadians from London, was pulled into the police
lines and arrested for peacefully resisting the police advancement.
Witnesses of his arrest confirm that he was not violent towards the
police in any manner. It gradually became clearer and clearer that the
police weren't discerning between violence and non-violence and had
already decided that all of us were their enemies.
Realizing that we were fighting a losing battle trying to push the
police back, those of us in the middle of the highway near the median
opted for an impromptu sit-in. Following calls of "Sit down!" and
"Assi!", the other protesters near the front followed suit. The police
remained violent towards the protesters, kneeing several in the head.
They were however unable to move us and we actually managed to move our
line forward, inching ahead as the police shifted members on and off the
line.
Word then began spreading that a group of anarchists had just left from
the Montebello train station and were heading towards the front to
attempt to push through the police line. The police heard as well, and
the latest shift wore gas masks to prepare for the tear-gas onslaught.
Many of us sitting down scrambled to cover our own bandannas in vinegar
to avoid the pain of being gassed. Despite the continued police presence
and instigation cries of "Peaceful protest!" rang out above the crowd.
Our intentions were clear.
I then saw one of the most shocking events of the day. Several
corporate-media reporters had been congregating near the front of the
lines, and many were allowed through the police line in order to report
from the other side. Through a gap in the police line I managed to see
one reporter and cameraman being told to leave, so as to allow the
police to step up their violence without media coverage. The corporate
reporter gladly complied.
It was shortly after the sit-in began when the anarchists finally
marched to the front lines. Their coming was heralded by a massively
loud car-mounted stereo-system playing inspirational music, as well as
an agile protester who managed to climb a lamppost to hang a black-flag
from the top. An American flag was also hung from the lamppost and
burned to great cheers from the crowd. The only disappointment was that
Canadian the Canadian flag wasn't burned along side.
The police then began stepping up their campaign of violence on the
protesters and fired some tear-gas into a group of Marxist
revolutionaries from the RCP-PRC on the other side of the median. They
were dispersed, but others quickly filled their places in order to hold
the line. On our side of the median police began advancing on the
sitting protesters closest to the Chateau's gates. One protester grabbed
onto a tree for fear of being arrested and remained there for at least
two hours. His hands were severely beaten by police with batons,
possibly leading to broken fingers, and he was kicked by police to the
point that his legs bled. It was clear that he was in a great deal of
pain but he kept holding onto the tree. To my knowledge the police were
not able to arrest him that day.
Around 200m down the street, the police had split the protest in half by
taking positions along the wall of an elevated graveyard at the main
intersection in Montebello. This show of force isolated those of us at
the front lines, and pushed thousands of protesters back towards the
east end of town. I was not able to see if the police used tear-gas to
disperse the crowd in this instance, but the speed at which the crowd
dispersed would suggest they did.
Meanwhile, in the chaos that was unfolding at the front, I had been
separated from my group. I left the sit-in and managed to find most of
them supporting the protester who was still hanging onto the tree. What
ensued was nothing less than incredible; amidst all the police
repression the artistic spirit could not be crushed. A spontaneous
jam session that consisted of all kinds of drums, cowbells, dancing, and
vocalists arose to the beat of a lone man carrying a yak-horn horn and
singing "Ommmm...". This lasted for approximately two hours until one of
the police officers grabbed a cow-bell from a female protester. This was
met with angry cries of "MORE COW-BELL!". The cowbell was never
returned.
Once again we began to beat on our drums but this was cut short when
speeches rang out from the other side of the median. In both English and
French the speakers lauded the protesters and provided inspirational
words. One of the speakers yelled "Today, Canadian troops continue to
occupy Afghanistan so we have every right to be in their face and to
confront this summit!". All of this was in spite of several canisters of
an unknown white powder that police had begun firing to clear the crowd
on the other side of the median.
Shortly after the speeches were finished, an elderly woman near the
front of the police lines was hit in the face with a pepper-spray
canister, fired at point blank range by the police. The impact and
subsequent release of chemicals blinded the woman. The attack came
completely unprovoked; the woman had been a peaceful protester. After
six hours of peaceful protest, it was this act that led to the violence
that was coming.
Following the blatant show of police brutality, several of the
protesters on the other side of the median from where my group was began
hurtling rocks at the police. This was not unprovoked aggression on part
of the protesters; the police had been firing tear-powder canisters and
pepper-spray all day. It was the police brutality displayed in firing at
the elderly woman that set off a powder keg of frustrations. Violence on
the part of the protesters was purely an act of self-defence.
As opposed to stopping the escalating violence the police continued on.
They now began firing plastic bullets into the largely retreating crowd
of protesters. One man was hit in the leg four times and was not able to
walk away. The entire time the people in my section of the median had
been doing nothing but playing instruments or standing. It came as a
great surprise when the police advanced on us.
Our side of the median was a purely peaceful zone; nothing was thrown at
the police, and we kept a distance of 1m between ourselves and the
police line. This did not matter to the blue-clad members of the RCMP as
they began firing tear-powder canisters into our side and advancing on
us. As this continued it became impossible to stay in our area, and I
was forced to flee due to the gassing.
Many of the retreating protesters headed towards a small creek around
100m from the gates of the Chateau in order to escape the chaos and wash
their eyes out. The injuries sustained did not matter to the police
present; instead they saw the congregation of wounded protesters as an
easy target and fired more tear-powder into our general direction. I was
helping a blinded protester from Montreal with water that I was carrying
in my backpack when I had to run away because of the powder in the air.
With my eyes stinging I stumbled forward through the chaos past the main
intersection. Fortunately a woman saw the pain I was in and offered
lemon to rub on my eyes. I was skeptical at first but once I tried it
the pain went away almost immediately. It wasn't long before I saw
another protester in a great deal of pain, and so I began searching
through my bag for a grapefruit that I had packed. Thankfully, despite
not being a lemon, the grapefruit worked and relieved the man of the
burning sensation the powder had caused.
I then began to move towards the main intersection in town handing out
pieces of grapefruit to those that needed it. Even though the crowd was
completely in retreat at this point the police were still firing
tear-powder into the mass of people. Once I had run out of grapefruit I
was on the receiving end of another tear-powder attack, and was forced
to run blindly searching for a hose that a resident of Montebello was
allowing us to use to clean our eyes. Thankfully a group of anarchists
lit a bonfire in the middle of the street preventing the police from
advancing any further.
Little did we know at the time --though it was suspected-- that agent
provocateurs, in other words the "plain-clothes officers" that the
police had admitted to planting with our line, had started the violence.
After six hours of peaceful protest the police agents began to throw
rocks at the police on the line, which resulted in the police
retaliating against peaceful protesters. Indeed several times during the
day police were seen hand signalling with "protesters". Other
"protesters" were breaking apart the asphalt and using one of our
bucket-drums in order to collect rocks and place them near the median.
When one member of my group heard about this he spent several hours
collecting the rocks and throwing them over a fence where they could not
be used.
What finally provided the undeniable evidence that police agents were
attempting to start violence occurred shortly after 3PM. Union leader
Dave Coles (of the CEP) attempted to take rocks from the hands of three
burly looking men dressed as anarchists. Other protesters accused them
of being police, and instead of turning away the three retreated towards
the police line. After one of the men conversed with police, the three
were allowed through the line where they were "arrested" and brought to
white vans. Later footage showed that the three men were wearing the
exact same combat boots as were issued to the Quebec Provincial Police.
By the time 7PM rolled around most of the violence had ended. The police
had consolidated their position near the main intersection and were now
guarding a gas station. As the sun set, my group geared up for one more
march through the streets. Shielding our eyes against the gleam of
visors in the distance we flew our banner high (along with a newly
acquired red flag) and marched towards the police while playing our
drums. Upon reaching the intersection we stopped, but were eventually
forced to move back due to the tear-powder that was still present in
piles on the ground. As we marched through the streets residents cheered
us on for showing the police that despite the fact they had won the
battle, they had not yet won the war.
The tear-powder remained on the streets until around 10PM when a
street-cleaner made its way through the town, making it nearly
impossible for residents and pets to go about their normal lives. The
police showed no remorse in firing the possibly toxic substance into
residential and forested areas, most likely doing a great deal of damage
to the local ecosystem. We met one man that was forced to save a dog
whose owner had been arrested; the dog was tied to the gas station and
had been exposed to the tear-powder for four hours. Once the man sprayed
antacid solution onto the dog's face it collapsed in relief.
One of the highlights of the day occurred later on in the evening. Some
of my group were walking through the street when two residents
approached us with their small dog. They began to complain about the
police, and welcome us to Montebello. When asked how they felt about the
SPP the oldest of the two men responded "Bush, Harper... assholes!
Tabernac! The cops are jerks, you guys are cool. You are most welcome
here,".
Unfortunately we were unable to return to Montebello on Tuesday due to
a car accident we were involved in while heading to the encampment to
sleep (nobody was seriously hurt). I would like to commend the brave
individuals who did return, in spite of the excruciating experiences the
day before. Contrary to what the corporate media showed there were
several hundred protesters within Montebello on Tuesday, and bonfires
were again lit in the streets to prevent the police from advancing. But
then again the corporate media coverage came as no surprise; if 10 000
can become a few hundred, and working-class resistance can become "sad",
surely a few hundred with bonfires blazing was easily dismissed as
nothing.
Martin
I don't know who he is but everything is accurate except the count of
protesters - not anywhere near 10,000, more like 1,000. Maybe it's a typo.
The other thing is that there was no pepper spray or tear gas or powder
anywhere else but the front of the line, right at the doors to the Chateau,
unless it happened right at the end of the day, around 6 p.m. when everybody
had to retreat, or else they would all be arrested. And I was pretty close
to the front until about 5:15.
Very good report, overall...
Thanks for providing contact information to the International Court. Can Americans use the same case number as you recieved for your complaint to the International Court? Or must we get a different case number? Peace.
ReplyDelete@ Court Case Number...Yes, please feel free to use the number in your letter or email to the International Criminal Court of Justice (Office of the Prosecutor). In fact, you can even quote the number and ask the Court the same question in your communication. Lets shove justice in the faces of Bush & Cheney…and their corporate backers. Fighting back with the truth and higher moral ground is the best way to stick it to them. :o)
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