Gravydämmerung: Slushie attack!

[sabotabby]

I should probably be blogging more about Syria or Turkey or Snowden or how Harper is currently selling out the country at the G8, but the laughable bumblefuck is just so much more fun.

The latest! After a freedom-hating terrorist attacked the Honourable Wife-Beater with a Weapon of Mass Destruction—okay, a woman tossed a Slushie at him—he has decided to hire private security to protect him while out in public. You know. From women who might throw drinks in his face, because that actually happens a lot for some reason.

I suspect we may need private security to protect us from Ford—after all, he does have a record of assault, sexual assault, and dangerous driving, not to mention dangerous public policy—since the police seem unwilling or unable to do so.

Hey, you know who never needed private security? Any other mayor of Toronto as far as I know.

Meanwhile, Montreal got its shit together with their criminal mayor; ours continues to be apparently made of Teflon.

Comments

[robby.livejournal.com]

It's certainly scary when mean-faced haters are throwing unknown shit on you. It's time for everyone to take a deep breath.

[sabotabby]

I'm sure, though I feel like he's done much more terrifying things to other people so I don't have a huge ton of sympathy.

[robby.livejournal.com]

You're entitled, but what if had been something caustic? Consider if this was a socialist mayor, and right wing skinheads were stalking her? You can't have it both ways.

[sabotabby]

I hardly think that tossing a drink in someone's face is comparable to an acid attack by skinheads. Arguments like this (I've seen right-wingers get upset by glitter bombings, as if they're equivalent to the death and destruction doled out by austerity measures or police brutality) make me roll my eyes. He's a violent man. This guy's almost run people over. He's beaten his wife. He's groped women. He may have had people killed. He certainly rolls with people who have had people killed. If he can't handle having a little drink spilled in his face without acting like a colossal wimp about it, maybe he should retire from public life.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

but but but.......the powerful white men, who will protect them besides their phalanxes of private security thugs guards?

[the_axel]

Or, horror of horrors, a pie!

Any idea when the last Torontonian politician was assaulted?

Me neither, 'cos it hasn't happened in my lifetime.
It's not a realistic threat, over & above the risk that every citizen has and therefore special measures for politicians don't make sense.

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Hello Kitty,
the more I hear (only from you, he isn´t that world famous over here in France, yet) about Teflon The Cadman, the more he reminds me of a cartoon figure; someone Batman ought to free Gotham City from.
You, of course, are noone less than:

as portrayed by Pfeiffer whose interpretation is my fav. to date:
"Hi Hon. I´m hooome...oh, I forgot: I´m not married" then To Shred after Mother Calls:

[sabotabby]

Of course! I would look great in that get-up too.

[montreality.livejournal.com]

I guess we've got our shit together but we don't know whether to laugh or to cry at this point. This guy was supposedly the replacement for the previous (really corrupt) mayor until we have city elections this fall. At least all these construction scandals are finally out in the open (in both Montreal and Laval).

[sabotabby]

Yeah, Montreal politics are loltastic. But at least you guys are doing things about it.