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1) This isn't about "reserve" land. It's about the entire 22,000 sq km of traditional territory of the Wet'suet'en Nation, recognized in our law as unceded land with Aboriginal rights and title intact. (Delgamuukw 1997) 2) RCMP have no jurisdiction in Toronto, except for certain Federal offenses, but Toronto City Council could tell RCMP to take a hike, otherwise. 3) RCMP are not harassing people on reserves where elected Band Councils have a say. 4) It's a matter of Canadian law, and governments' failure to abide by the law. The Crown has a duty to consult with Wet'suet'en Aboriginal rights and title holders. Premier Horgan paid lip service to that for one tiny minute, but then refused to do so: (Wearing a ceremonial Indigenous 'blanket', congratulating himself on making UNDRIP law in BC ...) BC NDP Premier John Horgan, December 2019: ""Let's sit down *with the title holders* whose land we want to conduct economic activity on and create partnerships as a way forward. That works," " ------- BC NDP Premier John Horgan, January 2020: "Wet'suwet'en territory ... telling CBC he wasn't going to "drop everything I'm doing to come running when someone is saying they need to speak with me." ... "the rule of law needs to prevail in B.C." to ensure work continues on the 670-km pipeline, "

Like it or not Taxme, there will always be a military machine that will grind our young men up, those men and women join for thousands of reasons, you have touched on none of them. Don't want or like the military thats fine, thats your choice, but don't sit there and tell me that our soldiers sacrifices have not given you anything in this life. I was not whining but rather explaining how killing effects most of us, and it's side effects, and as part of that process I described how hate play a key role in my journey as a soldier, and my choice to pull the trigger. and if we were to take your opinion on what we can and can not whine about "your words" there is info out there on everything, like taxes, women, road blocks, you name it there is massive amounts of info on it, negating the need to whine or complain about anything...But then again, I have said repeatedly that nothing can prepare you for the battlefield, or what your life is going to look like after you get back , and deal with guilt of surviving, or taking a life, or watching a good friend turned to mist.... Soldiers don't join the military to serve globalist or conspiracy theorists they join to serve they're country, and the men and women on the left of them and on the right of them...

If it was that easy , I would have done it long ago, I don't think you really understand the level hate can reach, this is not just I hate ice cream, this is I hate terrorists, with every sense I have , it drove me to the point I could pull a trigger and not feel anything but recoil, and do it all day...I have seen their crimes first hand, I've seen the pain they have cause the people of Afghanistan, and to my comrades ,and to myself, they have forced me to become who I was while on tour, they have stolen who I was before my first day in combat...they have taken everything and left nothing, I find it hard to forgive them for any of that... That is what hate does to a person, it eats at you from the inside and changes you...the sooner if fades the better. I've passed on the torch to a younger , soldier, my days on the battle field are done and well behind me...I don't need that hate any more. I pray to the big guy everyday to rid me of this burden.

You think they could develop that in the North especially around all those remote communities who do not have manufacturing plants nearby nor any other means of income except the public purse. Would be great if they could but the fact is that can't and won't happen - due to the remoteness. So as you cheer for the demise of the Teck mine, know that you are supporting the continued impoverishment of those communities.

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I've been to reconciliation meetings Argus. Are you planning on spending the next 30 years stamping your stupid feet screaming at everyone that you're the only one who knows what's happening when you haven't even read UNDRIP? Get a fucking grip ffs.

You do not question You believe anything anyone who you think agrees with you says. The fact you came on this forum extolling the virtues of a bi-polar mentally ill person called Brother Nathaniel telling everyone to read him and follow him speaks to YOUR ignorance and how you will believe anything someone tells you as long as it conforms to your hate agenda You pose as a questioner. You don't question you deny, You are a holocaust denier and a Hitler apologist because you think that is what suits your neo white supremacist agenda. Its there in all your words. You hijacked this thread to deny the holocaust and the moderator protects you for doing that. Good for you.

Bribing the Indians into dependence is not the way to let the Indians up, that's how you hold them down.

Five of fifteen hereditary chiefs. The chattering classes (academics, media, politicians) have been wringing their hands with guilt for the last thirty years, constantly braying to anyone who is in range that Canada is a horrible place and its entire history is one of brutality, oppression and abuse of the poor, innocent native. Of course some people, especially the young and stupid have bought into this and have been busily wringing their hands in anguish over their ancestral guilt, too. Jonathan Kay puts it very well here, in explaining how the elites have been busily trying to deny Canada - well, excluding Quebec, of course - even has any legitimacy as a country. While it’s convenient to blame Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s indecisive leadership for the crisis, these events do not arise in a vacuum. Rather, they follow on years during which our political, academic and journalistic elites denounced Canada itself as an ugly scar on traditional Indigenous lands. Trudeau himself has spent much of his time in office pledging himself to somehow absolve Canada of this original sin, and one suspects that his exit plan from politics involves him becoming some kind of dean of reconciliationology at a Canadian university. Canada survived Quebec separatism in part because our elites mobilized a massive campaign of propaganda to convince citizens of the enduring importance of the Canadian project. But in regard to resolving the grievances of Indigenous peoples, those same elites are now committed to the exact opposite project: a whole vocabulary (“settler,” “neocolonial,” “appropriation,” etc.) and daily land-acknowledgment liturgy is broadcast 24/7 on the CBC, fetishized on social media and even broadcast as part of the morning announcements at public schools. Ultimately, this is why Trudeau felt checkmated by five Wet’suwet’en activists trying to torpedo a pipeline deal negotiated by their own legitimate elected band council. We’ve spent years declaring that Canada is garbage, hoping that an attitude of self-abasement would somehow lead us to “reconciliation.” We forgot that when garbage talks, no one listens. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jonathan-kay-canadas-cultural-elites-have-seen-the-enemy-and-it-is-canadians

Spicy goes away much better with milk than water. We are headed for a chocolate milk economy and I for one wish to suck on the brown cow's nipple.

Is your air and water not clean? Do you have food? I do know that good food, clothing, and housing can be very expensive and we need jobs to pay for them. If some people can't work and need to live off of government aid, the people who are working need to pay for that aid through their taxes. The fewer people who work, the more the people who are working have to pay, but of course, if the taxes get too high, the jobs flee, and now everyone gets to live in a universally poor dystopia. The Soviet middle class lived like our poor, in ugly pre-fab housing complexes. We talk about the right's "Right to Work" being a race to the bottom on wages, which I think it is, but the left has its own version of the race to the bottom. It's called the desire to have job-killing major tax hikes to provide more government hand-outs. I do think that this marriage of convenience between the green radicals and the socialists/communists, is what the latter is all about. Make doing business, especially resource development, next to impossible through regulation and taxation, to pay to uphold broken systems of institutionalized dependence, such as the reserve system. Jobs are the road to self-sustainability and true independence for all. Preventing resource development is stealing the possibility of true self-sustainability from Indigenous peoples. A productive economy with advanced manufacturing/mining technology and a strong information tech sector are the paths to a greener future, because they will create and finance new green technologies and ways of building and operating communities.

Whatever the issues are, copycats are now showing up at railroad tracks and most of them are not even indigenous peoples showing this has become an exercise for self-entitled guilty white folk who don't work. If they really cared this is not the way to go about offering constructive dialogue. This is what sheltered silver spoons do using indigenous people or the cause of the day to have their tantrums. At the end of their displays, these twats will go back home to Mama and dinner waiting.

Then stop pretending that it was ever possible to do so just for climate change brownie points. Virtue signaling inflated expectations has set the stage for massive failure, even when there are small gains. Invest in what can be done, not in what can't be done. Reconciliation never meant destroying Canada's resource based economy. Majority of FNs don't want that either. It goes beyond that....capital projects are blocked or stalled because so many obstacles are easily put in the way and weak leadership refuses to do anything about it. Even the "green energy" Muskrat Falls project has turned into an expensive fiasco.

Once we get a government that doesn't stand in the way of the oil industry, the industry will expand again. As will jobs, revenue, and incomes.

My favourite thing about you people is your constant proclaiming of climate change as an urgent issue, but continue to give the biggest emitter in the world a pass on reducing emissions for another 10 years. You'd rather deny First Nations people the dignity of a good paying job, all for symbolism over substance. Ruin the lives of Canadians so that China can increase emissions for the next decade. Sound logic there.

You need to study history. Sadly it’s your line of thinking that’s going to maintain a broken system, a culture of dependence that can’t achieve self-sustainability because the city elites have decided resource development should stop and the Indigenous don’t need the dignity of work and independence. Instead they should be kept idle on their cultural reserve, like desert animals in a nature reserve, so you can tell yourself colonial romantic stories of the noble savage living in harmony with the land. In fact, it’s subsistence living, high unemployment, and water advisories in many remote Indigenous communities where jobs would make a life-changing difference. I guess they’re taking care of climate change so you don’t have to.

Well, they did contribute half a continent to the effort don't forget.

We all should know by now, I repeat that we should all know by now, that it is not your ordinary man that wants to go off to war and kill another man. We are taught and conditioned from birth to want to go out and join the military do some killing by the globalist international bankster Zionist elite who promote wars and the killing of men because they have and do create the money to be able to do so, and of course who also control their puppet on a string politicians, and their control of the main stream media. They can start a war whenever and wherever they want to in order to make more money. After all, it's all about the money and power for these warmongering globalist elites. In the wild most of the animals will only kill another one of their kind if there is a land dispute or over a female of the same species. Yes, even in the human species men will kill another man over a woman. I guess that humans are not much better than wild animals, are we? And we call animals wild animals, when in fact we humans are the real wild animals. The only difference that animals do it is, again, for land or females and not for fun. Humans will kill other humans just for fun. Bloody wild animals!

Your ignorance about the very basics of democracy is too.

The world will never be able to totally do without fossil fuels. What kind of a bloody world are you living in? The more tar sands development the better for Canada and Canadians. A few thousand square miles of land here and there being used to develop oil and minerals in Canada is not going to cause the earth to come to an end. It just will not create the tens of thousands of new jobs for Canadians. As I said to you in another above post. The more new immigrants that we keep bringing into Canada by the hundreds of thousands every year they will only add more CO2 into your precious environment. All my common sense and logic racism that I keep trying to promote here has to be getting to you by now, eh? Come on? Tell me that more new hundreds of thousands of new immigrants every year is not causing more pollution into the atmosphere. You have to agree with that, right? If you want Canada to stay as green as possible, then you should be fighting for less immigration. Makes a world of common sense and logic to me, don't you think? Hello!

Because we soon forget what WAR is really like, our education systems may brush upon facts and figures , but rarely do they show what war is really like, the smells, tastes, the noise, the feel, the horror when was the last time you opened a history book and seen what Juno beach looked like right after the beach was secured...with bodies and body parts strewn across the beach, the first 6 feet of surf was red with blood...men moaning in pain or screaming in agony crying for their mom's.. If you go back in history more than 2 to 3 hundred years then man has had to train or condition itself to kill, in most areas of the world, not all of them.... with exceptions as I have mentioned...go back further and war and killing is a normal practice, it happened everyday....and combat was up close and bloody....see a man die at the end of a sword or tortured in the town square happened all the time... We do it because , we are no different than animals, it is how we use to survive...

Not every man faces PTSD, after taking a life, it depends on many things, like conditioning as I mentioned with nations or generations that have grown up in a conflict area, and live with war day to day, one can be conditioned over a period of time, take WWII soldiers after 5 years of conflict thats all they knew was death and destruction, they could kill when ever needed, without blinking an eye...* note that not every person can absorb the same amount of death and carnage, one might be a perfect killing machine, and then one day his brain say's enough and they can't do it , until they have a break, or treatment...seasoned soldiers can have several confrontations over their time on a battle field, some never recover, others recover and return to the battle field many times. Others can bury theses emotions deep and never let them surface, one only lets others see what they want them to see, many grand fathers have had colorful war records, but rarely spoke of them, unless with another comrade that was there... PTSD takes many forms...and it can be hidden. Animals also kill without regret, in order to feed, protect family, even territory, much like we do, capable of killing babies of it's own kind , females of the species, at any time. ...Men can do this as well, either by conditioning, or lack of emotions like empathy, regret, man has perfected killing, it is capable of hunting in packs, developing tactics, wpns, many different modes of killing, up close or from many miles away. not many animals can do that.

Your comment makes no sense. People with PTSD do not choose it as a set of values as terrorists due violence as a code to live by. Exhibiting a range of behavioral symptoms caused by their bodies not having adjusted outside the environment and sequences causing their trauma is not a choice people with PTSD make. to There is no deliberate choice to it like their is with being a terrorist. Ptsd is a range of subconscious reflexes triggered by noise, smell, taste, sight, memory. Terrorism is not like PTSD a subconscious state of maladjustment it is a conscious chain of thoughts and values one chooses to embrace.So your analogy makes no psychological sense and wrongfully equates mental illness with terrorism.The pathology of the two are distinct and most terrorists are social misfits but not mentally ill. Some are sociopathic or have border line personalities but as general rule they make choices to be violent with full undiminished capacity. Terrorists had a choice to be human and practice their religion as a code of peaceful behaviour. Thry chose to use their religion to justify their violent and lethal intolerance of others.They chose instead the path of inhumanity and to reject basic rules of civility. They made a choice. How about you make a choice Maroc. You justify Muslims engaging in terror but are the first to claim Iskam is a religion of peace. Do that dance with someone else. Please do not confuse me with the others. No amount of civilian clothing misleads me. You mistake me for someone who can not distinguish a terrorist from other Muslims. We have our ways. Now for my friend French Patriot I can assure you terrorists leave no souls around looking for the light when they get taken out. They just burn and burn with this never ending high pitched squeal and smell of sulphur They call it heartburn or dyspepsia if you are an atheist. There aint no virgins where tgesectoastec marshmallows go...just grinning skeletons with hooded robes devouring each martyr's genitilia slowly as they burn. It's a bbq right out of Salvador Dali's visions. Now back here in the the material world we put body parts in all kinds and sizes of bags. My soul mates the vultures and rats do not worry about bags nor for that matter practicing halal. I like vultures. They do the job better than I ever could and they never get heartburn. Trust that was not too cryptic. Sometimes these threads on death need a little crypticism.

Homo Sapiens have a primal drive to gratuitously kill unlike any other life form on the planet (except certain Chimpanzees). As well when we are in groups, neurological studies have shown being in a group has the same effect on our frontal lobe as drinking alcohol, it triggers chemicals that numb that part of the brain and make it easier to kill or become violent. This is a throwback to our past primal imperative to survive by hunting in packs which increased the likelihood of killing what was needed to eat to survive. So that group interaction developed into a way to better kill an object of the hunt. Now we still have a killer drive but most of us through evolution have rechanneled its expression and/or repress it However our psyche has two components. The one that nourishes life and strives to create (positive) (eros)(yin) (light) and the one that strives to kill (negative)(thanitos) (yang) (dark). These two are equal propensities or drives within our psyche and supposedly in a healthy mind they balance each other out. Some of us are born missing an X chromosome and so would have no feelings so can kill in unlimited manner and feel nothing. We also know from anthropological and psychological studies that as a general ruke when you can see another man's eyes, it becomes much harder to kill him then when you do not have to see his face or eyes unless of course you are a person missing that x chromosome (sociopath) . Also those same studies showed that the more different someone looks from you, the easier it will be to kill them. Both these phenomena have been well documented. In fact so much so the American Armed Forces engaged in studies giving unsuspecting soldiers LSD, others LSD after telling them, and other sugar pills, to see if the LSD could make them braver or more capable of killing. The studies were a failure in that all they got was conflicted patterns of behaviour. Police or social workers or emergency doctors/nurses can tell you from their experiences, certain drugs like stp, crystal, cocaine, amphetamines, metaamphetamines, etc., can hype people into hyper drive where they have extra-ordinary energy that can turn into unfocused rage that kills. We also know people in manic phases of bi-polar disorder or in about 5% of certain kinds of schizophrenia (usually paranoid schizophrenia) can kill but these are cases where capacity to know right from wrong is diminished or completely prevented. Interestingly with sociopaths, they kill without remorse or feeling and know exactly what they do. So some people kill because of drugs or missing a chromosome or mental illness but really eople kill the same reasons others do not. Its a part of our inherited primal tendencies and whether we become civilized and repress the tendency to kill or not depends on our dna, inherited genetic characteristics, how the environment may influence us and ultimately our own individual choices we make. All the above goes out the toilet when it comes to war and terrorism. In a state of war or when dealing with terrorism, in the heat of the moment adrenaline causes the body to do unpredictable things to survive and ordinary people can become super-extraordinary (super string and without fear) in concentrated periods of time, or become catatonic (go into a trance) or become paralyzed (entire body, certain limbs, eyes). We also know people with Tourette's Syndrome (specific tics and twitches or repeat mannerisms) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or stutterers, might find in the heat of conflict there symptoms not there as the intensity of the situation triggers adrenaline and other chemicals that deaden or shut down those symptoms. The same does not happen with bi-polar or schizophrenia. I have met and spoke with sociopaths. You would not know they are. You would have not a clue. What I do know as well working as a volunteer in a conflict zone with terrorists and the mothers of terrorists and brothers and sisters of terrorists is that these terrorists are not victims-they are quite aware of the choices they made and how it impacts on their families and others. They do not care. The part of their soul that cared is no longer there. In that sense the closest analogy is a vampire. They are alive but without a soul. They make that choice while the majority in their communities DO NOT and REFUSE TO and in fact shun them. They are not the glorious heroes they are depicted of. Many were already alienated from their communities. The profile they usually have in common is they feel powerless, unimportant, not in control of their destiny, and want to be respected and admired and thought of as the top of their communities. They do NOT like themselves. They hate who they are. They have as much hatred and contempt for their own people as they do their "enemy". Their "enemy" is a reminder to them of the parts of themselves they hate. The "enemy" is the thing they want to be but feel they can not be so they try extinguish this "enemy" which is the part of themselves they feel they can never be, They kill to block out any reminder of what they can not be. They are not in fact victims. They engage in victimization. Their victims are their own people as well as the innocent civilians they kill who they call the "enemy". Soldiers are not victimized by them. Soldiers are there to negate their power. Victims are people they have power over. They have no power over soldiers. Soldiers do not fear them. Soldiers are more likely to fear an "enemy" soldier than a terrorist. Terrorists are actually not brave. You get them one on one and many of them cry, plea, whine, urinate their pants, shake with fear, regress to an infantile state. They often need drugs or alcohol or getting into a religious frenzied state from chanting to be able to fight. Many panic and run. The ones that "die", the supposed martyrs are a minority of these terrorists and are dead eyed. You look at them there is nothing in the eyes. Something in them was snapped by their own fellow terrorists who trained them. Such terrorists are made to believe their life has no value and the only value they can have is after they are dead. They are not victims. I have seen people from the same environment and some walk away from this, others embrace it. You have the vast majority of people from conflict zones reject it. If it was as simple as saying terrorists were victims, everyone in the world would be a terrorist because all of us face situations where we loath ourselves or our lack of control over what we think is our destiny.

Men do not like to kill men, as evidenced by Army Guy's very credible post. A majority of normal human beings suffer psychological trauma after killing someone, presumably because they have a conscience.

Killing is part of nature, it within all of us, men and women, we have been killing each other for objects, or resources since we climbed down for the trees. In todays world or say within the last 2 to 300 years we have had to train people to kill, not just training to kill but training the mind to except it as normal.... because the act is not socially accepted, we have laws that prevent it...we are taught it is bad...Our brains are not conditioned to see bodies ripped open or torn apart. The militaries around the world spend bils trying to find better ways to condition their soldiers minds, to little avail, hence the massive amount PTSD cases. And yet the Soviets have come the closest through constant exposure to combat, training with live munitions such as real chemical agents, or next to real combat exercises... but pay for that in real life deaths of many soldiers.... Todays Modern warfare there are millions of ways to die, or to kill without getting close to ones enemies...the closer you get the greater the chance of not being able to mentally comprehend what is being done, it overwhelms your brain...it's your brains way of dealing with trauma from seeing the carnage or war. Back in the day there was no trauma it was a normal practice one becomes adjusted, the behavior becomes normal, ........and yet it was second nature to say Vikings, Romans, etc....were killing was more common and the distance the killing was done was close range, so it is bloody....as that distance increases it becomes easier to kill , ask any pilot if he sees the effects of his actions... One can not exist in both worlds, at the same time , one that does not except killing or were it is normal....a person can not travel back and forth very easily....or without conditioning once again, I learned that the hard way , coming home for my HLTA (holidays) in Afghanistan, our unit was in the middle of a major op, so one day I'm on the battle field, the next I'm in Montreal airport, very very excited to see my family, , lets just say it was not how I had dreamed it would go, lots of emotions, by the time I started to relax and decompress it was time to go back spent the last couple of days trying to get back in combat mode, as my unit was still on that operation...all I could think of was getting back...