tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post5433153586887065465..comments2024-03-28T10:07:24.955-04:00Comments on Northern Reflections: Plenty Of BlameOwen Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-23071754571641156532011-12-04T14:40:14.547-05:002011-12-04T14:40:14.547-05:00Harper's priorities are financially warped. M...Harper's priorities are financially warped. More than that, he has placed blame for this tragedy on the natives.<br /><br />But are you sure that the ICC is investigating him? This is the first time I've heard that bit of information.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-58471156440572459652011-12-04T14:29:06.345-05:002011-12-04T14:29:06.345-05:00Harper needs to be forced to resign. This is gross...Harper needs to be forced to resign. This is gross negligence towards the F.N. People. That adorable baby girl, died from negligence as well. <br /><br />Harper spent $50 million on gazebos. One billion on a, stupid fake lake, $3 million on one members travel expenses, a $11.000 per hour jet, to take in a hockey game.<br /><br />Harper will waste billions on his, wars, jets, armored vehicles, a nuclear sub, ships and billions on His Stalag's even if the crime rate has dropped.<br /><br />Harper gives billions of our tax dollars to, banks, mines, large company's, and oil and gas corporations. That motion was passed. I saw this on, the House of Commons TV. Now, those meetings are done behind closed doors.<br /><br />Harper has committed a crime against humanity, while the F.N. are struggling to survive. Harper is also being investigated for, war crimes and crimes against humanity. ICC'S Chief Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Decampo, seems Harper ignores the Geneva Convention.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-88232327273991790272011-12-02T15:11:47.580-05:002011-12-02T15:11:47.580-05:00Harper's response to the problem defined the m...Harper's response to the problem defined the man, thwap. In the final analysis, he -- and many of his followers -- are simply "filled with straw."Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-54615716433282570932011-12-02T14:39:50.936-05:002011-12-02T14:39:50.936-05:00I've known that the AFN has been criticizing s...I've known that the AFN has been criticizing successive federal governments for decades to no effect.<br /><br />I've heard the thesis that there are a lot of FN leadership who are corrupt or who sell their people out to the feds in return for gov't money, but in this instance I can't say that the AFN issuing a press release about the housing on one reserve would really change things.<br /><br />Finally, I agree with you about the uselessness of harper's response. (It isn't useless to harper since it increases his power and spins things the way he likes it, but it's useless for the people who are suffering.)<br /><br />... hmmm: "the people who are suffering." People are suffering and harper wishes to do NOTHING for them but blame them for what he's allowed to be done to them.<br /><br />Because when all is said and done, he's a scum-bag.thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-27045900805210900532011-12-02T14:15:57.160-05:002011-12-02T14:15:57.160-05:00The problem could, indeed, be soon forgotten, Kirb...The problem could, indeed, be soon forgotten, Kirby -- unless there is a concerted effort to keep it front and centre.<br /><br />We shall see what kind of stuff our media are made of.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-24384044209208430132011-12-02T13:35:46.768-05:002011-12-02T13:35:46.768-05:00I have absolutely no doubt that there is plenty of...I have absolutely no doubt that there is plenty of blame to go around here, as there usually is in complex social issues. Hierarchy, any hierarchy, is reluctant to address issues that demand considerations of equality. But what is really at stake here is a microcosm of capitalist development - those at the periphery are the least concern of those at the centre. Sometimes that pesky problem of ethics is awakened is the mind of the workers, as it sometime was in the era of classical colonialism, and sometime is today in the neo-colonial era. Our capitalist has no need of, or interest in, the First Peoples in Northern communities, many of them live in a state of wretched poverty and hopelessness and that has been fine for generations of Liberal and Conservative governments, both of which are fundamentally capitalist. So the CBC awakened the ethical mind of those who are central to the capitalist order. But some of the native leaders have become the equivalent of the indigenous colonial masters (the Raj, for want of a better word). And the problem will slowly drift off the headlines because the periphery is just not important to the development of the core.Kirbycairohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17528654183160305877noreply@blogger.com