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Charlie Smoke
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This just in: July 26:
I got a ride into Wanblee yesterday
so that my daughter could dance at the powwow there. Shortly
after getting to this elderly coupleís home there, I heard
the news that George W. had assassinated two of Husseinís
children. This only increased the concern I have for my own.
Granted, at least one of Saddamís sons had it coming;
still, the intense media interest in a dead son is worrisome,
in the least! Also, this weekend is Manderson powwow, but we
don't have a ride there.
Several days ago, Alan Adams
(my supposed brother) flew to South Dakota to meet me. The meeting
was strange, to put it mildly. He made some weird, cryptic comments
about someone getting into my trailer while I was away, to leave
something there; &, about someone unexpected working against
me. The thing that ties all this together however, was his revelation
that he'd spoken with one of my grown sons. Apparently, also,
this son's mother, has been in regular contact with his entire
family. I'm still trying to unravel everything that woman (Nancy)
has said to Lisa, what she related to me, & what Alan has
said to me & to Lisa. My concern though, again, is with my
20-year old son back east. And, also, even more so, with my 21-year
old daughter on the west coast.
More than one reporter
has mentioned finding information I'd posted on the internet
some time back, in attempts to locate this daughter (from a totally
different woman). Each time, I refused to comment on her. I knew
I could barely provide marginal protection for the child/children
with me, but I could do nothing whatsoever for those not with
me. I know the "authorities" know about the 21-year
old. I've been trying to find her since she was 14 though, with
no luck. Now I have no way of knowing if anyone else may have
tracked her down though, & if so, what could have happened
to her.
Nancy, the mother of
my 20-year old son, has put a great deal of effort into confusing
Lisa. Kate Much, the step-sister of Alan Adams, was working with
her this past spring too. I tried to convince Nancy to stay out
of all this, but she didn't listen. Now, my son's safety is jeopardized.
Lisa has finally come to realize what Kate & Nancy did. But,
what's done is done - And, my children, once again, are possible
targets.
Another oddity of the
meeting the other day, was that I discovered this Kate Much is
not very well-off at all. Therefore, how could she afford the
DNA test she had said she would provide? As I'd written earlier
this spring/summer, she changed her mind just when I told Lisa
to let her know I'd do it. However, if she was never able/prepared
to pay for it in the first place, what was she up to?
All of this led to my
being ambushed from the closest possible source a short time
back. And, that is something I may never get over. However, the
intrigue continues, just the same!
Now, as I posted about
a week ago, Lisa & my kids have been cut-off Child Tax benefits
(Family Allowance). Lisa has obtained an advocate in Regina with
the Anti Poverty Ministry (Bonnie), but nothing has been done.
And, revenue canada is saying that Lisa owes them 38 Grand, because
the father of her children (moi) is "un-documentedî"
Her computer crashed, her minivan broke-down, & she cannot
afford to register the camper/van gifted to me. She also has
still not been able to pay her rent or any of her bills. Needless
to say, times are now even more stressful than before.
I am increasingly concerned
for my children - all of them. I have to worry about the older
ones disappearing, or something happening to them. I have to
worry about something happening to the younger ones (the 1 with
me, as well as the 3 with Lisa). I have to worry about the younger
ones just being able to eat too! And, as I think I mentioned
a month or so ago, what will happen to my daughter here if someone
decides to come after me? I don't like having to mentally prepare
my little girl for the appropriate response to suddenly hearing
gunshots, or seeing her father shot, but thatís exactly
what I've had to do. Those of my children not with me don't even
have the benefit of having me around to teach them such things
though. Am I over-reacting? Possibly. But, are my actions &
concerns warranted? Absolutely.
All of the strange events I've
mentioned before continue. Also, there's frequently headlights
about 3 or 4 miles away from Stronghold Table after dark, just
sitting there, facing our little camper/trailer at Stronghold.
The vehicles (sometimes 1, sometimes 2) just sit there for about
15 or 20 minutes usually, then turn around & head back towards
Cuny Table Road, where they head west, the shortest route leaving
the Reservation.
Back to the financial attack
on Lisa, none of the local media has shown any interest in reporting
on this situation. I've since emailed CKUT in Montreal, &
APTN in Winnipeg. Hopefully, theyíll take an interest
in this newest, ugliest turn of events.
Charlie "Wolf" Smoke
http://charlie_smoke.tripod.com/indigenousawakening/
Mitakuye Oyasin
July 20:
My car finally died, it ís
out to Stronghold now. I've been stranded in
Kyle for a week, although I finally have a ride back out there.
The
devious colony of KKKanada cut my wife and kids off everything;
no food,
no money for rent, bills, etc.. They did this because of me.
I was given
some kind of camper van by someone up there, but Lisa is unable
to
register it now and bring it down here to me.
She called the media
regarding the government cutting off her child tax benefits (their/our
only income), but nothing was done about it. I've submitted my
book idea
to a publisher recently. Other than that, everything is pretty
much the
same.
Also, I have the covering letter,
along with some samples of my writing,
online now at http://wolf.book.tripod.com/wowapi
Winter, 2003: Charlie Wolf
Smoke sucessfully made his situation known to enough people that
authorities in Regina backed down
from their attempts to deport him. Part of his campaign was conducted
on the internet and we are keeping the instructions at the bottom
of this page in case it needs to be revived. Abusive authorities
have a nasty habit of trying to catch us unawares -- on a Friday
afternoon or during a holiday.
After winning in court, Smoke
went on a speaking tour where he brought his story to students
across the country and got some coverage on CBC as well as a
special on APTN.
He is skilled at placing his
own story within the larger contexts: the plight of aboriginal
people on this continent since colonization and the plight of
all of us today. He does not exaggerate any of his claims. He
doesn't blame the bureaucrats who have been harrassing him. They
are, after all, "following orders." The absurdity of
those orders become clear through the story of one man who is
threatened with deportation because he cannot produce a birth
certificate. As we ponder just where Smoke might be deported
to, and the cruelty of separating him from his family, we are
forced to reconsider the whole matter of borders and whose interests
they serve.
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moke does not restrict his
campaigning to his own case. He understands that only by aligning
himself with others struggling for justice does his own have
meaning. Check out his newsgroup
-- and join the list to follow the connections he is making.
His response to the media flurry over David
Ahenakew is typical of his thoughtful and broad perspective.
He also maintains his
own website.
We have previously referred
to Charlie Smoke as a "continental citizen." That term
should be upgraded to "world citizen." In turn, that
idea can be expanded to include all of us who played no part
in colonialism -- the chopping up of the world into chunks which
made possible and convenient the genocide and/or enslavement
of whole races of people by those driven, not by survival or
the human impulse towards achievement, but by greed.
The greedy are out of control
and they promote lies to maintain control. Worldwide military
and political "leaders" are making reckless plans and
using deadly toys to extend their power. Those down the pecking
order, from national and provincial elected officials to leaders
of movements which purportedly represent minorities are afraid
to tell the truth -- or even to see it -- for fear of losing
what privileges they enjoy.
And along comes Charlie Smoke
with all the qualities we need in a leader and every indication
he is interested in truth and justice.
Hurrah!
While the urgency of this particular
appeal has now passed, it could become current at any time. Meanwhile,
sending letters of support certainly cannot do any harm.
***URGENT TRANSNATIONAL RESPONSE NEEDED***
Send a letter of support to
a) Prime Minister Jean Chretien, b) Minister of Citizenship and
Immigration Canada (CIC) Denis Cordere and c) Regina city representative
of CIC Joe Lozinski to show them that there is support for preventing
Immigration Canada from further terrorizing Wolf Smoke and continuing
to engage in Canadian colonial practices.
Background information:
Sunkmanitu tanka Isnala Najin,
or Charlie 'Wolf' Smoke, an Indigenous person of Mohawk, Lakota
and Seneca heritage, has been called in to a meeting with an
official with Citizenship and Immigration Canada on Thursday,
Oct. 10th to 'review his immigration status' in Canada.
He is being told to produce
a Canadian passport or immigration papers to prove to the Canadian
government that he has the right to be in Canada.
This is nothing short of the
Canadian government once again asserting its colonial will against
Indigenous people.
Wolf has made it clear that
he is an Indigenous person (Mohawk, Lakota and Seneca), *not*
a Canadian, and that he will not accept any colonial government's
authority over him and his community. His strong and principled
stance of being 'pre-Canadian' has led the Canadian authorities
to continually terrorize him and his family.
The Canadian Immigration authorities
have, in the past, tried to deport him to the US but because
Wolf also identifies as "pre-American," the US authorities
will not go along with the deportation from Canada.
There is a well-founded fear
that the authorities will try to disappear Wolf.
One way we can try to prevent
this is to demonstrate to Immigration Canada that we are also
watching what is happening to Wolf and that we are acting in
solidarity with him and his declarations of self-determination
and self-identity.
Below is a draft letter of
support for Wolf Smoke. *Please* feel free to use it or write
your own letters and *e-mail* them to a) Jean Chretien, the PM
and b) Denis Cordere, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.
If possible, please also write
or phone Joe Lozinski, the Immigration official that has demanded
Canadian identity documents from Wolf Smoke
 .
Joe Lozinski can be reached
at:
- Citizenship & Immigration
Canada
- 1871 Hamilton Street
- Regina, Saskatchewan
- S4P 2B9
- (306) 780-6302
*In order to monitor the level
of support organized for Wolf Smoke, please CC a copy of your
e-mail to open-the-borders@sfu.ca*
Letter(s):
- Jean Chretien, Prime Minister
- House of Commons
- Ottawa, ON
- Canada
- pm@pm.gc.ca
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- Denis Coderre
- Minister of Citizenship and
- Immigration Canada
- House of Commons
- Ottawa, ON
- Canada
- Minister@cic.gc.ca
October 5, 2002
By E-mail:
I am writing to you to protest
the Canadian government's continued harassment
of Sunkmanitu tanka Isnala
Najin or Charlie 'Wolf' Smoke as you address him. The Department
of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has assigned him
client number
4485-9302. His case file is: 4311-4485-9302.
I protest the fact that representatives
of CIC have once again called Mr. Smoke
into their offices on Thursday,
October 10, 2002 in Regina, Saskatchewan to
'review his immigration status'
in Canada and demand that you cancel this
meeting, leave Mr. Smoke
alone and end your government's harassment of him and other Indigenous
peoples.
As you are well aware, Mr.
Smoke is an Indigenous person of Mohawk, Lakota and Seneca heritage
and as such does not need the Canadian government's permission to be living
and/or working in what is now called 'Canada'.
I find it completely unacceptable
that Citizenship and Immigration Canada, a department of the colonial state
of Canada, demands from any Indigenous person 'proof' that they have the authority
to be on their traditional lands. It is even more scandalous for the Canadian
government to attempt to deport Mr. Smoke across the colonial boundaries
between the 'USA' and 'Canada' as was done earlier this year
and may be
attempted again.
The Canadian government's harassment
of Mr. Smoke is a continuation of colonial
practices that have robbed
Indigenous people's of their self-determination by usurping the
land of diverse Indigenous peoples, destroying Indigenous people's livelihoods
and denying Indigenous peoples their self-identity. Canada has
been found
guilty of all of these practices by Indigenous peoples, historians,
social scientists
and even by many legal bodies both nationally and internationally.
Indeed, the Canadian government's
own recent report from the Royal Commission on
Aboriginal Peoples found
all of this to be true. In that voluminous report, the Canadian government
was pressed to recognize that diverse Indigenous peoples have their
own, self-determined forms of recognizing and maintaining community membership
and that the Canadian government cannot simply make these invalid because it
suits its purposes.
By demanding that Mr. Smoke
'prove' to the Canadian government his right to be in Canada,
by demanding that Mr. Smoke provide the government with a Canadian passport and
other forms of Canadian government issued identification, Canada
is again
imposing the government's oppressive and colonial views of membership
upon Indigenous
peoples.
I demand that you immediately
stop your harassment of Mr. Smoke. I also demand that you recognize
that the Canadian government has no authority to govern over his life or
the lives of any Indigenous person.
Sincerely,
(your name)
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This is a pretty good scrapbook
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Inquiry into the malicious prosecution of David
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- Stephen Williams:
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wells: Faulty eye-witness
testimony
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Texas
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Parent false accusations
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- Don
Smith obscenity trial: an obscene conviction
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Lockyer
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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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in the Federal Civil Service
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
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Johnson
- Kenneth
Marsh
- Dwayne
McKinney
- James Bernard Parker
- Peter
Reilly
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Rose
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Smith
- Clifford
St. Joseph
- John
Stoll
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Tankleff
- Wilton
Dedge
- Ray
Krone
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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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