Somtimes I'm Just Filled With Hate

I was talking with my friend, Blackfoot Solicitor General James Craven, yesterday morning. I told him I had heard about the approximate $2 billion payout by the Canadian government for its role in the genocide of the Indians in their illegally occupied territories.

He told me of how my adoptive Blackfoot dad accepted the payout because he is so poor. Part of the reason he is so poor is because of illegal confiscation of his livestock by the illegal occupational government currently known as Canada. He, of course, was coerced into signing a document stating there will be no future litigations coming from him, otherwise he doesn't get the money. You see, just like the illegal occupiers to the South, Canada refuses to take responsibility for their actions. Why should they?! They have the military might to force impoverished nations (impoverished by the Canadian government) to do what they want them to or pay the price.

I have talked with my daughter, Felicia about taking responsibility for her actions. She's done some stupid and mean (though not realizing how mean it was at the time of her actions) things. She blamed others. I made sure she learned that it was not others who are responsible for the actions or inactions she has taken, it is hers, and she had to fix them!

The illegal government in the occupied territories of Canada doesn't want to take responsibility because taking the responsibility and facing actual justice for GENOCIDE is a pretty big thing. Afterall, Nazi's were hanged for the crime and some of them did absolutely no killing.

Jim also told me of a woman who was raped and tortured for 7 years by the Church of Canada. 7 YEARS! She was given $10,000 dollars for her torture and repeated rapes as a child by good christian folks. But wait, it wound up being $3,000 because they lawyers had to get their cut.

You know...sometimes I am just filled with hate...give me a reason not to be...

...Arnold Sylvester, who attended Kuper Island school between 1939 and 1945, corroborates this account.

“The priests dug up the secret gravesite in a real hurry around 1972, when the school closed. No-one was allowed to watch them dig up those remains. I think it’s because that was a specially secret graveyard where the bodies of the pregnant girls were buried. Some of the girls who got pregnant from the priests were actually killed because they threatened to talk. They were sometimes shipped out and sometimes just disappeared. We weren’t allowed to talk about this.” (Testimony of Arnold Sylvester to Kevin Annett, Duncan, BC, August 13, 1998).

From: Hidden from History: The Canadian Holacaust

Judicial Findings From The Inter-Tribal Tribunal on Residential Schools in Canada
(Held June 12-14 in Vancouver, B.C.)

Submitted by James M. Craven, Tribunal Judge

( c Copyright James M. Craven July 14, 1998, All Rights Reserved)

“You Can Recognize a Red Indian by His [or Her] Way of Life, Not by His [or Her] BloodPercentage.” Chief Lame Deer, Lakota

Some Principles and Concepts of Aboriginal Life and Law Guiding My Inquiry and Findings:
1. TRUTH, JUSTICE, HEALING, RECONCILIATION AND PREVENTION OF FUTURE
ABUSES: THE FOCUS OF INQUIRY, JUDGMENT and DISPOSITION:
“Probably one of the most serious gaps in the system is the different perception of wrongdoing and how to treat it. In the non-Indian community, committing a crime seems to mean that the individual is a ‘bad person’ and therefore must be punished...The Indian communities view a wrongdoing as ‘a misbehavior which requires teaching or an illness which requires healing.’“(Justice proposal by Sandy Lake First Nation (Oji-Cree) quoted in Ross, 1996, p.
5)

“Peacemaking is generally not as concerned with distributive justice or ‘rough and wild justice’ (revenge, punishment, control, determining who is right) as it is
with ‘sacred justice’. Sacred justice is that way of handling disagreements that helps mend relationships and provides solutions. It deals with the underlying causes of the disagreement...’Sacred justice is found when the importance of restoring understanding and balance to relationships has been acknowledged. A peacemaking process tends to be viewed as a ‘guiding process’, relationshiphealing’ journey to assist people in returning to harmony.” (Quoted in Ross, 1996, p. 27)