Computer Foulups

I went to Kathy’s house yesterday and today.  Kathy was having problems with her Toshiba laptop being exceedingly slow.  Apparently it’s already been replaced four times due to overheating.  Now she has to keep it on a metal rack, on top of this piece of metal so the air can circulate underneath it.

I got onto the computer and started to uninstall many of the stupid pc cleanup programs that had been downloaded, as well as some unused programs.  There was one program called MyWebSearch or something similar to that, that kept popping up refusing registry changes. So I went about uninstalling that.

Kathy continued using her computer and turned it off before she went to sleep.  Upon turning it on in the morning her keyboard wouldn’t work and half of her programs had disappeared.

I went around there and connected that laptop to Amber’s laptop with a network cable and copied all of the remaining files that Kathy wanted over.  Did the whole restore disc thing and got the computer back to its decent stage.

One program I’ve found increasingly useful is Spybot.  It’s half decent at finding spyware, but the part of it I’ve come to love is the system settings protection thing.  I’m sure there’s other programs out there that do that, but I just like Spybot’s capabilities in that area.  Any  registry changes have to be approved/prevented via an automatic popup from Spybot.  Very effective.  I installed that, as well as AVG Free Antivirus.  I had to explain to Kathy that having Norton Antivirus 2004 and not keeping it updated is worse than having a free fully updated antivirus.  I’m going to go around there either tomorrow or Saturday and install Ad-Aware 2007, and the drivers for her printer.  Getting her to keep to a schedule of scanning for spyware and virii will be the hard part.  Getting her to not allow her children on there will be even harder.

Basil Williams-Rigby

I recently searched on Google for the name of a staff member at Nugent House where I used to live in Billinge, St. Helens. His name was Basil Williams-Rigby. I knew there was allegations against him which I never for one second believed… but I only just found out that he was accused of sexually molesting multiple boys in one of the homes he used to work in. Originally sentenced to twelve years, Mr Rigby spent three years in jail.

An article in The Telegraph details how Mr Rigby appealed, judges ruled that the conviction was unsafe and he was released. It’s a sad day for Britain when someone like Mr Rigby can get sent to jail for something he didn’t do.

He was the staff member in the house I used to live in. In all the years I was there, not one single time did I EVER see or feel anything even remotely inappropriate – there’s no way it could have happened at Nugent House, so what’s up with those bogus allegations.

Suffice to say I am very very happy that Mr Rigby was released, and I hope he sues the living fuck out of Merseyside Police, the Crown Prosecution Service and anyone else who conspired against him. The prosecutor should be held personally liable as should the investigating detective. Aside from having everything taken from them, auctioned and the proceeds to Mr Rigby, those fuckers should be prosecuted for criminal activity of some sort. We simply can’t allow the system to get away with depriving decent people of their reputation, dignity and above all their liberty. I’m gutted that that happened to someone I knew and respected.

Most of the staff at Nugent House were bastards… the headmaster ‘Mr Mills’ was awesome, as was Mrs Lowe, Mr Moogan, Mr Atcheson, Mr Parker, Mrs Rice and the one and only Mr Mullins. There were a few others who made the time away from my family whilst I was at Nugent House School bearable… I’ll holler once I remember them.

Canada’s Gary Mchale and the Caledonia Crisis

I’m sure that people reading my blog would see that I do not like Gary McHale.  I don’t think anyone likes him.  I don’t think his wife likes him.  Does anyone like him?

After approximately three months of not viewing his website, I decided to peruse it and see what other comical activities the idiot is up to.

I found that the problem is more serious than I thought.  He’s spreading racist material – meaning a lot of the videos and ‘articles’ on his website are designed to create resentment towards Native people who are protesting against injustice.

For instance… there’s a video of Shawn Brant on Gary’s website… every so often some text is inserted between the video clips which very slightly adjust what Shawn actually says.  For instance… Gary’s put that Shawn was following the orders of Phil Fontaine – which isn’t true.  Making a general statement is a lot different to ordering someone to commit various acts.

In another video… Gary’s put this whole spiel about the view of natives that ‘we are not terrorists’.  I looked up the word terrorism on Websters. It said:

the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion

So I looked up the word terror, and it said:

1 : a state of intense fear
2 a : one that inspires fear b : a frightening aspect <the terrors of invasion> c : a cause of anxiety d : an appalling person or thing; especially
3 : REIGN OF TERROR
4 : violent or destructive acts (as bombing) committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands <insurrection and revolutionary terror>

The blockades and destruction aren’t committed to inspire fear or intimidate anyone.  They’re designed in an attempt to get people to listen to them.  Regarding number four… yes they are destructive acts committed by groups… but they’re not for intimidating the government into granting demands… they’re for getting the government to stop breaching their treaty and human rights.

So basically Gary McHale’s completely full of shit.  I wish I could write more here, but the pussy boy would almost certainly go running to the cops again whining about my blog entries.  I hope he gets what he deserves – you figure out what I think he deserves.

If I were in their shoes (Six Nations), I wouldn’t be destroying private property… but I would not hesitate to blockade the roads, the railways and streets in a non-physical protest.  If I were in their shoes I wouldn’t illegally assault anyone, but I wouldn’t hesitate in legally assaulting someone in self defence.

To their credit… the OPP have not blundered in there as they did in Oka.   People on Gary’s misguided and stupid train of thought are getting pissed off because the OPP aren’t doing their bidding.  What those morons either can’t see, or do see and don’t care about is if the  OPP go in and take down the barricades by force, there’ll be a bloodbath and many people will die.

Why don’t the residents of Caledonia get behind Six Nations, demand the land be given back and put the damn issue to rest?

I’m going to be consulting with a friend who’s an Aboriginal lawyer (from Six Nations) and getting some legal perspective on the viability of legal action.  From the little that he said in passing the other day, there’s a very good chance of being able to prove precedence so Gary can be taken to court.

The Rez In Pictures Part 2

This is the Community Centre.  The rez recently started holding a bingo night on Monday nights.  A family group use it for Christian worship stuff on a Sunday.  It’s also used for General Band Meetings and Community Meetings.  The old Health Office is located below.

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Random pictures from around the reserve.