'There Will Be No Guns! You Are On Indian Land.' - Canadian Mohawks

[Bobbieo]

MOHAWK NATION NEWS: May 27, 2009. "If the colony of Canada wants to arm their border guards, then move it out of our community", is the reasonable decision of Mohawks and our friends and supporters.

At Akwesasne there are escalating brutal attacks by the CBSA - Canada Border Services Agents. On June 1 2009, these people will try to carry 9 mm Beretta guns. They could instigate violence and death. This border crossing must be removed. We object to putting deadly guns in the hands of these openly racist border guards. http://intercontinentalcry.org/you-are-on-indian-land/

CANADIAN MOHAWKS ‘SOUND OFF’ ON BIG TOBACCO

Mohawk Nation News
MNN. May 11, 2009. Ontario MPP Christine Elliott, the wife of federal Minister of Finance, Jim Flaherty, started a campaign on the risks of smoking cigarettes made by Indigenous. Health Canada said that Indigenous cigarettes are worse for human health than cigarettes made by Big Tobacco, and that's absurd!

Big Tobacco won't tell anybody what they put into their cigarettes. In the U.S. Philip Morris put in ammonia so nicotine could go to the brain faster and make it more addictive. The patent for fire safe cigarette paper made with more carcinogens is owned by Phillip Morris. Most Indigenous business people use basic tobacco. Poisons and toxins cost money.

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. If the Mohawks are putting just tobacco in their cigarettes,

and the tobacco wasn't sprayed with a lot of chemicals to make it grow, then those cigs will be safer than the chemically laced cancer sticks made by Big Tobacco. My husband has been smoking since he was 12, but upon our marriage 20 years ago, switched to European tobacco which is chemical free. A couple years back he had a chest x-ray and the techs couldn't believe he was a smoker. Another interesting note: chemically free tobacco will "go out" if you don't puff on it; Big Tobacco cigs will keep burning. Why? The chemicals involved.

I get physically ill if I'm around someone who smokes Big Tobacco cigs, but the roll your own made with non-chemical tobacco is only bothersome.