Although the Mohawk Warriors are well known to police as a criminal organization that has, over many years, been responsible for much smuggling of substances such as tobacco, alcohol and drugs to weapons and perhaps even people, one would wonder why the question of connections to terrorist groups is being asked.

The Mackenzie Institute, based in Toronto and operating as a non-profit and independent organization, founded in 1986, has written many reports on Warriors and their smuggling activities.

The Mackenzie Institute has written a thirteen page, exhaustive report series called Sin-Tax Failure, in which these smuggling activities are exposed. The following link takes you to page one and you can access all thirteen pages at the bottom of this section.

http://www.mackenzieinstitute.com/1994/sin-tax-failure.htm

We have an e-mail from the President of The Mackenzie Institute, Mr. John Thompson, that basically says the Mohawk Warriors still turn to smuggling and this is essentially a cottage industry and smuggling conduit, and they can move any product. Basically, this is a cash making effort - we'll move it for you if you'll pay us.

Guns are very lucrative. Mr. Thompson said that any connections with terrorist groups were as business customers only. In essence, if supporters of Hezbollah, or Tamil Tigers want to buy and sell goods smuggled by Mohawk Warriors, the Warriors won't really care. Hey, if it pays good money…. you get the picture.

An article in the National Post talks about an RCMP report on Tamil Tigers talks about a Toronto based "front organization" called the World Tamil Movement (WTM). The Tamil Tigers use the WTM to raise money to purchase weapons. The link to this report is:

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=1cbb6443-71e5-42dc-b185-055b9fef59a9

They are a Palestinian Student group that is possibly a political front for Palestinian Islamic Jihad. In November 2003, they tried to hold a conference at the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). Nothing unusual about that, but anyone attending this conference had to sign a statement agreeing to Palestinian terrorism against Israel. Their conference was delayed by a week because of this agreement, but went ahead anyways, making the University of Toronto's OISE liable for prosecution under Canada's anti-terror laws. The Mackenzie Institute has a good report on this at the following link:

http://www.mackenzieinstitute.com/2004/newsletter010104.htm

This is certainly something that should wake us all up and make all of us take a long, hard look at what is happening right inside our own borders. It is far too easy, and certainly too irresponsible to always look at the United States and say stuff like this can't really, or isn't really happening here. Wake Up Caledonia yes, but Wake Up Canada too!

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What was unusual about the 300 arrivals is that they were representatives of eight Toronto groups, all almost entirely disconnected from anything to do with native issues. The pilgrimage to Caledonia was organized by the Al-Awda Palestine Right to Return Coalition, the University of Toronto's Arab Students' Collective, the "anti-capitalist" (their term) Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, Ryerson University's CKLN community radio, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 3903, and the pro-immigration group No One Is Illegal. Explaining the varied groups' interest, Zainab Amadahy, speaking for the eighth group, the Coalition in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty-Indigenous Caucus, says all parties share "a commitment to support the Six Nation land reclamation . . . They support in a general way social justice, and [also] in a global way."

But Janice Switlo, a Vancouver native lawyer advising the council of hereditary chiefs of the Six Nations, says the groups came at the behest of radicals within the community. Native journalist Kahentinetha Horn, a reporter for Mohawk Nation News, had been issuing what Switlo calls "very provocative press releases and statements on the Internet" about the standoff, encouraging a broader conflict, though she hadn't been asked by Six Nations leaders to speak on their behalf. "The language that she used was quite inciting and inflammatory, and appeared in my professional judgment to be encouraging a confrontation," Switlo says. When on May 2, in her article, "Evil Canada violates domestic and international law," Horn asked: "Is this an invasion of our nation by Canada? You must have declared war on us," the Six Nations leadership had to issue a clarifying press release in response, assuring the public that Six Nations had not declared war on anyone.

(This wasn't the first time Horn had embarrassed native leaders. Last year, she publicly defended the pro-Holocaust remarks of David Ahenakew, the former Assembly of First Nations national chief. Ahenakew told a reporter that Jews were a "disease" and that Hitler was right to have "fried six million of those guys," Horn wrote in the MNN that Ahenakew was referring only to Jewish "financial and media barons" and argued that Hitler deserved admiration because he "made sure the people had employment and good health.")