harper: "Majority government allows me to embrace my inner racist!"

So, now the prick (inspired by the tutelage of his senile mentor Tom Flanagan) has decided that the need for pretense is over. They were never conquered. They signed treaties with us. We broke them. We stole their land. In the 1970s, they began to rise up and challenge the illegal status-quo.

Trudeau tried to ignore them.

Mulroney tried to suppress them at Oka but eventually conceded to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, which produced far-reaching recommendations (which have been uniformly buried).

Chretien and Martin allowed them to fester in neglect and poverty until the international embarrassment of Kashechewan compelled Martin to sign the Kelowna Accord, laying-out billions of dollars in long-delayed infrastructure spending.

(Liberal zombies will insist that I mention that it was Jack Layton and the NDP who fired the first shot to topple the Martin government. I fail to see the argument against Layton. He was demanding that Martin take serious steps to halt and reverse the creeping privatization of our national health care system. Supposedly, Aboriginal affairs are a passionate issue for Paul Martin, and his commitment to medicare was also steadfast. Curiously though, he endangered Kelowna to avoid having to account for his treatment of public health care. Perhaps he truly cared about neither?)

Regardless, stephen harper first oozed to power with a minority government in the subsequent election and proceeded to abandon the Kelowna Accord (as well as the Martin national daycare plan with the provinces). In fact, the only promises that harper respects are commitments to kill brown people with the US-Americans. I guess getting other people to kill brown people is a "sacred trust" for the cowardly psycho, and very little else.

While he hasn't bothered to pay for clean drinking water on First Nations reserves, harper has come up with very stringent standards for these reserves, without giving them the ability to pay for them. Enter the lawyer-thief Bruce Carson. A "fixer" for the harpercon scum. By driving through the gaping loopholes of harper's laughable "Accountability Act" Carson was able to inform First Nations band councils that if they bought the water treatment systems fronted by his fiance (who is decades younger than him and is apparently cuckolding him), they'll get the money they need.

As if all that sleaze isn't enough, harper has decided to terminate the land claims negotiation process that has been constructed in the face of Aboriginal militancy. He's going to give the First Nations a "take it or leave it" offer and force them to turn to a court system that can only award $250 million a year and which is to be wound-down in ten years time. This means that they can win a maximum of $2.5 billion when there claims are in the tens of billions.

“They [the First Nations] have invested a great deal of time — in some cases, decades — getting this far in the process. And they have been promised justice. The Prime Minister himself in 2007 announced a policy called ‘Justice At Last’, which many of us are now calling ‘Just For Laughs’ in honour of the comedy program. The promises that the Prime Minister made in the summer three or four years ago are being dishonoured. And First Nations are very angry,” he said. “I can tell you that the claims community, the professionals and the First Nations who are in claims across the country, are in an uproar and outrage. I’m not going to make any predictions about what may happen, but I will remind– I would remind the federal system that when Justice At Last was announced, it was in response to a Senate committee report called ‘Negotiation or Confrontation: It’s Canada’s Choice.’ And Canada’s pushing First Nations back, away from reconciliation. And as the Senate predicted, it will be some form of confrontation that will be the result. That’s my prediction.”

Perhaps this latest outrage could be the catalyst for massive civil disobedience against the anti-democratic harper regime. It's pretty clear that the First Nations peoples, pushed to the wall by over a century of racist colonialism and bullshit government negotiations, aren't going to take this arrogant contempt lying down. Sane and decent non-First Nations people should stand with them. We should stand with them and against the harpercon scum and the whining racist un-Canadian hypocrites who support them.