for unproven allegations. I liked this article, if Ford actually turned out to be guilty, fine, hang him. Otherwise grow up children.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford should not resign. Nobody has proved that he’s done anything wrong.
Make no mistake about it — the protests in front of Toronto’s City Hall, the calls for his resignation, the constant invasion of his privacy by media types lurking outside his home, or hanging around his cottage, are not really about some ephemeral, possibly doctored video which allegedly shows Ford smoking crack cocaine. All the rackety protests and all the resignation calls and all the hounding by the media are about one thing — a hatred for Ford’s right-wing politics and an inability to accept that their fellow Torontonians voted him into office.
These people are unclear on a basic concept of democracy, which most individuals understand when they go to the polls: Somebody else’s favoured candidate might win over theirs. In fact, Ford won 47 per cent of the vote, slightly more than Calgary’s mayor, Naheed Nenshi, who garnered 40 per cent of the vote. (Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson took 53 per cent of the vote in 2011.)
One of the protesters at a rally in front of Toronto City Hall the other day held up a sign calling for a “Fordless Toronto.” That says it all — this is clearly all about politics. It’s about an overweight and rather rumpled Rob Ford not being what these self-appointed elitists think Toronto should look like, or think like, or be like. So, they’re desperately grasping at the flimsiest straws they can find, to force him out of office.
Otherwise, why would supposedly rational people be exhibiting the alarming symptoms of hydrophobia over a video they’ve never seen, one which may be bogus and, for all anybody knows, might not even exist?
Do the words “due process” mean anything to these people? There is absolutely no evidence of any wrongdoing on Ford’s part, yet his opponents apparently believe him guilty of smoking crack. In their minds, since his politics and persona don’t jibe with their own, he automatically forfeits the presumption of innocence that every other Canadian is entitled to when accused of illegal activity. Not even the rankest amateur among Crown attorneys would stand up in court and insist he or she had a solid case against a defendant, even though the single key piece of evidence had never been proven to exist.......................
The Rob Ford lynch mob should be ashamed
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford should not resign. Nobody has proved that he’s done anything wrong.
Make no mistake about it — the protests in front of Toronto’s City Hall, the calls for his resignation, the constant invasion of his privacy by media types lurking outside his home, or hanging around his cottage, are not really about some ephemeral, possibly doctored video which allegedly shows Ford smoking crack cocaine. All the rackety protests and all the resignation calls and all the hounding by the media are about one thing — a hatred for Ford’s right-wing politics and an inability to accept that their fellow Torontonians voted him into office.
These people are unclear on a basic concept of democracy, which most individuals understand when they go to the polls: Somebody else’s favoured candidate might win over theirs. In fact, Ford won 47 per cent of the vote, slightly more than Calgary’s mayor, Naheed Nenshi, who garnered 40 per cent of the vote. (Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson took 53 per cent of the vote in 2011.)
One of the protesters at a rally in front of Toronto City Hall the other day held up a sign calling for a “Fordless Toronto.” That says it all — this is clearly all about politics. It’s about an overweight and rather rumpled Rob Ford not being what these self-appointed elitists think Toronto should look like, or think like, or be like. So, they’re desperately grasping at the flimsiest straws they can find, to force him out of office.
Otherwise, why would supposedly rational people be exhibiting the alarming symptoms of hydrophobia over a video they’ve never seen, one which may be bogus and, for all anybody knows, might not even exist?
Do the words “due process” mean anything to these people? There is absolutely no evidence of any wrongdoing on Ford’s part, yet his opponents apparently believe him guilty of smoking crack. In their minds, since his politics and persona don’t jibe with their own, he automatically forfeits the presumption of innocence that every other Canadian is entitled to when accused of illegal activity. Not even the rankest amateur among Crown attorneys would stand up in court and insist he or she had a solid case against a defendant, even though the single key piece of evidence had never been proven to exist.......................
The Rob Ford lynch mob should be ashamed