CENSORED: Algonquin resisting uranium mining, brace for police raid

by angryindian | August 28, 2007 at 11:24 am

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One of the most ignored conflicts in North American media. - - -

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Judge Gordon Thompson has ordered the Algonquins who are blocking access to a proposed uranium mine north of Sharbot Lake to leave immediately. The people have been told to expect the police on Wednesday, August 29th. All supporters are asked to come to the site to help maintain the peace. This is only the beginning of things to come under the conservative regime with the help of the liberals at Queen’s Park Toronto . The Bush administration in Washington DC needs uranium for their military industrial schemes.

Justice Thomson has ordered the protesters to leave and allow Frontenac

Ventures Corporation to start uranium mining, to contaminate the

watershed of all of eastern Ontario and western Quebec, one of the

most densely populated areas in Canada .

"Frontenac shall have immediate, unfettered and unobstructed access

to the subject property including the field office, access road and all of

the identified exploration property and the Clarendon site," Justice

Thomson wrote. If the judge wanted to be truthful, he should have added,

“and the right for Frontenac to contaminate, destroy the unborn, carry out

genetic damage to the flora and fauna of the entire area”.

The interim injunction stands until a full hearing can be heard, which

includes a $77-million lawsuit and a full injunction against the Algonquins

starting on September 20.

We are very concerned that a judge who is supposed to be impartial

would not even consider the rights of the owners of the land. This is a

blatant example how our lands are being illegally expropriated. We have

been facing these “gold rushes” all over Turtle Island .

The mine gates are at highway 509 just north of Sharbot Lake , off highway

7, west of Perth and 42 miles north of Kingston .

The Algonquins know it’s their land. Chris Reid, the lawyer for the Ardoch

Algonquins said his clients are "not going to leave”. Who is oversees Judge

Thompson? He doesn’t appear to have read any Supreme Court decisions

that provide that Indigenous people must be consulted and give their fully

informed decision by a clear majority on a clear question, for any activity

by foreigners like Frontenac or any corporate Canadian in any form.

If the Algonquins are attacked, it will be a one-sided battle. The Indigenous

People vow to protect our land and jurisdiction. The world will see how

vicious and corrupt the corporate regime of Canada is. We have no physical

weapons. Our only weapon is the truth and doing what is right.

The Algonquins have already warned the colonial authorities and their agents

to stop trespassing on unsurrendered land, breaching the peace and

threatening violence. They point out that colonial courts represent only

their adversaries and their corporate interests. A neutral third party at the

international level is the proper forum. Frontenac Ventures Corporation is

trespassing. Their intent is to exploit and kill creation. When the owners of

the land say “no”, it’s “no”! There is nothing to negotiate.

A surrender of Indigenous land must be done under their own law, the

constitution of Canada (Section 132) and international law. It must be done

through negotiation and a vote on a clear question by the majority of the people.

Even Canadian law does now allow this kind of annexation without consultation,

consensus and compensation. Algonquin law does not allow the land to be

alienated.

The company must allow an archeologist visit the site to "determine aboriginal

burial sites" and other items of significance. They are even going after our

ancestors to contaminate them! Living people isn’t enough for them. It’s half

swamp. They want to create uranium contamination which turns things into a

radio active soup. The judge' instructs the police to arrest anyone who stands in the way, and

Frontenac cannot be stopped in its right to destroy people and the environment.

This is Ottawa ’s prototype for the “final solution” of the “Indian problem”

elsewhere. When it’s all done, they hope nobody will know about it.

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at 11:41 on August 28th, 2007

I don't know much background on this story but it is something that the media should be paying attention to.

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Thanks for this Angry indian. There is a few of these stories floating around at the moment. 2 from Australia, and 1 from Khazakstan concerning a post-Soviet nuclear waste dup about to fall into a river where 15 million people get there water from.

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