From the Eagle Watch
June 5, 2015

Commentary re Truth & Reconciliation Commission Wrap Up

This week, everyone is going on about the Truth & Reconciliation
Commission and Canada’s disgusting legacy of the Indian Residential
Schools.  Most Canadians knew nothing about it until now.  So the
revelations which were mainly driven by the survivors themselves, are a
good thing.  However, at the same time, there is clear resistance in
church & state.

The current outpouring of tears is an exercise in emotion for both the
angry and the guilty, especially the guilty.  It’s a self indulgence after
which everyone can dry their eyes and forget about it.

One thing that is glaringly missing from all the write ups is the reason
why.  Canadians must be asking, “but why was this done?  It couldn’t have
been that bad cause Canadians are good people and we just wouldn’t do such
a thing.  It must’ve been a mistake, must be over-stated.  Just a few bad
apples and now a big scandal”.

Connecting the dots will be the difficult part for most people.  The
colonial entities, agents, traders came here to extract resources for
purposes of profit, whether furs, minerals, trees or the very water
itself.  They brought settlers to occupy the land.

The lifestyle Canadians live is based on taking Indigenous resources and
NOT paying for them.  The residential schools were there to destroy
Indianness, to take the Indians off the LAND which the Newcomers so
coveted for themselves.

What it boils down to is Canadians have failed to share the resources
which is the way it was supposed to be in the first place and will have to
be in the end.

Meanwhile, Canada wants to paint itself as a contrite country now doing
the right thing.  Gotta keep those INVESTORS from panicking.

Oh, what was that you say, “a bunch of angry Indigenous refusing to sign
treaties in the west…another blockade going up over mining, logging,
fishing, pipelines…more Indigenous youth who cannot find livelihood and
end up on the streets or in prison…”

Oh, well, just let the media sort it out for us and everything will be
just fine.

Kittoh

FYI  This article is from January.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Brandon-experiments-exposed-288248311.html

Residential Schools and Child Welfare
Brandon experiments exposed: Residential school kids ESP test subjects in
’40s
January 12, 2015
By: Alexandra Paul | Winnipeg Free Press

Children at the Brandon Indian Residential School were test subjects of extra-sensory-perception experiments during the Second World War, states a science journal recovered from a university archive.

The article, ESP Tests with American Indian Children published in the Journal of Parapsychology, is believed to be the first hard evidence science experiments were conducted on residential school children in Manitoba.

It was published in 1943 by a scientist named A.A. Foster, and its existence adds to a growing body of knowledge to show science experiments were regularly conducted in the 1940s and 1950s on children at residential schools, with the permission of federal officials.

Canada’s expert on such studies, McMaster University post-doctoral research fellow Ian Mosby, said by phone from Hamilton he’s reviewed the article. Maeengan Linklater, the Winnipegger who stumbled across a reference to the study in a footnote and got a copy, forwarded it to him, Mosby said Sunday.

It’s significant because it shows how vulnerable Indian residential school children were to administrators, teachers and scientists, Mosby said.

“When it came to science experiments, these students had no choice whether it involved experiments on ESP or nutrition,” he said. “It makes you ask the question what experiments were done in these schools? What were the conditions that made it possible for scientists to walk in and do these experiments? The children were wards of the state,” Mosby said.

Mosby exposed alarming evidence of experiments in his 2013 research findings. News reports described them as noting children at Indian residential schools were deliberately starved in the 1940s and 1950s in the name of science.

Their exposure outraged Canadians and indigenous experts and later played a role in a decision by Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission to go to court to extract tons of federal residential school records held by the federal government.

Among those discoveries were that milk rations were halved for years at schools across the country, and essential vitamins were withheld. At the Cecilia Jeffrey school in Kenora, students were subject to test trials of TB vaccine as well as a series of experimental antibiotics for ear infections: Some students subsequently lost their hearing, according to one news report, Mosby said.

“They had no control over most of the aspects of their lives and their parents had no choice (either). They were forced to assume school administrators were acting in the best interest of their children, which we well know they weren’t,” Mosby said.

All of that was profoundly disturbing; what happened in Brandon is simply bizarre, Mosby said.

Fifty students at the Brandon school — approximately one-third of the student body — were selected for a slate of ESP experiments in the winter of 1940-41.

They included boys and girls ranging from the ages of six to 20. Younger students were given candy, older ones took part out of “curiosity, interest or as a personal favour” to the matron of the school, who conducted tests for the scientist who published the study.

Students were led through a total of 250 trials involving playing cards, the results of which purported to indicate the presence of ESP. “It may be said that at least one group of American Indian children have given scores in ESP card tests that are ascribable only to the ability known as extra-sensory perception,” the study concluded.

It went on to boast, “The fact that the subjects are of the American Indian race is of special interest, since this is the first report of ESP tests given to members of that racial group.”

Mosby and Linklater said that finding is disturbing for many reasons, not the least of which are the racial assumptions prevalent in that era.

“I’m not an expert on ESP, but it seems to me the study was reaching to make some kind of connection between (indigenous) spirituality and ESP.

“That there could be some sort of proclivity to ESP is really
problematic,” Mosby said.

The best that can be said is the Brandon study didn’t set out to hurt anyone.

“It’s definitely not nearly as disturbing as the other studies. There was no real harm to the students, and it wasn’t premised on causing harm but like those other studies, it highlights the vulnerability of residential school students to the whims of administrators and teachers,” Mosby said.

“The main thing that occurred to me when it came to ESP experiments was how bizarre it was, even for that time (period),” Mosby said.

Little is known about the study’s author. The accompanying standard abstract merely described Foster as a former staff member at Duke University at the parapsychology lab. He’d moved on to Toronto for work related to the Second World War when this study was conducted.

The Winnipegger who found the study said it raises troubling questions for him on personal and professional levels.

Both his parents attended residential schools. “I see the effects today with all the social challenges indigenous people face,” said Linklater, a longtime volunteer on community service boards in the city.

He stumbled across a reference to the study in a 1997 copy of Manitoba Mysteries by fellow guild writer and UFO researcher Chris Rutkowski.

A librarian found a copy archived at the University of Regina and Linklater got it last week.

“In my opinion, it dehumanized the students and it spoke to the control that the administrators had over the students (that) they could offer them up to a research study. The language of the article provides insight into their attitudes, in which we were monocultured and lived in primitive conditions.”
The study casually described the Brandon students in language that would be condemned today:

“The western Canadian plains Indian leads a much more primitive life than the Indians of the United States… hunting, fishing and trapping. Many of the children had (known) the most primitive life (and) had never seen trains or motor cars.”

alexandra.paul@freepress.mb.ca

Armed U.S agents will be able to use their guns while operating on Canadian soil while being immune from Canadian law.

Is This What You Want Canada?!? Pay Attention!! Armed American agents to have immunity from our Canadian laws when working in Canada? >http://ow.ly/LXwHk -Toronto Star

The Harper conservative government could allow armed U.S agents in Canada to be able to use deadly force but not be held accountable under Canadian law. This means they could not be held accountable for potential criminal acts on Canadian soil. Considering U.S police conduct of late, is this a good move? The deal hasn’t been ratified yet.. Should it be?

Our own police sometimes have trouble following our laws, Imagine what could happen if we allow armed American agents to operate in Canada while exempt from our laws! Share this! then contact your local MP, write your editor, tools to do so are attached below.

Armed US agents could have immunity from prosecution when working in Canada >http://on.thestar.com/1FYMUVA -Toronto Star

The Toronto Star writes: “Armed U.S. border guards could soon be posted to Union Station — and if they ever use their guns, they may not be held accountable in a Canadian court.”

“If U.S. government agents who are on duty on Canadian soil are only going to be liable to be prosecuted in the United States for potential criminal acts in Canada, what does that mean for access to justice for people affected by those actions?” asked Josh Paterson, executive director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.

“Is a Canadian really going to be able to access whatever system of redress that might exist in the United States for actions that take place here in Canada? Is the U.S. criminal justice system going to deal seriously with alleged offences committed by their agents here in Canada? We just don’t know. If they’re being told that they are allowed to carry weapons in Canada, the only thing you can surmise from that is that it’s anticipated that they may be using force in Canada,” he said.”

In Depth references and news articles on the subject of armed U.S agents being able to operate in Canada being immune from our Canadian laws are attached below:

“Canadians would likely have serious concerns with cross-designated officers from the U.S. not being accountable for their actions in Canada,” says the classified memo prepared for RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson, a censored version of which was obtained by CP http://yhoo.it/1OjcK0r

Surprise. Stephen Harper’s U.S. border deal does imperil Canadian sovereignty >http://bit.ly/16a81E2 – “While details of the pact remain sparse, it appears to give American agents working in so-called “integrated teams” the power of Canadian peace officers — including the right to carry weapons and use them on Canadian soil.”, “The U.S. government wants American police agents working in Canada exempted from Canadian law. Don’t assume the Harper government will refuse.” writes Toronto Star columnist Thomas Walkom.

VIDEO: Canada’s Rick Mercer on American agents arresting Canadians on Canadian soil >http://bit.ly/16AJLgv

“In the last budget, in the “jobs budget” there was a provision that allows the CIA and the FBI to come across the border and arrest Canadians on Canadian soil. And I know I sound like a conspiracy theorist with a tin foil hat just saying it out loud but it’s true. It happened and there was no debate. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.” -Rick Mercer said http://bit.ly/19471Uc, http://bit.ly/REGodw

MP Elizabeth May writes “We are passing legislation to allow US law enforcement agents onto Canadian territory to enforce US laws. What would Laura Secord have made of that plot? Had she discovered it with her wandering cow, would she have turned Stephen Harper in?” >http://bit.ly/19T8eRn

American Cops Don’t Belong in Canada
>http://huff.to/18WpEgg – “A few years ago, Stephen Harper told us that by the time he was done in office, we wouldn’t recognize Canada. How true, and troubling, those words have become… Now we are now witnessing the Americanization of our law enforcement. Armed American police officers will now operate on Canadian soil.”- Sean Casey MP for Charlottetown, P.E.I

U.S. wants its police officers exempt from Canadian law , RCMP Says http://huff.to/1cbfg4D, http://bit.ly/13vuwRC

Canadian law must apply to all police in Canada: Editorial >http://bit.ly/153Klyg

U.S. police officers on Canadian soil must answer to our laws -National Post >http://bit.ly/18UoqSQ

U.S. ‘Homeland’ Includes Canada And Mexico On NSA Map -Just when you thought the NSA surveillance programs couldn’t get any scarier, the spy agency goes ahead and makes Canada part of the U.S. “homeland.”> http://huff.to/15BdapL

U.S. Police seek to ignore Canadian law
>http://bit.ly/1cwlaNY, http://bit.ly/13z3esK

CBC News: U.S. wants officers exempt from Canadian law >http://bit.ly/1bSNvyO

The Harper government gives U.S. FBI and DEA agents the ability to pursue suspects across the land border and into Canada. >http://yhoo.it/JmWQNf , http://bit.ly/Y0h88I

Does your MP know Bill C-38 allows FBI agents to operate in Canada? http://bit.ly/LazAoz

Police Are Not Protecting Us by Ajamu Nangwaya, Educator and community organizer >http://huff.to/16uTXc8

“AERIAL SURVEILLANCE DRONES NOT RULED OUT”

“There are already 15 integrated border enforcement teams operating along the 49th parallel but the legislative changes would allow the FBI or U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to pursue suspects onto Canadian soil. Embassy magazine reported that aerial police surveillance has not been ruled out.” -John Ivison, National Post http://bit.ly/JSH5lI

FBI informants were authorized to break the law 5600 times in one year http://usat.ly/1eity02

CBC News: The FBI’s role in ‘manufacturing’ terrorism
>http://bit.ly/18tAPr8

“By assembling a database of the cases and going through court records, he concluded that the FBI, which receives $3 billion per year for counterterrorism, is “the organization responsible for more terrorist plots over the last decade than any other.”

WATCH THIS VIDEO: Conditioning Canadians For The War On Terror >http://bit.ly/1cASQKm

“With the onslaught of recent “foiled terror plots” we have seen here in Canada, one would think that there is an ongoing threat from either outside forces or from radicalized homegrown domestic extremists as we are being led to believe. However in each and every circumstance there is a hidden hand at play and in its grip lies a sinister motive to generate the fear of an attack in the minds of the Canadian people.” -Press For Truth

Harper government allows Blackwater to train Canadian police and troops without the permission of the U.S. State Department >http://bit.ly/QfTvRp

TAKE ACTION: CONTACT YOUR MP, WRITE A LETTER, EMAIL, CALL AND LET THEM KNOW YOU ARE AGAINST U.S AGENTS OPERATING AND ARRESTING CANADIANS ON CANADIAN SOIL BEING IMMUNE FROM CANADIAN LAW.

Find your Member of Parliament using your Postal Code
>http://bit.ly/lI7iTw

Tool: Write a letter to your local editor, enter your postal code to find all of your local newspapers, (change the subject topic, enter your postal code with a space A1A 1A1) http://bit.ly/tqnGle -D

A National Monument reveals sad legacy in Canadian history

http://globalnews.ca/video/1936790/a-national-monument-reveals-sad-legacy-in-canadian-history/

SEE “WHERE THE SPIRIT LIVES”

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The Nazis too proclaimed they were destined by God to global “Full Spectrum Dominance” and even wore “God is with Us” on their belt buckles

Judicial Findings From the Inter-Nation Tribunal on Indian Residential Schools in Canada – Copy

Indigenous Epistemology and Scientific Method pdf

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From the Eagle Watch
March 25, 2015

FYI

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Subject: How Canada gets people tortured: Reviewing Mohamedou Slahi’s
Guantanamo Diary
From:    “TASC” <tasc@web.ca>
Date:    Wed, March 25, 2015 10:04 am
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How Canada gets people tortured
Book Review
AUTHOR(S):
Matthew Behrens
MARCH 20, 2015

Screenshot from a short film about Guantánamo Diary (see
http://guantanamodiary.com/).

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/how-canada-gets-people-tortured
Guantanamo Diary
By Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Little, Brown and Company (2015), 432 pages, $32 (hardcover)

Reviewed by Matthew Behrens, co-ordinator of Stop Canadian Involvement in
Torture

Following December’s release of the U.S. Senate report on American complicity in torture, Prime Minister Stephen Harper quickly declared, “It has nothing to do whatsoever with the government of Canada.” Despite the CIA’s close relationship with Canadian state security agencies, as well as two judicial inquiries finding Ottawa complicit in the torture of Canadian citizens in Syria and Egypt, Harper preferred to ignore the facts.

At about the same time, a stunning memoir was published that paints another damning portrait of Canadian authorities from even before September 11, 2001. Guantanamo Diary was originally composed by hand in 2005 from a cell at the infamous U.S. torture camp, which remains open despite President Obama’s promise to close it eight years ago. It tells the remarkable story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian national who remains detained there despite a 2010 U.S. release order.

In English learned by listening to his kidnappers and torturers, Slahi elegantly relates a tale of human resilience under the most appalling conditions. His book is filled with wisdom, humour, and heartbreaking moments of despair produced by unending months of round-the-clock torture.

The memoir would have been available sooner had it not been classified secret and subjected to a six-year legal battle over its release. It contains an incredible number of redactions, from single words to whole pages. But in a remarkable comment on the cultural shift, where today torture is almost accepted as reasonable and inevitable, most of the sections detailing his brutalization appear intact.

Slahi’s troubles began in Montreal, in 2000, where, after 12 years in Germany, he lived as a Canadian permanent resident for just over two months. At the time, he was subject to an RCMP/CSIS “disruption” campaign of harassment. Two cameras were implanted in the wall of his Montreal room, and he was followed in an obvious manner, “to give the message that we are watching you.”

Slahi’s very first interrogation was at the hands of the RCMP. He
describes being “scared to hell” as he was questioned about a fellow Montrealer he’d never met. The police wanted information on Ahmed Ressam, who was eventually convicted in the U.S. for planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport.

Flying home around this time, Slahi was intercepted and twice detained at the behest of U.S. officials, first in Senegal and then when he arrived in Mauritania, where he was repeatedly interrogated about alleged involvement in Ressam’s so-called Millennium Plot. Slahi was released in February of 2000 then arrested again in September 2001, questioned, cleared, and released.

In one of the earlier Mauritanian interrogations, Slahi recalled that things seemed to be going smoothly, “but when they opened the Canadian file, things soured decidedly.” His case illustrates how Canadian state agencies were participating in the U.S.-led rendition-to-torture program at least 20 months before 9/11, which contradicts CSIS and RCMP claims that similar human rights violations they committed in 2002 and 2003 were
mistakes resulting from confusion and fear after the U.S. attacks. This was all, it appears, standard operating procedure for Canada’s security agencies.

Indeed, readers familiar with Canadian human rights abuses against Arab Muslims will recognize in Slahi’s memoir a similar pattern that reveals the dangers of “information sharing” with foreign governments, “intelligence” data dumps that are full of inflammatory and false allegations, “co-operation” with secret police, and using the fruits of torture.

Slahi’s decision to voluntarily show up for another round of Mauritanian police questioning in November 2001 led to his self-described rendition world tour. It hit Jordan, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the human hellhole reserved for “the worst of the worst.” By the time Slahi arrived at the U.S. base, in 2002, the Los Angeles Times was reporting that Guantanamo contained “no big fish,” but hundreds of innocents who had
been turned in by Afghan bounty hunters seeking rewards from Americans who paid good money and never confirmed the truthfulness of the hunters’ allegations.

Indeed, as Associated Press reported in 2013, there were ongoing efforts between 2002 and 2005 to recruit Gitmo detainees as spies and double agents. Slahi himself describes a facility where intelligence agents came from around the world, including Canada, to interrogate their “nationals” or refugees who had escaped their clutches.

The basis for suspecting Slahi appears to be twofold. First, in the eyes of the U.S. administration of the day, he fit the profile of an alleged threat because be fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan in 1991-92 with a little-known, U.S.-funded group called Al Qaeda. The second factor is that, although Slahi left Al Qaeda in 1992, a distant cousin, Abu Hafs, became a member of the group’s shura council. Opposing the 9/11 attacks, Abu Hafs served some time under Iranian house arrest and is now a free
man.

But with those two links providing little traction, it appears the sole basis for Slahi’s eventual detention is the alleged Millennium Plot connection, even though the plot’s singular member, Ressam, never implicated Slahi when he freely cooperated with U.S. authorities (and later recanted about those he did try to implicate). Remember that Canadian security agencies notoriously lost track of Ressam, who was only caught because of an attentive U.S. border guard.

“Canadian intelligence wishes I were a criminal, so they could make up for their failure when [NAME REDACTED, but clearly Ressam] slipped from their country to the U.S. carrying explosives,” Slahi writes in his diary. “The U.S. blamed Canada for being a preparation ground for terrorist attacks against the U.S., and that’s why Canadians (sic) Intels freaked out. They
really lost their composure, trying everything to calm the rage of their big brother, the U.S. They began watching the people they believed to be bad, including me.”

As in most cases of Canadian targeting and profiling over the past two decades, Slahi was presumed guilty by association, no matter how many degrees of separation there were between him and anyone looking to allegedly plot a terror attack. Mirroring the experience of Ottawa’s Maher Arar, who was the subject of a massive data dump of inflammatory falsehoods that, when shared with the Americans, led to his being branded a threat and a target for Syrian torture, Slahi writes: “I stayed less than two months in Canada, and yet the Americans claimed that the
Canadians provided tons of information. The Canadians don’t even know me!” Notably, the Germans provided nothing towards Slahi’s interrogations.

“All the Canadians could come up with was, ‘We have seen him with x and y, and they’re bad people.’ ‘We’ve seen him in this and that mosque.’ ‘We have intercepted his telephone conversations, but there’s nothing really.’ The Americans asked the Canadians to provide them the transcripts of my conversations, but after they edited them.”

Without providing the full conversations, which Slahi believes Canada should have refused anyhow, there is no opportunity to provide context, and so the Americans fixated on what they believed to be code words in his phone calls: “tea” and “sugar.”

One interrogator tells Slahi “your only problem is your time in Canada. If you really haven’t done anything in Canada, you don’t belong in jail.” He is also interrogated by one of the men who interrogated Canadian teenager Omar Khadr after the youngster had been “softened up” by weeks of torture.

The Canadian Slahi file must be bulging with references to Canadians who may have unwittingly suffered surveillance, interrogation, and detention. To cite one of many possible examples, Slahi agreed that he planned to blow up Toronto’s CN Tower, even though he had no clue what it was. (He describes writing out over 1,000 pages of false confessions to try and end
the torture at Gitmo.)

Did this “confession” lead to RCMP/CSIS targeting of Canadian Kassim Mohamed after he took photos of the landmark to share with his five children, then living in Egypt? That targeting certainly caused Mohamed’s harrowing two-week detention in Egyptian custody during a 2004 family visit. How many other people in Canada had cases built around such tortured confessions?

“Whenever they asked me about somebody in Canada I had some incriminating information about that person even if I didn’t know him,” writes Slahi, noting that use of the phrases “I don’t know” or “I don’t remember” only invited more torture. Threatened with being disappeared forever, he “took the pen and paper and wrote all kinds of incriminating lies about a poor person who was just seeking refuge in Canada and trying to make some money
so he could start a family. Moreover, he is handicapped.” Slahi feels horrible, taking solace that “I didn’t hurt anybody as much as I did myself [and] that I had no choice [and] I was confident that injustice will be defeated.”

The torturous act of “confession” about things and people he knows nothing about was the culmination of endless rounds of sleep deprivation, sexual assault, beatings, immersion in severe cold, humiliation, degradation, and a starvation diet. The psychological war—informing Slahi his mother is detained at Gitmo and likely to be violated in the all-male environment—is
all-pervasive, but throughout he maintains a combination of defiance (refusing to speak or throwing snarky replies at his interrogators) and spirituality, even though he is forbidden to pray and punished when he tries to do so. “I hate torture so much,” he writes, but adds that waiting for torture is worse than torture itself.

Remarkably, Slahi maintains a sense of ironic humour, comparing his huge number of interrogations to the list of women Charlie Sheen has dated, and likening the repetitive nature of interrogation to the Hollywood film Groundhog Day. He develops relationships with his guards, debating religion and popular culture. One guard cries shamefully when he leaves
Guantanamo, believing that he will go to hell because he prevented Slahi from praying. Others have him fix their VCRs and PCs. Slahi’s ocean of tears is one day interrupted with paroxysms of laughter when he reads The Catcher in the Rye—“such a funny book,” he writes.

Slahi estimates that over six years he spoke to more than 100 different interrogators, including Canadian agents. “You know that I know that you know that I have done nothing,” he tells one American. “You’re holding me because your country is strong enough to be unjust. And it’s not the first time you have kidnapped Africans and enslaved them.”

Is Slahi still at Gitmo, 13 years after being dumped there, because
Canadian intelligence agencies don’t want him released? Could holding him be quid pro quo for Canada accepting Omar Khadr and taking that public relations nightmare off U.S. hands?

Unfortunately, Slahi’s request for disclosure of his RCMP/CSIS files, as well as the notes from Canada’s Gitmo interrogations, was turned down when a Federal Court judge ruled that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms did not protect him, even though Slahi’s nightmare began because of two months in Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear Slahi’s subsequent
appeal to find out what Canada actually has on him, if anything.

Canadians wondering what the future will look like with passage of new anti-terrorism legislation (Bill C-51) have another frightening roadmap with Slahi’s must-read memoir.

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