RCMP’s Terrorist at the Olympics
Bud Mercer involved in RCMP Bomb Attack Against Unarmed Native Protesters
Here the actual “eye in the sky” video of the RCMP attack and attempted massacre is shown.
October 21, 2009 - 11:20 — no2010
Olympics’ Top Cop Helped Blow up Truck at Gustafsen Stand-off
http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/10/20/GustafsenStandOff/
RCMP’s Bud Mercer was in the thick of several famous clashes with dissenters. This story, with video of the exploding truck, is first in a series.
By Geoff Dembicki and Bob Mackin, Vancouver 24 hours, October 20, 2009, TheTyee.ca
Bud Mercer pictured rifles aimed at him as he pushed deeper into the forest. A short run behind him, past mid-sized poplars and aspens and scraggly bush, lay the smoking remains of a red pick-up truck, destroyed minutes earlier by RCMP explosives. A yellow Labrador retriever was slumped close to it. Two police bullets had cut the dog down as it fled on the rutted gravel road. Mercer feared an ambush in the sparse forest. He strained the leash to keep Lukar, his German shepherd police dog, from running too fast. He was flanked by three other officers. The team squatted close to the forest floor every 12 metres, muscles tense. Within minutes, they broke through the bushes and onto the grassy shoreline of Gustafsen Lake. Mercer saw the two fugitives, stripped to their waists, wading into the water. He went to unclip Lukar, knowing the police dog would attack.
But before he could do it, buzzing, whining bullets ripped through the air above him. He hesitated.
On Sept. 11, 1995, up to 7,000 police gunshots climaxed a month-long standoff with natives in the backwoods of interior B.C. Fifteen people were convicted for their armed defence of sacred land they said was never ceded to Canadian settlers.
Mercer now commands a $491.9 million RCMP-led force, tasked with securing the 2010 Winter Olympics. He’s a central figure in the biggest peace-time security operation in Canada’s history. When athletes and officials arrive next February, many observers wonder if — and how — he’ll unleash that force.*
Gustafsen Lake isn’t the only high profile clash of law enforcement with dissenters where Bud Mercer played a key role. He was on the frontlines when APEC protesters were pepper-sprayed in 1997. And when tree-sitters tried to stop logging in the Elaho Valley in 2000, Mercer led a team to roust them from their perches. The Tyee and 24 Hours have researched these incidents, interviewing Mercer and many people involved, in order to provide a multi-part, in-depth portrait of the top cop of the 2010 Olympics — his present duties and past controversies. The story starts 14 years ago, as a rebellion brewed in the Shuswap.
‘Now they’re gonna kill us’
On Aug. 18, 1995, Percy Rosette woke to the stamps and grunts of horses stirring in the morning mist. Normally that meant a wolf was nearby. He grabbed a hunting rifle, and went to see what was wrong.
Rosette was a Shuswap faithkeeper. That made him the caretaker of sorts for a few acres of sacred land at Gustafsen Lake, a remote piece of wilderness near 100 Mile House. Each year, Shuswap natives gathered there for a holy ceremony called the Sundance. A 70-year-old rancher named Lyle James owned the land, but an agreement with Rosette kept the peace. Yet the relationship collapsed early in the summer of 1995. The Sundancers were sick of cleaning up manure left by James’ cattle, so they built a fence around the holy site. On June 14, 1995, James and 12 ranch hands served a trespass notice. They pulled up to the native encampment on horseback and 4X4’s, threatening to hang a “red nigger,” Gustafsen defence lawyer George Wool alleged. One cracked a bull whip. Another had a 30-30 Winchester rifle.
When they left, the natives surrounded their camp with defensive walls, made from hundreds of logs stacked about a metre and half high. More than two months passed in a standoff as native constables met with James and camp occupants to broker a deal.
Neither side would back down. Such was the state of affairs when Rosette rose early on August 18 to check on the camp horses. Rifle in hand, he scanned the forest carefully, trying to make out shapes in the low fog. He saw movement: Men dressed in camouflage, crawling on their stomachs through the woods. They were carrying big guns. “You have to sort of think that through,” Wool said. “Because a few weeks earlier these redneck cowboys had been threatening the camp occupants. It appears the people in the camp interpreted this as being ‘the rednecks are coming back and now they’re gonna kill us.’”
Rosette aimed at the intruders, and fired.
‘We see this as an act of terrorism’
The camouflaged men weren’t cowboys, but an RCMP reconnaissance team, dressed in combat boots, camouflage pants and green vests. Four of them carried M-16 semi-automatics and one had a sniper rifle. The team fled, frightened, when a bullet whizzed over Constable Ray Wilby’s head. Days later, 400 heavily armed RCMP officers laid siege to the native camp. Military helicopters criss-crossed the sky. Armoured personnel carriers (APCs) roughly double the height of an average person cruised the perimeter. It would become the largest paramilitary operation in B.C. history, a $5.5 million display of state-sanctioned might. “We won’t just sit back and do nothing,” Inspector Len Olfert of the Kamloops RCMP subdivision said at the time. “There has been an escalation; the threat is serious. We see this as an act of terrorism.”
Bud Mercer arrived at Gustafsen Lake that August with almost 20 years experience on the force. He was accompanied by Lukar, a German shepherd trained to track the scent of people through city streets and forest. Mercer was a veteran dog handler on the Vancouver Emergency Response Team (ERT). He’d trained with Lukar since the dog was an 11-month-old puppy. In six years together, they’d responded to as many as 1,600 police calls. Mercer liked being a dog handler — it put him right in the middle of the action.
On Sept. 10, 1995, he and Lukar were posted to a deeply rutted backcountry road just south of Gustafsen Lake. Mercer stood guard as his fellow ERT members sunk shovels and picks into the gravel road. His colleagues laid thin, rectangular sheets of explosives, which Mercer later compared to fruit rollups, in the hollow. The team shovelled gravel onto the ditch and stretched a wire from the buried explosives to the west side of the road. They had orders to disable a red pick-up truck — used to shuttle firewood and water into the camp — the next day. (Beyond identifying the truck as a “target of opportunity,” it’s not entirely clear why the RCMP gave the order to blow it up, though court documents suggest police knew it was used primarily to transport water.)
The ERT was expected to apprehend anyone inside the truck. Mercer and Lukar spent the night outdoors.
Police lay in wait
During the month-long standoff, the camp defendants expected the worst. They performed elaborate sweat lodge ceremonies to purify their bodies, minds and spirits. They fanned sticks of smouldering sage to rid themselves of negative energy. “The people in the camp wanted to prepare for the eventuality that something happened — if there was an all-out shoot-out and maybe someone got killed,” said Splitting the Sky (aka John Boncore), a Mohawk native who communicated often with his friends inside.
Food came from supporters on horseback, who knew how to enter the area undetected through secret backwoods trails. The natives also relied on a red pickup truck to get safe drinking water into their camp. At noon on Sept. 11, 1995, James Pitawanakwat and non-native supporter Suniva Bronson were spotted by the RCMP’s “Eye in the Sky” — a video-equipped airplane — as they loaded water bottles into the back of the truck. They’d brought the camp dog along for the ride, a well-liked yellow Labrador retriever from the Kamloops SPCA.
When the truck-bed was full, they drove the pickup along a grassy track and turned left onto the main road. It was an older vehicle, and pretty banged up. Frequent trips in and out of the bush on bad country roads had chipped paint and left scratches across its red exterior. Mercer was crouched behind a log, about 30 paces from the buried explosives, when he got the “heads-up” over the police radio. Lukar was lying down beside him. He could hear the rumble of rubber tires on gravel as the truck approached the RCMP position.
The truck explodes
With a crushing boom that could be heard in the native encampment, the explosives went off. (Video below.) A cloud of dust, dirt and black smoke mushroomed dozens of metres above the poplars and aspens that fringed the road. On instructions from the explosives unit, Mercer lay on the ground for two seconds to let the air clear. But when he stood up, the air was so thick from dust and dirt he couldn’t see. In that time, a dark-green APC the size of a tank rammed the disabled pickup, sending the terrified camp dog sprinting for safety.
RCMP officers fired two bullets into the yellow retriever’s side, killing it by the side of the road. Mercer would later replay his memory of the explosion and the events that followed about a hundred times. The police radio buzzing like crazy. Two gunshots cracking somewhere in the cloud. The confusion of grey dust blending with bush and tree. After 30 seconds, the forest became visible again. Mercer heard over the radio that the truck had been found empty, so he set off with Lukar and three ERT members into the woods. The sparse forest presented ideal tracking conditions. It was the kind of place where the RCMP would train a young dog. But wary of an ambush, Mercer didn’t let Lukar run too fast, keeping a firm grip on his six-metre tracking line. The team soon stumbled upon a loaded banana clip, and then a set of gloves. Mercer felt as if they’d travelled a kilometre, but it was only a couple hundred metres. When the radio crackled that two weapons had been found in the red truck, the team went full tilt, breaking through the bushes and into a clearing on the shores of Gustafsen Lake.
Mercer hesitates
Mercer could see Pitawanakwat and Bronson wading out into the water. They had somehow survived the blast and escaped the destroyed truck alive. He knew if he unclipped Lukar, the dog would attack one of them. He decided to do it. But as bullets began to land all around him, he dropped to the ground with the rest of the RCMP team. They were in swampy terrain, patched with knee-high grass and not adequate cover for the hunting rifles pointed at them from across the lake.
Mercer sensed their lives were in danger. He kept Lukar clipped to the leash while the team retreated back to the tree-line and crouched behind some logs. From there, they saw an APC pull onto the shoreline directly behind the two fugitives. The hatch opened and Corporal George Preston emerged, aiming his rifle at Pitawanakwat and Bronson, then firing two shots into the water beside them. He ordered them to put their hands up and move towards the shore. But when bullets started slamming into the APC, Preston ducked back inside.
Mercer was some 23 metres west of the shore. He carried a 9mm handgun yet stayed out of the action because he was too busy keeping a handle on Lukar.* The dog was so agitated from all the gunfire it was trying to attack fellow ERT members. During the next three hours, RCMP forces fired up to 7,000 shots, according to their own estimates.
The battle ended in stalemate. Suniva Bronson suffered the only injury, a bullet in her arm. Six days later, the camp occupants surrendered.
‘A very legally volatile situation’
During the ensuing 10 month trial, the 18 defendants — and their supporters — invoked the 1763 Royal Proclamation, an elusive piece of legislation meant to protect native lands from settler encroachment. They claimed the Shuswap nation had never negotiated binding treaties. The rancher James said the Sundance site was his, because he’d paid for it.
The ramifications of the native position were huge. “In terms of what motivated government and RCMP action, the decision-making on those things was driven by trying to keep control of a very legally volatile situation,” said Janice Switlo, a legal advisor who wrote a comprehensive account of the standoff. As the trial came to a close, 15 defendants were convicted of charges ranging from mischief to property to weapons possession, but many of the more serious accusations were dropped.
Not long after the standoff, Mercer had to retire Lukar. In 1991, the dog had suffered a severe injury while on assignment in northern Alberta. Mercer had sent Lukar after an armed man who’d just murdered his wife. The man smashed his rifle on Lukar’s head so hard the gun broke in half, each piece dangling from its sling. The German Shepherd’s neck cracked in several places. He survived, but would never fully recover from a damaged spinal cord.
As the wound calcified over the years, Lukar began to limp on both front paws. Mercer forced him into early retirement after Gustafsen Lake. Yet the two didn’t part.
“I kept Lukar as a pet, which was a little different,” the Olympics security boss told The Tyee and 24 hours. “I couldn’t give him up. He stayed with the family until he was 11 or 12.”
Gustafsen Lake ‘the worst case scenario’
Fourteen years after the standoff at Gustafsen Lake, the events of Sept. 11, 1995 still resonate deeply for some members of B.C.’s native community. United Native Nations president-elect David Dennis pointed fingers at Mercer last month during an Olympics and civil liberties forum in Vancouver. It’s concerning, he said, that the same RCMP officer who stood by as a red truck exploded now leads Games security.
Those fears hold strong for Splitting the Sky. He hurled invectives at Mercer during a recent Tyee interview, claiming the Gustafsen Lake connection is becoming well-known in B.C.’s native community. “Word is going around, that’s for sure,” he said.
Defence lawyer Wool also views the events of summer 1995 as an injustice. But he doesn’t think individual officers such as Mercer should be singled out. “He was a dog handler back in 1995,” Wool said. “He was there because he was told to be there.”
Switlo agreed. Yet Canadians must still remember the standoff as an alarming misuse of RCMP force, she said. “It’s the worst case scenario: How not to handle matters that become difficult between indigenous nations and Canadians.” The kind of situation that can be a learning experience for the law enforcement officials who were there. What lessons they take away aren’t revealed until the next time they find themselves in similar circumstances.
Tomorrow: Bud Mercer’s job description for the 2010 Olympics.
Senseless Horrors like D-Day are Celebrated as Necessary
Damn good job! You are sure keeping us posted! I have just posted these videos on my blog… you should check it out, there is some good information there, and you are free to copy it as you wish.
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=60328347
Thanks for picking up ‘the torch’, my friend!
Well what you can do is file an injunction to stop the Olympics for all the reasons you outlined…. it’s not complicated to file and court clerks can even guide you on the basics. You outline what you believe and why, present your evidence (documentation)…. pretty well everything you know complete with names of everyone involved and present it to the courts, and copies to the companies and agencies involved. Be very detailed and include as many names as possible.
Chances are on the day it is to heard they will have many lawyers with all kinds of precedents, most notably a precedent that says you can’t continue unless you are directly affected…you cannot, say file for your country or anyone else that you may feel is in jeopardy or not. That’s the likely outcome in my opinion…if the case is heard you must realize that any damage (financial) done to the Olympics or those companies is your responsibility if you lose. So it’s liked a catch 22 for the ordinary Joe.
The upside is if the events transpire like you depict, there will be names and companies and events already filed with the queens bench court system and there will be lots of explaining to do for lots of guilty corporations people and agency’s that by then would be obvious perpetrators of the incident and parties of it etc. That is basically all one person can really do.
I was in a similar situation but it was regarding 4 billion cubic feet of sweet gas being stored upwind from a city where it was shown with modeling software how the entire city could be incinerated. The people in the city still don’t know. The lawyers had their gag orders ready should the case of gone ahead. While it seems like a futile attempt it did result in increased safety measures by the storage company. While the threat is still real, the odds are lowered for accidents etc. and the only real problem would be ID’ing the location for obvious reasons. But yeah you’ll be able to sleep better at nights knowing you did all you could possibly do legally.
As long as you are a resident of BC I can’t see any problems except plenty of guilty parties steering you all over the place. It’s good to get provincial responses to letters you write to all the agency’s and government ministers included. You want to see people do everything possible to cover their butts from being associated to such a catastrophic incident taking place?
Documentation is everything. So let’s say you go ahead and they chuck it out…there will be plenty of hard copy evidence laying around thanks to your efforts. If by some miracle they do proceed it will be up to you to prove they are responsible for what is taking place. You must supply all the evidence but NOT your case, that comes later should they proceed. Your efforts may even prevent the incident from taking place.
What will get to you…. is that you would think that after you present all your evidence that real experts like lawyers and judges and prosecutors who may feel this is a just cause will take over…you’ll be surprised on how really corrupt a justice system could be when they just slough it off…with their let them all die attitude…that’s an eye opener. Yes knowledge is power and you’ll be a better person knowing how cold and callous these people really are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eepsCXpLY4
Clutch, Burning Beard:
“Every day I wake up we drink a lot of coffee and watch the CNN
Every day I wake up to a bowl of clover honey and let the locusts fly in.
Lobsterbacks attack the town again
Wrap all my things in aluminum
Beams of darkness streak across the sky
Pink rays from the ancient satellite
Every time I look out my window same three dogs looking back at me
Every time I open my windows cranes fly in to terrorize me
The power of the Holy Ghost
Shadow of the New Praetorian
Tipping Cows in fields Elysian
Saturnalia for all you have
The seven habits of the highly infected calf
Swan diving off the tongues of crippled giants
International Business Machine
Choking on bits of fallen bread crumbs
Oh, this burning beard, I have come undone
It’s just as I’ve feared. I have, I have come undone
Bugger dumb the last of academe
Okkam’s razor makes the cutting clean
Shaven like a banker, lilac vegetal
Break the glass ceiling and the golden parachute on down
The power of the Holy Ghost comes to town
Shadow of the New Praetorian
Tipping cows in fields Elysian
Saturnalia for all you have
The seven habits of the highly infected calf”
My question is, why would the Weyerhauser-cum-Bronfman lapdogs in BC (the RCMP Mafia) give two sh*ts about the Crypto-Jew drug dealer driven “Native” land rights issue?
Oh wait…, I have it now…, Jews love it when “Indians and Whites” go at each other and the Jew is behind both parties. It keeps the stew pot simmering…
Or maybe the Jews,
(lawyers, the media, judges, Native leaders and whoever gets a piece of the action)
needed a bit of work during the 1995 slumping economy so they sacrificed a freelance dope growing native who refused to pay tribute to get things going?
I can’t really say except that while i was in BC, the “Natives” were the blue collar criminals and the RCMP did the thieving and killing for the White-collar criminals.
Ususally those who die are not a member of either side and want to be free and left alone.
As for a Royal Chinindian Mounted Pole-riders (RCMP) and the possibility that they have been ordered by the Jew Harper to plan a false flag op at the Olympics to get the Chinindian halfwits up in arms over, that’s an ongoing concern.
The Kikes never quit until they are locked down or snuffed out.
Canadians grew up looking in the mirror too much. Bass akwards land. Everything is reversed. Action man dies of boredom while bored man dies in action. To be homeless is to be free. Being rich brings an instinct to hide.
HAHAHAHAHAhahahahaha
Peace pipe anyone?
The Tyee is not mainstream media Roy. They are probably the best at digging into the corruption in BC of the Campbell government… that’s not to say they couldn’t be better, but they do a good job for their aspirations.
More court and police shenanigans re: Gustafsen Lake
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/canada/gust/gus12.html
LOL!!
A “Native” living in exile in the Jew Mafia owned international contraband transit hub of Holland!
Oh brother…,
And people wonder why I have a tendency to just want to have everybody tried and executed!
And I say “tried (as in trial)” because if I do not I reckon the Jew Cops or RCMP will have me arrested for incitement to violence.
I know fully well that the “Law” is nothing more than a Criminal Jew-enforcement brigade,
but equally,
being Germanic and having seen the heights of intellectual and ethical prowess expressed by many Germans,
I just can not take these “Native Rights Leaders”,
who have largely been produced by Jewish Matrix,
seriously.
It’s a lot like the Conservatives and the Liberals arguing back and forth.
It seems more like a diversion for the two opposing Races so that a higher psy-op can be implemented during the kerfuffle.
I guess a good fight between to artificial entities is good business for the Jews who make their living off White tax payer funds diverted to the legal profession and the media.
I have to laugh at the mug of the dufuss ass wipe in charge of the RCMP.
He looks like a full fledged half wit without an ethical bone in his body.
The stunted Jew midget before him, Zacardelli was an even greater embarasment however.
Every time I saw a clip or a pic of Zacardelli I couldn’t help laughing…,
“why didn’t they just hire an orangutan fresh out of the jungles of Burma?” LOL
With a clean shave and some dole bananas the orangutan would have presented a far superior public relations image for the RCMP.
The new head of the Chinadindian dependency of Israel’s armed forces, Lt.-Gen. Walt Natynczyk, is another one of these phenotypical Jews pretending to be a rational normal human being.
I kinda feel sorry for the military guys on the ground…, 6′-4″ 250 lb. fighting machines taking orders from a runt with a Talmud under his vest!!! LOL
Mercer is a typical French Jew’s name. Reminds me of the innumerable ’state’ massacres of indigenous Americans, the most egregious in recent history was at Wounded Knee South Dakota.American’s largely remained silent while the FBI and covert Militry troops were sent into the slaughter ‘the savages’ and put down their legal claims against the larcenous federal government where 100s of billions in royalties due the natives ‘disappeared’ under the Federal governments benovolence over 150 years of puttig their assets ‘in trust’.
Then we had General Custer, the infamous Masonic General Custer,who admitted to Westpoint as one politicians did not want him to impregnate his daughter and who rose up through the ranks an ‘injun slayer’. They claim he was buried at twice once in Montana at the little bighorn where he met his end after a campaign of rape and slaughter of women and children. His aide de camp was an effeminate Jew, whom was probably his homosexual lover. One native American traced Custers political and financial sponsors to Rothschilds in England. I had his book on my former blog, but the zionist/masonic spooks wiped it out. You cant find it on the ‘web’ anymore. Imagine if the ‘crown’ of England which is a Jewish crown since Henry the 8 th had to pay reparations in American and Canada for all the land it stole. Rothschilds objective was to move the Sioux off the lush black hills region which was rich with gold.
Then there was David Rockefeller Sr, who after oil was discovered in Alaska, decided all the inuit had to be moved to villages and be ‘educated’ in order to grab most of Alaska. Then they introduced the government engineered ’spanish flu’, bioengineered by the USA military to try and kill all the remaining Inuit. And when medicine could not be taken in as the ‘weather was too bad’ to fly. We got the famous Anchorage to Nome run to try and save what inuit had not died. This is commemorated yearly in the Itidarod dog race.
Then we had the siezure by some English and Jews of the native Hawiians land and despite the USA government telling them to give Hawaii back they illegally used USA military troops to keep the rebellion down. And David Rockfellers grandson the Jew Bill Clinton issued a proclamation of ’sorry we did wrong, but fk you native Hawaiians as we the rockefellers are not giving the land back’. David Rockefeller sent one of his sons to buy most of Hawaii after the bombing of Pearl Harbor which he also engineered by interdicting Japanese oil shipments.
If you study the ‘history’ of ‘injun’ hunters you find out the scalp collecters were invariably Jews or a smaller minority of English like Custer. There was a native American professor at the University of Colorado who called, 911 ‘an Eichmann job’ after Hitler’s famous Jewish ‘minster’ to the Jews, who was tried and killed (they say) as a war criminal. He lost his jobs as the Engilsh and Jewish faculty at University of Colorado went ballistic. I used to teach part time graduate mathematics there to physicist and engineers. Forget about getting Tenure if you were not an English/Mason, Jew/Zionist.
I hold the English elites in equal scorn, and disregard to the Jewish/Zionist elites. They are so intermarried and the cultures are so intwined, that you can’t tell the difference between the Jews and the English anymore. London England is the satanic capitol of the world and the Jews and English elites give the ‘orders’ there on how to handle the ‘colonies’ like the USA, Canada, and now Haiti.
You have an unusually clear grasp of things. Sadly most of the world seems to want to believe these liars like Obama, Harper, Bush, Blair (another Jew), and they live in some kind of mass delusion and only in the USA are some facing their new reality as serfs to the Usurious British-Israel throne in London.
It too bad you cant post more. I passed your site on to some French Canadians that have had it and are waking up.
Take Care, God Bless You for your honesty.
It probably happens like that sometimes, but you can’t deny what happened to Dr Bruce Clark, for simply arguing for native sovereignty that hasn’t been ceded. He was railroaded by the corrupt judiciary. The big money in Canada isn’t with the natives and their lawyers, usually it is opposing them, although there are a lot of sell-out natives.
At the core of the argument, I sense, is whether imperial ‘conquest’ or ‘theft’ are legitimate ways of extending a nation’s territories. For those who say that conquest is a legitimate way of gaining territory, does lying in court, or writing up treaties, then ignoring them constitute legitimate territory?
Yeah this creature is quite a piece of work, but it is very encouraging to see the level of ‘buzz’ that is around the upcoming “false-flag” Olympics, with the false flag attack on the lips of thousands… no-one believes or trusts the political scum class, and growing numbers of people would put nothing past Campbell or Harper. Thanks for the kind words!