Dear Editor
Have you ever seen so much jumping onto the band-wagon as with the Idle No More movement? Out from the shadows are jumping political parasites and "wannabes" trying to co-opt and horn in on the Idle No More movement in order to serve themselves.
AFN Chief Atleo and his predecessors along with corrupt chiefs, other Indian leaders and "wannabes" across Canada, also widely known as the "Indian aristocracy," have for decades created the delusion that they are actually accomplishing something for Indian people by running all over the country to have so called "meetings" and "conferences" and whatever other fancy titles they can dream up. They have lived it up on lavish salaries, per diems and expense accounts, many making and spending more than the Canadian prime minister, while their grass roots Indian brothers and sisters starved. The overall lot of grassroots Indian people has gone backwards while their leaders have grown fat and comfortable.
Now these corrupt Indian parasite chiefs, leaders and wannabes are trying to take over the Idle No More movement. As usual, they're looking for anything that they can use in order to further themselves. Now they're trying to get in front and pretend that they've been leading all along so they can claim the credit for what Chief Spence and Idle No More organizers have created. What absolute hypocrites! What disgusting parasites! What unabashed dishonesty!
Chief Spence and Idle No More is doing very well without them. They have credibility and public sympathy, mainly because they are grass roots and are not associated with corrupt political parasite chiefs, wannabes and other Indian leaders, who, if they get involved will taint and possibly ruin what Spence and her nation-wide supporters - Indian and non-Indian alike - have accomplished so far.
I'm all for Chief Spence and Idle No More as long as the movement is kept pure, which first and foremost means the corrupt Indian political parasites are kept out.
Prime Minister Harper knows Indian leaders have virtually no credibility or sympathy in the eyes and minds of the overall Canadian Citizenry. As a result of that, he knows that if and when he deals with Indian leaders, he can do anything he wants to, and Canadians will accept that, because they think that, after all, he's dealing with corrupt, parasitic and wannabe Indian leaders who don't really give a darn about their starving grass roots brothers and sisters.
On the other hand, if he meets with Chief Spence and Idle No More grassroots Indian people, Harper will be under extreme pressure to deal with them honestly and fairly, because they do have credibility and sympathy in the eyes and minds of Canadian Citizens.
Dennis Hall
Saskatoon
