Further to this post,
Militants? Insurgents? Nice flipping guys?
Douglas Bland does not speak with forked tongue in the Ottawa Citizen:
Merely stating the obvious
It is quite proper for a military counter-insurgency manual to identify native Warrior Societies as a potential threat to Canadian sovereignty
A masked Mohawk Warrior protests in Kanesatake in January 2004. To suggest that the Mohawk Warrior Society can be viewed as an insurgency is not to label anyone, or any organization, terrorist, argues Douglas Bland.
Photograph by: Shaun Best , Reuters, Citizen SpecialThe Canadian Forces does not owe the Mohawk Warrior Society or the wider First Nations an apology for references to the society in the first draft of the armed forces manual on Counter Insurgency Operations, or COIN…
The various so-called Warrior Societies proclaim in their several websites that their organizations are armed forces meant to act as a type of militia in the defence of First Nations communities and their rights. They are, arguably, an open challenge to the sovereignty of Canada, unless, of course, Canada surrenders in some fashion its right and responsibility to defend all Canadian territory and all Canadian citizens, including every reserve and all aboriginal people, to the self-appointed Warrior Societies…
…to suggest that the Mohawk Warrior Society can be viewed as an insurgency is not to label anyone, or any organization, terrorist. To suggest that the Canadian Forces prepare its commanders to conduct anti-insurgency operations in Canada, as they did against the FLQ and at Oka, demands no apology.
The entire discussion, however, may be moot given the government’s apparent preference to cede its sovereignty to every First Nations challenge [emphasis added, Dauntless Dalton is no better] – including this one — a policy that will surely inflame disputes and make the Canadian Forces COIN training all the more necessary.
Douglas Bland is chair of the Defence Management Studies Program at Queen’s University and author of the novel Uprising, the story of a future aboriginal insurgency in Canada.
Mark
Ottawa
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“If we (we two whiteys) are going to live here peacefully, on someone else’s
land, there has to be some sort of reckoning.”
yeah sure, robbie… like for officer marcel lemay? anybody apologise
yet to his widow & children?
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Put chainlink fences around their sovereign land and if they want to leave or ship goods and services into said sovereign land they can pay Canadian duty on the items. I’m sick of the Chicken Hawks and their sense of supremacy and entitlement, they can go fork off.
i am with you on that dirt. they also have to be self supporting no more hand outs from the canadian taxpayer.
Bland needs to check with the military for their reasoning. I suspect there is legal advice motivating the apology, a small matter of semantics the military did not know – ie, the Mohawks never ceded their sovereignty, and they thus cannot be considered insurgents within Canada and they do not seek to overthrow Canada. They just try to get Canada to stop invading their territory, and they do have a right to do that.