Dear Chief Spence
I was so happy to hear that you will be ending your long hunger strike.
Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence has decided to end her six-week-long hunger strike after members of the Assembly of First Nations and the Liberal and New Democrat caucuses agreed to back a list of commitments supporting aboriginal issues.
For you have endured enough, your people need you, and you don't need to die for your great struggle to go forward, stronger than ever.
Oh boy. I sure picked the wrong day to be felled by the flu eh? Because I wanted so much to be there.
But even on the small TV in my death bed bedroom, it was an awesome and inspiring spectacle.
As members of the federal government and First Nations community met behind closed doors today, demonstrators marched in communities across Canada in support of the Idle No More movement, echoing calls from a hunger striking Ontario chief for indigenous sovereignty.
Well I think it's safe to say that it was quite a day in my home and native's land eh?
As if the great Ojibwa Mishipeshu of Lake Superior was thrashing its tail around and causing a great confusion.
Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence says she won't be at a meeting Friday between First Nations leaders and Prime Minister Stephen Harper because Gov. Gen. David Johnston isn't attending.
Well it's not in the Book of Chaos, the 200-page handbook the Cons once put out to disrupt the opposition, and shut down committees.
But it clearly comes from the same cesspool of depravity.
From the same Con operatives who brought you Stephen Harper's catalogue of dirty tricks.
From those in the PMO who would produce along with their talking points, a handy guide to follow in case of an emergency. Or the sudden need to smear an opponent.
In all my years of watching Stephen Harper I have rarely seen him looking so frustrated and so humiliated.
But there he was today at a ridiculous photo-op in a Ford factory, looking like was about to implode.
And no wonder.
For some ghastly reason I couldn't help wondering tonight what Stephen Harper is eating while Chief Theresa Spence dies of hunger.
As Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence continues her hunger strike, a critical care doctor is warning that the human body begins to break down after such a long period without food.
Jones said after three weeks with no food, a person is "very vulnerable" to infections in the lungs and stomach, which can turn "rapidly fatal."
Because you know he does LOVE to eat, and he just gave his personal chef a raise.
One can only imagine what Stephen Harper is thinking as he watches Chief Theresa Spence getting weaker and weaker.
Is there even a flicker of sympathy in his cold dead eyes, or is it all false pride or cold calculation?
Is he appealing to the racism of his rabid base?
One day historians, or forensic psychiatrists, will no doubt argue over why Stephen Harper was prepared to let Chief Theresa Spence die.
Was it because that cold, cruel, man couldn't feel the pain of others?
Or was it because he was a coward?
I didn't want to blog tonight. I just wanted to enjoy Christmas.
But I couldn't get these two contrasting images out of my mind.
Chief Theresa Spence slowly starving to death.
While Stephen Harper, with a weird look on his face, plays cribbage.
It's hard to believe that a native leader from a suffering community, would have to go on a hunger strike, to try to get a meeting with a Canadian Prime Minister.
On the eve of a day of aboriginal protest, the hunger-striking chief of the troubled Attawapiskat First Nation is again calling for a meeting with the prime minister and Canada’s governor-general.
And even harder to believe that Stephen Harper would let her starve rather than talk to her. For either he is incapable of even the smallest noble gesture. Or he's AFRAID of her eh?
