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| - Gary McHale,46, formerly of Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada and currently resides in Binrook, Ontario owns and operates a controversial website called link Caledonia Wake Up Callabout the Caledonia Land Dispute. McHale is a self proclaimed civil rights activist arguing against two-tier justice in Caledonia, Ontario. The youngest of six boys, McHale's mother was killed in a car crash when he was 10. His childhood was turbulent after that because his dad wasn't around. McHale got into mischief and McHale earned a police record for shoplifting a rifle scope. Some of his brothers got into drugs. On Christmas morning, a 13-year-old McHale packed up and moved to his aunt's. It was his first stand for a life lived by rules. Rocking his large frame back and forth on an office chair McHale proudly p
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| - Gary McHale,46, formerly of Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada and currently resides in Binrook, Ontario owns and operates a controversial website called link Caledonia Wake Up Callabout the Caledonia Land Dispute. McHale is a self proclaimed civil rights activist arguing against two-tier justice in Caledonia, Ontario. The youngest of six boys, McHale's mother was killed in a car crash when he was 10. His childhood was turbulent after that because his dad wasn't around. McHale got into mischief and McHale earned a police record for shoplifting a rifle scope. Some of his brothers got into drugs. On Christmas morning, a 13-year-old McHale packed up and moved to his aunt's. It was his first stand for a life lived by rules. Rocking his large frame back and forth on an office chair McHale proudly points out that he was accepted by two universities, but he couldn't afford tuition. He started a bookkeeping business which now includes web design. At its height, he says he had offices in four cities. His wife worked for him. He wants to make sure everyone knows the breadth of his success. He's been married for 25 years to Christine McHale. In 1992, McHale enrolled but never completed a theology degree at the Central Baptist Seminary. Religion remains central to his life and to his fight in Caledonia. He says being a Christian means committing to -- even willing to die for -- morals that run deeper than material belongings: "truth and justice and faith and peace." That's the fight he has brought to the Caledonia Land Dispute. His detractors point to white supremacist groups who have attended his rallies. McHale says he has no links to them, doesn't agree with them, but won't tell them to go away. But the battle appears to not be just about Caledonia. Because even if he wins there, he's vowing to move the fight to Ipperwash Provincial Park, near Forest, Ont. -- the place where the OPP killed an unarmed native. Gary McHale says he's telling it like it is. Native American terrorists, he says, routinely attend special schools in reservations where they learn to speak their own ancient language and act like Natives in preparation for protests. He further states that many Native Americans around Caledonia are terrified by the brutality of their own traditional governments. In all of this, McHale assures his frightened audiences, the Canadian government is implicated "up to their eyeballs." A favorite prop -- he seems to bring it to many of his speaking engagements. A Canadian flag, he concedes, proof positive, apparently, that Native terrorists are exercising jurisdiction over Caledonia. Typically, this scenario is outlined along with images of the riot in Caledonia in June, 2006 in Caledonia which he portrays as one more result of Native terrorism. McHale has celebrated the link March for Freedom, filming interviews with many participants and authoring frequent reports on Native issues on his Web site and "Roy Green Show" radio show. The site carries video footage of McHale and company taunting counter-protesters at an October, and December, 2006 anti-Native rally in Caledonia. Last April's Caledonia uprising -- a paramilitary Native effort to defy a court order for contempt -- may not have accomplished much in terms of stopping the protest. But it was a remarkable media success, sparking upbeat coverage and the support of other First Nations in ensuing months. It soon became apparent the protest was going to be a long one. The citizens of Caledonia had metastasized from the one-man operation started by Ken Hewitt to the unstable and unpredictable outsider of Gary McHale and Mark Vandermaas of Canada.wordpress.com link Voice of Canadainto a Supremacist movement attempting to sweep Canada. Gary McHale, who most recently refers to himself similar to Martin Luther King, Jr., was going to show Canada just how angry Caledonian's are about Native occupation. Along with his followers, he showed up at Douglas Creek Estates last October to protest. Trouble was, there were only few hundred of them in all. McHale wasn't fazed. The tactic, while unusual, wasn't entirely unprecedented. McHale is eager to show that theirs is a mass movement against the Native occupation and the government. So when a couple hundred people showed up to join his second March, McHale claimed victory by being arrested for Breach of the peace for attempting to raise a Canadian flag in a no-go zone. Gary McHale and Mark Vandermaas have most recently gained a following from racist groups on the internet most notably neo-nazi Paul Fromm, and Melissa Guille. McHale’s reaction to the charge of racism was simple: He wasn't engaging in racist stereotyping. He is fighting a political war. All he had been doing, McHale said, was "speak[ing] highly of the business of the OPP and the government." McHale, who was charged with Breach of the Peace in December, 2006 after a confrontation with OPP officers during his second protest, does delete posts advocating violence and he has even banned by internet message boards that support both Natives and non-natives alike. But in the same breath, he has publicly complained that he is "sick and tired of criminal acts by Natives" and "white-bashing." And, McHale added, "Just because one believes in one government, that does not make them a racist."
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