Race-Based Policing

UNDERSTANDING RACE-BASED POLICING & NATIVE EXTREMISM

Sachem-Dring Randy Fleming May24-09

Randy Fleming arrested during peaceful, one-man, Canadian flag protest. Note the officer's knee on his head. Photo by Neil Dring, the Sachem.

CANACE founders have more than 20 years of combined experience in opposing and exposing racial policing and lawlessness directed at third parties during land claim disputes.

Despite the lack of formal legal training, CANACE founders have defined Canadian law in the area of private prosecutions via three important legal precedents: Parkinson v. R., 2008; Parkinson v. R, 2009 and McHale v. R., 2009. Executive Director Gary McHale has been recognized within legal circles for his expertise in the area of private prosecutions. 

This is by no means a complete list of evidence at CANACE’s disposal. We have significant evidence available including media articles; court transcripts; court submissions; legal decisions; and various reports.

roadblocked.jpgIf you are a bonafide media outlet, or advocacy group, lawyer or government organization and cannot find what you are looking for here, or are looking for specific supporting evidence, please contact either Gary McHale at info@caledoniawakeupcall.com or Mark Vandermaas at info@voiceofcanada.ca and we will be pleased to assist you ASAP.

If you would like a fact-based presentation for your organization that addresses the realities of what has happened in Caledonia and Ipperwash and why it should matter to you, please contact us to make arrangements.

NOTE: Only items containing ‘http://joincanace.’ in the URL can be considered to be endorsed by CANACE. CANACE  does not necessarily endorse statements or positions made by founders in their personal websites. The links are provided for informational purposes only.

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Race-Based Policing 101

Milestones

General

Suggested Books

Art & Humour

Legal 

CANACE in the Media

CANACE in the Courts

CANACE in Jail

CANACE in Politics

CANACE speeches

1. Gary McHale:

2. Mark Vandermaas:

3. Merlyn Kinrade:

4. Mary-Lou LaPratte:

CANACE Presentations

  •  Sept 29/08: ‘Reconciliation: the CANACE Path (Brantford Council)
  • May xx/08: ‘Legalized MYTHS of Illegal Occupations’ (Cayuga Lions Hall)
  • June xx/07: ‘Canada at the Crossroads’ (Caledonia Lions Hall)
  • Jan 14/07: ‘Why we come. What has been accomplished. Where do we go from here? (Caledonia Lions Hall)
  • XXX xx/07: Legal Workshop (Cayuga Lions Hall)

Property Rights

Protests

 Complaints & Lawsuits

Political Interference in Policing

Organized Crime & Landclaim disputes

  • Mohawk Warriors (see links)
  • McGuinty interference ignores terror & violence links while sacrificing children to illegal smokes

    • CANACE FAQs

    1. What really has been happening in Caledonia?

    nov207.jpgopp.jpgThe most explosive of the events in Caledonia can be seen in the awful photos, and the intimidation continues unabated to this day. Attempted murder of a builder. Attacks on police with no arrests or charges against the native thugs responsible. Violence against non-natives protesting at an illegal smokeshack in front of police without arrests even as the attacks continue. Peaceful non-natives sent to hospital – victims publicly blamed by OPP commissioner who orders his officers to target a non-native activist for charges before police investigation is even begun. Native smokeshackers fabricate false assault allegations. Illegal occupations of development sites protected by OPP officers in what the Court says are abuses of police power and discretion. OPP officers assist native protesters to build barricade to keep legal owner out of property and have charges of Mischief certified against them via private prosecution - charges dropped by Crown. Charges of Extortion and Intimidation laid against native protesters – charges dropped by Crown. Mischief. Threats of further road blockades.  Charges against natives dropped by Crown while non-natives are prosecuted for the most minor of offences. Illegal smokeshacks selling cigarettes to the town’s children. Placement of smokeshacks on private peoperty. Threats against non-natives to force the OPP to deny them their right to protest near their occupation site. Brutal arrest of resident walking quietly down the road with a Canadian flag.  Commissioner of the OPP intervenes to ensure Assault Police charge is dropped against violent native ringleader, then writes reference letter for him to aid in obtaining a reduced sentence for his assault on a non-native activist. False accusations against non-native protesters by native protesters and OPP officers. It goes on and on and on. 

    NOTE: Every statement above is supported by documentary and video evidence as well as court evidence. 

    garbag11.jpebridge-fire2.JPG[If you click on the photo of the man throwing the pallet off the bridge onto the roadway below you will see what appears to be an OPP car on the far side of the bridge. I don't think you need to click on the photo of the main road through Caledonia being dug up to see all the police cruisers. Hmmm. Wonder where all the OPP officers are? Tim Hortons? Maybe someone should tell them what's going on.]  

    2. Does CANACE ‘provoke’ violence? 

    For those who wonder if the mere act of exercising one’s rights by confronting injustice via peaceful protest is inappropriate for fear of a violent reaction from others, history has already answered this question:

    3. Is the struggle against Two Tier Justice about racism towards native people?

    It is a source of bewilderment to CANACE how one can be accused of being racist for speaking out to defend the rule of law; equality before the law; the Charter of Rights and the decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada. Unfortunately, false accusations of racism happen regularly to people who speak out against the use of violence, crime and intimidation during land claims. The authors of Donner Book Prize finalist ‘Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry‘ have also been attacked as racists.

    We believe that the true racists are, in fact, the native extremists who have brutalized, vandalized and traumatized the people of Caledonia. Fortunately, the media and politicians have grown tired of smarmy allegations of racism, and are now writing and saying the very same things about native extremism that CANACE has been espousing during the past 2.5 years. Proof positive native extremists have lost PR battle

    The following links will help you decide if CANACE is motivated by racism. 

    This quote is from the summary to Mark Vandermaas’ Jan 10/07 presentation of Canada at the Crossroads: The Ipperwash Legacy:

    “I believe, however, that it is a critical mistake of both our government, the Inquiry and the OPP to assume that violent criminal factions speak for native people, and to ‘negotiate’ with them as if they do. It is an insult to every honourable, law-abiding, peace-loving native person in Canada.

    OPP Two Tier Justice policies are based on the false premise that native people have no self-control, that they are incapable of obeying the law,t hat they and their children are willing to live in a lawless world ruled by criminals who take what they want, when they want. For more than 15 years the OPP has been sacrificing the well-being of law-abiding people – both native and non-native – for the benefit of sociopaths and demagogues.

    What does it say to honourable aboriginal parents who try to raise their children to have respect for the rights and property of other citizens when the government and the OPP so eagerly reward thugs in native communities for their violence and criminality? How many native youth have been turned away from productive lives by well-meaning, but destructive racial policing policies?”

     4. Why are we prepared to go to jail for a Canadian flag?

    mark-in-police-car-dec-16-06.jpgCANACE co-founders Gary McHale and Mark Vandermaas were arrested on Dec 16/06 for attempting to raise a Canadian flag across from the occupied Douglas Creek Estates as a way to expose the absurdity of the Two Tier Justice that Caledonians and Ipperwash residents are forced to endure. We were protesting to support resident Bo Chausse who had been arrested on Dec 02/06 for the same ‘offence.’ Just days after our arrests, on December 21, 06 the Toronto Star ran its historic editorial saying, in part…

     ”There cannot be different classes of law for different classes of people. That undermines the very equality we strive for and cherish in Canada. The rule of law is paramount in Canada’s society and must be upheld.”

     Four people have been so far arrested while trying to display a Canadian flag near the Douglas Creek Estates:

    Why are Canadians prepared to go to jail for this cause? What price would you put on the Rule of Law, and the right to be treated equally before that law? Our freedom is such an insignificant price to pay if we can hasten the day when the Rule of Law is no longer a topic for debate.

    5. What do you see as ‘The Solution’?

    The only solution possible to bringing about true healing and reconciliation must be based on the recognition by all parties that no one is above the law, that all human beings are equal before the law, and that victimizing innocents is not the means of pursuing one’s grievances. Continuing down the road of appeasing or tolerating racial policing and violent native groups can never provide a true solution.