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Caledonia Resident email to McMaster Professors

The following is a discussion via E-mail that a Caledonia Resident had with one of the McMaster Professors [George Sorger] regarding Native presentations in our University. 

Resident:

Hope you plan on giving the innocent Caledonian residents a voice at this propaganda meeting.   It would seem the victims of lawlessness need to be heard by students and future leaders, not just the perpetrators of such a massive 'cover-up' of a crime against Canadian citizens.

"George Sorger" <sorger@mcmaster.ca> on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 at 11:19 AM -0500 wrote:

If what you mean is that you plan to disrupt the meeting I would advise you against it. The meeting is not about hate mongering, it is about educating people who want to hear a different side than the one always seen in the media and our educational system. Your vocabulary shows that you are not interested in knowing anything other than your own version of events, and most of us have heard and read your side over and over again in the media and would like to hear the other side.

Resident:

You think that living beside this disaster for 1 year has not given me the opportunity to hear both sides of the argument?   In the final analysis, it would seem to be acceptable for Natives to occupy any property they deem theirs using any method necessary.   This is a Canada that we would all love to be a part of.  If it is an acceptable method of dispute resolution, and you support it, then you're right, I do not want to hear the historical justification from the other side.....again.

I would put my knowledge of the events and history to the test against most other squatters(as we are so affectionately referred ).   Arguments don't justify lawlessness, intimidation and sabotage in a country that holds up its justice system as an example to the world.

Ask yourself one question:  What if an Arab group tried to do any one of the disruptive acts that the Natives have dealt out to the residents, in spades?

How can you have any opposition to the lawless actions of any group when those who stand up and speak are automatically labeled 'racist' or a 'disruptive influence'?

"George Sorger" <sorger@mcmaster.ca> on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 at 12:49 PM -0500 wrote:

Six Nations people have been living with the disaster for two hundred years, and all that time the Canadians have ignored the problem and pretended it did not exist. It is about time Canadians learned a different side from that. People like yourself who think they know everything and are not interested in hearing anything other than their own views will get nothing out of any discussion on the subject. I have seen and heard  unreasonable people expressing your side in the April and May standoffs of last year, swearing and yelling racist remarks at the 6 Nations people and I have also seen those same people at the McHale rallies, where there is a faithful following of white supremacists, who have the nerve to wave my flag.

That is not what we want at our panel discussion, it helps no one and just creates mayhem, so if that is what you want to do, then don’t come

Resident:

I have attended all rallies and events in protest to the illegal occupation of our country.   No where did myself or friends ever associate with any hate group.   Anyone proclaiming association with Racist groups has been told to leave by McHale and other citizens.   That is the simplified stance supporters of the Native attack on Caledonia take to discredit any honest opposition to Native lawlessness.    If swearing and bad temper is the sole result of such an aggressive and dangerous takeover of a small town, then I would say the innocent victims of this complete failure of our judicial system have been very reserved.  It seems a common belief that residents are supposed to accept the situation quietly.   As a proud Canadian, I feel it is my duty to stand up against an attack on my freedom and town.   Bye the way, 'your flag' is not allowed in parts of Caledonia.  Again, you, along with so many Native sympathizers use the 200 year old argument to justify and defend the indefensible.    I, along with all my friends used to sympathize with the Native grievances and had no issue with them.   They created the fight with us, they decided to use us as their leverage tool, they decided to polarize the two sides.   They need to accept responsibility for this assault on innocent, former supportive neighbours and their families.   You fail to grasp that it is not the people, it is their actions that have evoked the negative response.   If you read Native literature and radio interviews, you will hear the most blatant racist stances since the American Civil rights movement(see Horn)  Try to attach racist arguments if you want, we are just citizens opposing the illegal disruption to our lives and the abandonment by our OPP and Government.   As an economic hostage, I can't leave.   My choice has been removed.   No choice, no freedom!

Summation of the conversation with Mr. Sorger:

Mr. George Sorger , I believe means well and thinks he is keeping an open, fair mind.  Unfortunately, he lacks the information about the effects of the illegal occupation in it’s entirety.    He is unaware of the cover-up by the OPP and Province in regards to the disruption and harassment of the residents.   He seems to believe that opposition to such an aggressive and terrorizing act thrust upon a small town is unwarranted.  He seems to believe that opposition should be antiseptic and cerebral.  The harsh reality of any terrorist tactics employed to gain ones objective, is that they inevitably spiral out of control and become ‘primal’ because of what is at stake.  He can not know what the Natives have perpetrated upon the innocent lives of Caledonians because the information is blocked or edited in such a way that one is left believing we deserved or instigated events.   If one were to analyze the ‘cause and effect’ surrounding the whole debacle, clarity would emerge.   It seems Mr. Sorger would rather buy into the myth of the ‘Noble Native’ and all it’s historical romance than realize that they, like ourselves, are consumers in a secular, capitalistic society in which materials are the real motivators, not the ‘Great Peace’ or the ‘Creator’.   This is the reality of our western world as it drifts into the murky soup of the 21^st Century.