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What do you think of the judgment rendered today?
http://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/14246/index.do
Whoever the First Nations wish to be, or however they wish to live, is their business. They are not the immigrants. They are not the ones who should be told to change and become this or that.
It's very tiring, this whole discussion about Native people. I wish I could sum it up into a few simple words but I can't. I will say that I am really done with people who say that Native people have to be like 'us'. They're from the same mentality when on other occasions in the past people from other countries were told they had to change as well and if they didn't, they suffered for it. Frankly I am thankful that there are people all around the world who are different and think different and dress different and have different traditions and beliefs and so many other things totally the opposite from 'us'. There is something undeniably evil in human beings when they decide to get greedy. When they decide they are going to take more and more from other people and especially if they have the power to do so.
When it comes to the Native people of N. America (Canada included) they were murdered and stolen from and slaughtered and put into camps and then more stolen from them. Their children were taken from them and forced into a new way of life and a new language and new beliefs and if they didn't do as they were told they were punished or murdered and many of them were sexually assaulted for years. They were shunned from society, from stores, from association, from voting and anything else anyone wished to reject them from. Then their land was taken and their rivers and lakes and ponds polluted. The list goes on and on and on and on and then someone from the other side says "it's in the past, forget about it". Doesn't work that way, especially when these Native people look around and know in their hearts that they are still second class people in the eyes of way too many people. When they have to fight in the 'white man's' court to get justice and it takes years and decades and even longer.
We destroyed their societies and their beliefs and their way of life and their self esteem and managed to accomplish it in a mere 200 or so years.
I know some people will laugh at this but there was a TV show that had it right, Star Trek and it's 'Prime Directive' > 'do not interfere with the lives of other civilizations'. How simple, logical and crystal clear can anything more be! Yet we still do it. We do it to other people of other lands and we do it to other creatures we share this planet, we still do it to the First Nations people and in a smaller context, we even do it to our own.
I prefer animals over people any day, because they are far wiser.
"those board guys are avoiding your questions like the plaque LOL..."
Unfortunately, you are correct.
My plan was to open discussion on the decision of the Supreme Court. Instead of using links to newspaper or news organizations, I felt it was best to link to the actual decision by the Court using the Court website. The media seems to have spinned the decision in different ways, often based on ideology.
We see the same thing here.
The decision had to do with a specific land claim in British Columbia with "borders" well defined historically. It had nothing to do with genocide, drinking, beating wives, boarding schools, WWI or WWII, etc...
Looking at the "big picture", will this decision eventually help First Nations in Canada or work against them?
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