An Apology to Think About, White Boys

An Underdog Strikes Back

Bite Your Lips & Think!

At the beginning of this month I read a column in the Globe and Mail that made me feel ashamed to be White. It was a sarcastic but right on the nose comparison of Native American Culture and Values to that of my White Culture and its lack of Values and  its incessant Greed of historical note.

It really made me think and that is why I am reprinting it here. I don’t think it got enough notice and it is something that I think all my friends and contacts should read. It’s a view from another perspective that needs to be seen and hopefully considered important enough to try to understand.

It was written by Drew Hayden Taylor: a playwright and filmmaker who lives on the Curve Lake First Nation in Central Ontario. And he has earned my admiration with this work.
His article was in the Globe and Mail on Saturday, Jun. 30 2012 as

White people, here’s your one-time Canada Day special:

Native people apologize back!

Canada Day has always been a mixed bag for Canada’s native people. It makes us think of many things: patriotism, flags, sunburned cottagers, barbeques and exploding fireworks. That’s the good stuff.
For some, though, it’s a reminder that it was four years ago when Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized to the first nations, Inuit and Métis inhabitants of this country for the imposition and effects of the infamous residential-school system.
Since then, much has been said and written about that apology: Did it go far enough? Too little too late? What’s next? That is something I am afraid only educated, wealthy white men in positions of power can decide.
However, some in the native community feel that perhaps we are being a little lax in not issuing an apology of our own.
We are not without some culpability. In the centuries that have passed since that fateful day of contact, we ourselves have been negligent and irresponsible in not acknowledging our liability in many regretful incidents and events in the past.
So in the spirit of cooperation, I would like to offer up these apologies to the people of Canada on behalf of the NAFNIP (native/aboriginal/first nations/indigenous people):
We hereby apologize for being so inconsiderate as to occupy land that, one day, your people would want. Even though we did not have a postal system or an Internet, this was an inexcusable oversight. We hope you are enjoying it.
We apologize for having so many politically correct and incorrect names for you to call us – everything from native to aboriginal to first nations to wagon burner to status-card number 48759375876-1.
In retrospect, to make things easier for you, we should have stayed in India, where we were originally thought to have come from. Unfortunately today it is really hard to get decent palak paneer on the reserve.
We hereby apologize for not understanding the subtle connections between God, children and sexual abuse. Some are still struggling with appreciating this association.
They are forgetting that, early in the Bible, it says, “Let there be white. And it was good.”
We apologize for wanting rights to minerals and other natural resources that exist beneath our feet. When you negotiated for our land, you meant to the Earth’s core.
We did not fully comprehend that when we were put on reserves where our rights to the land only went two or three feet below the surface.
Anything that falls down a sewer grate basically belongs to the Federal Government.
We apologize for being so concerned about the disappearances of so many native women.
We did not realize that the professional attitude of most law-enforcement agencies towards this issue was basically “out of sight, out of mind.” From now on, we’ll report any native women that go missing as white women with dark tans. That should speed up response time.
No need to thank us.
We hereby apologize for straining the Canadian health system due to our propensity towards diseases like diabetes. I know it has been said we put the word “die” in diabetes, but being introduced to all that Kraft Dinner and potato chips was definitely worth giving up the steady diet of salmon and deer.
I am sure the vegetarians are happy.
We apologize for launching so many land claims against the federal and provincial governments. One of our most ancient teachings tells us it is our sacred responsibility to make sure as many lawyers as possible are fed and looked after.
Where would they be without us?
We hereby apologize for wanting autonomy from the Federal bureaucracy of the DIA (Department of Indian Affairs). … Wait a minute, make that DIAND (Department of Indian and Northern Development). … Sorry, but I think it’s now called INAC (Indian and Northern Affairs Canada). … No, I have just been informed the Ministry’s official name is now AANDC – short for Aboriginal Affairs Northern Development Canada. ... Now I forget what my original point was.
And though it had nothing to do with us, we are sorry for obvious reasons for the unique acronym of a once-testy office known as the Government of Ontario Native Affairs Directorate.
Finally, and perhaps most of all, we apologize for helping Canada/Great Britain win the War of 1812 against the Americans. There are many in the native community who feel Barack Obama would be a far more interesting leader than Mr. Harper.
But in our defence, who could have guessed?

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I don’t think I would have!

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

A Nasty, Nasty, Nasty Fax to A Nasty, Nasty, Nasty Cop

To Staff Sergeant Peter Valiquette

To all my readers and helpers: I wrote this post about two weeks ago but held off publishing because it might have aroused enough anger in Copville Madoc to jeopardize the outcome of Mary’s Kamermans appearance at court yesterday morning. That was stupid on our part. We were hoping for a dismissal of charges but all we got was another six months of her persecution simply because she is Rob’s wife. By the time she gets to pre-trial it will be over 18 months of harassment and stress from financial straits because they have had no real income except pension since the raid. Just goddamn despicable. I intend to try to do something about that in a future post.
Rob had reservations about this post fearing repercussions.
it has nopthing to do with him. This is my bitch. 
******

Ontario Provincial Police                 From: Blaine Barrett

Central Hastings Detachment                  #255, 10202-149St         

105953 Hwy. 7 Madoc, ON                          Surrey BC V3R 3Z8

Fax # (613) 473-5029                                                                              thesmeegoanguy@gmail.com

Attn: Staff Sergeant Peter Valiquette

Dear Sergeant Valiquette:

Are you in charge of Central Hastings or are you not?

My name is Blaine Barrett. I am a Medical Marijuana Advocate.

I have a blog

Medical Marijuana with TheSmeeGoanGuy.

and

I have a problem with the way that you are running your detachment.

If it is not you who is responsible for the way officers in the Central Hastings Detachment conduct themselves in the discharge of their duties, please pass this on to your boss. I’m sorry that I don’t have that individuals name but tracing responsibility in the OPP is impossibility. Even if you know the guys name and rank I got lucky and found you as the first in the chain of command covering Coe Hill.

If you were in your current position of power on January 26, 2012 you had to be the individual who authorized the “Nazi attack” on Dr. Rob Kamermans office. Today you must be the one sanctioning his subsequent evil and vindictive persecution by officers under your command.

I am sorry to inform you that there is now no anonymity available and your responsibility and role in what I consider a major violation of Canadian Law cannot be avoided.

1.    The first question I have is what legal provision permits the invasion of privacy of  4000 files of confidential and secret Patient information on the basis of the one warrant for a Doctors office? The medical records are the property of the Doctor but files and the information held in the Records are the property of the patient. My interpretation of law is that each and every one of them was entitled to a separate warrant unless each one of the seized files was named in the wording of the warrant for the contents of the Doctor’s Office.

Your chief Sergeant Mark Duval delivered the warrant to the Doctor. He then used its authority to not only invade the privacy of those files, but seized them for inspection of their contents and then hold them in custody despite all requests for their release by the patients whose property they are. Today all the utility of the documentation contained in the Medical records has ceased to be any use and that made all 4000 renewals nearly impossible. Health Canada doesn’t grant renewals based on verbal evidence. Why is he still refusing access to the hard stuff. Why are you letting him pull stuff like this? Won’t he obey you? 

2.    You have been, and still are, permitting Sergeant Rob Henderson to intentionally and vindictively attack -Dr. Kamermans reputation. He is intentionally trying to destroy Rob’s complete support system as punishment, not for crimes but for allegations! Rob Henderson has already judged and convicted him before the courts have even brought him to trial. I interpret this attack on his financial base as a direct attempt to compound his difficulties in defending himself against what are politically motivated bullshit charges!

3.    It had to be you who approved payment for the expense of Rob Henderson unnecessarily sending two constables all the way to Sturgeon Falls to arrest Rob there. All that was gained was 7 hours until he got home from work. The act was intentional and the Henderson knew full well that to remove him from mid shift in the Emergency Room would compromise his employment not to mention putting the entire community at risk? The community both of you are sworn to protect

Why did you authorize punishment on the day of his arrest?

4.    You are also the one who authorized notification to three banks (the base of all his financial support), that Dr. Kamermans had been charged and was a criminal of some sort. All his transactions were probably connected to proceeds of a drug kingpin? You or someone in your command intentionally extorted the banks to report any and all financial transactions: that provided the basis for his arrest for Breach of Bail when the Credit Union advised you of his transfer of Mortgage money to the US. 

5.    Were you the one who authorized his arrest on that Breach of Bail “bullshit”? It was a complete fabrication that enabled Henderson to not only override a Crown decision to release him because it was a “bullshit charge”, but also to hold him over the weekend simply to inconvenience and punish the Heinous Criminal he apparently fantasizes he has captured.

6.    Are you the one who allows your Constables to verbally assault and harass his patients like Constable Mark Moore does with his phony traffic violations? Scare the shit out of his customer to ensure he’s broke? Despicable!

7.    What is even more despicable is that you permit your officers to intentionally gather at popular local gathering spots and slander the good doctor.

I’d like some clarification and some answers as to what gives you the authority to sanction all this Fascist bullshit in Central Hastings but I naturally don’t expect any from you. You don’t blow the whistle on your buddies and superiors in a hierarchy based on "Nazi principles".

I do want an answer to Question Number one:

You, as his superior, were the one who advised Sergeant Duval the he could legally invade and confiscate all the patient files removed from Dr. Kamermans office,

What legal basis were you using to justify the invasion of privacy

of 4000 patient files on the basis of the single warrant used?

I have to assume that you know the law you are enforcing I want to know what that legal basis is because nobody seems to know. Everybody from the Prime Minister down the daisy chain of irresponsibility has pled ignorance. You can’t do that because you ordered the dirty deed. I want an answer to that question and I’m not going away.

You can’t plead ignorance and claim you were only following orders! That line of bullshit went out with the Nuremburg War Trials and finking on your boss is a no-no with the Skull and Crossbones club. Who do you report to by the way and could you please provide his contact details?

On the other hand you could be totally ignorant of what goes on under your command. That is a somewhat frequent occurrence in OPP operations. If that is indeed the case then please refer me to someone who does, or better yet, go to my blog at

Goan-Smee.blogspot.ca

Read my last post about Evil and Vindictiveness.

It’s in the archive list on the right.

It’s very educational. Enjoy!

At this point it’s your ball Sergeant, the ball is in your court.

I’m now just going to leave it with you. See what creative CYA answer you and your superiors can come up with.

You can waffle and dodge on all the above questions except the primary one for a legal justification for the mass invasion of privacy that took place?

I await your answer

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

P.S. Please reply by e-mail. I assume you have that capability.

Please expedite your response. I don’t want my readership kept in suspense unnecessarily

I also took the liberty of adding your toll free number at Gestapo Headquarters in Madoc.

1-888-310-1122

I’m inviting my readers to play Hounds for the Bastardsville!

I hope they jam your switchboard with calls for the Asshole in Charge

Sic em, troops: Dial,Dial, Dial

thesmeegoanguy@gmail.com

OPP – Ontario Provincial Police (Central Hastings Detachment)
Located	105953 Hwy. 7 Madoc, ON
Staff Sergeant	Peter Valiquette
Phone	24hrs 1-888-310-1122 24hrs TTY 1-888-310-1133
Fax	(613) 473-5029
Municipalities/ Townships Served	-Marmora & Lake -Tudor & Cashel Township -Centre Hastings -Tweed -Madoc Township
Patrol Area	2469 square km
Staff S/Sergeant	1
Sergeant	4
Constable	29
Civilian	4
Auxiliaries	15
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