Gary McHale...Activist or Racist?
More often than not, I prefer to completely ignore racist characters that whore themselves to the media....today I make an acception.
With his impending "rally" I felt it necessary to discuss him and his 'cause'. McHale believes that there is a two tier justice system and that the natives are being treated differently than non-native Ontarians (you only need to read previous entries to know that I actually agree with him on that point, but not from his same angle). What I have gathered from the articles I have read, he is protesting the Natives being allowed to remain on government owned lands. Why does that matter to McHale? How does a protest on lands that are presently uninhabited and the focus of negotiations with the government affect him? Why is any of it his business? He lives in Richmond Hill for crying out loud. Keeping in mind that Richmond Hill is upper middle class and can give us all a fair assumption that Mr McHale has never had to worry about: whether or not his drinking water will make him sick, whether or not he will be called a Dirty Indian or Savage today, whether or not he can go in to a service related establishment and be rejected for skin color.
Much internet sleuthing has found many blog and forum posts by McHale and McHale supporters. It seems to me that there is a lot of racism and racial motivation behind "the cause". While they stand on and wrap themselves in the Canadian Freedoms, they also do not stand for those same freedoms for the natives. There is no talk of what the natives are protesting and what they want. There is not talk of the freedoms they have been deprived of, such as freedom of movement. That ability to walk in to town and buy some milk or grab a hamburger at the local eatery. The natives can no longer do these simple things in Caledonia. If they try they are called dirty indians, terrorists or told simply to leave as they will get no service. McHale stands for equality only if it is his version of equality.
His own website shouts out "Al Jezeer supports Natives". Utilizing the middle eastern name for fear mongoring propaganda. Newsflash, Al Jezeer is a news outlet and their connection to Natives in Canada has nothing to do with either support of them (by terrorists was the insinuation) or what is presently happening in Caledonia or in Canada as a whole. Al Jezeer was at the time getting ready to offer english language news and were infact researching for a piece on Natives that were forced in to residential schools decades ago. There are many more insinuated links between Natives in Canada and terrorist fund raising activities in North America on his webpage. I will not link any of it here, as I will not give him any more attention than he already has (and in the end, what I believe he wants). These 'links' are tedious and have no validity. One that jumped out at me was smugglers that were operating in the Windsor area. McHale writes the headline "Canadians arrested smuggling REZ Cigs: Money Goes to Hezzbolah". If you read the actual news piece there is nothing that actually links Native activity to this incident, all it says is that Non-Taxed cigarettes were being smuggled. Note: Anyone can go to a reserve and buy cigarettes, including red necks with an agenda.
If he is half as intelligent as he pretends to be he knows that this "rally" is nothing more than asking for trouble. Aggression begets violence and throwing up the word peaceful, does not mean that that is your true intent. Inviting biker gangs to such an event is not a signalling for peaceful demonstration. Biker Clubs have more of a history of being called in as enforcers and aggressors.
Gary McHale states that this rally is against the OPP, yet he is not landing at the OPP's or the Government's doorstep. No, he is going to a location that is already rife with tension. He says that the OPP is not enforcing the laws in Caledonia. He says (I've seen him say it himself in a video available here: http://auto_sol.tao.ca/taxonomy/page/or/217 ) that he 'knows' that natives burned down the power station and the OPP is doing nothing about it. How, pray tell, does he know? Did he see it? Did he hear a confession? Did he suddenly become a forensic scientist? No, he makes an assumption that the "natives" are the criminals. After all there is no way that it could have been non-Natives.
There is so much I could post here. There is so much rhetoric that this media whore has spread where he claims to not be against Natives, yet throughout the internet much of it is indeed anti-Native. You only need to read his website or Google him. His site is wrought with articles that show natives in a bad light. From "Native children throwing rocks" (note: he didn't mention the white kid that threw a rock off an overpass almost killing a teacher) to a "Native takes gun to school" (yet again no mention of the white kids that massacred over a dozen people in Columbine or the white kid out West that shot and killed one classmate and wounded another). And there is no mention of Mafia activity or Black shootings that plague Toronto or Asian gang violence. He and his wife continuously point fingers at the Native population without balance and with extreme prejudice. It is this writers conclusion that the exclusion of other racial groups is simply because it's still safe to be racist against Natives. If his site was aimed at the black, jewish or muslim community...he would have been shut down and charged by now.
What more can I say though, really? He speaks with a smile and seeming causes on television, and shows himself for who he truely is on the net. The smiling fat guy fighting for equality on camera is only a facade. No good will come from his rally. I can only sit and hope that no one dies. The best case scenario would be that no one, or the very few racists that adamently support him, shows and are deflated.
May love surround my Native brothers & sisters and indeed the people of Caledonia... and may God keep them safe this weekend...and always.
With his impending "rally" I felt it necessary to discuss him and his 'cause'. McHale believes that there is a two tier justice system and that the natives are being treated differently than non-native Ontarians (you only need to read previous entries to know that I actually agree with him on that point, but not from his same angle). What I have gathered from the articles I have read, he is protesting the Natives being allowed to remain on government owned lands. Why does that matter to McHale? How does a protest on lands that are presently uninhabited and the focus of negotiations with the government affect him? Why is any of it his business? He lives in Richmond Hill for crying out loud. Keeping in mind that Richmond Hill is upper middle class and can give us all a fair assumption that Mr McHale has never had to worry about: whether or not his drinking water will make him sick, whether or not he will be called a Dirty Indian or Savage today, whether or not he can go in to a service related establishment and be rejected for skin color.
Much internet sleuthing has found many blog and forum posts by McHale and McHale supporters. It seems to me that there is a lot of racism and racial motivation behind "the cause". While they stand on and wrap themselves in the Canadian Freedoms, they also do not stand for those same freedoms for the natives. There is no talk of what the natives are protesting and what they want. There is not talk of the freedoms they have been deprived of, such as freedom of movement. That ability to walk in to town and buy some milk or grab a hamburger at the local eatery. The natives can no longer do these simple things in Caledonia. If they try they are called dirty indians, terrorists or told simply to leave as they will get no service. McHale stands for equality only if it is his version of equality.
His own website shouts out "Al Jezeer supports Natives". Utilizing the middle eastern name for fear mongoring propaganda. Newsflash, Al Jezeer is a news outlet and their connection to Natives in Canada has nothing to do with either support of them (by terrorists was the insinuation) or what is presently happening in Caledonia or in Canada as a whole. Al Jezeer was at the time getting ready to offer english language news and were infact researching for a piece on Natives that were forced in to residential schools decades ago. There are many more insinuated links between Natives in Canada and terrorist fund raising activities in North America on his webpage. I will not link any of it here, as I will not give him any more attention than he already has (and in the end, what I believe he wants). These 'links' are tedious and have no validity. One that jumped out at me was smugglers that were operating in the Windsor area. McHale writes the headline "Canadians arrested smuggling REZ Cigs: Money Goes to Hezzbolah". If you read the actual news piece there is nothing that actually links Native activity to this incident, all it says is that Non-Taxed cigarettes were being smuggled. Note: Anyone can go to a reserve and buy cigarettes, including red necks with an agenda.
If he is half as intelligent as he pretends to be he knows that this "rally" is nothing more than asking for trouble. Aggression begets violence and throwing up the word peaceful, does not mean that that is your true intent. Inviting biker gangs to such an event is not a signalling for peaceful demonstration. Biker Clubs have more of a history of being called in as enforcers and aggressors.
Gary McHale states that this rally is against the OPP, yet he is not landing at the OPP's or the Government's doorstep. No, he is going to a location that is already rife with tension. He says that the OPP is not enforcing the laws in Caledonia. He says (I've seen him say it himself in a video available here: http://auto_sol.tao.ca/taxonomy/page/or/217 ) that he 'knows' that natives burned down the power station and the OPP is doing nothing about it. How, pray tell, does he know? Did he see it? Did he hear a confession? Did he suddenly become a forensic scientist? No, he makes an assumption that the "natives" are the criminals. After all there is no way that it could have been non-Natives.
There is so much I could post here. There is so much rhetoric that this media whore has spread where he claims to not be against Natives, yet throughout the internet much of it is indeed anti-Native. You only need to read his website or Google him. His site is wrought with articles that show natives in a bad light. From "Native children throwing rocks" (note: he didn't mention the white kid that threw a rock off an overpass almost killing a teacher) to a "Native takes gun to school" (yet again no mention of the white kids that massacred over a dozen people in Columbine or the white kid out West that shot and killed one classmate and wounded another). And there is no mention of Mafia activity or Black shootings that plague Toronto or Asian gang violence. He and his wife continuously point fingers at the Native population without balance and with extreme prejudice. It is this writers conclusion that the exclusion of other racial groups is simply because it's still safe to be racist against Natives. If his site was aimed at the black, jewish or muslim community...he would have been shut down and charged by now.
What more can I say though, really? He speaks with a smile and seeming causes on television, and shows himself for who he truely is on the net. The smiling fat guy fighting for equality on camera is only a facade. No good will come from his rally. I can only sit and hope that no one dies. The best case scenario would be that no one, or the very few racists that adamently support him, shows and are deflated.
May love surround my Native brothers & sisters and indeed the people of Caledonia... and may God keep them safe this weekend...and always.
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