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MNN The Real "Rat Pack" (Rats, summer and Canada's "Indian problem")

What do rats, summer and Canada's "Indian problem" have in common? Read Kahentinetha Horn's (MNN Mohawk Nation News) June 25th article and find out...

RATS CAN TEACH US SOMETHING - INDIAN SUMMER COLONIAL STYLE


MNN. June 25, 2006. Summer is the season when Canada likes to work on taking care of its “Indian problem”. Now is the time for us to ponder what is before us. We would like to sit outside and shoot the breeze beside the lakes and streams. But the colonial bureaucrats are sitting in their air conditioned 'war rooms' atop the tower of power.


This year their insulting tactics are really off the wall. First, they honored “Aboriginal Day” by dumping a truckload of manure on all Indigenous women. But it slid right off us like water off a duck’s back. They can say anything they want. It doesn’t bother us anymore. We’ve become almost immune to racism. Their trick was to have the RCMP pick up Sharon Simon of Kanehsatake and make as if she was the “Queen Pin” of the whole Hell’s Angels. She and her daughter were the only natives among the 35 arrested all the way from Montreal to Saskatchewan. The way they told it, everything happened at Kanehsatake.


Next, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said he wants all of us Indians to “get off” our land and “go home” – What? We are home! He made this announcement on his last day in the legislature so nobody could question him. When asked what he would do if we stayed, he just said, “We’ll see”. Then he ran away for the summer. Member of the Legislature, Toby Barrett, brought a busload of paid Caledonia provocateurs to the Ontario legislature just before it closed. Something’s being set up, right!


If history repeats itself, the summer months are when we can expect the big action. According to what has become a Canadian tradition, swarms of heavy duty cops and army troops will descend on Indian country. The Kanehsatake Oka Crisis was from July to September 1990. Gustafsen Lake and Ipperwash both finished in early September 1995 - just before the fall sessions of the provincial legislatures and Parliament.


We weren’t born yesterday! We can see what’s coming. We’ve cornered the rat. Our land has been reclaimed by the Six Nations people. Everything we’ve done has been legitimate. They can’t get out of it. What does a rat do when it can’t escape? He stands up on his hind legs and bares his teeth. What do we do? Take off his head, of course.


The rat we are facing is the quagmire called “Canada” and all its slimy tentacles – cops, judges, government, bureaucrats, corporations that control everything - ALL tied into their global control agenda.


What is it about us that they don’t like? We own the land. Canada, the gig is up! Your “crown land” hoax has been exposed. The Rotino’shon:ni/Iroquois and our friends and allies are the true United Nations. Our law, the Kaianereh’ko:wa/Great Law of Peace, is meant for everybody. Your law is just for you. And you wonder why you have to use guns to get your way?


We are getting some clues foreshadowing the coming events. The “powers that be” are scared that we Indigenous people everywhere are losing our fear of them. We are freeing our minds. What’s worse, their peons trapped in their society – the ones they thought were enslaved forever - are joining us.


When we have no fear we are in the perfect state, the natural reality. We can face all obstacles and resolve them using our minds. This is what scares the rat the most. He has all the weapons of mass destruction which the rabid rat is ready to use. What we have to do is take the rat’s head off by waking the people before they get rabies too.


When the politicians leave for the summer, the bureaucRATS and the police are in charge. That’s when the shit really hits the fan.


The rat survives by lying, twisting the facts, making false public displays in the media, bluffing, using the ignorant masses to do their dirty work so they can blame them and walk away smelling like roses. Of course, behind all that is the gun. They take out phony charges in the courts, cajole, and deceive everybody. The rat sneaks around doing all kinds of bad shit.


There never were rats on Turtle Island. The “old world rats” came with the colonists. It was a sign of trouble when the rats jumped ship in 1775. They were actually a breed of sewer rats. They are opportunistic survivors who live with or near humans, parasiting off them. In the English language calling somebody a “rat” is an insult. To “rat on someone” is to betray them.


This is what we are up against.


By most standards rats are considered beasts or vermin. They can be very destructive to crops and property. Rats can quickly “populate” when they have no predators or have killed them all off. It is likely that between one-fifth to one-third of the world’s total food output is either spoiled or destroyed by rats and other rodents. Who does this sound like? BureaucRATS are even worse. They take half the economy and more when they can.


Rats are nocturnal. They hide from the light. When rats are seen out and about in the daytime, it can mean their nesting areas are being disturbed or there is an overpopulation of them in the local area. This must be what’s happening in Caledonia.


We need a vermin control measure or super rat catchers to stop the spread of the diseases they carry, such as colonialism and genocide. Rats are rarely seen in the open preferring to hide in dirty places and dark holes like air conditioned offices. When they’re cornered, they take sick leave or go on long summer breaks.


We need a “Pied Piper”, like they had in Hamlin, dressed in red, yellow and black to guide the rats back to where they came from. Just like the story of July 13th 1336, the corporation and the mayor did not keep their promises [sound familiar?]. As a result all their children were lured away and never seen again. History is repeating itself. The colonial rats too may lose their children. Their children may end up following the ways of the Indigenous people. The cat, the Great Law of Peace, is out of the bag. Look out rats. Here comes the cat!



Kahentinetha Horn

MNN Mohawk Nation News
www.mohawknationnews.com
kahentinetha2@yahoo.com

Tags for this entry: Six Nations, Turtle Island, rats.

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