Canadian Apartheid at Vancouver Olympics Opening

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Stephen Pate

Our devotion to First Nations is reminiscent of Wild Bill’s Wild West Show

During the westward expansion of the United States, Native Americans were systematically abused through genocide and land appropriation.

Concurrent with the “Indian Wars”, one of the more popular entertainments was Wild Bill’s Wild West Show which featured lots of “Indians” in native costumes dancing and whooping it up for the crowds.

As the Vancouver Olympics opened with big native of First Nations fanfare, the hypocrisy of Canada’s apartheid was running around in my head.

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Human rights abuse at Vancouver Olympics on unprecedented level

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Stephen Pate

2,500 homeless people rounded up and incarcerated for not being scenic – remind anyone of Fascism in the name of sports ?

The business of the Vancouver Olympics – marketing, patriotism and religion – all in the name of amateur sport is getting a bad name around the world.

First the BC government suspended free speech. Vancouver Olympics more important than Charter

Then a security presence second to a major armed invasion force is rolled out. Canada looking more like German 1936 Olympics Lucky for the citizens of Vancouver some of the police are late or no shows for their duties.

Now the Guardian UK is reporting BC is suspending the human rights of 2,500 homeless people to their personal freedom. Is Canada a police state where the government can tell its citizens where to go? Even homeless people have Charter Rights. The solution for homelessness is not prison unless we want to revert to a pre-Human Rights era.
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Ashley Smith how to drive someone to commit suicide

Posted on January 9, 2010 by Stephen Pate

The Fifth Estate exposes inhumane treatment of Ashley Smith in documentary Out Of Control

Ashley Smith driven to suicide by the system

Ashely Smith had everything going against her. She was a native female with a mental disability. The Canadian penal system drove her to suicide.

The CBC Fifth Estate program is hard to watch. It’s an emotional body blow to see a teenager driven to suicide by the Canadian government’s mistreatment.

Starting with teenage rebellion, Ashley was imprisoned for throwing a crab apple at a postal worker.

For that she was put in jail for 3 years of hell. She was put in isolation, tasered repeatedly, put in a cage that makes Hannibal Lecter’s treatment in Silence of the Lambs look tame.

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Canada has no moral high ground on human rights with China

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Stephen Pate

Stephen Harper getting human rights award from Can Jewish Congress

Stephen Harper has been making loud noises about Chinese human rights only he now does it in the basement at 24 Sussex Drive

As a member of an enumerated group under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, my advice to Mr. Harper is fix your own problems before you tell a neighbor how to cut his grass.

Minorities in Canada have an uphill battle and those living with disabilities are among the those with the least human rights. Sorry if you are offended but if someone told you to go home and not enter a restaurant you’d be screaming bloody hell. If you were turned down for a job because of your skin color or hair color, you’d be outraged.

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Canadian Apartied

Posted on September 14, 2009 by NJN Network

Canadian Apartied from KK+

Making a land claim in Vancouver

Lebanese immigrant’s grandson leads charge against the natives

Posted on April 10, 2009 by NJN Network

Whew! Now will have some real intelligence and common sense from the “Love Canal” city councilor

Mitch Tweel, civic politician and argument against evolution "I like toxic wastes in a children's playground"

Mitch Tweel, civic politician "I like toxic wastes in a children's playground but no natives"

We can all breathe a collective sigh of relief. One of our most intelligent and insightful civic leaders is going to stir up the mud on the Agricultural Farm with a public hearing. You know I like a civic politician who can say “no” to toxic land reports and build a school playground on right on top of arsenic and old lead. You’ve got to admire that kind of stupidity and patronage. Liberal Minister Ronnie McKinley willing to poison children for profit

Next thing you know, old Mitch will be arming the locals, taking to the barricades along Belvedere Avenue or maybe leading a posse out to Scotchford. No siree Bob, none of them natives gonna settle in our city. We got toxic land, high taxes. The last immigrants, and the only immigrants Charlottetown needs, were the Lebanese, even if some of the grandchildren have an IQ below 80. Don’t sweat it: every city has one or two neanderthals in city hall.

I have a question. Is “The Staff” at the Guardian a pen-name for “this is a truly bad story no one wants to admit they wrote” ? They used the same writer for the lie about how unemployment improved last month.

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Miss Aboriginal PEI looks white European

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Stephen Pate

Miss Aboriginal PEI, 2nd from left looks white European

How dumb is that?

with Guardian story March 30, 2009, page C3

I’m not big on beauty contests under any circumstance. If aboriginals want to be as dumb as our dumbest non-aboriginals – white Europeans – go for it! There is a consensus somewhere that beauty contests are sexist and demeaning. There is no doubt men like to stare at women’s chests so the cleavage and bathing suit thing does get attention but c’mon. Anyway, that’s another topic. Continue reading →

Officials tailored reports involving use of force on Ashley Smith

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Byline

Grand Valley Prison, 7 guards watched without rescuing suicide victim Ashley Smith

Corrections Canada deeply mired in scandal, corruption and inhumane treatment of teenage prisoner

From the Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON, Canada, March 10, 2009

Managers at a federal prison repeatedly tried to curb the instances where they had to report use of force when dealing with Ashley Smith, a troubled inmate who eventually killed herself in her segregation cell, court transcripts obtained by The Globe and Mail show. In one instance, after guards reported that they applied a wrist lock on Ms. Smith to stop her from choking herself, a manager refused to rule that force had been used, insisting that she couldn’t see proof of it on video.

The new details bolster allegations that Ms. Smith’s controversial 2007 death occurred amid efforts by the managers at Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ont., and even regional managers, to contain the amount of paperwork generated by her near-daily attempts at self-harm. The focus on bureaucratic rules stands in stark contrast with the prison’s failure to deal with Ms. Smith’s mental distress. She was supposed to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital but there were no beds. Also, a grievance she filed, asking to end her solitary detention, went unopened until after her death.

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