One Law For All

The following is a newspaper article on events involving the invasion and destruction of a Caledonia home.

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OPP initially suspected couple after their home was ransacked
November 20, 2009 Barbara Brown(Nov 20, 2009)
OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino acknowledges a Caledonia couple are no longer suspected by police of ransacking their own home and spraypainting their walls with vile epithets and racial slurs.
David Brown, 42, and Dana Chatwell, 45, returned to their Argyle Street South home in the early hours on Dec. 17, 2006, to find their furniture overturned and electronics and computer equipment smashed. Even their teenage son's cherished guitar and amplifier were trashed.
During testimony earlier this week, Brown, whose home borders the former Douglas Creek Estates site that was occupied by native protesters in February that year, described being stunned by the destruction and hatred levelled at him and his wife.
He said their walls were covered with obscene graffiti, the mildest of which stated, "go home," and other slurs calling the homeowners "Pigs," "White Trash" and "Racists."
"I was scared to death," Brown said. "I walked in and everything we owned was just demolished."
The couple has filed a $7-million lawsuit against the Ontario government and OPP, claiming the province and its agents have a hands-off policy when it comes to native protesters and ignored even serious unlawful conduct because of the political sensitivities surrounding aboriginal land claims.
The plaintiffs claim they lived under siege for more than a month in April 2006, trapped inside a lawless zone between the occupied land and the native barricades on Argyle Street.
Since the barricades came down on May 23, 2006, they claim the police have continued to ignore acts of harassment, intimidation, threats to burn down their house and nuisances and trespasses on their property committed by the protesters.
After their home was ransacked, police came and took photos of the damage, but it soon became clear to Brown and Chatwell that the OPP considered them suspects.
Brown developed a stomach bug Wednesday and is under doctor's instructions to rest in bed. His cross-examination by Crown counsel David Feliciant is not expected to resume until Monday at the earliest.
The trial continued yesterday with a lawyer for the plaintiffs, Michael Bordin, reading into the record testimony from earlier pre-trial proceedings from Fantino and the OPP's regional director of operations, Superintendent John Cain.
In examination for discovery, Cain acknowledged the OPP actively investigated Brown and Chatwell for the vandalism after receiving information from an OPP Aboriginal Relations Team member that pointed to them as possible suspects.
The couple's lawyer, John Evans, asked the officer, "Did any interviews of any First Nations people take place with respect to the break-in and vandalism?"
Cain replied, "I'm not aware of any First Nations people being interviewed as suspects."
In January, Fantino acknowledged the OPP no longer consider Brown and Chatwell to be suspects.
"I believe that was the outcome of the investigation," Fantino said.
The commissioner said the matter remains under investigation and no other suspects have been questioned or apprehended.
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I can only hope this couple wins a huge lawsuit against the OPP, the Ontario government, and the Canadian government. Maybe this will spur the leaders of our country to have the decency to govern ALL of it's citizens with one law.

This couple was treated so shamelessly by their own country's officials. Where is the fairness in allowing natives to commit crimes without punishment simply because they are "natives"? The way our governments are handling situations like this is making a mockery of the laws of the land and, sorely, making natives an abomination to the rest of us.

We need to find out who issues the "hands off natives" orders and throw them in jail or throw them out of the country.