In Caledonia there is a testing of our will going on. This is a story which should have led the headlines from day one – but hasn’t. It should have exploded into the public consciousness – but didn’t. A band of armed Indians have, in utter defiance of the law, seized private property using the most tenuous and flimsy of excuses. Government at all levels has failed to eject them. Instead, the Province of Ontario actually bought the land from its original owner, with the aim of cooling down the dispute. For the better part of a year, the entirely illegal occupation of this land has gone on, without any intervention by any government, and there is still no end in sight.

Tomorrow (today, actually) there will be a rally in Caledonia. Not a violent occupation. Not an assault on liberty – as the criminals have committed – but a vital exercise of it. The authorities don’t want it to go forward. But the organizer, a man named Gary McHale, is apparently not a man to bow down to depots. He’s going to carry on. He – and those with the courage to join him – will carry on.

There is no doubt that the situation is a dangerous one. People may be hurt. The possibility – remote, but not unthinkable – exists that someone may be killed. Yet, still, the rally must go on. What we are faced with now is not simply a traditionally tedious Indian land claim. What we are faced with now is a testing of the rule of law – something which ought to be a bedrock principle of democracy in Canada yet, somehow, apparently is not in the view of the government of Ontario.

In Caledonia, and elsewhere, we are increasing a people who live not under the rule of law, but under the rule of many laws. In Canada, the concept of “differentiated rights”, previously an exercise in theoretical political science, has seemingly been written into the fundamental law without a vote and without a debate. We now live under one set of laws for each race, each gender, each sexual preference. If we fail to check this trend – if we fail to uphold the fundamental principles of the law – it seems likely that we will soon find ourselves living in Joe Clark’s “community of communities”, each with their own set of laws and customs.

The real problem here is that no one in our political class is willing to state what, I think, a majority of Canadians privately believe: the Emperor has no clothes. The whole idea of Indian “land claims” is an insane, costly, pointless, and probably counter-productive exercise in politically-correct white guilt. In a world where lands have been conquered and people displaced since man first crawled out of the muck, to demand that we pay for the imagined “sins” of our ancestors is absurd. The truth is this: we ought to kick these malcontent losers the hell off this land that they’re “occupying” – at bayonet-point, if it comes to that – and we should not hand them another damned cent of our hard-earned money.

That’s the real truth, the cold and certain facts which we all know but are afraid to voice for fear of being smeared as “racist.” The Indians, collectively, haven’t earned anything and don’t deserve anything. Their best and their brightest aren’t the one’s sitting around on their asses all day as part of some half-baked “protest” – they’re out working and paying their own way through the world. They’re raising their children and paying their taxes, rather than demanding that the rest of us pay our taxes in order to pay the state to raise their children.

Yeah, their ancestors got a tough break. Boo-hoo. So did a lot of people. I’ve got news for them: whatever spiritual bullshit about their spiritual connection they spout aside, everyone directly affected by whatever happened to their ancestors has been dead for a long time. I don’t see a single good reason why the Indians should exist as a privileged class in Canada, allowed to openly flaunt the laws of the land while living off the earnings of the productive.

Forget the land claims and “treaties.” Repeal the Indian Act, close the reserves, and let everyone sink or swim on their own. That’s the policy which is going to lead us forward.

But, before we can move on to any of that, there’s a testing which we are facing in Caledonia. Gary McHale and those who followed him have answered the call to defend freedom. What they are doing is right. What they are doing is necessary. We owe it to our country to support them – come whatever may come.