Rob Ford, the Mob, and the Harper Connection

Well I'm sorry to report that Rob Ford is still clinging to power, and that the big question seems to be will he go to rehab before he drops dead? 

Mayor Rob Ford appeared to brush aside his brother’s request to take a break from city hall duties Friday night, telling reporters: “I love my brother, dearly.” Hours earlier, the mayor’s brother, Councillor Doug Ford, who hadn’t spoken publicly in two days, urged the mayor seek “a little bit of counselling” and go away for a couple of weeks.

Instead of when will he resign before he kills Toronto?
 
Or who were those sinister characters with the suitcases full of money? 

The man who tried to broker the sale of the video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking what appears to be crack cocaine has told CBC's the fifth estate he and others in the Dixon Road neighbourhood in northwest Toronto were approached by individuals who offered a "suitcase of money" for the video.

"They were some people in the neighbourhood, I would say people that are in organized crime … that drove in and showed people [a] suitcase of money and said, 'Hey, look, whoever has the video, put them in contact with us. This is their cash, their money...'"

Or why did so many of the criminals Ford liked to hang out with, and who knew about the video, get murdered, shot, beaten with lead pipes, and/or stabbed in prison?



Why was the mob trying to protect the Mayor of Toronto?

Because that's the REAL scandal.

And what role if any did Rob Ford's Con handlers play in this attempted cover-up?

Because as we know from Paul Wells' new book, Stephen Harper does have a record of trying to solve problems with money.

And as Chantale Hebert points out, Ford's problems have left him in a VERY embarrassing position.



The prime minister embraced the new mayor in a way that he has yet to embrace any past or present premier. More than just an inspiration for the federal Conservatives as they campaigned for re-election in 2011, Ford became a mascot.

Having been caught in the act of hugging a thug while posing as a champion of law and order.

There is a jarring disconnect between the Conservatives’ punitive judicial agenda, their much proclaimed law-and-order principles and their efforts to look away from the public transgressions of the man who runs Canada’s biggest city and the disruptions to Toronto’s municipal life that result from them.

Which can only make him look even shadier, or even more of a HYPOCRITE.

Harper has just moved heaven and earth to have his majority in the Senate remove three of his past appointees over a matter of expense accounts. For all their faults, senators Mike Duffy, Patrick Brazeau and Pamela Wallin did not threaten the orderly governance of the country. The same cannot be said of Ford and Toronto.

And makes me want to run this video, courtesy of Warren Kinsella, over and over again...



Until even the morons from the Ford Nation can't separate one Con thug from another.

Because if they liked the mob movie The French Connection, they'll like the Harper Connection even better.

All of which makes me wonder how a progressive could ever feel sorry for Rob Ford.

Because I never could. Not that bully, not that crass bigot, not that rotten Mayor, not that friend of Cons and criminals.

And I don't really care whether they haul the Fordzilla out of City Hall in handcuffs, or wheel him out  on a stretcher. As long as he goes.

But I guess that's what makes me different eh?

I don't just want to defeat the Con Nation.

I want to see it DESTROYED...



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