-Caveat Lector- "There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time; I'm going to use that word." ~~Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV)
Did anyone notice a code was breached? Mark Steyn National Post Thursday, December 19, 2002 The backlash is underway. Well, OK, it isn't. But the warnings of a backlash are underway. As the Canadian Press reports, "Matthew Coon Come, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, is concerned about a possible backlash against aboriginals." The remarks of Senator David Ahenakew O.C. about how Hitler had the right idea frying all those Jews could, Mr. Coon Come fears, "provide fodder for those critical of First Nations." The tragedy of Mr. Ahenakew's real, actual intolerance is that it could hypothetically provoke even more intolerance from the white man. Well, I don't suppose Mr. Ahenakew will be being presented to the Queen again anytime soon. The perks of being one of the hyphenated state's ethnic ward-heelers are lost to him for the foreseeable future. But I doubt the Mounties are serious about charging him with "Holocaust denial" or in this case Holocaust celebration, or whatever the crime is. "Hate crimes" laws are there to nail recalcitrant old white guys like the late Doug Collins, not to hear grievances by one wing of the Rainbow Coalition against another. As readers may know, I strongly dislike "hate crimes" laws. If Mr. Ahenakew thinks it was a swell idea to kill six million Jews, he should have the right to say so. After all, it's only because he said it in public that he's in trouble. If he hadn't decided to unburden himself, he'd still be on the Rideau Hall Christmas card list, getting the first dance with Prince Edward at the opening of the Swift Current First Nations Cultural Centre, sitting at the top table for the gala dinner marking the first anniversary of the announcement of Jean Chr�tien's retirement. But he spoke up and so we know him. Mr. Ahenakew's views are rare but not unique. I get a few of his kindred spirits writing to me every week, arguing that Hitler's big mistake was not killing more Jews quicker. That way he'd have finished the job, and we wouldn't have all these troublemakers around now. Some of these e-mails and letters are anonymous. But you'd be surprised how many aren't. Every society has these people. The only difference lies in the distance they are from the centres of power. What matters in the Middle East is not that excitable chaps in the street are calling for the deaths of Jews and Christians, but that the A-list imams on the state-controlled TV and radio networks are. Princess Haifa, the wife of Saudi Arabia's U.S. Ambassador Prince Bandar, recently found herself in the spotlight because she'd been making payments from her Washington bank account to a woman who'd passed the money on to the September 11th terrorists. It's not that Princess Haifa is a terrorist herself, but that it's barely two degrees of separation between her and the mass murderers. And that's the significance of David Ahenakew -- not his views on his fellow man, but our view of him. He's not a grunting troglodyte in some rooming house round the back of the stockyards writing letters in green ink to Izzy and the rest of the Jewish Conspiracy. He's out there in the sunlight, basking in the approval of the highest institutions of the Canadian state. Look at the guy's scrapbook: here's me with Her Majesty, here's me with Trudeau, here's me at the UN. And why? The most benign characterization one can make of Mr. Ahenakew is that he's an utter mediocrity. As Christie Blatchford pointed out, nothing he'd done in the years before 1978 merited the Order of Canada -- an order so illustrious that The Globe And Mail wants to transform them into an elite college of cardinals endowed with the right to elect our head of state from among their number. President Ahenakew. Has a kind of a ring, doesn't it? Mr. Ahenakew must be wondering what hit him. By all accounts, his thoughts on Hitler, the Jews, the "goddamned immigrants, East Indians, Pakistanis, Afghanis, whites and so forth" have been well aired over the years. As everyone's making Trent Lott comparisons, here's mine. Re-run the video of Strom Thurmond's birthday party: After the usual Viagra and Hooters gags, Senator Lott says he's proud his state voted for Strom in 1948. There's a bit of nervous laughter -- it's audibly different from the Viagra yuks -- because the crowd can sense this is a step in a direction most of them don't want to go. Strom himself has long since disavowed his segregationist past. And then Lott goes and says, if Strom had won, we wouldn't have had all these problems we'd had over the years. And that nervous laughter dies. You can hear an intake of breath. The audience understands a line has been crossed. Nothing like that happened at that FSIN meeting. Mr. Ahenakew was supposed to be addressing health issues but lurched off instead into his historical digression. And the crowd took it in their stride, as if it's perfectly routine for their "respected elders" to start droning on about how the Jews started the Second World War. The sense of when a code has been breached is very important to a society's health. Senator Lott did not call for the return of lynching. He didn't say that the sight of those fellows hanging from trees taught an important lesson to uppity Nigras. But, even so, his audience understood. Mr. Ahenakew's didn't, and that speaks poorly for them, and their grubby third-rate leaders, just as it spoke poorly for Hedy Fry when she sat through Professor Sunera Thobani's post-9/11 rant. Even when The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix put it in the paper, the native bigshots still didn't get it. FSIN Vice-Chief Lawrence Joseph blames the media: "It's f---ing garbage. What was your intent to print that story?" he told the paper. "It should not have even been pursued." And you can see his point. First Nations spokesnatives use inflammatory language all the time. Unlike his equivocating colleagues, Matthew Coon Come was shrewd enough to offer an "unconditional" condemnation of the Jew stuff. But this is the same fellow who in Durban told the UN Conference on Racism that only last year Canada's natives had been savagely attacked by "white mobs." If you make your living telling folks white mobs are after you, what's the big deal about throwing the Jews in the mix, too? Needless to say, the government paid Mr. Coon Come to fly to Durban to trash his country, just as it has paid Mr. Ahenakew for most of the past four decades. That's the difference between us and, say, the Syrians. State-funded Jew-hating Syrians are pro- Syrian. But state-funded Jew-hating Canadians, like Mr. Ahenakew, hate Canada, too. What a fine testament to our tolerance: Our intolerant bigots are intolerant even of us, and we don't mind! In fact, we encourage it! Fire on law enforcement, and we back away, promising to be more "sensitive" in our policing. The Supreme Court of Canada in its April 23rd 1999 ruling that judges must pay "particular attention to the circumstances of aboriginal offenders" all but formalized the de facto two-tier justice system. If Mr. Ahenakew ever did get to "fry" six million Jews, the Supreme Court would rule the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal an infringement of his aboriginal rights and insist that he can only be brought before a First Nations "sentencing circle." Hitlerian comparisons are cheap, and one should be wary of them. But Friar Ahenakew started this, so let's pursue it a little. Hitler's Germany was one of the great mass grievance cultures of all time: "All these terrible things have happened," said Der F�hrer, "but none of it's your fault. It's the Jews' doing." The modern Middle East: Nothing's your fault, it's all those Jews. And here in Canada we've told generations of Indians a similar story: Poverty? Crime? Health? Unemployment? "None of it's your fault. It's all our fault." What sort of people would be attracted to spending their life milking the frustrations of a permanent state-sanctioned neo-apartheid victim culture? Oh, sure, some might be well-meaning public servants, and more might be the corrupt sleazeballs who've turned Indian Affairs into one giant sinkhole. But we shouldn't be surprised if a third category of openly ugly racists pursues the logic of the enterprise to its conclusion. In that sense, David Ahenakew is an exquisitely apt summation of our disastrous Indian policy. �Copyright 2002National Post -- Outgoing mail is certified virus free Scanned by Norton AntiVirus <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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