David Warren on Caledonia

My esteemed colleague, Peter Rempel, and others, have been posting here for some time on Caledonia, the cowardice and dangerous precedents being set. David Warren of the Ottawa Citizen concurs, and most eloquently.

I can add nothing to what is already widely reported in the media on Caledonia. There are no mysteries, no facts to dispute. Whatever validity the Six Nations’ land claims may prove to have in some later retrospect, they had no validity when the thugs occupied the Douglas Creek Estates property. And the thugs remain, in direct defiance of the law.

The nadir was perhaps reached last weekend, when the Ontario Provincial Police revealed they were no longer offering police protection to homeowners trapped behind Six Nations’ lines. These people had been paying taxes for police protection for many years, but their property and safety no longer counts. Instead, the luckless captives are now under the protection of an occupying force, one which has pledged to remove, in the fullness of time, everyone else, of non-aboriginal race, for 10 miles either side of the length of the Grand River. …

Dalton McGuinty would be an embarrassment in any political jurisdiction, but especially so in Ontario, where the rule of law had previously been enforced for more than two centuries. I do not think it will even be effective to give him and his party the pasting they deserve in next year’s provincial election. It is too late for that, for in the face of escalating Indian land claims and radicalization right across the country, he has set a catastrophic precedent.

And yet, Mr. McGuinty and the other sorry creatures who warm the seats in his cabinet are not acting alone. They are not even making such decisions as they appear to make. They are instead passively accepting the wisdom of their social and ideological class, which holds that any expression of masculine assertion must necessarily be wrong.

He must be reading some Mansfield these days.