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Thread ID: 7314 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2003-06-13
2003-06-13 04:59 | User Profile
Regina ââ¬â A former chief of the Assembly of First Nations has been charged with promoting hatred, Saskatchewan's Justice Department announced Wednesday.
David Ahenakew, who is also an Order of Canada member, became the centre of controversy last December when he told a Saskatoon StarPhoenix reporter that Adolf Hitler came to power in response to the "disease" of Jewish domination.
He also said Hitler was attempting to "clean up the world" when he "fried" six million Jews in the Holocaust.
The Saskatchewan Justice Department asked the RCMP to investigate the comments. Mr. Ahenakew, who was senate chairman of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations at the time, later tearfully apologized and resigned from all his positions with native organizations.
Mr. Ahenakew was 35 when he became the youngest man ever elected as chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations in 1968. He served a record 10 years in that job and was seen as part of a new generation of well educated, energetic young aboriginal politicians.
He was first elected to the Assembly of First Nations in 1982 ââ¬â the same year that organization was created out of the old National Indian Brotherhood. Two years later he outraged aboriginal women by arguing hotly against federal government plans to abolish an Indian Act provision that stripped women of their Indian status if they married a non-Indian, arguing that aboriginal people themselves should determine their own membership.
He is a father of five from the Sandy Lake reserve in northern Saskatchewan.
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2003-06-13 13:51 | User Profile
It would seem that certain classes of "diversity" trump other classes. This is a clear-cut example of the "pecking order" among "protected" minorities.
As for this:
The Saskatchewan Justice Department asked the RCMP to investigate the comments.
There's a sentence that couldn't be formed in a free society. Law enforcement agencies have no business "investigating comments."
2003-06-13 14:32 | User Profile
Speaking of Indians, I notice that Chief Moose's fat assed bleached blonde wife is now trying to pass herself off as a Cherokee. I'm sure she sees the switch as a good career move.
BTW - she has never passed the bar in Maryland or Oregon and now devotes her full tiime, according to her, managing her chunk of charcoal husband's career.
2003-06-16 15:58 | User Profile
It's amusing, indigenous peoples have been slamming white Europeans for decades, without any consequences - instead receiving accolades. Then, when one of them decides to turn his vitriol on the Jews, he is charged with hate crimes.
Sure says a lot, doesn't it. I wonder if this aboriginal learned the lesson he should have from his experience.