Toronto has become a dictatorship
One of the most important elements of a democracy is a FREE PRESS, which means that journalists and others can write about the government autonomously. That is, they can inform us of what the government is doing without interference or influence by said government. Well, the following snippet from a story last week (by Royson James of the Star) is one of the scariest pieces you will read. It’s a reflection of how pathetic Toronto City Council truly is. I don’t care who is running against each councillor, but we all need to vote out any asshole–including the horrible Mayor Miller–who supports this banana republic shit. Read on:
The current crop at Toronto city hall is soft, thin-skinned and hypersensitive – a crybaby class of pampered whiners plagued with the millennial sense of entitlement.
How else to explain their latest push to sue media, fellow politicians – and you, the taxpayer – if an adversary dare utter comments the chosen councillors find defamatory? It’s one thing to provide a legal defence fund, as is current practice, should someone launch a lawsuit against a councillor; it’s another to provide a legal offence fund – so councillors can go after perceived enemies. This is unnecessary. It gives councillors the legal muscle to strong-arm citizens, media, even fellow councillors, who offend them with what they consider defamatory remarks.
The weasels have concocted all manner of reasons to back the request. The real reason? This group of city councillors wants to intimidate the media, make constituents cower and club would-be challengers into submission. And they would use the courts, backed by the enormous weight of public dollars, to do so. City council should stop the proposal next month. But because Mayor David Miller and his party members on the executive committee have endorsed it, that might prove difficult.
January 29th, 2010 at 12:58 am
[…] I’ve written many times about Toronto’s dysfunctional City Council. You will never find a greater bunch of “entitled” assholes who believe they are royalty–literally. I do not read the Toronto Sun (no one with a triple-digit IQ would read that paper) but I do listen to the radio when in my car. One Sun writer, Sue-Ann Levy, has been following this story, which I first mentioned over seven months ago in this post. […]