My local library's bulletin board, as I have posted on a previous thread,
showed a notice for an author holding a three-hour "forum"
for readings from his books followed by questions.
In fact, the notice has since had "rescheduled" written across it,
so at the very least the date is off;
and it is possible that the author may not in fact appear at all.

My attempt to find out more about the author turned up a lot of online material on the Internet.
What I keep coming back to is this editorial from a publication
called The Tyee.


I will now try to abridge this editorial and post the results here.
I ask your forbearance because I am new to copying articles, and my work may be clumsy.



Truth and Native Abuse:
How one man's wild claims threaten success of Truth and Reconciliation

[...]If Canada's famously defrocked United Church minister Kevin Annett really is prize-worthy and courageous [...], if you believe these things, I'm afraid there are quite a few more things you are going to have to believe, because you can't have it both ways [...] you will also have to believe this:

[item:]One of Canada's most respected First Nations' leaders is trafficking in children from Northern British Columbia in a profitable pedophilia ring that's run out of the West Hastings Street premises of the swish Vancouver Club. His clients are Vancouver judges, politicians, and church leaders.
[item:]Back in the 1930's, a team of German doctors arrived at the Kuper Island Indian residential school and began conducting strange medical experiments on the children. Employing large hypodermic needles, they injected some sort of toxin directly into the chests of the school's young inmates, and several were killed as a result.
[item:]As recently as the 1950's and 1960's, aboriginal children at a Vancouver Island medical research facility were tortured with electrodes implanted in their skulls. At least one child was beaten to death with a whip fitted with razors.
[item:]At the Hobbema and Saddle Lake Indian residential schools in Alberta, children were incinerated in furnaces. At St. Anne's residential school in Fort Albany, Ontario, children were executed in an electric chair. At McGill University in Montreal, there is a mass grave containing the bodies of aboriginal children killed in experiments undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency's top-secret MK-ULTRA program.

[...]It all started in the early 1990's, when Annett was a promising but problematic novice minister whose first assignment was to serve the dwindling, white working-class congregation of St. Andrew's in the mill town of Port Alberni. It wasn't long before senior United Church officials discovered to their dismay that Annett was turning his Sunday services into something resembling a series of cathartic, guerilla-theatre testimonials about Satanic ritual abuse. The long and short of it is the United Church put its foot down. Its version of events is a matter of public record.
Annett's version in his self-published "Hidden from History: the Canadian Holocaust," his autobiographical "Love and Death in the Valley," and his recently-released, 110-minute autobiographical documentary, "Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide."

. . . . This matters.
For years, RCMP investigators have been chasing down these stories and they always come up with nothing. But they persist, like the alligators in New York's sewers.
It matters because the thousands of aboriginal people who really did suffer unspeakable torment in in residential schools deserve something rather more from us than our complicity in the act of dumping their very real suffering down a rabbit hole into the same parallel universe where you'll find alien abductions, Masonic plots, crop circles, and 9-11 conspiracies.

. . . . Believe it if you like. But the truth of all this actually matters.
It matters to me because I can count several old friends and colleagues among the people who show up as villains, collaborators, and stooges in Annett's conspiracy, and I know a thing or two about Annett from when we were both young socialists, back in the 1970's.
It's personal because as a young reporter, I covered trials of pedophile priests. I came to know their victims as friends. I also came to know brave and kind clergymen who taught in residential schools, and I co-authored a book about residential schools with the former inmates of St. Mary's Mission.
One does not need to exaggerate or embellish anything about what happened in those places.

. . . . After all this suffering, the very least we owe the dead, and the living, is the truth.

Terry Glavin, The Tyee, 30 April 2008

(thanks for listening)