Well gosh darn!!! 50 OPP officers in full riot gear marched into a Caledonia housing development (the one where a developer was viciously beaten by natives last week) and arrested 9 native demonstrators. The picture in the newspaper shows 4 officers carting away a 200 lb. woman. It's people like her that's held a town hostage all this time??
Of course, if I, a caucasian lady, had gone to Caledonia to do any demonstrating I would have been tossed in jail the very first minute. Maybe I'm naive but I can't understand why we have different laws for different people. The majority of us have always known that the rich and the church don't face the same penalties the rest of us do when we break the law but it's hard to accept that race or nationality can also be a factor.
If this was an ideal world there would be no distinction for law breakers but this is far from an ideal world. Politics, money and graft rule us more than we care to admit. We, the people, have to use whatever clout we can muster to force our politicians and police force to do what is fair. Free speech and peaceful demonstrations carry the word but our vote carries the punch.
To the citizens of Caledonia...you have a gem of a mayor. She has been a voice of reason and honesty in this situation even though her powers were limited in solving the problem. Remember her when it comes time to cast your vote. She'd get mine if I lived in Caledonia.
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