Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Doug Fleming and his Caledonia Shitshooters

It seems that the aforementioned Fleming has decided to take matters into his own hands in Caledonia, and organize a citizens' militia that he wants to call the "Caledonia Peacekeepers". His group would consist of unarmed self-righteous types who would supposedly use citizen arrests and force to deal with "illegal" occupations in Caledonia. Fleming is quoted in the media as saying his group "is not for hotheads (or) for someone who will lose their temper and want to hurt someone".
News flash, Fleming, you feeble-minded moron. You yourself are saying your group will use force, and yet you're trying to say it will only include the most reasonable of the righteous. What a load of shit that is. If Fleming really wants to serve his community, he might do better to take some of the manure spewing from his mouth and spread it over the nearest flowerbeds, instead.
If Fleming were to look up "force" in the dictionary - if he knows what that is - he would find it defined as: strength used a person or thing, violence or constraint. Then he could try to explain exactly how he thinks setting up a group whose leader adverts it as out to use force is not setting up a group that will appeal to hotheads.
Fleming apparently came up with his brilliant idea earlier this month when a Mohawk man occupied a corner of a farm field on the edge of town and set up a shack to sell duty-free cigarettes to protest the state of land claim talks. The OPP said they wouldn't move in to evict the protester and that pissed off little Mr. Fleming. He's hoping his vigilante group will embarrass the OPP into action.
Interestingly enough, the farmer who owns the land where the shack was set up, doesn't want Fleming to stick his nose in here. He says the federal government, not local vigilantes, should solve the Caledonia land claim. "Outsiders, they stick their nose into it … because this is my problem," said Ernie Palmer. "Mr. Fleming, you are a publicity seeker and you should have stayed out of it as I told you." In accordance with Palmer is Ontario Aboriginal Affairs Minister Brad Duguid who called Fleming's plan a "dumb idea."
More than an outright stupid idea, Fleming's group is a dangerous precedent setter, an attempt by hotheads to take the matter into their own heads and circumvent the proper legal pathways to a solution to the problem. If this group is allowed to take any action at all, it could create a backlash of follow-up idiots who decide they know better than the judicial system how to handle others who don't fit into their grand scheme of things.
Kind of raises images of the post-war southern states when the civil war was over and the KKK was just beginning their trampling rides across the rights of others.

2 comments:

Andy Dabydeen said...
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Andy Dabydeen said...

This guy's still at it? He's an asshole. Why haven't people run him out of town yet?