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The cover-up is accomplished by the same British terrorism and bribery that perpetrated the genocide.  Consider: why does Irish President Mary Robinson call it “Ireland’s greatest natural ¹ disaster” while she conceals the British army’s role?  Potato blight, “phytophthora infestans”, did spread from America to Europe in 1844, to England and then Ireland in 1845 but it didn’t cause famine anywhere.  Ireland did not starve for potatoes; it starved for food.

Ireland starved because its food, from 40 to 70 shiploads per day, was removed at gunpoint by 12,000 British constables reinforced by the British militia, battleships, excise vessels, Coast Guard and by 200,000 British soldiers (100,000 at any given moment)  The attached map shows the never-before-published names and locations in Ireland of the food removal regiments (Disposition of the Army; Public Record Office, London; et al, of which we possess photocopies).  Thus, Britain seized from Ireland’s producers tens of millions of head of livestock; tens of millions of tons of flour, grains, meat, poultry & dairy products; enough to sustain 18 million persons.

The Public Record Office recently informed us that their British regiments’ Daily Activity Reports of 1845-1850 have “gone missing.”  Those records include each regiment’s cattle drives and grain-cart convoys it escorted at gun-point from the Irish districts assigned to it.  Also “missing” are the receipts issued by the British army commissariat officers in every Irish port tallying the cattle and tonnage of foodstuff removed; likewise the export lading manifests. Other records provide all-revealing glimpses of the “missing” data; such as: …

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URGENT ACTION NEEDED:
Help Bring the Pope to Trial: Support the application at the International Criminal Court today!

Protestors in UK

Dear friends,

You can have a direct and real impact on the efforts to bring the Pope, Joseph Ratzinger, to trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Here’s how:

Two German lawyers, Christian Sailer and Gert Hetzel, have applied to the ICC prosecutor, Dr. Luis Moreno Ocampo, to begin the prosecution of the Pope as a German citizen who is complicit in crimes against humanity.

The Prosecutor will decide by May 15 whether or not to pursue criminal proceedings against Ratzinger. If he does so, an amazing and historic opening will be made that will shift public consciousness enormously.

To make this happen, as many groups, individuals and survivors of church crimes as possible must IMMEDIATELY write to Dr. Ocampo and ask him to pursue charges against the Pope by supporting the Sailer-Hetzel application.

Please send a letter to:

The Prosecutor
The International Criminal Court
Dr. Luis Moreno Ocampo
Maanweg 174
NL-2516 AB Den Haag

The Hague, The Netherlands

AND

also by entering their names in one of the websites of the German lawyers Christian Sailer and Gert Hetzel:
http://www.popeaccountability.org/do-you-approve-/index.php (English)

http://www.der-fall-des-papstes.com/finden-sie-das-gut/index.php (German)

From these websites you will soon be able to go to the Spanish, Italian and French sites.

We in The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) fully support these two German lawyers and their application at the ICC. We call upon all our affiliates and supporters in every country to contact the lawyers and the ICC Prosecutor and immediately support the application to prosecute the Pope.

Do so before May 15! Have an impact!

We will keep you updated about the ICC application.
With my thanks,

Kevin Annett
Secretary, ITCCS

by Kevin Annett

For five weeks starting in late February, I visited fifteen cities across Europe and Canada, and spoke at twenty four public gatherings: in bookstores, community centers, among indigenous people on their traditional lands, and even to a packed Opera House in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The tour was scheduled as a book launch for my just-released “Unrepentant: Disrobing the Emperor”, but it quickly became much more than that: as I helped survivors of church torture picket Catholic churches as far away as Copenhagen and Toronto, and served a Public Summons on Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper in Ottawa, and received new endorsements for our International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) from indigenous groups here in “Canada”.

What was common, however, was that everywhere, I encountered the same courage and determination in people who I met, and a growing groundswell of support for our campaign to end the reign of terror against our children, our rights, and our planet.

Frankly, my head is still spinning from my tour, so I hope I capture the essentials of what I experienced, and the enormous change that is shifting our world, symbolized perhaps by the earthquakes that rock our planet daily.

Since the tour, I am more hopeful than ever about the future of our work. For one thing, the crowds at our events keep getting bigger: at venues where I had previously spoken, the attendance was twice the size than previously. I was interviewed on national media in Slovenia and Denmark, and local media all over England and Canada. But most important, many more people stepped forward at these events to sign up with our campaign.

As is expected, the attempts to undermine and sabotage our work also increased, primarily in Canada, where gatherings in Brantford and Hamilton were the target of misinformation and smear campaigns aimed at me. This was undoubtedly due to the fact that the area is a center of native activism and support for my work. Fortunately, the organizers at these events spotted the signs and helped diffuse the lies and keep our events on track.

In this regard, one of the more amusing incidents happened in Hamilton, during the waning days of my tour, when the local police informed the organizers of my talk at Mohawk College that an “undercover” cop from their “hate crimes” division would be present at my lecture to monitor what I said. In response, many of you wrote to the Hamilton police challenging this obvious intimidation tactic, and I myself asked the head cop in question whether his department was also investigating the churches that murdered local native children with the same interest.

He hasn’t replied to me.

During that same week, I was delighted to speak to a wonderful class of Catholic high school students near Toronto, many of whom want to sign up with our work to hold their own church accountable for its ongoing crimes against children. Their support, like that of traditional Catholic college students in Cork, Ireland where I won a public debate with a Vatican official last year, indicates how much the church is a trembling house of cards, behind its image of solidity.

It was also a high point on my tour when I was presented with the Two Row Wampum Belt by elders of the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk) Nation near Montreal, and, as part of their endorsement of our ITCCS, was authorized by them to bring the message of the Two Row Wampum to my people. This Belt was the original treaty of equality between Europeans and the Mohawks which was abrogated and violated by the English Crown. Undoing the genocide of residential schools involves, I believe, the re-establishment of the Two Row Wampum, and the dis-establishment of the Crown of England and its false jurisdiction.

I am resuming the next phase of my tour in mid April – hey, two weeks is plenty of rest for me! – when I return to Ontario, and then back to London, England on May 7. I will be based in London throughout the summer and into the fall months, and will travel from there all over Europe and North America.

During those months, I will be helping organize our September Tribunal in London and building up the networks that will sustain our campaign, especially among groups of survivors all over Europe. We have a promise of support from politicians in Italy and Ireland, and from the same German-based media group that has broadcast our film Unrepentant to over 10 million viewers since August. We also recently received a generous financial offer from a donor to sustain our campaign and pay for travel costs.

We now have five local groups in Canada, two in Ireland, five in England, one in Australia, and two each in Denmark and Slovenia, that endorse our ITCCS hearings in the fall, and most of which will be holding forums of their own to coincide with the Tribunal. In these gatherings we will be composing the indictments by which we will bring to common law trial and sentencing those persons and institutions that planned and continue crimes against children, the earth and indigenous people.

We have a growing legal advisory team that will be guiding this aspect of our campaign, but we also look to indigenous elders and survivors of genocide in many countries to help determine the course of our work. We are part of an enormous work in progress, the future of which is in your hands.

In that regard, I have reprinted below recent you tube postings of events related to my tour, including the endorsement from the Mohawk Nation at Kahnawake near Montreal.

I want to end by thanking all of you for your tireless efforts at hosting me and making the recent tour possible, and for preparing for the months ahead. More news and details are forthcoming.

As a survivor of the first residential school in Canada near Brantford said to me at my last public talk this week, as she embraced me,

“I didn’t want to trust you because you’re a white man. But after listening to you I don’t think that anymore. I’ve been waiting for what you’re doing my whole life and I ain’t gonna be silent anymore about they done to us.”

We are overcoming. Thanks my friends.

Kevin Eagle

by Ann Diamond

A young United Church minister, hired to bring the word of God to a remote community on Vancouver Island, startles his white congregation by reaching out to native people in the community. Opening the doors of his church to them, and listening to their stories, he begins to stumble on graves of murdered children. The church elders order him to stop. He fails to heed their warning. He follows his conscience, and the trail of proof. Within a couple of years, he reaps the whirlwind, loses everything, wife, children, reputation, career, prospects.

Soon he has nowhere to go but downtown to Vancouver’s Lower East Side, where Canada’s victims gather. There he becomes a street corner pastor; his flock are the prostitutes and drug addicts of Pigeon Park, the same residential school survivors who helped him open the Pandora’s Box that nearly destroys him.

Kevin Annett’s UNREPENTANT: DISROBING THE EMPEROR is a sequel to his earlier memoir, LOVE AND DEATH IN THE VALLEY. Beautifully written, both memoirs make gripping reading. Readers may notice haunting echoes of Russell Banks’ novels: opening scene of small-town innocence in a pristine wilderness/ quick dissolve/ descent into hell.

Both are well worth reading, especially if you’re considering a career in the church, or wondering whether to become a whistle blower in Canada.

The list of people Annett has come up against amount to a Who’s Who of Canadian wealth and power. As he has evolved from a defrocked priest, into a one-man Inquisition, Kevin Annett has never let himself be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of the crimes committed by the pillars of Canadian society against aboriginal peoples.

The most surprising, least Canadian thing about Annett is his unwillingness to compromise. The United Church fathers have only themselves to blame for his ascent as an increasingly influential human rights spokesman – and gadfly – on the international stage. They left him no choice but to become a thorn in the side of the high-placed people who wanted him gone. His self-defense started a ball rolling, which gathered force with every revelation of abuse in Canada’s residential schools.

Stepping down from the pulpit, Annett reinvented himself as a street preacher, organizer of rallies and protests and petitions and committees and commissions of inquiries. From there he went to issuing summonses against church authorities, right up to the Pope and Queen Elizabeth, both of whom he holds responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of aboriginal children.

According to his view of Canadian society, pedophiles, child traffickers, drug dealers and murderers occupy the highest positions in the land, and are involved in lucrative land and mineral deals, cross-border sex trading, and systematic murder of aboriginal people who stand in the way of the total pillaging of our natural resources – and in this sweeping judgment, he’s probably generally correct.

At times he has been a target of ridicule. Some have dismissed his public actions and press releases as the antics of a man obsessed with his own treatment. By protesting his ostracism and defrocking, he seems to doom himself to recurring cycles of the same treatment, ad infinitum. There have been plenty of attacks, some by journalists working for the Old Boy cabal that Annett claims are in collusion with the churches.

The attempts to label him a psychiatric case are perhaps the most blatant examples of how our colonial rulers underestimate this country and its people. Rather than deal with evidence of systematic abuse and even mass murder at its residential schools, the church tried to get rid of a minister who would not shut up. They attacked him with the aim of not just silencing him, but totally destroying him. They had obviously never seen a Kevin Annett before.

Kangaroo justice, blatant falsifications, absurd personal attacks — United Church officials stopped at nothing, stooped to anything to silence Annett, even brokering a deal with his wife that led to their divorce. Thinking they were invincible, they overreached in ways that strongly suggested foreknowledge and guilt, both in furthering state-sponsored genocide and the cover-up that ensued.

Some of the most recent, physical attacks on Annett and his followers came after he published an article in a Vancouver paper exposing the connections between the RCMP and Vancouver’s political/ business elite in the murder of Vancouver prostitutes at convicted mass murderer Robert Pickton’s pig farm in Coquitlam.

The question is how long he can keep on drawing Canadian society into his personal vision of Armageddon. The next step seems to be to found a movement – not a political party but something more akin to a millenarian movement, the kind that rocked Europe in the Middle Ages.

Perhaps his greatest discovery was how Canada operates sub rosa – with power concentrated in the hands of a secretive club. Certainly, the people who defrocked him were a tightly-knit group with friends in high places right across the country. Without their expertise and collusion, this popular minister could not have been kicked out of the church – or, later, silenced by the university (UBC) where he attempted to prove his research.

The underhanded tactics used on Kevin Annett so systematically – character assassination, ostracism, psychological harassment – were the same ones the CIA teaches its operatives around the world, and that have been used for centuries by oligarchies against their critics and enemies. In this remarkable case, they seem to have backfired.

Kevin Annett’s message resonates like that of an Old Testament prophet: Canadian society must answer for the deaths and disappearances. The Federal government’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission does little to heal the wounds of survivors, but only bandages them with rhetoric. The battle for our minds is really a battle to control the future by controlling what we know about our past.

Whether we choose to hear him or not, the simple facts of this man’s story have altered Canada’s landscape beyond recognition.

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Ann Diamond is an award-winning Montreal writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism.

Her story collection Evil Eye won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for fiction in 1994. A book of poetry, A Nun’s Diary, was adapted for theatre by director Robert Lepage. Other titles include Snakebite (stories), and the novels Mona’s Dance, Dead White Males, and Static Control.

Her work has been published in Best Canadian Stories and The Thinking Heart: Best Canadian Essays, as well as numerous periodicals and anthologies. A memoir, Roads to Freedom, won the 1991 Event Magazine Creative Non-Fiction Prize.

You can read Ann Diamond’s blog at: www.readingmontreal.blogspot.com