More Leery of Commissioner Fantino

Email - Jan.4, 2007

Hi Gary and Christine,

I listened to Jamie West on the Roy Green show this morning and am more leery of Commissioner Fantino than I was yesterday. I also saw the CH news report last night in which Mayor Trainer again stated that we in Caledonia don’t want more police officers we want ones that will uphold the Rule of Law.

Jamie tried to get him to answer one of the questions Gary McHale has been trying to get him to answer to no avail. The question was why the OPP allows Mohawk flags on poles on the east side of Argyle Street while Canadian flags are not allowed. Fantino’s response was that it is nitpicky by Caledonians which is ridiculous to say the least. Gary McHale has said he will not come to Caledonia on January 20 if the Commissioner in a public forum would explain why it is legal for native flags to be on hydro poles and illegal for Canadian flags to be on the same poles.

The Commissioner will not answer those questions for the following reasons:

1. The OPP has information that the natives will become violent and aggressive if anyone tries to take down the Mohawk flags.

2. The OPP did not intervene in the raising of Mohawk flags on the hydro poles on the east side of Argyle Street because their information tells them that the natives will become violent and aggressive if the OPP intervenes.

3. The OPP also know that if a Canadian flag is allowed to be raised on the poles across from DCE the natives will again become violent.

Which raises the question “What will the OPP do if the natives decide to steal meat from Zhers or anything else in Caledonia”? They will do nothing because their information tells them that the natives will become violent if the OPP intervenes. Where does this leave residents and businesses of Caledonia?

I was listening to news reports all day long on CHML and they repeatedly referred to the new OPP funding for the Haldimand Detachment. This is not correct. There are actually two detachments in Haldimand. There is the Cayuga Detachment and the Caledonia Detachment. Haldimand has two detachments if you look at the OPP site. The Cayuga detachment provides policing to all parts of Haldimand except Caledonia. There is also a Caledonia detachment located at Unity Road that is responsible for policing Caledonia. Most people don’t realize this. The ART and MELT teams are located at the Caledonia detachment. Inspector Dave McLean was the head of the Caledonia detachment until OPP management conveniently got rid of the head of the Cayuga detachment. Now Inspector McLean is the head of both detachments.

The training in the OPP police academy includes indoctrination into native ways so that OPP officers that will be assigned to Caledonia will be properly open to whatever the OPP management wants it to believe.

The bottom line is that this increase in budget isn’t to improve policing for the people and businesses of Caledonia. It is to improve the propaganda machine and the ability of the OPP to control the Caledonians should the need arise. We are being conditioned to accept whatever is dealt us by the natives, the government and the OPP.

Citizens of Caledonia need to become more familiar with the OPP contract with Haldimand County. With this move to staff the Caledonia detachment with permanent resources the OPP and the McGuinty government can enforce the OPP contract with Haldimand County and download the costs of the OPP to the County. You and I along with everyone else in Haldimand need to be vigilant because McGuinty is laying the groundwork for downloading the cost of policing to Haldimand.

This is a cost that was incurred by the government to maintain an illegal occupation (yes illegal). The biggest cover-up by the OPP and government is the fact that DCE was criminally removed from the possession of Henco Industries through Extortion committed by the natives, allowed by the OPP and government and never investigated. Henco was no willing seller. They were forced through Extortion to sell their land to the province.

 Criminal Code

PART IX: OFFENCES AGAINST RIGHTS OF PROPERTY

Robbery and Extortion

Extortion	346. (1) Every one commits extortion who, without reasonable justification or excuse and with intent to obtain anything, by threats, accusations, menaces or violence induces or attempts to induce any person, whether or not he is the person threatened, accused or menaced or to whom violence is shown, to do anything or cause anything to be done.
Extortion	(1.1) Every person who commits extortion is guilty of an indictable offence and liable (a) where a firearm is used in the commission of the offence, to imprisonment for life and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of four years; and (b) in any other case, to imprisonment for life.
Saving	(2) A threat to institute civil proceedings is not a threat for the purposes of this section. R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 346; R.S., 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 46; 1995, c. 39, s. 150.

Extortion is the primary crime that has been committed in Caledonia since all evidence presented by the Federal Government points to the Plank Road transfer from Six Nations to be legal and the Provincial Government confirming itself that the deed held by Henco Industries was legal from the start. For that reason there was no reasonable justification or excuse for the violent and aggressive actions by the natives as a result of their effort to forcibly seize the land.

The OPP are on thin ice in Caledonia and in real danger of breaking through the ice and drowning. It will only take someone with the nerve to tangle with them in court with regard to the events that have transpired over the past 10 months. There are a lot of people in Caledonia who would testify if the situation was presented.

Regards,