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STATEMENT FOR THE RACIALLY-MOTIVATED
MEDIA
The mainstream media in canada
has never been just in the reporting of my situation since it's
inception. While I was living there, & had constant contact
with reporters in Regina, I was at least able to apply enough
pressure so as to prevent most of the type of garbage ordinarily
presented regarding Indigenous people and issues. Immediately
upon my temporary exile from the north however, the media sought
retribution for my keeping them on their toes for so long! Misquotes,
twisted facts, and outright lies are not out of the ordinary
for today's media. And, in fact, many Native media and "alternative"
media fit into the exact same category as well.
I must present a few
important facts here, as I know the ignorant masses (media) will
not. When I pulled into North Portal on April 29, CIC agent,
Al Johns phoned in to american customs saying: "This is
canada immigration, we have Mr. Smoke, we phoned ahead".
When we arrived and walked inside, Johns said, "Here's Mr.
Smoke, here's his file". And, this file consisted of one
set of fingerprints, not two (ie, no match between two sets);
a copy of a birth certificate for a Roger Leo Adams Jr; a typed
letter which I could not read; my old Treaty Card; & photographs
of me taken while in CIC custody just over a year ago. Then,
I was wisked through customs as CHARLIE SMOKE quicker, and with
more ease, than any of you could even dream of! Every Regina
TV station saw the customs declaration with the name, CHARLIE
SMOKE on it; the Regina Leader-Post shot several close-ups of
it too. Yet, the fallacy of my being a whiteman from the Addams
Family persists. I wonder why...
I took the time to disprove
canada's original claim that a brother had identified me by tracking
that individual down and convincing him to fax a statement to
the media. Then, another supposed relative surfaced. Yet, the
media failed to carry the fax clearly showing that canada had
lied! Why? For what purpose does covering-up the truth serve?
Suddenly, I am cast into the
same light as Leonard Peltier, another Indigenous person exiled
from the north by the colony of canada with falsified documents.
(At least I'm in good company now!) And, does the media care
that this is the third time their ruling over-seers have tried
to tag a different name on me? Apparently not. Did any of the
media mention the fabricated document that canada tried to use
to get me across their imaginary border last year? No. And, who
is even aware of any of the other illegal and unjust acts of
canada in my case? Only those who heard it from me. Once again,
canadian media exhibits their utter lack of journalistic integrity,
and their clearly racist motivation. I don't imagine canadian
media would be the least bit interested in CIC's death threat
against me last year, or the fact that I was followed by canadian
agents all the way down here either.
As pertinent as all
that is though, it is not even close to the most important issue
here. Through the callous, extremely childish and racist reporting
over the past week, my innocent wife and children have suffered
irreparable emotional harm! You bastards have caused undue suffering
for my family. They have been made to feel embarrassed and ashamed
as a direct result of your ignorance. I can only imagine that
the cause for the media's behavior is due to either their inherent
racism, their desire to get back at me because I so routinely
chastised them for failing to do their job, or a combination
of the two! Like most Saskatchewan Natives, my wife grew-up with
no understanding of the reality of canada's or america's treatment
of Indigenous Freedom Fighters. And, our babies are just much
too young to comprehend such vile acts of inhumanity. You have
instilled a very strong realism in their young hearts now though.
This is why Indians often feel prejudiced against whites. Your
media and y
The fact that one of
my daughters jumped into my car in North Dakota served the media
with fuel for their National Enquirer style reporting. True,
my six year old daughter did insist on accompanying me even though
I had no clothes for her. And, I am over-joyed that my children
love me so much! My wife, once again, has been forced to bare
the burden of my struggle. And, as is the case with all Familymen/resistance
fighters, my family suffers along with me. This has been an Indian
tradition for 511 years.
This war with canada
has torn my marriage apart, and more recently, brought us back
together again. The colony of canada and its media now fit the
term "Tiwicakte", or murderers, more literally translated
as Family Destroyers. Yet, good conquers bad, and my family remains
together in spirit, if not in the flesh. Lisa, I love you, my
wife. And, I greatly admire you for the stress you have shown
to endure. And, my babies, it breaks my heart to see how much
disrespect others have for you, and though I hope you do not
become racists over all this, I respect you all too, for you
have proven yourselves to be stronger than our oppressors! You
are all Freedom Fighters! Your very existence encourages us all!
For all my supporters,
thank you... and, I love and appreciate you all! Thank you on
behalf of my innocent, loving family, as well as all others across
the globe fighting against tyranny and oppression! For all my
retractors, go to hell... we will win in the end!
Sunkmanitu tanka Isnala Najin
(a.k.a. Charlie Smoke)
Turtle Island - Occupied Territories
Tuesday, May 6, 2003
Charlie "Wolf"
Smoke
http://charlie_smoke.tripod.com/indigenousawakening/
Mitakuye Oyasin
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The sneakiness of
Canadian prosecutors is once again revealed. They do this all
the time: Set a court date for a person and then don't bother
to tell the person -- then they can put out a Bench Warrant and
have them picked up for failure to appear. It keeps the jails
full. Why on earth would ANYONE want to claim citizenship in
a Kuntry which conducts itself in such a fashion?
 Charlie Smoke alert: This e-mail arrived Thursday Mar.
27, 9.30 a.m.
I just got a call from CBC
News here in Regina. Apparently KKKanada is attempting to get
their courts to reverse the Oct decision on my Fraud charge.
I'm set for court this afternoon
at 2:PM at the Court of Queens Bench on Victoria Street, in courtroom
#2.
If CBC hadn't phoned me, I'd
never have known... until the dogs came
with their leashes!
This
e-mail arrived at supper time:
After several days of unusually
warm weather locally, a light snowfall filled the sky right after
my court ended today. Now it's nice again...
When I got back into my van
after court this afternoon the following song was playing on
the radio: "Another One Bites The Dust"! And next,
ZZ Top, "I'm Bad, I'm Nation-Wide", came on. No shit!
Well, what can I say... To
quote Hammer... "You can't touch this!"
The colony tried to slip a
good one past me, but, as has always been the case, it blew-up
in their face! The Regina Leader Post newspaper & CBC TV
News were there; tomorrow I'll post links to any coverage they
may show online. Keep your eyes on my Indigenous Awakening elist,
as I chronicle the awakening of the Indigenous right!
Yeah, I feel good...
Smoke won't end up with
criminal record
Kevin O'Connor , Regina
Leader-Post, March 28, 2003
A Court of Queen's Bench judge
has overturned a lower court acquittal of Indian activist Charlie
Smoke over Social Insurance fraud.
But even though Smoke was found
guilty of violating the Employment Insurance Act, he was able
to walk out of the Regina Queen's Bench Courthouse Thursday without
a criminal record.
That's because Justice Larry
Kyle, who heard the Crown's appeal of Provincial Court Judge
Bruce Henning's Oct. 30, 2002 decision to dismiss the charge,
gave Smoke an absolute discharge.
A defiant Smoke said he expects
a further appeal by the Crown, but isn't concerned because he
rejects the notion that Canadian courts have jurisdiction over
him.
"This court really has
no more right to find me guilty ... than a court in Iran or Korea,"
Smoke told reporters on the steps of the courthouse.
Smoke, who worked as a teacher
associate at Scott collegiate in the 2000 and 2001, had been
charged with violating a section of the act that makes it an
offence to intentionally deceive any person by using a Social
Insurance Number.
The maximum penalty is a fine
of up to $1,000 and up to one year in jail.
Smoke admits he used his wife's
SIN to get hired by the Regina public school board, but denies
he was trying to deceive anybody.
Henning dismissed the charge
saying Smoke didn't intend to deprive any other person of a job.
Federal Crown prosecutor Doug
Curliss argued Thursday that Henning erred on that point.
It's not necessary to prove
Smoke intended to take someone else's job, Curliss told Kyle
-- only that he deceived somebody.
"Mr. Smoke intended to
deceive and he deceived," Curliss said.
Kyle agreed and on that basis
declared Smoke guilty.
The judge noted Smoke tried
to obtain a legitimate SIN from a federal office, but he didn't
have a birth certificate and didn't get the help he required.
"He asks for assistance
and all he gets is prosecuted," Kyle said.
Smoke, who represented himself
at the appeal, clashed with Kyle when he claimed the courts didn't
have jurisdiction over him.
"We are not here to talk
about this today," Kyle said. "You have to address
the issue."
"I'll address the issues
as I see them," Smoke replied.
Following Kyle's decision,
Curliss said he was pleased the acquittal was overturned but
disappointed he didn't get an opportunity to discuss the sentence.
© Copyright 2003 The Leader-Post (Regina)
More
Saskatchewan commentary on Charlie Smoke
October 30, 2002: Charlie Smoke went to court in
Regina. There were supporters waiting outside the courthouse
and the Raging Grannies had written him a song.
The failure to appear
charges were stayed and he was acquitted on the fraud.
There is no doubt
that public support for Smoke is the only reason the authorities
backed down. If they thought they could get away with quietly
"disappearing" him (to use someone else's phrase) they
would have done so in a heartbeat.
Congratulations, Charlie
"Wolf" Smoke, even though you don't feel quite like
celebrating, victory is nonetheless yours!
Judge finds Smoke not
guilty of fraud
Kevin O'Connor, The Leader-Post,
October 31, 2002
An aboriginal man embroiled
in a controversial immigration dispute won a victory in a Regina
courtroom Wednesday when a judge threw out his charge of Social
Insurance fraud.
Friends and well-wishers clapped
after Provincial Court Judge Bruce Henning dismissed the Employment
Insurance Act charge and Charlie Smoke walked out of court a
free man.
Smoke, 40, said while he wasn't
surprised the judge found him not guilty, he took little satisfaction
from the outcome.
"I'm very disappointed
and angry that I wasn't able to bring certain issues out,"
he said. "I could care less what they find me guilty of."
Smoke had been charged with
violating a section of the Act that makes it an offence to intentionally
"defraud or deceive" any person by using a Social Insurance
Number.
Federal Crown prosecutor Hal
Wellsch had argued Smoke used his wife's SIN for his own advantage
when he applied for a job with the Regina public school board.
Smoke worked as a teacher associate
at Scott Collegiate in the 2000-2001 academic year. A school
board official said a SIN number was a prerequisite for getting
hired.
Smoke, who defended himself
Wednesday, admitted he used his wife's number, but insisted he
wasn't intending to deceive anyone.
"My intention was to provide
a meagre living for my family," he said.
He also said he used false
SIN numbers before to obtain employment.
"It was either that or
steal or crawl away and die," said Smoke, who said he has
six children.
"I'm not a lazy person.
...I don't want to sit on my ass all day and let my wife support
my family."
The one-day trial included
several heated exchanges between Henning and Smoke.
Smoke said he is a victim of
persecution by the authorities and doesn't fall under Canadian
jurisdiction. He accused federal officials of lying to the media
and insisted racism was a factor in the campaign against him.
Henning repeatedly warned him
to stick to the charge and avoid talking about the "conspiracies"
against him.
"You can't use this trial
as a political forum," Henning said at one point.
"The court is using this
trial as a political forum against me," Smoke shot back.
Smoke said he was born in Ontario,
but the birth wasn't registered. He said he made numerous attempts
to get a birth certificate and a SIN card, but was unsuccessful.
The maximum penalty for the
Employment Insurance Act offence is a year in jail, a $1,000
penalty or both.
Henning ruled Smoke lacked
criminal intent and dismissed the charge.
"In this case, Mr. Smoke
did not hold the intent to deprive any person of an entitlement
that was improper," he said.
Outside court, Smoke said he
would have been convicted of the charge if not for the media
attention given to the case.
"I would have got nailed,"
he said. "This judge is not sympathetic ... he's part of
the problem."
Meanwhile, Smoke's other problems
with the federal authorities continue.
Last year, Citizenship and
Immigration tried to deport Smoke to the United States, arguing
he was a U.S. visitor working illegally in Regina.
But U.S. officials refused
Smoke entry, saying it hadn't been proven that Smoke is American.
Federal officials continue
to work on the case and haven't abandoned the idea of deporting
Smoke.
October
2002 International letter-writing campaign to protect and defend
Charlie Smoke
Charlie Smoke peacefully surrendering to a Canada Immigration
agent. As an international citizen, Smoke has brought to our
attention the following causes: Tokala
at the Stronghold | Canada-Columbia
Solidarity campaign |
Smoke gets October court
date
cbc Feb 14, 2002
REGINA - A Regina man staging an immigration
battle made another court appearance Thursday.
Charlie Smoke was joined by
his wife, children and several supporters, including NDP MP Dick
Proctor.
During Thursday's court appearance,
Smoke pleaded not guilty to failing to appear for a court date
and using a false social insurance number. A trial has been set
for Oct. 30.
Even with a trial on the horizon,
the Immigration Department is still trying to deport Smoke, but
he says he's determined to make his court date.
"If they try to forcibly
exile me from my own country, then I'll turn around and walk
back," says Smoke.
Smoke claims he was born on
a reserve in Ontario but he doesn't have any papers to prove
it. He believes he has a pre-existing aboriginal right to live
in Canada.
Canada plans to deport
native man: Charlie Smoke wants border eliminated
Les Perreaux National Post,
October 23, 2001
A Regina native man who doesn't
recognize North America's ''artificial boundaries'' is facing
deportation to the United States, although he insists he was
born in Ontario.
Charlie Smoke, 39, wants the
border eliminated for aboriginal people, and said yesterday he
hopes to force the courts to rule on the issue.
"They're supposed to arrest
me,'' he said of Citizen and Immigration Canada. ''They said
they would detain me until they figured out a way to get me to
the U.S. or to Pakistan. Presumably they were joking about that
last part."
 Mr. Smoke, who says he is a member
of the Lakota First Nation, has little Canadian documentation.
"I want to see this imaginary border dissolved. I would
also like to see Canada admit it has no authority over native
people," he said.
Mr. Smoke's citizenship problems
began last year when, working as a teacher, he was found to be
using a fake social insurance number. During a Sept. 20 hearing,
Mr. Smoke's place of birth was apparently not an issue, but he
answered "no" when asked if he is a Canadian citizen.
He says he was born on the
Ontario side of the Akwesasne reserve that straddles the border
with New York state. Mr. Smoke's father was from the Mohawk tribe
and his mother was Mohawk and Lakota, a prairie tribe. Both tribes
have reserves on both sides of the U.S. border.
Mr. Smoke has split most of
his life between a reservation in South Dakota and Regina, where
he has frequently worked with fake social insurance numbers.
He lives in Regina with his Canadian-born wife and three small
children.
Mr. Smoke has a Saskatchewan
driver's licence but no social insurance number, no birth certificate
and no native treaty card. He says he was not registered with
his band when he was born and he was not registered with Ontario
authorities because he was born at home. He has a social security
number in the United States, which he received under a treaty
that allows Canadian natives to live and work in the United States
Following Mr. Smoke's declaration
he is not Canadian, an immigration adjudicator ruled he must
leave the country because he entered Canada as a visitor and
then obtained work. He was given until last Saturday to return
to the U.S.
Al Johns, acting manager of
the Citizenship and Immigration Centre in Regina, said Mr. Smoke
will be deported because he refused to leave. ''Mr. Smoke allowed
this to turn into a deemed deportation order. Our department
will have to deal with that situation with him. I can't give
you a specific date, but there will be some action taking place."
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- Stephen Williams:
Canadian writer subject to Stasi-like treatment by Canadian police
- Terry
Arnold: : Snitch a
suicide?
- RCMP
scenario stings: Brian
Hutchinson starts digging
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wells: Faulty eye-witness
testimony
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Texas
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Texas
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Upshaw
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- Foster
Parent false accusations
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- Don
Smith obscenity trial: an obscene conviction
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Lockyer
- Hurricane
Carter
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Bill Sampson
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- Abdulai
Mohamed
- Nfld Defamation story:
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Young
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The Terrible Story behind the Atif Rafay and
Sebastian Burns convictions
Trial
set for June 15
We
know part of this disclosure is a forged statement and perjured
affidavit from a Winnipeg cop
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The
Crown is still fighting Fred Poirier -- and they are losing.
Secret Commissions Case from Northern B.C.
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- 2005: In
the United States the proven wrongful convictions just keep coming
at us!
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- Brandon Morin:
- Convicted in Oregon
- of rapes which did not happen
- This website has good information
about Measure 11 -- Oregon's Mandatory Sentencing requirements
which have been in place since 1994. In this case we see how
the combination of a flawed grand jury system and prosecutors
who seek not justice but convictions is a recipe for wrongful
convictions.
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Canadians who
have been wrongfully convicted because of improper investigations
combined with zealous Crown
A round-up of wrongful convictions in Canada
- Robert
Baltovich
- Michael
Burns
- Sebastian Burns
- Rodney
Cain
- Wilbert
Coffin
(hanged, 1953)
- Jason Dix
- Jim
Driskell
- Jody
Druken
- Randy
Druken
- Hugues
Duguay
- Michel
Dumont
- Peter
Frumusa
- Walter
Gillespie and Robert Mailman
- Clayton
Johnson
- Yvonne
Johnson
- Herman
Kaglik
- Darren
Koehn
- Kulaveeringsam
"Kulam" Karthiresu
- Stephen
Leadbeater
- Donald
Marshall
- Chris
McCullough
- Michael
McTaggart
- Felix
Michaud
- David
Milgaard
- Guy Paul
Morin
- Shannon
Murrin
- Jamie
Nelson
- Greg
Parsons
- Benoit
Proulx
- Atif Rafay
- Louise
Reynolds
- Thomas
Sophonow
- Gary
Staples
- Billy
Taillefer
- Steven
Truscott
- Joe
Warren
- Leon
Walchuk
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- AIDWYC
- Innocence Project (Canada)
- Innocence Project (U.S.)
- Northwest Law Center on Wrongful Convictions
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- Kirstin
Lobato
- Jeffrey
Scott Hornoff
- Willie
Upshaw
- Hurricane
Carter
- Guildford
4
- Birmingham
6
- Amirault
- Houston
- U.S. wrongful convictions:
Exonerateed
- Kirk
Bloodsworth
- Laurence
Adams
- Ludrate
Burton
- Stephen
Cowans
- Wilton
Dedge
- Albert
Johnson
- Kenneth
Marsh
- Dwayne
McKinney
- James Bernard Parker
- Peter
Reilly
- Peter
Rose
- Sylvester
Smith
- Clifford
St. Joseph
- John
Stoll
- Marty
Tankleff
- Wilton
Dedge
- Ray
Krone
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- Dennis
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- Tim
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Revitalizing the
archives
From 1998 until
2002, injusticebusters was in the throes of identity crisis.
What was it? What were we doing? We grappled with editorial policy
at the same time we were learning the nuts and bolts of building
and posting a website. Once we had a secure, paid site I had
full editorial control, although I talked regularly to Richard
Klassen who was forced to move his family several times and did
not always have access to the internet. Rick's pages: one | two
We posted our
earliest and later actions.
Early versions
of the site can be found on the Wayback Machine.
I began following
other threads to stories of police and prosecutorial misconduct
and the site's character took on another facet: a newsclipping
scrapbook where stories could live longer than they would in
print form. I also began picking up other stories of wrongfully
convicted people. It was an explosion. By 2003 there were over
700 pages. I also had contact with several other people (Don Smith, Leon Walchuk, Monique Turenne, the Vopnis) and kept these stories
going.
It was the
story of the Ross children's treatment at the hands of the Saskatchewan
government which grabbed the attention of The Fifth Estate. The civil claim (The
$10M Lawsuit as we called it) was only mentioned briefly at the
end of their show which aired in November, 2000.
When Richard
Klassen began to make progress in bringing his civil claim to
court, the government and police defendants alleged he was breaking
the rules of court by publishing discovery material on the internet.
- MacNeil
clinic (the
document which started it all)
- The
Thompson Papers
- Carol
Bunko-Ruys reports
This claim
was absolutely false. However, rather than risk being thrown
out of his civil claim, Klassen undertook before Judge Mona Dovall
to sever all ties with the website.
The court fights:
- Les
Perreaux report
- QB271
These pages have links which
lead to other pages from that era. Now that some of the dust has settled,
I have been going back through the material we had posted in
the early days. In the spirit of keeping the scrapbook alive,
I have been reformatting and placing links. The original material
remains intact. I hope the information, which chronicles our
struggle is useful to you.
The identity
crisis is over. We know who we are --Sheila Steele, March
28, 2005
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Blogging
Blogging has been in the news.
It is the new, trendy thing with 40,000 new blogs being created
each day. I established a blog for this website last September
and it is now "taking off." These are a few of the
pages with ongoing discussions.
- Tasering Mary Lutz
- Saskatchewan Centenary
- Quint Blog discussion
- Rotten apples in the Saskatoon Police
- Blogging for choice
- Michael Cardamone witch hunt
- Implement recommendations of public
inquiries
- Stealing from the poor
- Vancouver's killer cops
- Tisdale rapists appeal
- Winnipeg police misdeeds
- Milgaard Inquiry
- Chief Sabo: can he be trusted?
- The Old Boys' Club Must Go!
- Vancouver activists
- John Hudak: Falsely accused mountie
- City of intolerance
- Constable Larry Lockwood: Exciteable!
- Eric Cline
This is a great way for like-minded
people to communicate and share our views. It is easier than
making a website and marginally more difficult than a forum.
People who want to contribute
simply have to punch the "comment" link and they will
be taken to a page with a box which allows them to write their
comment, preview and post it. It takes a while for the comment
to show up and some people get impatient and repost. That's fine,
I trash the duplicate posts and no harm done.
Please, please give it a try.
The internet is distinguished from other media in that it is
really and truly interactive. Blogging makes it possible to express
your viewpoint even if you don't have a computer. You can go
to the library or a friend's place or an internet cafe. Once
you've mastered the basics (and believe me, if I can do it, you
can do it) you will be participating in one of the most democratic
-- and potentially powerful -- media the world as we know it
has ever seen.
Come on. Don't be shy. Join
the Weblog World! -- Sheila Steele, March 20, 2005
Toronto Police paid out $30M in secretly resolved
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