A Toronto-based group has planned to invade Six Nations Territorial land dispute area today in Caledonia.

    A request has gone out for people to join in a peaceful potluck dinner.

    It’s not just Six Nations people, either.

    Canadian Politicians, the Ontario Provincial Police, Father Stephen Collins (as mentioned in the September 24th entry) of St. Mary’s Church in Hagersville and the actual citizens of Caledonia (meaning the people who actually live and grew up there - not the ones portrayed in a Toronto-based website that claims to be concerned citizens of Caledonia) has asked people not to disturb the peace by joining the Toronto-based rally which is purposely engineered to cause chaos and destroy peace on all sides.

    

UPDATE: The crowd was projected to be between 10.000 to 20,000 people. However, credible news sources and several people who attended the rally estimated  the number of people at 150.  And that included people who stated they were there to watch the organizer because they did not support him.

    CHCH TV News was not one of the credible sources. CHCH said there were hundreds of people.  Later they said 1,000 people.  Then they said by combining 500 people  at the rally with 800 who were not at the rally, you come with a figure of about 1,000 people.  I guess there math is off.   Perhaps their count includes themselves, as there were a lot of media present.

    The local TV media did not mentioned that there was over 1,000 in support of Six Nations and that the supporters included non-Natives of many races and origins.  I wonder why?

    CH did try to imply that during the organizers turn to speak a native occupied vehicle intimidated the crowd.  However, the actual images showed a couple of kids in the bed of a pickup truck waving flags as the passed - without stopping or hurling insults or throwing bottles, or doing anything threatening.

    Both CHCH and CTV appeared to have extreme bias to their coverage.  But, the good thing is that most of the Caledonians I encountered said that they do not believe the hype and can’t believe everything they hear in the news about it.

    The good news is that most of the people at the site do not believe everything they hear on the TV news these days.  What makes it good news is that for many years some did.  This was very frustrating for people who were eyewitnesses to events that were misrepresented by certain Media.  The expectation by some Native people was that if it was on the news then there is an expectation of credible journalistic ethics that prevail.  Years ago, 60 Minutes, Nightline and the local news was thought to offer intentionally non-bias coverage of the facts adhere to high standards.

    As years progressed, the news change from news into entertainment, where the goal is to spur controversy.  Later, corporations and even government began to see the news as an effective one-sided political and/or marketing tool.  

    Because of an incident with a CH cameraman, CH News has been less subtle, less slick, about their hidden agenda.  Their one-side coverage has become so obvious, that many non-natives no longer believe in it.  It has reached a point where that news coverage has become mostly useless babble and entertainment. You know, the kind of news where an organizer could go home and say, “Look, that’s me speaking.  That’s me pretending that I care.  That’s me leading the crowd.  That’s me being left by the crowd as they turn into the Canadian Tire parking lot.  That’s me backtracking.  I’m not marching in there by myself - my principles aren’t that high.  That’ s me disappearing in the crowd.  That’s me slipping away into my car and driving home. If things go as planned, it could get pretty ugly in that town.  See the trouble I stirred up there. See all the police - I did that!  See the big cost figures - that’s me. Boy, I’d walk a mile for that kind of news coverage again.  I love the news and the news loves me”.  And, that’s entertainment.

    I did notice that CH left out the scene of the organizer leaving - they were there and their camera was rolling.  But that shouldn’t worry them, as the police already know, they always return to the scene.

    The rally did get a lot of positive attention, with other more credible media.  So a big thanks goes out to the organizers, even it had the opposite effect from what the organizers and local TV news really wanted to accomplish.