Links - 23rd February 2026 (2 - Indigenous Peoples: Canada)

Supreme Court case involving Indigenous offender and victim could have repercussions in the North - "The Supreme Court of Canada is deliberating a case that could shape the way sentences are handed down in cases where both the offender and victim are Indigenous, which some Nunavut lawyers say could have ramifications for the Inuit-majority territory... [the Gladue] principles stem from a 1999 Supreme Court ruling that was intended to address the over-incarceration of Indigenous people by requiring courts to consider the unique circumstances of Indigenous offenders during sentencing — such as the impacts of colonization, residential schools and intergenerational trauma — and look at alternatives to jail... A 2019 amendment to the Criminal Code required courts to give “primary consideration” to deterring violence against Indigenous women — a response to the recommendations of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Koresawa argued the appeal court’s sentence didn’t appropriately consider that piece of legislation. Effectively, this case looks at how to balance sentencing options when both the victim and offender are Indigenous, so any resulting directive would have repercussions for an Inuit-majority territory like Nunavut... While Fotheringham supports the intent of the Gladue principles, she says she’s deeply concerned they’re being misapplied in a way that unintentionally minimizes or excuses violence. “When Gladue factors are elevated in a way that overshadows accountability, proportionality, and public safety, the result is not justice, it is harm,” she said. “Amautiit rejects the false framing that Inuit women must choose between supporting Gladue, demanding safety and accountability. We can and must have both.”... Even as a lawyer, Iqaluit's Anne Crawford doesn’t believe changes in the judicial process will adequately protect Indigenous women. "Women in Nunavut often state that they don't feel they're getting the protection of the law that other people are because Indigenous offenders are getting extra consideration," she said."
Ken Hiebert | Facebook - "The Gladue Principle was a 1999 Supreme Court ruling that intended to address the over-incarceration of Indigenous people by taking into consideration their individual hardships. In other words, because they had a rough life, the courts would be more lenient in their sentencing. Now, finally we are seeing some of the unintended consequences of this practice. Like, what if the offender and the victim are both indigenous? 😱 I mean what are the chances, right? Actually they're pretty dang good. According to Statistics Canada, 86 per cent of those accused of killing an Indigenous woman or girl were themselves Indigenous. Kind of throws a new light on all the MMIWG talk, doesn't it? So anyway, who gets the favouritism - the indigenous offender, or the indigenous victim? Another result of being ruled by idiots."
Time to blame white people

Virtue-signalling devotion to reconciliation will not end well - "UNDRIP is a declaration of the United Nations General Assembly. It consists of pages and pages of Indigenous rights and entitlements. If UNDRIP is the law in B.C., then Indigenous peoples are entitled to everything — and to have other people pay for it. If you suspect that is an exaggeration, take a spin through UNDRIP for yourself. Indigenous peoples, it says, “have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired … to own, use, develop and control, as well as the right to “redress” for these lands, through either “restitution” or “just, fair and equitable compensation.” It says that states “shall consult and cooperate in good faith” in order to “obtain free and informed consent prior to the approval of any project affecting their lands or territories and other resources,” and that they have the right to “autonomy or self-government in matters relating to their internal and local affairs, as well as ways and means for financing their autonomous functions.” The General Assembly adopted UNDRIP in 2007. At the time, Canada sensibly voted “no,” along with New Zealand, the United States and Australia. Eleven countries abstained. But in 2016, the newly elected Trudeau government reversed Canada’s objection. UN General Assembly resolutions are not binding in international law. Nor are they enforceable in Canadian courts. But in 2019, NDP Premier John Horgan and his Attorney General David Eby, now the Premier, introduced Bill 41, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA). DRIPA proposed to require the B.C. government to “take all measures necessary to ensure the laws of British Columbia are consistent with the Declaration.” The B.C. Legislature unanimously passed the bill. (The Canadian Parliament passed a similar bill in 2021.) Two years later, the legislature passed an amendment to the B.C. Interpretation Act. Eby, still B.C.’s Attorney General, sponsored the bill. The amendment read, “Every Act and regulation must be construed as being consistent with the Declaration.” Eby has expressed dismay about the Court of Appeal decision. It “invites further and endless litigation,” he said. “It looked at the clear statements of intent in the legislature and the law, and yet reached dramatically different conclusions about what legislators did when we voted unanimously across party lines” to pass DRIPA. He has promised to amend the legislation. These are crocodile tears. The majority judgment from the Court of Appeal is not a rogue decision from activist judges making things up and ignoring the law. Not this time, anyway. The court said that B.C. law must be construed as being consistent with UNDRIP — which is what Eby’s 2021 amendment to the Interpretation Act says. In fact, Eby’s government has been doing everything in its power to champion Aboriginal interests. DRIPA is its mandate. It’s been making covert agreements with specific Aboriginal groups over specific territories. These agreements promise Aboriginal title and/or grant Aboriginal management rights over land use. In April 2024, an agreement with the Haida Council recognized Haida title and jurisdiction over Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off the B.C. coast formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands. Eby has said that the agreement is a template for what’s possible “in other places in British Columbia, and also in Canada.” He is putting title and control of B.C. into Aboriginal hands. But it’s not just David Eby. The Richmond decision from the B.C. Supreme Court had nothing to do with B.C. legislation. It was a predictable result of years of Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) jurisprudence under Section 35 of the Constitution. That section guarantees “existing” Aboriginal and treaty rights as of 1982. But the SCC has since championed, evolved and enlarged those rights. Legislatures can fix their own statutes, but they cannot amend Section 35 or override judicial interpretation, even using the “notwithstanding clause.” Meanwhile, on yet another track, Aboriginal rights are expanding under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. On the same day as the B.C. Court of Appeal decision on UNDRIP, the Federal Court released two judgments. The federal government has an actionable duty to Aboriginal groups to provide housing and drinking water, the court declared. Taxpayer funded, of course. One week later, at the other end of the country, the New Brunswick Court of Appeal weighed in. In a claim made by Wolastoqey First Nation for the western half of the province, the court said that Aboriginal title should not displace fee simple title of private owners. Yet it confirmed that a successful claim would require compensation in lieu of land. Private property owners or taxpayers, take your pick. Like the proverb says, make yourself into a doormat and someone will walk all over you. Obsequious devotion to reconciliation has become a pathology of Canadian character. It won’t end well."

Ian Paton on X - "BC Cattleman's Association President, Werner Stump, wrote an exceptional op-ed: "The potential consequence of this ruling (UNDRIP) is to make BC non-governable. Effectively all decisions about BC laws are to be made in consultation and in cooperation with over 200 First Nation Governments. The Province and the First Nations will form a collective government that the people of BC do not elect. First Nations leaders have a responsibility to their members only, and so they should. Your vote may no longer matter as BC is at risk of becoming a non-democratic society." #bcpoli @BCcattle @bcagcouncil"

John Rustad on X - "This editorial by Werner Stump underscores something this NDP government keeps trying to minimize: the concern over property rights in B.C. is no longer political, it’s economic and widespread. When industry groups, lenders, and employers are sounding the alarm, it’s because uncertainty is already doing damage. What’s unacceptable is the Premier’s attempt to act surprised. I warned in 2024 that the Declaration Act and the 2021 amendments to the Interpretation Act would eventually land us here. Legal commentators raised the same concerns earlier. We were told it was fearmongering. We were told it was symbolic. We were dismissed. Now the courts have ruled exactly as the legislation instructs them to rule. Premier Eby says the decisions are “overreaching,” yet courts don’t invent frameworks, they apply them. When government directs judges to interpret every law through UNDRIP and Section 35, it cannot feign shock when fee-simple title is treated as subordinate. The province must appeal these rulings immediately and fix the legislation that created this uncertainty. Loan guarantees and press conferences are not leadership; they are admissions that confidence has already been lost. Reconciliation cannot be built on permanent ambiguity. British Columbians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, deserve one country, one flag, and one predictable rule of law. That requires clear rules, clear limits, and a clear end-state. We must restore certainty to property rights, clarify how Section 35 is applied in practice, and reopen the Constitution to provide lasting clarity. Yes, that will be difficult, but leaving land rights to be endlessly reinterpreted by courts is far harder, far riskier, and far more damaging to families, businesses, and the economy. Certainty is not optional. It is the foundation of trust, investment, and a functioning democracy. #cdnpoli #bcpoli"

Canada’s $1 Billion Question: Do Property Rights Still Exist in British Columbia? - WSJ - "The court order could leave private property in 95% of British Columbia vulnerable to claims from indigenous groups that have been seeking to reclaim ownership of land taken from them scores of years ago, said government officials and property lawyers... Thomas Isaac, a Vancouver-based lawyer who leads the aboriginal-law group at Cassels Brock & Blackwell, said the ruling could have “a fatal impact on the economy—if you start playing around with something that is as core as the ability to hold private property.”... the Aug. 7 ruling threatens to chill a real-estate market that is increasingly global, with foreign buyers, especially from China, snapping up homes. Home prices are among the highest in Canada, while commercial property in the Vancouver area was priced at more than $3.5 million an acre in 2024, the same as in Los Angeles, according to the Colliers National Land Report... Unlike much of Canada, British Columbia doesn’t have treaties with most of the indigenous groups on its territory. About 95% of the province, including Vancouver, is on what is called “unceded land.” Young was sympathetic to the idea that the province has to confront the ramifications of seizing land from the area’s original indigenous occupants... The ruling creates a legal paradox, said Robin Junger, a lawyer representing Montrose. It is logically impossible for two different entities to have exclusive titles on the same plot. Young acknowledged this in her ruling, but left it to future litigation or negotiations to resolve. Paul Sullivan, a principal for the tax-services firm Ryan LLC, said the homes and businesses in the Cowichan claim area have been assessed by tax authorities at 1.3 billion Canadian dollars, the equivalent of roughly $1 billion. He is filing an appeal to have the properties reappraised, arguing that the Cowichan ruling has lowered their values, which should lower the property owners’ tax bills. “We’ve got properties that I don’t believe are saleable at the moment,” he said... “I believe that this decision of the court undermines the entire system of land title,” Brodie said. Adding to the complexity, other indigenous groups oppose Cowichan’s claim. The Musqueam Indian Band and the Tsawwassen First Nation have appealed the decision and said Cowichan is asserting title to land and fishing rights that belong to them. Musqueam Chief Wayne Sparrow said he regrets having to fight the issue in Canada’s adversarial court system rather than in a traditional longhouse, where First Nations historically settled such disputes. He said indigenous groups such as Musqueam have no designs on private property and he understands why people feel threatened. But he said his sympathy only goes far. “They don’t want to talk about the past. A lot of people want to just talk about the future,” he said. “Those individuals feel threatened. What do you think our ancestors felt?”"
Clearly government officials and property lawyers are just ignorant and engaging in fear-mongering
Weird. We're told that Native Americans thought it was ridiculous to think you could own land

The pieces of Canada that could be declared Aboriginal land next - "B.C. Premier David Eby, for one, has warned that the precedent set in the British Columbia Supreme Court decision could just as easily apply to other cities across Canada. While much of the country is built atop land that was ceded to the Crown in treaties, millions of hectares still fit the definition of “unceded.” That is, the Indigenous groups occupying the land prior to European settlement never formally surrendered control to the Crown. This describes much of B.C. and Quebec, the entirety of Prince Edward Island and much of Newfoundland and Labrador. In addition, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are both governed by 18th century “peace and friendship” treaties that, unlike later treaties, didn’t specifically extinguish Aboriginal title. As Eby told reporters earlier this month, “there are many examples across the province, and across the country, where Indigenous people were displaced from land illegally, wrongly, unjustly, where there are now fee simple property owners that operate businesses or live in homes.”... Port Coquitlam mayor Brad West issued a public statement saying he would “vigorously defend” private property rights against an Aboriginal title claim by the Kwikwetlem First Nation... Just as in the Cowichan Tribes case, the First Nations pursuing the Kamloops claim have said they have no intention of seizing homes from private landowners. Nevertheless, they remain open to the idea that large swaths of Kamloops could simply wake up one morning under their jurisdiction... On Oct. 24, the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation filed a claim to eight areas surrounding Gatineau, the Quebec city directly across the river from Ottawa... like the Cowichan decision, the case isn’t just based on a claim of traditional territory. Rather, the Kitigan Zibi are claiming the breach of an existing contract with the Crown... In 2021, six New Brunswick First Nations collectively forming the Wolastoqey Nation filed a claim seeking Aboriginal title over more than 50 per cent of New Brunswick. Naturally, such a massive claim encompassed hundreds of private and industrial landowners."

Canada’s $1 Billion Question: Do Property Rights Still Exist in British Columbia? : r/LawCanada - "TBF uncertainty kills markets. For the judge to say no we're not going to tell homeowners there is pending litigation and for the government to give no guarantees to affected homeowners months after the headlines came out is really sloppy at best!"
"It's not sloppy. You all are not going to lose your homes. How about that? This is clearly partisan bullshit. Conservatives policies are about as popular as herpes, but they can always run on fear. They always have that."
"Look at the news that came out? Several lenders won't give new mortgages. If you want to re-finance/sell/HELOC tough luck!"
"If you want to HELOC? To do what? Buy another home? I guess we found a reason to not give a fuck."
"Dude, this is a law sub. The owners right to their property has been materially affected. If they want to sell their home to retire/move etc. Buyers can't get a loan. And your response is I don't give a fuck?"
"Bitch, did I stutter?"
"So you're admitting you're jealous other people worked hard to buy something you can't afford, and your response is fuck em?"
"If you can’t renew your mortgage you may indeed lose your home. Don’t let your progressive mudslinging get in the way of facts on the ground though."
"How many homes lost so far, chicken little?"
"Clearly the reason David Eby has agreed to backstop mortgage financing in the affected areas is because BC mortgage lenders are perfectly happy with this court decision and everything is business as usual. Just Conservative propaganda getting in the way of a prospective progressive victory"
"You realize there is proof lenders are refusing to issue new loans?"
We're still getting the same left wing copes and viciousness

Aboriginal title cannot be used to restrict Canadian airspace, Ottawa says - "An Indigenous group in northern B.C. has attempted to use Aboriginal title to claim the airspace above Crown land, expelling a local helicopter company and B.C. government forestry officials. The conflict, which occurred over the summer, grew to involve the federal and provincial governments, before Ottawa declared in writing to four B.C. cabinet ministers in a Dec. 12 letter that Aboriginal title cannot be used to restrict any flights in Canadian airspace. It’s the latest in a series of escalating, and confusing, interpretations of Aboriginal title in British Columbia... “They were very threatening,” said Luck, who dropped off and picked up the government officials. “They told me not only was I not allowed on their territory, I wasn’t allowed to fly over their territory. I told them I can fly anywhere I want in Canada, other than military bases. It’s free air space in Canada.”"
Damn conservative fear-mongering!

Snuneymuxw First Nation purchases the Great Canadian Casino Vancouver in Coquitlam : r/ilovebc - "Very traditional. Real stewardship of nature. Walking a righteous path. Tending to slot machines like their ancestors did time immemorial."

‘Nothing’s off the table’: AFN warns of potential legal action if Bill C-5 passes - The Globe and Mail - "Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak has warned senators she cannot predict what will happen if Bill C-5, the government’s legislation aimed at fast-tracking major projects, passes... The legislation is a major test for Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has emphasized the need to get significant projects built in order to shore up Canada’s economy in the face of trade threats from the United States"
When you admit that you want to hold up major projects

Holly Doan on X - "Feds @GCIndigenous are sealing all reports filed by Kamloops, B.C. First Nation that was paid $12.1 million to exhume purported graves of 215 children at an Indian Residential School. “Confidential information,” the department wrote in denying Access To Information request."

Sandy Lake First Nation woman charged with murder following death of 5-month-old child | CBC News : r/northernontario - "When our country tried to save kids from bad parents in the foster system, the Human Rights Tribunal called it racist and gave the parents $40,000 each."

Thread by @Afinetheorem on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Wild set of stories in Canada recently: most famous indigenous author, 2nd most famous writer, most famous singer, most famous director, a federal cabinet minister, a big university president, famous law professor...all turned out to be faking their Native ancestry. In the case of King, he's getting favorable press about how "devastated" he is to have learned his absentee father wasn't actually Native. But online you can find discussions going back a dozen years from Cherokee genealogists noting he ignored them even back then. The "why" seems to be "it's a more fun identity". I see younger folks saying "who would pretend to be a member of a downtrodden group?" There's of course been discrimination, but...Native folks have been cool my whole life! Even Dylan pretended to be Native to be "authentic". (Take care: huge jump in Native identity on censuses in US/Canada since 2010 should be taken with a massive grain of salt. Also, I love that my 10th great grandmother is Wampanoag, so somehow at 1/4096th Native I beat Buffy. Don't worry, I don't claim it! )history.vineyard.net/daggett.htm#jo…"
Randy Boissonnault apologizes over Indigenous identity claims
Celebrated author Thomas King expects 'firestorm' as he reveals he's not Indigenous | CBC News
Who is the real Buffy Sainte-Marie?
Michelle Latimer’s Identity Crisis Is Raising Impossible Questions for Canada’s Indigenous Filmmakers

As per the BC Treaty Commission, the modern treaties that the government has been negotiating do not cede any land to the Crown, and they do not extinguish Aboriginal Title. So in exchange for billions of taxpayer dollars, why are we not getting ceded land in return? : r/ilovebc - "As per the BC Treaty Commission, the allegedly "unceded" land that is at issue today, even after taxpayers pay billions upon billions of dollars for it, will never become legally "ceded" land. The BC Treaty Commissions says that these new treaties will "evolve over time based on the co-existence of Crown and Indigenous governments." The Reconciliation Industry has ensured that generation after generation of Canadian Citizens will be forever be stuck reconciling conflicting jurisdictional and land claim issues that will without a doubt arise as our society grows and evolves. Make this make sense? Reconciliation is an extortion racket, the government even after signing treaties and compensating billions of dollars, is deliberately condemning all future generations to reconciliation purgatory. Reconciliation has been deliberately designed to never end. How many people in the public knew about this? Please share this far and wide, we need answers."

Eby accuses courts of jeopardizing B.C. economy, resource projects - The Globe and Mail
When you blame others for the consequences of your virtue signalling
Naturally this was not just deleted from r/britishcolumbia but all comments got wiped too

FLASHBACK: Eby protested 2010 Olympics, said games shouldn't be played 'on stolen land' - "Long before becoming premier of British Columbia, David Eby was an influential lawyer and activist involved in a number of high-profile movements. Among them was the push to cancel the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver... Recently unearthed footage shows Eby, then-executive director of the BC Civil Liberties Association, addressing fellow protestors in Ontario in front of a sign that reads "No Olympics on Stolen Land." "Why is it that we're holding these games on unceded Native lands?" he asked. "We can't resolve these land claims, but we can spend $6 billion on the Olympics?" Eby also took aim at the security measures put in place by the province that sought to combat opposition to the games. Among them were laws that prohibited "anti-Olympic" signs in windows and gave police the ability to seize them. "There are countries where it would be normal where if you spoke out against the agenda of the government you would be visited by the police," he said. "It didn't used to be that way in Canada; it didn't used to be that way in Vancouver, but every day we're seeing that people who are just saying 'why are we spending $6 billion on the Olympics when people are freezing to death on the streets of Vancouver?" Protestors across the country showed their displeasure by, among other things, disrupting the Torch Relay... When protests did kick off downtown Vancouver, they began peacefully, but eventually turned violent, with a number of attendees destroying property and clashing with cops. In the end, countless people were arrested... It's worth noting that the chiefs and band councils of the four First Nations on whose traditional territories the Olympics would be held — the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Lil'wat — were supportive of the world coming to Vancouver. They even set up the Four Host Nations Society to coordinate efforts to showcase their cultures. Opposition came from small but vocal segments of the communities. Despite their best efforts, the games went on as planned in February 2010. While protestors did smash the windows of the historic Hudson's Bay Company building downtown and vandalize a number of bank branches, police ensured disruption was kept to a minimum. Fast forward 15 years. Now, Vancouver is just months away from welcoming people from all over the globe for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and Eby is premier of BC. Instead of speaking out against the games, the activist-turned-politician appears to have embraced the event — though he still maintains the games will be held on stolen land."
FLASHBACK: Eby protested 2010 Olympics, said games shouldn't be played 'on stolen land' : r/ilovebc - "Y’all literally elected a woke activist to run your province, what did you expect would happen? Ever since Expo 86, Vancouvers sole growth has been through invitation of foreign investment. This is the only reason we are a major city now. And now that the money is here, we want to complain and claim that the money somehow came here in a deceptive manner. BC and Vancouver wouldn’t be a thing and none of these woke mfs would even want to live here. Where do you think the money for all this socialist BS comes from? Not from TAs working on indigenous studies courses I tell ya what. It comes from foreign investment and all the people whose tax paying jobs are centred around land development and construction."
Of course nowadays if you are visited by the police for opposing the left wing agenda, left wingers will cheer and condemn you

Links - 23rd February 2026 (1 - George Floyd Unrest)

Meme - "Violent Protest *Capitol Riot with people waving banners and being orderly and not crossing queue lines*
Peaceful Protest *BLM riot with looting, fires and masks*"

Meme - "IF YOU FAIL TO HOLD THESE PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE THEN YOU CAN SHUT UP ABOUT JANUARY 6TH *burning Minnesota during BLM riots*"

Meme - *BLM riots, with huge fire*
Soyjaks: "Peaceful protest!"
*January 6th 2021 with orderly crowd*
Soyjaks: "Domestic terrorism!"
*Teslas being set on fire*
Soyjaks: "Peaceful protest!"

Meme - "Leftists when they hear that Kyle Rittenhouse shot a man who raped 5 little boys
Simpsons fat juror: That could have been me!"

Meme - "This was the capital in June... Please save me your outrage"
This should be about the Capitol Riot

Former Georgia KKK meeting spot plans to ditch Confederate flags and acknowledge its racist past - "A Georgia park that was once a Ku Klux Klan meeting spot plans to disavow its racist past by ditching Confederate flags - but won't destroy a controversial mountainside sculpture.   Stone Mountain Park, which sits around 15 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta, will remove an image of the controversial carving from its official logo.  The sculpture, which sits on the north side of the park's eponymous Stone Mountain, shows General Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and General Thomas J. Jackson. It is the largest Confederate monument ever crafted, and is protected by Georgia state law.   Stone Mountain Memorial Association CEO Bill Stephens presented the proposals to the park's board, including the removal of the carving from its logo, and Confederate flags from the park.  He said Stone Mountain needed to change to remain financially viable but said there were no plans to remove the mountain carving, explaining that he didn't want to 'cancel history.'   The board did not immediately vote on any of the proposals, which also include renaming the park's Venable Lake.   The park is a popular hiking and tourist destination but is replete with Confederate imagery.   The proposals come amid a national reckoning on race that brought down dozens of Confederate monuments in a span of weeks last year... The celebration of the Confederacy at the park is used to 'oppress people,' said Bona Allen, with the grassroots group Stone Mountain Action Coalition... The coalition last year proposed that the association remove Confederate flags at the base of the mountain, change the names of streets and other park features with Confederate affiliations and refocus the park around such themes as racial reconciliation and justice."
From 2021
Apparently people who never visit the park are oppressed by it. And those who choose to go there and get triggered need to be protected from themselves

FBI reassigns agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say
Good luck if they participate in a "white supremacy" protest while on duty

Meme - "YOUR OUTRAGE IS MANUFACTURED

BLM RIOTS VS. JAN 6
500+ BLM RIOTS vs JANUARY 6
LASTED SEVEN MONTHS vs LASTED A COUPLE HOURS
20+

MURDERS BY PARTICIPANTS vs ZERO MURDERS BY PARTICIPANTS
HUNDREDS OF SMALL BUSINESSES DESTROYED vs NO SMALL BUSINESSES DESTROYED
150+ FEDERAL BUILDINGS DAMAGED vs ONE FEDERAL BUILDING DAMAGED
~ $1B - $2B DAMAGE vs
~ $1.5M DAMAGE
2,037 OFFICERS ASSAULTED vs 140 OFFICERS ASSAULTED
PROTESTERS BAILED OUT vs PROTESTERS KEPT IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
ENCOURAGED BY MEDIA & POLITICIANS vs ENCOURAGED BY FRINGE POLITICAL GROUPS AND AGITATORS
DOWNPLAYED BY THE MEDIA vs EXAGGERATED BY THE MEDIA
NATIONAL ENCOURAGEMENT vs NATIONAL OUTRAGE"

Turning Point UK 🇬🇧 on X - "Patriot is stabbed by ANTIFA thugs in Bristol after being jumped by them. Police don’t appear to be interested. No one was arrested for stabbing him."

Meme - Crying Black Woman: "You care more about a squirrel than George Floyd!?!?"
Man: "Peanut wasn't a drug addict and never held a pregnant woman at gunpoint"

Meme - "LOOK, SON. RIOTERS, ARSONISTS, AND LOOTERS ARE HERE TO TEACH US ABOUT PEACE AND EQUALITY."

Meme - Black man holding sign: "No mother should have to fear for her son's life every time he robs a store"
Left wingers will claim that the police or ordinary people shouldn't be judge, jury and executioner, because they don't think people should be able to defend themselves against criminals trying to kill them

~~datahazard~~ on X - "Before mass incarceration, nearly 1% of Black Females were expected to be murder victims in their lifetime---nearly all at the hand of Black Males This dropped to an all-time low of 0.35% in 2014 At 2021 rates, we now expect 0.67% of all Black Females to be the victim of murder"
So much for BLM. Black Lives Matter - only when they can be used to push the left wing agenda

Meme - Black guy: "IF I FIGHT THIS COP AND TELL HIM I DINDU NUFFIN HE WILL PROBABLY LET ME GO"

Meme - Crying Black Woman: "You care more about a squirrel than George Floyd!?!?"
Man: "Peanut wasn't a drug addict and never held a pregnant woman at gunpoint"

Meme - "Quintez Brown
- BLM Activist
- Attempted to assassinate a candidate for mayor of Louisville.
- Released two days later on $100,000 bail.
- Had his bail crowdfunded.
- Portrayed by media as a troubled social justice activist.
Kyle Rittenhouse
- Blue collar teenager
- Guarded local businesses in his community from violent riots.
- Defended himself from a pedophile and domestic abuser who attacked him.
- Released from jail two months later on $2 million bail and put on trial in front of the world.
- Had bail fund removed by GoFundMe and media dox the people who donated.
- Portrayed by media as white supremacist mass murderer."

Black Lives Matter Leaders Aren’t Capitalist Converts, They Still Want To Dismantle the U.S. - "people are asking questions. They include people like Michael Brown Sr., the father of Michael Brown and Lisa Simpson and Samaria Rice, the mothers of Tamara Rice and Richard Risher. All three had children killed by police in situations that BLM claimed showed the anti-Black bias of law enforcement. They have each complained that they haven’t seen a penny from BLM. Brown’s declarations are the most poignant since it was after his son’s shooting in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 that BLM emerged into a nationwide organization with real political muscle. He released a video in 2020 asking where the money had gone that raised off of his son’s name. The two mothers, meanwhile, have called on The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) to stop capitalizing on their tragedy. "We don’t want or need y’all parading in the streets accumulating donations, platforms, movie deals, etc. off the death of our loved ones, while the families and communities are left clueless and broken," they wrote in a statement. "Don’t say our loved ones’ names period! That’s our truth!" Just where is all that money? New York magazine broke the news last week that BLMGNF had purchased a $6 million California mansion and went through great duplicitous lengths to keep it hidden. The Washington Examiner’s Andrew Kerr meanwhile revealed earlier this year that BLMGNF had also spent $8 million a Toronto mansion that had been the headquarters of the Communist Party of Canada. This comes atop revelations last year that BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors had bought several other mansions worth millions. The Internal Revenue Service hasn’t the foggiest where the rest of the money is. We are not talking about chump change here. The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF), the flagship of BLM, itself affirmed that it raised over $90 million during the George Floyd riots of 2020. But as Fox Business’ Danielle Wallace reported in February, the attorneys general of California and Washington State have had to suspend BLMGNF’s fund-raising capacity because it is delinquent on its 2020 financial reports. The mainstream media has finally had to report on this story, because it became a farce that they hadn’t. So even the Washington Post’s Karen Attiah is now asking, "Do they think we’re stupid? For years, people marched, got tear-gassed, donated and literally put their lives on the line in the hopes of Black emancipation — not a Black influencer McMansion." The problem is much deeper. For years, Attiah and most other journalists have hidden the truth about BLM. The goals of Cullors, Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, Melina Abdullah, and the other founders of BLMGNF have always been evident —at least to those listening. Garza was very clear about her all-encompassing goal when told a gathering of Marxists in Maine in 2019, "We’re talking about changing how we’ve organized this country … I believe we all have work to do to keep dismantling the organizing principle of this society." You got that? This is what they mean to do, a root-and-branch transformation of everything American, so that when they are finished, the only thing that will be left the same will be the name, if that. Just to make sure that everyone understood, our very home-grown Vladimir Lenin spoke plainly about power. "Power is very much about deciding who gets to make decisions and who doesn’t," Garza told the enthralled Maine leftists. "Power is about deciding where resources go and where they don’t go, and why." Capitalism, she says, is racist. When I associate Garza with Lenin, the leader of the revolution that made Russia communist in 1917, I am not being gratuitous. Cullors years ago told anyone who would listen that she and Garza are "trained Marxists." They are indeed, trained by committed communist theoreticians intent on bringing down America. Cullors approach is also total. In a video that has now mysteriously gone private, she said the organization doesn’t just want to defund police – it is intent on "getting rid of police, prisons and jails, surveillance, and courts." No society survives that, and they know it. Abdullah, the daughter and granddaughter of committed communists, meanwhile tweets with disdain, "It does not hurt my feelings when white-supremacists call me a Marxist. I’d be much more upset to be dubbed a capitalist." Tometi praises Venezuela’s "participatory democracy."... Stalin, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko and all the other leaders of the Soviet Union all had their country dachas. Don’t be fooled, they loved their beautiful homes but they also hated capitalism and never gave up the Marxist fight. BLM’s leaders haven’t become capitalists or changed their minds about overthrowing the American system. It’s just more comfortable to plan the revolution from inside a $6 million mansion."

Bridget Phetasy on X - "During the 2020 protests and riots I had the realization watching the unchecked lawlessness in Los Angeles that one day the looting and rioting wasn't going to stay contained to stores and restaurants and that no one was coming when that day came."
How ignorant. Doesn't she know that stopping violent left wing rioters is literally fascism?

Far-left bishop BLAMES Trump for damages caused by BLM rioters in RESURFACED video - YouTube
On Mariann Budde

Thread by @VigilantFox on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Five years ago, the world watched America erupt over the death of George Floyd.  The left called it the “summer of love.”  What followed was anything but.  It was chaos. It was violence. It was destruction.   And, according to Victor Davis Hanson, the entire movement was built on a lie—a psychological operation powerful enough to divide a nation and destabilize its foundation.  Only now, half a decade later, are we beginning to see it clearly and reckon with the wreckage it left behind.  🧵 THREAD...
Five years later, Hanson said, the country is finally beginning to ask what it all really achieved.  “Looking back at all the damage of the downtowns in America—many of them were destroyed. Today, they have not recovered.”  Race relations are worse. Public trust is fractured. And the very institutions that rushed to virtue-signal have been discredited.  “Look at the universities who were chastised by the Supreme Court for using race in a racist fashion in admission. They've been discredited.”  “And the people who capitalized on the death of George Floyd are, for the most part, discredited.” Now, Hanson believes, the country is starting to sober up.  “We're trying to come to a conclusion,” he said. “Why in the world did we go completely collectively insane?”  The lockdowns, he argued, did more harm than the virus itself.  The idea of defunding police has proven to be a dangerous fantasy.  And the so-called anti-racism movement squandered nearly all the goodwill it once had.  “Professor Kendi… went through $45 million [at] Boston University for an anti-racist center. And apparently the money was squandered.”  “So we’re getting back to the idea that when you use race in any fashion for bias or preference—it’s racist.”"

Perhaps Black Lives Matter was right about the nuclear family - "much of the current animus against the nuclear family is driven by the trendy anti-patriarchy narrative saturating Western society since the 1950s, while suffocating the accumulated and tried-and-tested wisdom forged over the centuries.  “There’s a general assumption now that every man in a position of power is or will soon be corrupt and oppressive,” the American poet Robert Bly wrote in in his bestselling 1990 book Iron John: Men and Masculinity, in which he dissects how masculinity and manhood have become increasingly maligned in modern society—especially in academia, the media and popular culture—resulting in younger men turning away from the more positive aspects of their XY chromosome birth right. “Yet the Greeks understood and praised a positive male energy that has accepted authority.”   BLM would appear to disagree with those Greeks (as well as with many other learned individuals of yesteryear). Another part of the deleted BLM text read: “We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work ‘double shifts’ so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work.” In an episode of The Spectator’s Americano podcast called “Is fatherlessness tearing America apart”, Mary Eberstadt, a senior fellow at the Faith and Reason Institute and author of Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics, argues that the BLM protests that shook America, and further afield, over the summer were about far more than just concerns about racism.  “The fatherlessness of America has now poured out onto the streets,” Eberstadt says, noting that innumerable studies illustrate how fatherlessness is linked to adverse outcomes for children, ranging from drug use to promiscuity to education failure. “This is probably the best documented fact in sociology in America that no one wants to admit.”  She explains this fatherlessness goes beyond the literal sense to a more abstract level that includes an absence of – and aversion to – institutional patriarchal authority, such as commitment to church and religion, and love of one’s country. This provided the context, she says, for why the iconoclasm that began with the destruction of Confederate statues then, rather bafflingly, expanded to the tearing down of all manner of statues such as the Founding Fathers and even religious figures.   “Anything that looked like a father was the object of animus”... humans are social creatures: we learn by watching and imitating, but “the sexual revolution has taken people out of the lives of the young, it has shrunken the family, it has disrupted the family, and so social learning has been impeded in this massive way.” And it was this process that culminated in “the political theatre that poured out into America’s streets,” including, she notes, attacks often aimed at family-occupied public places. In all of that, she says, we witnessed a “great familial discontent and envy of people who have been able to, despite the sexual revolution, continue living in intact families.”   In unpacking the roots of identity politics that go back to black feminists in the late 1970s, Eberstadt notes how, similar to the manifestos of that era, in the deleted BLM text the word or notion of a father is never mentioned. All male figures, including brothers or sons, have been erased. It’s pretty sinister to consider—certainly as a man. Are we really that bad, so deserving of enemy status? I was struck by BLM’s use of the word “disrupt”, as it reminded me of my tactics classes while training to be a British Army officer to defend the UK against its foes. We were taught that “disrupt” was a so-called military mission verb that involved a commander integrating direct and indirect fires, terrain and obstacles to upset an enemy’s formation or tempo, interrupt his timetable and decision-making process, or cause his forces to commit prematurely or attack in a piecemeal fashion, all of which would undermine his chances of survival. The army doctrine manual also noted that disruption is never an end; it is the means to an end: defeat of the enemy...  it would be a bit rich of many of us, certainly now, to demean the nuclear family after that was all we had to fall back on when Covid-19 lockdowns swept the carpets from under our feet. It was those much-maligned Baby Boomers, increasingly blamed for ruining the world, to whom many of us had to turn, and whom took us in without question.  Such unconditional love is hard to find, and that challenge shouldn’t be underrated."

Race, Riots, and the Cops - "Michael Hendrix: when white people see a video of unjust police abuse of a white person, it may make us angry, sad, or uncomfortable, but most of us don't see ourselves in the position of the person in the video.  But when black people see the video of an officer kneeling on, say, George Floyd's neck, their reaction is much more likely to be, that could have been me or my son or my friend or my brother. And he says, in general, it seems clear that when confronted with a story about one of their own dying at the hands of police, black people tend to internalize while white people tend to compartmentalize...
Rafael Mangual: I think there's a lot of truth to that, which is to say that I think it's true that people do have those sort of disparate reactions along racial lines. And I think part of that is because there is a sort of cultural thread that runs through the black community that is one kind of rooted in this idea of solidarity... if you look at the data on police use of force, many of the studies make very clear that for example, the rate of violent crime is a much stronger predictor of changes in police use of force for a particular neighborhood, than racial demographics.  And I think Coleman hit that on the nose when he talked about the real sense of fear that a police officer feels when he walks up to a car during a traffic stop, and I do think that it differs between communities but I don't think it's purely a matter of race... police by and large are a group that is characterized much more by professionalism and restraint than by bigotry and violence...  I recently wrote a large piece for the Federalist society that looked at a database of lawsuits filed against the NYPD, it contained more than 2000 lawsuits and they were like a couple dozen that had been resolved in favor of the police officers. And it doesn't say which ones of those were because of qualified immunity, but even if you assume that all those resolved in favor of the police were on qualified immunity grounds, you're still looking at a couple percent of that whole...
Coleman Hughes: Yeah, I don't think that the riots have a goal. I mean, if you notice the rioting started after charges were brought against the cop that killed George Floyd, not before...   Nobody cares about the data... Even since we've been counting in 2015, the Washington Post database, the numbers have come down actually pretty remarkably. And nobody even knows that, nobody cares about it.  It's not going to be reported on the news for a myriad of different reasons having to do with baseline human psychology, but also with, the would be rioters are not a population that is going to be sensitive to any level of progress other than a complete elimination of the issue. And that, if they can be said to have a coherent goal, it would be that, it would be zero. A zero rate of cops killing black people year after year after year. And I really do not see how that is possible."

i/o on X - "During 2020 and 2021, the New York Times treated us to several pieces on black women's hair (one appearing on the front page), but it did not mention once the total number of unarmed black people fatally shot by police — out of over 15 million encounters between blacks and police, it was only 13 — in the year before the BLM protests, nor did it mention that most of those deaths were determined to have occurred while there was an immediate threat to the safety of the officer."
i/o on X - "To this day, surveys show that a substantial percentage of those who identify as "very liberal" believe thousands of unarmed blacks are killed each year by the police. Most of the blame for this can be laid at the feet of legacy media that decide not to inform the public vanishingly small the problem is."
Weird. We're told that reality has a liberal bias

Dr. Maalouf ‏ on X - "She is very angry because a pro-Palestinian terrorist group was banned in the UK, and says she ‘cannot wait for the West to fall.’ What exactly does she think will happen to people like her if the West were to fall?!"

Meme - "Virtua Cop 2 *Sydney Wilson, black woman with knife wearing bathrobe attacking police officer*"

Black Lives Matter made our elites lose the plot – and they’re finally starting to admit it - "The simplest way to sum up modern progressive activists is this: they’re sociopaths who identify as empaths. Forever lecturing others about compassion, while themselves being brutally cruel.  This was never clearer than during Black Lives Matter mania, which saw almost the entire progressive elite pursue a frenzied vendetta against anyone suspected of ideological impurity. Take the monstrous hounding of the author Kate Clanchy. In 2021, barely a year after she’d won the Orwell Prize for her moving non-fiction book Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, she suddenly found herself tarred as a racist. Why? Because in that book she’d made a small number of supposedly “problematic” descriptions of people who weren’t white: for example, writing that a girl from Afghanistan had “almond eyes”. Seriously: at the height of the BLM witch hunts, this was enough to wreck her reputation, and cost her her book deal. When an executive at her publishing house had the temerity to suggest that cancel culture was possibly not an unalloyed public good, his colleagues were so outraged that he felt compelled to issue a grovelling apology. (“I now understand I must use my privileged position as a white middle-class gatekeeper with more awareness to promote diversity, equity, inclusivity…”)  At long last, though, the tide is unmistakably turning. This week, Ms Clanchy’s former publishers apologised for the disgraceful way she was treated. Perhaps it’s now the cancellers who fear for their careers. At any rate, the whole sickening spectacle gives the lie to the smug myth – beloved of middle-class arts graduates – that reading literary fiction makes you more empathetic. The mob who set out to ruin Ms Clanchy are among the best-read people in Britain. All of them will be well familiar with such chilling dystopian masterpieces as The Crucible, Lord of the Flies and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Yet they seem to have taken each of these texts not as a warning, but as an instruction manual."

Good Intentions Gone Bad (Indigenous 'Reconciliation' in Canada)

Virtue signalling has very real harms: 

Good Intentions Gone Bad - The Atlantic

"Attend a public event in Canada and you will likely hear it open with a land acknowledgment...

They are usually received by their audiences as a Christian invocation might once have been: a socially required ritual in which only some believe, but at which it would be rude to scoff. After all, what harm does it do? 

In the past few months, Canadians have learned that these well-meaning pronouncements are not, in fact, harmless. Far from it. Canadian courts are reinterpreting these rote confessions of historical guilt as legally enforceable admissions of wrongful possession.

In August, a British Columbia court ruled that the titles to public land across 800 acres south of downtown Vancouver must be subordinated to a new “Aboriginal title” belonging to a group of about 5,500 Indigenous Canadians. 

Although the judge in question has claimed that this decision does not apply to private land, the logic of this ruling has proved so muddled that it has called into question not only the private titles of some 150 landowners in the region but also the ownership of almost every piece of private land in British Columbia—and possibly all of Canada. Some Americans may try to apply this precedent to the U.S. too.

The effects of the decision have been swift and harsh. Commercial-property values have collapsed in the city of Richmond because of uncertainty over titles. A hotel valued by its lenders at more than 110 million Canadian dollars in August traded hands for $51.5 million in October. I spoke this month with a landowner who had a major Canadian lender terminate discussions on a $35 million construction loan after the decision. At least one lease on an industrial building has been called into question because the tenant no longer knows whether the landlord still owns the premises.

To offset the damage, the government of British Columbia has offered $150 million in loan guarantees to local landowners, putting taxpayers on the hook.

The dollar amounts at stake are enormous. Before the ruling deflated values, the more than 100 homes, businesses, and commercial properties in the area were valued at $2 billion. Yet because this case ostensibly doesn’t apply to private landowners—who are expected to litigate their own cases—they were denied any opportunity to defend their interests. At an earlier phase in the proceedings, advocates for the plaintiffs argued, “It foments adversity and unnecessary hostility to frame this as a claim against private property holders”—a clever move, which the British Columbia courts accepted in 2017.

Eight years later, the judge in the case continued to dismiss concerns about property rights and the integrity of titles. Such talk, Justice Barbara Young ruled in her decision over the summer, “inflames and incites rather than grapples with the evidence and scope of the claim in this case.”

In the name of justice for historical misdeeds, the judge decided it was acceptable to deny Canadian landowners basic due process before depriving them of their rights.

The decision in Cowichan Tribes v. Canada “grapples with the evidence” in ways that may seem exotic, if not bizarre, to most legal scholars. Many claims for aboriginal title in Canada turn on “oral history”—stories and songs about the past preserved by the claimants. Such testimony would normally be prohibited by the rule against hearsay evidence, which exists to screen out unverifiable statements. The judge in this case acknowledged in her decision that “the ‘truth’ lying at the heart of oral history and tradition evidence can be elusive.” Yet she allowed this “elusive” truth to become the basis of a claim for billions of dollars’ worth of Canadian property...

If the logic of Cowichan is upheld, there is scarcely a landholding in British Columbia—or much of the rest of Canada—for which ownership is secure. My wife and I own 20 acres of rural property in Ontario. Our title, like that of most of my neighbors, traces back to Crown grants issued more than 200 years ago. All of those titles could be retroactively voided if the Cowichan precedent becomes Canadian law...

In 2016, an Indigenous group filed a still-pending land claim against the city of Port Coquitlam. The members want control of much of the city’s open spaces, including the riverside parklands and the premier athletic facility, Gates Park. The Kwikwetlem First Nation is even smaller than the Cowichan; it has a registered population of 153. In an interview this month, the group’s leadership disavowed interest in private lands, but the value of the public land sought is more than enough to make every member of the group a multimillionaire.

At the opposite end of Canada, the federal government agreed in February to pay $17.5 million to two Indigenous groups in tiny Prince Edward Island. Ontario is negotiating a claim for 36,000 square kilometers, including the land underneath Canada’s Parliament buildings. In New Brunswick, the federal government paid $145 million in 2021—and now faces a demand for more than half of the province. An Indigenous group recently filed a Cowichan-like claim for much of the parkland on the Quebec side of the Ottawa River, opposite the Canadian capital of Ottawa—along with $5 billion in cash.

The Cowichan decision is an extreme but logical extension of an unresisted political revolution.

Among many Canadians in positions of influence, an idea has taken hold that Canada’s founding was a great crime that must be atoned for. The term usually applied to this atonement is reconciliation. That term is misleading. Reconciliation implies some kind of mutuality, but the Canadian version is strictly one-way: Demands by Indigenous nations and affiliated nongovernmental groups produce concessions, which invite yet more demands, which beget yet more concessions...

Canadian politicians have directed considerable resources to trying to improve these ghastly trends [involving 'indigenous' peoples]. The federal Indigenous budget nearly tripled over the 10 years of the Justin Trudeau government, exceeding $32 billion a year—almost what Canada spent on national defense in the past fiscal year. 

Yet these funds are often spent without concern for how they are used or whether they help anyone. A September 2025 federal report, for example, found that from April 2020 to March 2023, an Indigenous federation in Saskatchewan received $30 million for COVID-related programs, of which nearly $23 million went to expenditures deemed “questionable.”

Is this scale of suspicious spending typical? It’s hard to say. The Conservative government of Stephen Harper proposed the First Nations Financial Transparency Act, passed in 2013, which called for Indigenous communities to publish their accounts and salary structures. The Trudeau government, elected in 2015, promptly announced that it would not enforce this law—and even reinstated funding for Indigenous groups whose funds had been suspended for past violations.

Despite this support, the past decade has been calamitous for Indigenous people. Life expectancy for First Nations people in British Columbia dropped 7.1 years from 2015 to 2021, according to the nonprofit Indigenous Watchdog. Life expectancy for First Nations people in Alberta fell seven years from 2019 to 2023 and is now nearly two decades shorter than that of other Albertans, according to the province’s health statistics. Manitoba has seen similar trends.

The principal culprit has been a surge in deaths by drug overdose. In British Columbia, Indigenous people are six times more likely to die of a drug overdose than non-Indigenous residents. In Alberta, the disparity is eight times; in Ontario, nine.

As Indigenous people’s conditions have worsened in Canada, Natives’ advocates have become more radical in their critique of Canadian society.

In May 2021, a researcher announced a terrible discovery, which the CBC reported: “Remains of 215 children found buried at former B.C. residential school, First Nation says.” Other reports swiftly amplified this story with new grim details, including claims of about 751 unmarked graves near a different school in Saskatchewan. These reports were accepted and repeated by Prime Minister Trudeau and his government, and they triggered a spasm of national remorse. Flags over federal buildings were lowered for more than five months, the longest formal mourning in Canadian history. Provinces, cities, universities, schools, and other institutions engaged in rituals of contrition.

In 2021, Canada made September 30 a national day for truth and reconciliation. In May 2022, Prince Charles—Canada’s future head of state—visited the country to express contrition for the suffering of “survivors” of residential schools. Pope Francis visited that July to “beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians.” By October 2022, a motion to condemn Canada’s residential-school system as “genocide” passed the federal Parliament by unanimous consent.

Despite exhaustive investigations, however, no human remains were in fact found at the Kamloops, B.C., school or at any other alleged site of “mass graves.” Numerous claims of unmarked graves at other locations turned out to be nothing more sinister than rural cemeteries that had fallen into neglect.

There is no denying that abuses occurred at these residential schools, which ran from the 19th century to the 1990s and separated more than 150,000 Indigenous children from their families and communities to assimilate them into the dominant culture. The Harper government formally apologized for these abuses in 2008 and paid nearly $2 billion in compensation. But the more dire accusations of children buried in secret graves ultimately unraveled. Many Canadians began to feel as if they had been hoaxed. Grave Error, a book debunking the charges of genocide at residential schools, became a national best-seller.

Radicalization on one side, and resentment on the other, have grown together.

Now, in a generous impulse to share Canada’s wealth with First Nations, courts appear poised to destroy the systems that created the wealth in the first place.

The big cash transfers of the past decade proved only an opening bid for an even more audacious ambition: the redistribution of land rights from “settlers”—as non-Indigenous Canadians were invited to call themselves—to Indigenous groups. Unlike the ballooning federal Indigenous budgets of the past decade, which were approved by a majority in the Canadian Parliament, the matter of land redistribution has been left to the courts.

In the 20th century, aboriginal lawsuits typically turned on a breach of some treaty between the Crown and a Native population. In the 1984 case Guerin v. the Queen, for example, the aboriginal owners of treaty land in Vancouver sued the government over a deviously unfavorable lease and ultimately recovered $10 million in compensatory damages.

The problem raised by cases like Guerin, however, was how to win in the absence of a treaty violation. A solution was found in a magic word in the Canadian constitution: and.

The Canadian constitution assumed its modern form in 1982. Section 35 of the constitution affirms “the existing aboriginal and treaty rights” of Canada’s aboriginal population. Aboriginal and treaty rights? That conjunction has opened the enticing possibility that there might exist constitutionally enforceable aboriginal rights not specified in any treaty.

In the 1997 case Delgamuukw v. British Columbia, the supreme court approved a claim to 58,000 square kilometers of Crown land. The Indigenous plaintiffs contended that even in the absence of a treaty, they held an “aboriginal title” to the land because of their continuing relationship to the area—a relationship proved by the plaintiff group’s songs, legends, and oral traditions. Once a hazy concept, “aboriginal title” has expanded into a right with real bite. In 2004, the supreme court of Canada ruled that the government had a duty to consult and accommodate Indigenous people anywhere that aboriginal title existed, or might later be found to exist.

That is the meaning of the phrase unceded and ancestral territory in those seemingly benign land acknowledgments. The phrase is not just a well-meaning observation about history; it’s an assertion of a continuing property right.

The traditional theory of Canadian land law is that private ownership traces back to a grant or sale by the Crown. But if large areas of Canada had remained aboriginal all along—if they never belonged to the Crown in the first place—how then could the Crown grant or sell them? The whole subsequent chain of transactions must be invalid.

The invalidation of Crown grants underlies the Cowichan outcome. It is also now prompting a powerful backlash...

Once an aboriginal title is recognized, its holders can collect formal and informal rents from those who seek to develop what is Indigenous land. Such rents are now an everyday feature of Canadian life.

British Columbia will host seven matches of the 2026 World Cup. News broke early this month that the B.C. government paid $18 million to Indigenous groups in an unexplained connection to the Cup. The government and the groups offered only hazy explanations of what the payment was for, but it looks a lot like a fee to not raise objections. Another Indigenous group was offered $10,000 per person, presumably so it would not object to the reopening of a major gold mine in northwestern British Columbia.

Canada faced serious economic troubles even before the reelection of President Donald Trump in 2024. Business investment per worker declined from 2015 to 2025, the term of Trudeau’s prime ministership. Canada’s labor-productivity growth effectively stalled after 2017. According to a 2024 report for the Business Council of Canada, “The number of energy and natural resource major projects completed in Canada dropped by 37 percent between 2015 (88 projects) and 2023 (56 projects).” Also, critical-minerals production is down, “in many commodities by double digits since 2018.” Judicial decisions about the rights of these lands are not the only reason for Canada’s big construction slowdown, but they don’t help.

The uncertainty cast over private property by the Cowichan decision poses a particularly serious threat to Canadian investment and development. The judge in the Cowichan case offered little guidance to private landowners, and mostly recommended that the provincial government negotiate with the Cowichan on their behalf.

More than a few British Columbians doubt the commitment and effectiveness of their government’s advocacy for landowners. The government of New Democratic Premier David Eby has gone beyond even Trudeau’s federal government in its pursuit of a reconciliation agenda. In 2019, the province formally adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into its local law. This was justified at the time as another benign goodwill gesture. But this month, a B.C. court ruled that this law really is law. It held that the province must now consult with Indigenous groups before approving any new mining project—and potentially any new land development—anywhere in the province.

B.C.’s attorney general, Niki Sharma, insisted to me that her team would vigorously defend private-property rights in court. She vows to appeal the Cowichan decision to the highest courts in Canada. But local officials are skeptical of the province’s pledges. Brad West, the mayor of Port Coquitlam, was dismissive of Sharma’s assurances when I met him earlier this month: “Just about everything that they said wouldn't happen is now happening.”

Canada has worked itself into a box. Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in office this year with promises to accelerate the big national-development projects that stalled in the Trudeau years. But just when Canada most urgently needs to jump-start the country’s economic growth, the country’s courts are inventing new obstacles to development." 

 

Due process is only good when it pushes the left wing agenda 

Clearly, the problem is Canada is not spending enough money on 'Indigenous' peoples and they need even more 'harm reduction' like free drugs to reduce drug overdose deaths, then when more 'Indigenous' peoples will die, this will be proof of anti-Indigenous racism

2024 Biology Textbooks

This was previously in the October 2024 post, "2024 Biology Textbooks / Trans Women Are / June Is...", but got deleted.

I've no idea what the issue was, so I'm reposting them one at a time and masking as might be helpful. Hopefully fewer keywords clustering together helps too:

Way of the World @wayotworld: "What do you notice about this picture?
Germany, Belgium, France: *white women mating with brown/black men*
*French textbook showing brown baby inside a white woman*"

Links - 28th January 2026 (2 - Indigenous Peoples: Australia)

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "An Australian police officer has been found guilty of dangerous driving causing death after an Indigenous teen, riding a stolen motorbike, collided with the officer’s parked vehicle. Benedict Bryant established a roadblock which the Crown argued made it impossible for the teen to manoeuvre around."

Caldron Pool on X - "A New South Wales police officer has been found guilty of dangerous driving causing death after an Indigenous teen, riding a stolen motorbike, collided with the officer’s parked vehicle."
Mickamious on X - "Aboriginal Kid steals a motorbike... Police block the road to try prevent further risk to the public. Aboriginal Kid hits the parked Police Vehicle. Police Officer is guilty of dangerous driving cause death.. Onus was on the Aboriginal Teen - He broke the law."
Just_Krystle_M on X - "This is EXACTLY what lead to Gargasoulas killing people in Bourke St. (Police had opportunity to take him out earlier & didn't out of fear of criticism). When you tie the hands of police under threat of criminal charges for doing their job (stopping dangerous/reckless drivers)👇"

Venom Rach ☧ on X - ">police office wasn't driving
>still convicted of dangerous driving causing death because a dumb teen of the right skin colour was too dumb to stop on seeing a road block established to stop dumb teens from driving recklessly"
Convicted of dangerous driving when the car is stationary and parked. But it's racist to enforce the law against indigenous people, so

Oksanna Zoschenko on X - "That story is analogous to someone discharging a firearm at a police officer, the gun misfiring, killing the shooter, & the police officer being charged with murder. No wonder police won’t respond to some crimes against the person, all depending on the identity of the offender."

GP on X - "There’s something seriously wrong with this fucked up country. Trying to strip the life of a man who served, instead of a piece of shit who killed themselves while breaking the law. They’d honestly rather an innocent bystander was killed. That’s the better result in their eyes."

Caldron Pool on X - "Criminals injure themselves (and others) avoiding arrest all the time. If the police are now held responsible for the criminal actions of those evading police, we’ll end up with a police force that is only willing to arrest those who voluntarily surrender!"

Andrew A. Hennessy 🍞 on X - "Aboriginal Aussies are 3% of the population but account for 20% of all murder victims.  80% of those Aboriginal murder victims are killed by Aboriginal offenders, mostly family members or partners.  There's much more currency in focusing on White perpetrators than admitting the biggest danger to Aboriginal people are other Aboriginal people. And that why I simply don't care anymore."
Tom Playford on X - "It's hard to care when the blame for the plight of the indigenous is constantly placed on the "colonists" (as Senator Thorpe would call them). When in reality the problems just don't seem to go away no matter how much money is thrown at them."
Andrew A. Hennessy 🍞 on X - "Much as DV, the money being thrown around is the goal. There's next to no interest in solving any other issue than maintaining and expanding the industry."
Tom Playford on X - "I know, right? Marcia Langton got close to the truth about ten years ago when she said the Greens preferred their indigenous drunk and helpless (words to the effect). No interest in solving the actual problem because its all too hard. Sad for the women and children who suffer."

Tom Playford on X - "Why did police command make the decision to not try and stop a speeding teenager on a stolen motorbike - where is the duty of care to the law-abiding public going about their business who were at risk of death from colliding with him?"

RAW EGG NATIONALIST on X - "We all know why decisions like this happen. For the same reason as officers get railroaded out of the armed forces for “misogyny” or “offensive” text messages in a private Whatsapp group. This is a convenient way to purge law-enforcement and the military of their traditional demographics—patriotic white men—so these organisations can be reforged and politicised in line with left-wing rule."

Gray Connolly on X - "Australians following the Minnesota day care fraud and then suddenly remembering the NDIS .... which is closing in on annual Defence spending #Auspol"
Andrew A. Hennessy 🍞 on X - "The NDIS is an obvious fraud centrepiece, but we're forgetting the elephant in the room.  Each year, Australia spends around $10-12 billion on Indigenous-specific programs alone, that's cash targeted just for indigenous people. With a total population of just under 1 million people, that's an insane amount per head.  Yet remote communities still look like third-world camps, violence stats are off the charts (most victims killed by their own mob), and "Closing the Gap" remains a annual TikTok performance.  But keep throwing billions at consultants, NGOs, and feel-good initiatives because acknowledging the real problems would mean admitting decades of this gravy train achieved sweet FA.  The Elephant's not just in the room, it's crushing the furniture and no one's allowed to notice."
Clearly, they didn't spend enough money

katy 🌸 on X - "Monash University now offers Aboriginal staff three days of paid "colonial load leave" annually to cope with the ongoing impacts of colonisation. These people are getting compensation for events that occurred in 1770! Melbourne is the wokest, most idiotic city! No wonder people are fleeing!"

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "The left wing government of Australia argues that the foundation of Australia was morally illegitimate and that the country rests on “Stolen Land.”  Senior Labor politicians like the Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan openly argue that Australia is a “nation of foreigners” - that there is no such thing as an Australian people, an Australian culture, or Australian nationhood.  The Labor Premier of South Australia Peter Malinauskas recently argued that Australian culture would be boring and terrible without multiculturalism, because the original people who built the nation are boring and have terrible food, music, culture.  Labor Foreign Minister Penny Wong argued in the Australian Senate that Australia was too white when she was growing up, because her and her brother were the only people with Asian ancestry at her public school.   Labor politicians seem to really dislike the British-European majority of Australia. They constantly attempt to delegitimise their history and ties to Australia and portray their culture as boring, backwards and stagnant.   To this end they have embarked on a massive program of mass migration, the largest in our national history. 10% of the Australian population now reside on temporary visas and the Labor plan appears to be that they want to give out citizenship to as many of them as possible so that they can vote and lock in further support for large scale mass migration.  On current demographic trajectories, European Australians will become a minority group within the next 15-20 years."

TheRoadknight on X - "Another child's life sacrificed.  This is why I am incandescent with rage when people say removing an Aboriginal child from danger is 'stealing' them. It leads to a reluctance to protect the child by removing them.  This poor child was removed at 4 months old, returned around six years later and strangled to death at 8 years old.  Note this fcken language: "...in "cruel irony" had only been returned to his mother 18 months prior to his death."  "Cruel irony"? How bloody dare you. It was sheer incompetence. This child was sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.  Arrest and charge everyone involved.  "The court heard Goltz had used drugs since her teens, smoked cannabis regularly and was a low-grade criminal who was on probation at the time she killed her son."  A person on probation with that history deserves her child back??  This is particularly heartbreaking:  "A victim impact statement from Zion's former foster mother, Beverly Mason, was read to the court by the prosecution.  "She said Zion was born prematurely at 25 weeks gestation because of drug and alcohol abuse during Goltz's pregnancy.  "He was on oxygen fighting for his breath," Ms Mason said.  "I find it very hard to comprehend that for the last part of his life he was made to fight for his breath again."  Name those responsible for returning him. They all have blood on their hands.  Every time, every time someone says 'stolen', say his name: Zion. And look him in the eyes.  #RescuedNotStolen  https://abc.net.au/news/2025-12-0"

Joey Mate™️ 🇦🇺 🇳🇱 on X - "IT WAS NEVER JUST ABOUT AN APOLOGY….IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT THE MONEY…..YOUR MONEY…..
Per Shannon Deery:  “Two Indigenous groups have recently been awarded about $100m in settlement packages.  The Allan government fought to keep ministerial briefings secret from MPs voting on a Treaty — originally prepared for former premier Dan Andrews — supercharging reparations to Indigenous Victorians.  Secret ministerial briefings hidden from MPs voting on the Treaty reveals that Indigenous Victorians will be able to seek supercharged reparations through the contentious new body.  The briefing prepared for Daniel Andrews — which the Allan government fought to keep hidden until after the Treaty legislation was passed in parliament just weeks ago — also reveals two Indigenous groups have recently been awarded an estimated $100m in settlement packages.  On Tuesday, Jacinta Allan will make another formal apology to Indigenous Victorians for laws, policies and practices that contributed to injustices against them.”  VIC LIEBOR HATES VICTORIA AND VICTORIANS ……  Sack that fucking bitch….."

Australian Greens (Parody) on X - "This is Dr. Lara Daley from the University of Newcastle. Her latest project, funded by taxpayers at over half a million dollars, is to design Aboriginal smoking ceremonies and Welcome to Country rituals for astronauts to perform on Mars. Yes, really.  Australia is slowly becoming a failing state. We can't staff our hospitals or pay our nurses, and our regional roads look like the surface of the moon. Yet, we've somehow found $528,491 to spend on making sure the first human on Mars feels guilty for landing on a barren rock. This is where your money goes.  No joke. 2 days ago the Australian Research Council awarded Dr. Lara Daley this insane figure for "Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge in Australian space policy." The goal is to insert specific indigenous kinship and "sky country" concepts into protocols for planetary landings and asteroid mining to avoid "colonial harms" in space.  So remember this. While you struggle with soaring energy bills and the elderly skip meals, your taxes are ensuring that the first boot on Mars will kneel in the dust to ask permission from nothing. This is what you voted for. This is your future."

ADVANCE on X - "This is absolutely real. You’re paying for “culturally respectful space exploration” … “to broaden Australia’s understanding of space by recognising long-held Indigenous knowledge systems and their relevance to sustainable human activity beyond Earth”."

DNA analysis suggests first Australians arrived about 60,000 years ago
TheRoadknight on X - "So, those antecedents of Aborigines who remained in the Philippines and Sulawesi, as well as those who remained in Africa are, by pure logic, older. As such, Australian Aborigines are not 'the oldest continuous living culture in the world', since the branch of the tree cannot be older than the tree itself."
Time to censor this for anti-aboriginal racism

Street cleaner breaks his silence after being sacked for objecting to an Acknowledgment of Country - "A street sweeper who won an unfair dismissal claim after he was fired for objecting to an Acknowledgment of Country has broken his silence. Melbourne man Shaun Turner, 60, was sacked from his role as a street sweeper for Darebin City Council in June 2024 after he questioned the ceremony at a toolbox meeting. The council worker, whose father served in World War II, told the meeting: 'If you need to be thanking anyone, it's the people who have worn the uniform and fought for our country to keep us free.' 'It's getting out of hand and people are losing it, it is now being done at the opening of a postage stamp.' Council officers investigated Mr Turner's alleged 'serious misconduct' but the father-of-three doubled down and he was let go. 'As far as I know half of us are born here, I don't need to be welcomed to my own country. If people don't want to be there, they can leave,' Mr Turner told the officers. Mr Turner also told officers that Acknowledgement of Country should be reserved for more formal or international occasions. The Fair Work Commission upheld his unfair dismissal claim, with Mr Turner believing his legal win resonated with the 'silent majority' of people in Australia. Mr Turner, who voted Liberal at the recent election, said 'of course' the country had become too politically correct. 'I just feel like if you were a pale, stale male you can't go to work now and have a laugh,' Mr Turner told The Australian... He added the workplace was being overrun by 'programmed robots', with everyone having to be careful with what they say... 'When it comes to this, the first thing that happens is you are labelled racist. I may not like a lot of people but I have no problem with Aboriginal people,' Mr Turner said. 'I played football, I was brought up with people of all races in Broadmeadows. Some you get on with, some you don't. The easy thing to throw around these days if you can't win an argument is to call someone racist.' Mr Turner believes Acknowledgement of Country is unsuitable for small meetings and should rather be reserved for large events attended by international visitors. Before Mr Turner was dismissed, he attended another meeting with Council Chief of People Officer Yvette Fuller. Ms Fuller informed Mr Turner that there was a firm expectation for an Acknowledgment of Country to precede all formal meetings... Council said the use of the word 'displayed contempt to the council's Indigenous employees and community'. But Mr Clancy disagreed with the council's assessment. 'That Mr Turner holds a different point of view when it comes to Acknowledgements of Country does not, of itself, make him contemptuous of the Respondents.' Mr Clancy noted that both Ms Fuller and Elizabeth Skinner, who was the city works manager at the time, were sufficiently concerned by Mr Turner's conduct that they each contacted his Indigenous support person after the meeting to offer an apology. However, during the Fair Work proceedings, there was no evidence given to show the support person felt offended."
If you don't have Opening Prayers, God will strike you down. Blasphemy against liberal secular religion is heavily punished

Meme - The opinionated Black woman ~ Aunty @Theblackfemini3: "Gosford Hospital NSW.   This is so shameful.   It's very embarrassing, and I'm sure a lot of other black fullas reading this will feel the same way, too.   Some virtue signaling halfwit decided it was a great idea to put up language signs to the resus bays and the ER.   We had no words for resuscitation or emergency, so the virtue signalers decided that it was a good idea to degrade today's  aboriginal people using very basic English, lowering usand our comprehension skills to that of a 5 year old.   That's not even my language, so if the English wasn't there, I wouldn't know what it means.   I speak limited tongue anyway."
"Emergency Department Resuscitation Bays. Mana Galuring Balga. Bring back"
"Emergency Department Acute Pod A & B. Badjal Burung. Sick cave"

NSW will remove 65,000 years of Aboriginal history from its syllabus. It’s a step backwards for education : r/circlejerkaustralia - "It’s around 40-45k years tops.  The 65k years is deeply flawed. Dating is likely incorrect and it contradicts dna evidence which suggests the ancient ancestors of aboriginal Australians were in Africa / Arabia at that time.  I think they want an older is better narrative and to move disassociate the peopling of this continent 40k years ago from the extinction of the megafauna (even though that’s exactly what happened in Nz when the Maori arrived)."
"Also, modern humans have not been evenly spread across all of Australia for the entire 40,000 to 45,000 years. The pattern of migration varies significantly. Evidence suggests that humans arrived in northern Australia first given its proximity from Southeast Asia.  Compared to regions like Victoria, humans likely arrived there much later. The southern parts of Australia, were less hospitable for significant periods due to glacial conditions, which would have made nomadic life impossible. Estimates suggest that continuous human occupation in Victoria could date back to only 15,000 to 30,000 years, significantly shorter than the north.  This uneven distribution of early human presence adds another layer of complexity to the idea of an uninterrupted 65,000 - 100,000 years of occupation across the entire continent. In reality, different regions were populated at different times, there's even large regions of this continent that never has any habitation at all."
"Mate are you suggesting that the current Aboriginals were also colonisers?  That's heresy."
"There’s also strong evidence that Australia was populated by other hominids, potentially Denisovans, prior to the arrival of aboriginals.  Bruce’s book has been shown to be a work of fiction, and many claims in it lack any form of evidence. I’m extremely surprised was still being used in schools."
"I know why they do it, but it’s incredible how much effort people go to in making sure aboriginals seem completely faultless and idyllic. No no, the megafauna just did that. What? No, the tribes never had brutal conflicts . What do you mean? The north half of Australia was always desertified grassland, nothing to do with repeated intense burning of jungle and bushland."
"No, no they never killed their own babies!"
"Tourist on this sub, this is how our North American indigenous population has been largely taught about for at least 30 years, and the funny thing is our textbooks actually did make note of sometimes exceptionally brutal conflicts between tribes, disruption to other species due to overhunting, and also somewhat of their technical achievements. They very much were  working some softer metals like copper in some regions of NA. Yet our history lessons themselves skipped those pages, and instead portrayed them as perennial victims and, oddly, kind of incapable of managing themselves. By simplifying the ugly and turning them into magical people who were some how perfectly in balance with nature, they remove their humanity. Sure a lot of people love the "absolute victim", but it's an insult to their history and accomplishments. And now they are sad alcoholics and society tells us that's just how it is (which again robs them of their agency)."

Each day, 41 Aboriginal people in the NT are being taken into custody. How did we get here? : r/australian - "It’s always baffled me how articles like this and activists talk in a way that implies the people are just being randomly locked up for 0 reason, when Infact it’s because they’ve committed crimes. If they just simply stopped committing crimes, they wouldn’t be locked up?  Am I missing something here?"
Each day, 41 Aboriginal people in the NT are being taken into custody. How did we get here? : r/australian - "You’re kidding right? Most former convicts came to the country as convicts. Struggling with many of the same issues of survival.  Your wokeism and blame gaming won’t work."
Each day, 41 Aboriginal people in the NT are being taken into custody. How did we get here? : r/australian - "Because they refuse to integrate into society as a useful me.ber. instead it's monkey see monkey do gangsta wannabe shit.  They have had the rhetoric of this is our land shit drummed into them and they owe YOU everything. They are the invaders.....you know what heres reality for you  Colonists came, they had the bigger stick and conquered. FUCKING DEAL WITH IT. Don't like it fuck off across the pond to a uninhabited island and live there. Oh wait you can't because you rely on Western medicines, clothes, food, housing pretty much everything that comes with moving forward. See how long you survive without anything we "invaders" provide including money.  Alas youths are not first nation even the generation before isn't. I am first generation Australian but I have to work my ass off to be able to get stuff these people get for free.  I'm not racist I hate everyone equally and I believe nothing gets handed to you in life. Do wrong live with the consequences."
Each day, 41 Aboriginal people in the NT are being taken into custody. How did we get here? : r/australian - "Giving a bunch of people money and housing (which the government pays for when they smash it up) with no expectations and requirements to join society or the workforce. And zero audits on where all the royalties go. No wonder things are getting out of hand, would have happened regardless if they were black or white.  The only way to stop this vicious circle is to start treating them like any other Australian."
Each day, 41 Aboriginal people in the NT are being taken into custody. How did we get here? : r/australian - "Taken into custody and released on the same day only to offend the following day. Rinse and repeat."
Each day, 41 Aboriginal people in the NT are being taken into custody. How did we get here? : r/australian - "Because funding that is intended to help those in remote communities gets taken by those out to help themselves and it’s racist to suggest an audit into the funding to find out where it’s going. Having worked in remote areas, very little funding makes its way through"

Each day, 41 Aboriginal people in the NT are being taken into custody. How did we get here? : r/australian - "We didn't listen to the Police. We didn't listen to the nurses complaining about indigenous sexual assault in alarming numbers.  We didn't listen to the Indigenous Elders that spoke in a non-pc way begging for help with the rampant alcoholism and SA happening in remote communities.  Instead, we just threw insane amounts of money into think tanks and into academics pockets who live in inner city suburbs on the east coast.  To quote Flanders dad, "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas""
"Remember when Dutton went to Alice and said crime and abuse was getting out of hand and everyone on the left called him a liar?  Here are a couple of ABC articles condemning Dutton for his comments about crime increasing there.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says violence and crime still at crisis point in Alice Springs - ABC News
Peter Dutton's comments in Alice Springs show why so many Indigenous communities don't trust politicians - ABC News
The ABC didn't exactly do the people of Alice and NT any favours by downplaying the issue because they want to throw barbs at Dutton. Albo is now too afraid to go to Alice Springs on his recent trip to NT because he knows the reception he would get."

63 Indigenous heritage claims in backlog despite $18m in funding - "Forty-six applications under three key sections of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act filed prior to 2025 have yet to be settled, according to records obtained by this masthead using freedom of information laws. Eight were first lodged with the Environment Department before 2020. Adding in applications made last year, unresolved matters under these sections stood at 63 on December 31, even though the 2024 federal budget gave $18 million “to reduce the backlog”. New applications in 2025 included objections to the Brisbane Olympic stadium and two raising the “threat of drilling exploration” at a remote South Australian tenement once owned by billionaire Clive Palmer... Regis Resources is currently challenging a 2024 decision by then minister Tanya Plibersek to accept evidence of a Blue Banded Bee Dreaming story, which halted the company’s already-approved NSW gold mine project. The Albanese government spokeswoman said it was important to protect culturally significant sites."

Meet Australian Aborigines–They Make African Americans Look Like A Model Minority - "When Cook and his men landed in Australia in 1770 and met the Aborigines they couldn’t believe what they were confronted with. They recorded that they were “savages,” “barbaric” and even “stupid”.” And this wasn’t just casual racism. They knew the people of Hawaii well and, though they regarded them as childlike, perceived them in much more positive terms... Despite the Aborigines sometimes being referred to as “blacks,” only Amerindians (“Native Americans”) are more genetically different from Africans than the Australian Aborigines.” [Which population is most genetically distant from Africans? Amerindians, By Razib Khan, GNXP (Discover Magazine) August 19, 2010. Indeed, whites are actually closer genetically to Aborigines, although still very remote. And, paradoxically, African pygmies and Bushmen are genetically the most different from Aborigines, although occupying a similar hunter-gatherer niche, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in nature.” [On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration by Frank Salter, 2006, p. 68] Aborigines have do fascinating evolutionary quirks, such as the ability to survive extremes of temperature, sleeping naked out of doors below freezing.” Genetic mutation helps Aboriginal people survive tough climate, research finds By Caitlyn Gribbin, ABC, January 29 2014]. Although their environment is inhospitable, it is invariant—baking in the day and cold at night—and they’re strongly evolved to these extremes, so little planning is necessary. But, consistent with the perception that the Aborigines weren’t very bright, we now know that at some point in their history they’d had sufficient ingenuity to be able to build relatively sturdy boats and make their way to the Torres Strait Islands, but by 1770, they had lost this knowledge. Indeed, the Australian archaeological record is replete with evidence of technological regression: some Aborigine tribes once farmed, some traded with Papua New Guineans, some tribes even “forgot” how to make the boomerang. [The curious case of the people who forgot how to fish, by Adam Benton, Evoanth.Net, April 15, 2014]... British psychologist Richard Lynn, in his seminal study of race differences in IQ, Race and Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysis, brings together all of the available studies on the intelligence of modern Aborigines. They have an average IQ of 64, compared to about 70 for Sub-Saharan Africans, 85 for African Americans and 100 for whites... Like Native Americans, but unlike many African blacks, they never developed alcohol, leaving them strongly prone to alcoholism... while American Blacks are 12% of the US population and 38% of its prison population.“ Aborigines are 3% of the Australian population and, in 2009, 25% of its prison population.”... In the UK, it has been found that 4% of whites and 10% of blacks have mental health problems—particularly schizophrenia in the case of blacks.” It has been estimated that this is true of over 50% of Aborigines.”... Left in their own “Indigenous Protected Areas,” the living conditions of Australian Aborigines are extraordinarily poor, especially considering that, annually, $43,000 is spent on every Aborigine, compared to $21,000 dollars on everybody else.”... between 1910 and 1970, roughly a third of Aborigine children—those whose backgrounds were the most abusive—were removed from their parents and raised in foster homes, to give them some kind of chance. This worked in the sense that, placed in cities, the Aborigine income and standard of living was higher than that of those who were not removed. They had about the same educational success as the “non-removed”—but the non-removed would have been from more stable backgrounds in the first place. By the 1980s this paternalistic policy was being roundly condemned as removing these children, now known as “the Stolen Generation,” from “their cultural heritage”—ignoring the fact that this heritage seems to include physical abuse, alcoholism, and high infant mortality. By 1998 the virtue-signalling frenzy was such that Australia held a “National Sorry Day” for the victims. The authors of the 1997 Bringing Them Home report on this policy described what had happened as “genocide.”“... The Booker Prize-winning Australian novelist Peter Carey has stated that, as an Australian, ‘You wake up in the morning and you are the beneficiary of genocide.’” [Guardian November 17, 2017 ]. But in reality, it is the Aborigines who should wake up in the morning and realise that they are the beneficiaries of a society and economy that they could never have created on their own."

Speak not of the evil: Aboriginal violence then and now - "It is not polite to say that pre-contact Aboriginal society was abusive to women and generally violent. This would undercut the long-standing official view that current violence in Aboriginal communities reflects colonial dispossession and on-going victimhood. For example, a fact sheet from the federal government’s Closing the Gap Clearing House says that, as is typical for Indigenous populations elsewhere, Aboriginal disadvantage “is a consequence of the historical and continuing impact?of colonialism and dispossession, which has left many (Aboriginals) impoverished, marginalised, discriminated against, in a state of poor physical and mental health, and with inequitable access to necessary public and private services." Aboriginal lawyer Dr Hannah McGlade in “Our Greatest Challenge” similarly blames colonialism: “The linking of Aboriginal culture to family violence and child sexual assault diminishes the grave harm inflicted on Aboriginal people through colonialism…the way in which colonization systematically deprived Aboriginal people of basic human rights.” But feminist author Stephanie Jarrett, in her introduction to “Liberating Aboriginal People from Violence, says, “It is important to acknowledge [the"> link between today’s Aboriginal violence and violent, pre-contact tradition, because until policymakers are honest in their assessment of the causes, Aboriginal people can never be liberated from violence...Deep cultural change is necessary, away from traditional norms and practices of violence.” Bess Nungarrayi Price, in her foreword to Jarrett’s book, says, “My own body is scarred by domestic violence...We Aboriginal people have to acknowledge the truth. We can’t blame all of our problems on the white man...This is our problem that we can fix ourselves…”... Paleopathologist Stephen Webb in 1995 published his analysis of 4500 individuals’ bones from mainland Australia going back 50,000 years. (Priceless bone collections at the time were being officially handed over to Aboriginal communities for re-burial, which stopped follow-up studies).[15"> Webb found highly disproportionate rates of injuries and fractures to women’s skulls, with the injuries suggesting deliberate attack and often attacks from behind, perhaps in domestic squabbles. In the tropics, for example, female head-injury frequency was about 20-33%, versus 6.5-26% for males. The most extreme results were on the south coast, from Swanport and Adelaide, with female cranial trauma rates as high as 40-44% -- two to four times the rate of male cranial trauma. In desert and south coast areas, 5-6% of female skulls had three separate head injuries, and 11-12% had two injuries. Web could not rule out women-on-women attacks but thought them less probable."