MOHAWKS OF KANEHSATAKE PROVED RIGHT! 

JAMES GABRIEL, INDIAN AFFAIRS AND QUEBEC GANSTAS’ CAUGHT RED-HANDED

MNN.  Dec. 11, 2006.  The headline is “Mohawk Cops Lose Arsenal”.  The real story is “Indian Affairs and police caught in corruption”.  The auditor, Samson & Associates, found that at least $6 million had been squandered on illegal “policing” at Kanehsatake from 2003 to 2005.  It’s a 1300-member Mohawk community where there’s no proof of criminality.  Indian Affairs’ appointed auditors, Pricewaterhousecoopers, refused to give any books to Samson & Associates of Gatineau.     

Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety and Preparedness, has called for an investigation.  Is he going to be bamboozled by the bureaucracy?  Or is he going to be the white knight that finally slays the fire breathing dragon, Indian Affairs?     

We understand that Indian Affairs, the Solicitor General’s Office and Quebec Public Security directed these activities from Prime Minister Paul Martin’s office. 

After the 1990 Mohawk Oka Crisis, Walter Walling of Indian Affairs was appointed as the senior negotiator on Kanehsata:ke land claims involving 250 square miles.  He reported to Eric Maldoff of the law firm of Heenan Blaikie of Montreal.  He was named by then Prime Minister Jean Chretien.  We weren’t told about it.  Rob Wright, national security advisor to subsequent Prime Minister Paul Martin, was the Chairman of this Kanehsatake file.  They all had phony mandates.  After the band council mandate fell, they continued to wheel and deal as if nothing happened.  When Pearl Bonpille and John Harding questioned them, Wright was removed.     

We asked what happened to the millions for policing and the $30 to $40 million that was spent afterwards on choppers, equipment, offices outside the community, and all that “extra” time put in by the SQ.  The RCMP licked the bottom of the barrel for whatever scraps they could get. There was even one officer who billed for 32 hours of work in a 24-hour period.   [He must have gone to the rez mission school to learn his math!]. 

The government agencies are now scrambling around looking for missing weapons that the federal government bought for the private para-military militia they set up for James Gabriel.  They said they need time.  What for?  To cover their tracks?    Some of the weapons ended up in a shop called “Sporteque” in Drummondville Quebec.  [the military industrial complex really wants that “niobium” that’s underneath Kanehsatake].

All along we were being blamed for the maniacal mess-up of our affairs by James Gabriel and his evil “handlers”, who picked him to be their puppet. 

Their high priced public relations firm, Communications Strategy of Montreal, kept putting out stories defaming us, calling us “crooks”, “drug dealers” and “organized crime”.  They must still have their job.  We’re still being demonized.  Now they’re being investigated.  “Let’s hope they put these criminals in jail.  Those of us who now have criminal records for defending our rights should be given clean records”, said former councilor, Pearl Bonspille.    

Yesterday James Gabriel was constantly on the media wearing a red shirt and gold chains dangling over his hairy chest, acting like a gangster.  He wants to sue everybody for exposing him. 

In the middle of this muddle Indian Affairs and James Gabriel stole a corporation and funneled millions of dollars meant for our education, health and welfare.  James Gabriel was even given $500,000 for the election he lost.  Another bad investment?  Or raw corruption?  Why should the Canadian government take sides in our elections?  His slate of 6 friends got elected and kept on funneling.  Even now they’re saying the auditing shouldn’t happen because it’s “unfair” and “embarrassing” to the Liberals.  They might have all gotten some kind of big payoff, maybe?   

$5.5 million was spent by Ottawa and Quebec on the 67 mercenaries that attacked us.  This force grew to 130 officers and staff, some getting as much as $200,000 a year.  In two years they bought vehicles and weapons and charged hotel bills and meals costing $5.5 million.  $200,000 was even spent on “designer” party clothing for the goons like Polo shirts and ‘thong underwear’ [Ow!  We hear this gets uncomfortable when grown men have to sit around all day in the car or donut shop.  This could also put them at a disadvantage in a confrontation.  Thwock!] 

The council had always refused to be incorporated under Canada’s “Indian Act”.  It would be illegal as our land was never surrendered.  According to the Canadian constitution, Canada must deal with us on a nation-to-nation basis unless there is a treaty of surrender, which there wasn’t. 

How was the corporation stolen?  In 1990 the Mohawk Oka Crisis was over.  The community was left in a political vacuum.  Everybody wanted a change in leadership.  Groups were formed called the “Committee for Change”, the “League of Democracy” and the “Mohawk Council of Kanesatake”.  Another group simply called themselves the “C-31’s”.    There was no local government, no policing and no social programs to care for the people.  The four groups formed the “Kanehsatake Mohawk Coalition”.  Every decision required community consent.

Indian Affairs told the Coalition they had to incorporate to get money for the interim government.  The Coalition wanted to have an election and develop a “custom code”.  The federal government did the incorporation.  One member from each group sat on the board.  Ten people were selected to be the interim government.  Elections took place.  There was a new council.  The corporation became dormant and forgotten.  In the meantime James Gabriel was thrown out of office by a community vote of non-confidence.  Indian Affairs got a court order to put him back in.   

Kahehsatake had a Police Commission designed to make sure that policing was honest and at arms length from the council.  Indian Affairs and James Gabriel put in an illegal police behind their backs.   The goons were a personal army at the command of James Gabriel, the leader of the Indian Affairs puppet government.  Does this sound like a third world banana republic takeover, or what?

Back in 1997 Walter Walling hired Richard Walsh.  Walsh, a convicted felon wanted for fraud all over southern Ontario, was a non-native.  He was paid as a Mohawk language teacher, a plumber and scuba diving consultant.  He never worked at any of these trades or filed any reports.  James Gabriel hired him to collect information on his and Indian Affairs’ enemies.  He sneaked into the Petawawa Army Base and walked away with personal files on Mohawks.  The subsequent investigation made the Canadian military and Canadian Secret Service look like fools. Walsh was eventually charged for impersonating a Kanehsata:ke police officer and carrying a phony badge issued by James Gabriel of the corporation.   Nothing was ever done about these thefts.  Let’s hope that doesn’t happen again. 

           

On January 12^th 2004 the fully armed militia attacked the community to take over the council and the police station.  The unarmed men, women and elders who stopped them got charged with interfering with the illegal coup d’etat.      

After the invasion Indian Affairs set up a police station in St-Eustace and later moved to Boisbriand.  The goons were operating under the RCMP and the Quebec Police.  In July 2005 there was an election in Kanehsatake.  James Gabriel lost.  Six of his supporters got in.  In November 2005 Quebec and Canada stopped funding the illegal policing agreement and the goons. 

 

In December 2005 the new grand chief, Steve Bonspille, a “dissident” of the former corrupt council, met with the Quebec Public Security Minister.  He knew about the enormous amount of arms and equipment bought for the goons.  They had tear gas, AR 15’s, silencers, regular service revolvers, uniforms, badges, ID cards, computer equipment, fancy police cars and body bags.  [Body bags?  Did they think this was Vietnam?]  The goons ran away and left some of their lethal toys behind.  [*full list at end].  Steve wanted to pick up the cars from the Sportheque and take them back to Kanehsatake.  Louis Bergeron of the Quebec Police told him he could not have them because they belong to a corporation, the “Kanehsatake Mohawk Coalition”, owned by James Gabriel, Clarence Simon and Leona Bonspille!  Indian Affairs carried out the theft by changing the names of the signatories.  So it looks like outright theft, henh?     

The Prime Minister, Indian Affairs and Quebec and other government officials had countless meetings with this stolen corporation discussing our affairs and making decisions.  Indian Affairs moved the stolen corporation’s office to Laval to better supervise and fund their illegal workers and mercenaries.   

Indian Affairs put our funds for education, medical, school construction and services through this corporation.  They gave James Gabriel $1.5 million for lawyers.  He filed all kinds of charges against the people of the community.  Indian Affairs spent $17,000 a month on public relations to get James Gabriel elected and to demonize the Mohawks in the media.    

Indian Affairs suddenly has come running.  They offered to investigate themselves!       

We said all along that James Gabriel had a personal army funded by Canada.  Indian Affairs is out of control.  It’s hard to imagine what they thought they were doing.   When someone vacuums under the sofa, they may find a whole colony of cock roaches just waiting for the chance to take another run at the pantry. 

 

Is there a Richard Walsh trying to finger Indians in every community in Canada?  Do they try to get something on every honest band councilor so they can keep control of them?  What happens when band councils don’t cooperate?  They end up on the welfare line like Pearl and John.  Every time they try to get a job or start a small business, they find extraordinary measures have been taken to block them.  Has there ever been anything this corrupt since the decline and fall of the Roman Empire?  To be continued……..    

Kahentinetha Horn

MNN Mohawk Nation News

*arsenal:  15 guns, 9 .40-calibre pistols, 7 Glock 22’s, 2 Berettas, 6 tasers, an electroshock stun gun, 16,700 rounds of ammo, 300 taser cartridges, 92 cans of pepper spray.  The weapons were frequently moved around to Manowan.  The goons had SWAT style weapons like 3 submachine guns, 2 automatic rifles, a semi-automatic rifle, a tear gas gun, a sniper rifle and two pump action shot guns.  The goons were not trained for most of these weapons.  Just trained to take orders.