October 24, 2006
Prime Minister Of Canada
Mr. Steven Harper
Letter from one of our viewers

On October 9, 2006, I sent an email titles "Please Help Us"!

 I received acknowledgment of the email but no help. This email is, again, a plea for help. My name is xxxx xxxxx. I live at xxxx Thistlemoor Drive in Caledonia. My property backs onto the disputed land referred to as Douglas Creek Estates (DCE).

You know that none of the occupation of DEC has anything to do with the town, town's people, my neighbours or myself. We, however, are the ones who are suffering. This fight is with the governments, not the people of this town. Government should remove the protesters who are illegally occupying this site. We know, government knows, and even Six Nations knows this DCE site is not part of the lands claim. Early in the dispute, I was listening to the Roy Green Show, he was interviewing Chief David General of the Six Nations, the Chief said in the interview that DEC was not part of the lands claim. The people on this site are supporters of and actively engaged in the criminal activity that has gone on since February 28, 2006.

The Provincial Government has backed itself into a corner. The police wouldn’t enforce the law. The OPP did not enforce the court order against the protesters in a timely fashion and when they did, they bungled the job (one has to wonder if it was on purpose). The town now is filled with police collecting a pay check and doing nothing. There is no law enforcement in and around the DCE. Police are stationed outside and inside the school adjacent to the property to ensure student safety. Is this Canada?

There are 14 families on Argyle Street and the 6^th line who have no police coverage, fire coverage, ambulance coverage. These families are non-native, hard working, tax paying citizens of Canada. I was told that on October 18, 2006, a woman was at home alone when several natives showed up and harassed her. She called the OPP and they refused to go and help her. Two week ago someone asked the OPP what they would do if we were to enter DCE. Their answer was that they would negotiate the return of our bodies. We have more police per capita then any other town in Canada and they refuse to enforce the law equally native and non-native. They are a disgrace to the uniform. These police are like the soldiers who are sent to fight and stay at the base and party while others are dying. This is what people who are adjacent to the occupied land have been living with for months.

You and Mr. McGuinty have been using Caledonia as a tennis ball. The game is over; Mr. McGuinty has no more serves left. It is time for you, Mr. Harper, to ride into Caledonia on your white charger and put a stop this. Caledonia being a small town is of little concern to governments but may I remind you that Caledonia helped to send a conservative representative to Ottawa the last two elections. Maybe we are worth considering; your rating in the poles is dropping so every seat counts. Caledonia has drawn a lot of media attention over the last few months; the guy who saves the day will also get a lot of attention. It would be a shame if that someone was to be Bob Ray. It is time for the leader of Canada to prove he should be the leader. Land claims are Federal, policing is Provincial, but when the citizens of Canada are being terrorized and the Province does nothing, is it not safe to expect the Federal Government would.

My first concern is financial. I cannot move, my house is worth nothing. No one would live here, beautiful home, terrible neighbours.

When I purchased this home it had everything going for it . Location, location, location. The Ontario Government purchased the land from the developer imposed a building moratorium; left the occupier on the land in half built houses walked away and washed their hands. The refusal of the OPP to enforce the law and the Government changing the venue of DCE has killed the fastest growing town in Southern Ontario and has made property adjacent to this property worthless. Again, none of this is my fault but I am paying the ultimate price. In essence the Government of Ontario has stolen $225,000.00 from me. If you cannot put a stop to the illegal activities going on behind me, then the Government of Canada can buy my house so I can get out. We have all kinds of money to spend on fighting terrorism in far away countries. Why not fight terrorism at home?

My second concern is safety. Below is part of an email message from one of my neighbours;

"this weekend even in the damn rain all night on Friday night, Saturday night and last night I could not sleep due to the noise, yelling on Braemar Friday night jeeps with no mufflers all night on the tracks and behind Thistlemoor, guns going off during the day. And if one more OPP or Government official tells me it is firecrackers I am going scream"

The email goes on from there to express complete frustration with all levels of government and the police. 

On the Reclamation web site Cornplanter (name of poster) posted the following message:

"Think about it...Natives already have a high suicide rate, so instead of having our people hang themselves in an alcoholic depression, we could convince them to wear these cool vests filled with explosives and put together by all those Natives who have had Army training. we could send these suicidal people into grocery and department stores and kill indiscriminately. Geez...we could even train some of our suicidal people to take over airplanes, or drive cement trucks packed with explosives, and ram them into select targets. It would suck knowing that untold billions of dollars would be lost as the Army is forced to hunt down the innumerable snipers who hide in the bush and shoot at passing vehicles outside our cities...not to mention the harm that could be done putting poison into water sources etc... "

Do you find a problem with any of this? The longer nothing is done to control the illegal activities of the occupiers, the bolder they become and greater the chance that some unstable person will consider doing something.

There are other web site that promote this kind of thinking. Should I be concerned?

We are all but out of time to put an end to lawlessness. We need your help now!