"'Finally the buck stops here,' [BC Attorney-General] Dosanjh said, taking ultimate
responsibility for whatever happens at Gustafsen Lake."
"Any contention that the newcomer judge and jury in the present action can
be seen to be 'independent and impartial'... patently and blatantly is
unsupportable. The jury and judge, qua newcomers, are partis pris. As
newcomers, they are effectively adjudicating upon their own complicity in
genocide, which genocide occurs in consequence of the newcomers' premature
application of their criminal law process to the Aboriginal people
occupying yet unpurchased territory."
"You will probably have no difficulty concluding that the alleged offence
occurred at the time and place alleged in the indictment."
"I'm in constant contact with the RCMP at the highest level."
"The CO commented and I agreed that we need to clean them out entirely and
not have any hanging issues similar to what occurred at Oka."
"Did you find somebody else that could help us with a disinformation or
smear campaign?"
"Smear campaigns are our specialty"
"We're all going to do damage control here when things have to really go off and people are going to get killed."
M: "So we could have some dead fucking terrorists?"
S: "No, no we don't."
M: Not that lucky."
"Kill this [Ts'peten Defenders' counsel Dr. Bruce] Clark, smear the
prick and everyone with him."
"No one can really determine what they want or just what the issues are.
We kind of thing they're fanatical and they're terrorist - and they seem
to want to engage in war for some reason."
"It was necessary to ensure that the public perceived a continued threat
from the people in the camp."
"The coverage reminded me of CNN's handling of the Gulf War, with the
reporters locked up in steady contact with the generals and the military's
spin doctors...The rush to sweep the Gustafsen Lake and Ipperwash affairs
out of the news the moment the physical standoffs were removed, shows all
the signs of a classic coverup."
"The excessive force being used by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the
misrepresentation of the situation by the Office of [then] Premier Harcourt, added to the fact that no food, water, or
medicine is being allowed into the Ts'peten Sundance site calls for
immediate intervention of the United Nations Centre for Human Rights."
"There is a line and that line is that there shall be no alien
intervention in the affairs of this state."
"The political terrorism waged against Indigenous Peoples and the
manipulation of the crisis by the Canadian authorities continue to remain
as root causes of the conflict which erupted at Ts'peten. From the
beginning, the Canadian government and the provincial authorities of BC
attempted to criminalize the Sundance Camp defenders without addressing
the issues of sovereign rights on unceded Indigenous Territories"
"Gustafsen Lake could help propel BC into a fall election, political
analysts said Sunday... NDP support has strengthened over the summer, a
phenomenon analysts say shows voters approve of the way the government of
Premier Mike Harcourt has handled native Indian militants... One high
placed government source predicted Harcourt will call an election before
next week."