-- BRANTFORD -- A lawyer's attempts to have warrants issued requiring aboriginal protesters to attend court were unsuccessful yesterday.And hey... don't look to the native police force for any help.
The protesters are accused of contravening an interim injunction obtained by the City of Brantford on June 2, preventing them from demonstrating and disrupting work on five construction sites.
Smitheman said efforts to deliver the summons to the respondents have proved difficult because most of the them live on the reserve.
The process server was cautioned by Six Nations Police not to enter the reserve to deliver the summons for safety reasons, he said.Which translates very roughly from the mealy-mouthed abo-speak as... "You show up here, whitey... we'll kick your pasty wasp ass all over the place."
Smitheman eventually withdrew his request and said he would attempt to get the help of Six Nations Police in delivering the summons, although police had previously indicated their "co-operation" in the matter but with no results.**********
RELATED: Meanwhile, in other "wag the dog" news
An Aboriginal leader says it's time to change the name of a national historic site that he says honours a British general who tried to wipe out the native population in the Maritimes.**********
John Joe Sark, a spiritual leader of the Mi'kmaq people in Prince Edward Island, says Fort Amherst's namesake is a "terrible blotch" on Canada.
Sark suggested changing the park's name to Chief Jean-Baptiste La Morue, a Mi'kmaq chief from Prince Edward Island, who signed a peace treaty with the British in 1761.
LAST WORD: Republik Montreal declares coup
-- MONTREAL -- A new umbrella group in Montreal North is calling for the resignation of borough mayor Marcel Parent, following the death of Fredy Villanueva.*
Republik Montreal North is to table a number of demands at next Wednesday's borough council meeting.