Yesterday, the Mayor of Oakville, used this story as a basis for an attack on Canada’s veterans. He compared them to the brown and black shirts used by the Nazis and Mussolini’s fascists prior to WWII.
Political attacks on veterans has heretofore been a decided no-no, as the 2006 Liberals found out.
I call on the citizens of Oakville to reprimand their mayor for such ludicrous statements about our veterans.
The Lorne Scots
The Lorne Scots provided soldiers to assist Canadians during the 1997 Manitoba Floods and the 1998 Ice Storm in eastern Ontario. Overseas, the Regiment has provided troops to peacekeeping missions around the world, including operations in Cyprus, Cambodia, Croatia and Bosnia. Most recently, many Lornes have served with the International Security Assistance Force in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
But all that aside, I’m sure Halton Company is enamored over their Mayor calling them Nazis and fascists.
I glanced at a few of his other twits…what an effing MORON! How do people that stupid get into office?
I can see why twits like him like twitter…they can vomit out an endless barrage of asinine inflammatory statements that are nearly impossible to rebut due to the 140 character limit imposed.
Wanton disregard for the proper use of the apostrophe is getting out of hand.
I didn’t see any comparison to the infamous “brown shirts” or any other color. He called them mercenaries,questioned why Harper used private cops instead of regular cops. Probably because they’re way cheaper to hire,especially if said cops are on overtime.
The Mayor’s a typical Liberal, facts don’t enter into his argument, just half-truths and outright lies.
“Duffy” is worse than “Adscam”?
These Twitter snippets are useless.
Who exactly said what about whom?
Coach, yeah. I’m working on it. SDA is acting like a petulant child this morning, though, so it takes a while for edits to work.
Don, see the post from last night.
Another leftist POS as a mayor, we have one of those in Victoria too, Lisa Helps, the Mugwump, rainbow wymyn.
Anyways, where’s the problem? Instead of RCMP detail, the CPC is using their own security,no doubt at their expense. That’s the problem with the left, its attack, attack, attack, no matter what or how stupid they are. The PM needs security, period, especially after the muzzie attack on Parliament Hill.
For a mayor, his language is unbecoming of his office!
Leader of the billion dollar gas plant NIMBY’s
He’s subhuman degenerate Leftist slime.
That dick-less mooselimb was also pumping bullets through the door of the NDP caucus room. And the pinkos in that room shored-up the door with the body of the parlimentry security guard as bullets came flying in. No sharpening flag poles to defend themselves – let’s make this security guy stand in the door and take a bullet for us instead.
Looking forward to tomorrows display of journalistic balance when the media comes out with story about the union thugs providing security at Angry Tom’s events.
His twitter feed is a work of art for a slime-ball. What a disgusting string of tweets for an elected POLITICALLY NEUTRAL mayor of all beliefs and persuasions. He really needs to STFU till he’s out of office. As to “preserving greenspace” in Oakville… HAHAHAHA. He needs to get his head out of his ass more – there isn’t any greenspace left in Oakville.
Don’t care for Drapeau’s comments either.
Why is Harper using mercenaries at his photo ops?
You obviously read something we were not privy to. Could you give us the link please ?
Oh,okay.Sorry lance.
Sturmabteilung!? Oh,I get it now. So,is Benjamin Levin the new Ernst Rohm?
Always figured he (or Rohm) would be a Liberal.
You’re a dickhead, not a dick. The RCMP detail protects the PM only. If sh*t goes down, their only job is to sequester the PM away from harm. Would be the case regardless of who is the PM. The REST of the function has to hire its own security if it believes it needs it. PRIVATE SECURITY (retired soldiers, off-duty cops, bouncers), just like Justin Bieber and the rest of your intellectual heroes, when in public. Just because they’re retired soldier, doesn’t make them mercenaries (do you even know what a mercenary is?) The Police don’t provide on-duty security for private functions.
Given the juvenile, down-right bizarre, and not a little threatening commentary from the Nat Post commentariat, it seems security is well warranted. So what if they’re retired soldiers (not commissionaires)? You want somebody who knows how to act when lefty joe jumps the rope. Ya think Shiy Pony’s curly locks and lisp protects his ass? Read the crowd better, idiot.
This was a non-story from the top down, and yeah, Mayor of Croakville, you’re the stupidest of the lot.
Go away. you’re not worth anybody’s time.
I highly suspect that there is security present when Angry Tom and the Manchild appear in public. They would be stupid no to. Mind you they are ……
Well said skip, both times, and scar sums it up well.
UnoMe, most of us who have been in the military know that the Liberals starting with the commie lover PET’s regime and especially the NDP secretly hate soldiers. SDA doesn’t have to conflate the mayor’s words to smear soldiers, as he was quite clear comparing these men to SA and Milizia paramilitary soldiers. Furthermore, the so-called electioneering for support for the military is a sham as most old soldiers know the contempt with which Liberals treated serving soldiers and veterans.
Not surprising. Drive along Lakeshore in Oakville and on the lawns of the multi-milllion dollar mansions you’ll frequently see signs stating “We Vote CBC.”
Personally I’m voting for whomever decrees that in the name of diversity full burka thingies be brought into their neighbourhoods and into their childrens’ schools.
With the numbers of lefties increasingly taking more extreme positions on many topics and their belief that they should be allowed to do anything they want to get their way why should it surprize anyone that security is being upgraded. Former military members are an obvious choice and some may even have military police training which would make them excellent “peace keepers”.
Sounds just like one of those dirty,filthy maggots and anti-war activists of the 70’s of which Bill and Hillary were a part of that kind of lowlife reptiles less like doves and more like snakes
…as they say, “SDA Gets Results”
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/08/29/oakville-mayor-apologizes-for-controversial-comment-on-veterans-work-for-harper.html
Now for the resignation!
The way the vitriol and tension is continuing to build between left and right and other factions …. it would seem that an apt metaphor would be a Beatle Song …. Perhaps you’ve heard it ..”A Day In The Life” … at the end of the song there is a long building crescendo that reaches a peak then a moment of silence then a gigantic ominous piano chord slams down and fades ….
I see our society about three quarters of the way up that crescendo …. when it hits the silence and the piano chord slams down … it may well signal open season on these most disgusting and destructive far left fools. I for one, cannot wait. Talking and voting no long to the job. so we will ultimately fall back to our default position when dealing with unresolvable differences … we will go to war.
As it is today … there may never even be a clear winner …. Humanity is now so directed by the New World Order to remain at each other’s throats to the advantage of the elites who laugh at us from atop their pile of money and power.
The past forty years of dumbing down the educational system and planting liberal thoughts in the mind of children has worked really well …. I think it’s too late to turn it around now, but an never ending guerrilla state of war would deny the liberals the gentile life they feel they so richly deserve, because they are so enlightened.
Okay, I feel better getting that off my chest.
His Tardship defends himself at CP24 (video link at top right of page) where he refuses to apologize for the fascist analogies (or even acknowledge that he made them) and sticks to the line about how he was only attacking the Conservatives for using a private police force and how dangerous this is in a democracy and not calling the veterans “Nazis” even though he doesn’t withdraw the analogy and his use of the word “mercenaries” to describe them. Also, I’m guessing the CP24 interviewer didn’t know about the “mercenaries” Tweet. (Or didn’t understand it.)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/p36z8c9
Maybe someone should ask His Tardship if he wants the RCMP and other police forces arresting hecklers at CPC functions instead of private police politely removing them from hired venues.
BTW, last night he was defending himself online by lying that the “mercenaries” line was taken from the news story he linked in the Tweet but he’s since scrubbed both the Wiki fascist links and the “mercenaries” Tweets. That looks like the sign of a guilty mind to me.
The debt cornered Ontario rats are certainly striking out at everything Conservative. I wonder what Angry Tom and the Hair Lisperer have promised the Wynne and this public moron mayor along with the rest of the Ontario/Quebec lefties that have racked up over 300 and 285 BILLION dollars of debt for their provinces? Why would all these clowns work so hard to scuttle the best Prime Minister Canada has ever had, is it to bring in Justy so he can raid the coffers of western Canada like his communist father did, or will Angry Uncle Tom mortgage Canada 11 times to bail out the debt ridden provinces of Ontario and Quebec. This derangement of these people usually brings about institutionalization, and we all can see these people are certifiable.
“… it would seem that an apt metaphor would be a Beatle Song…”
You say you want a revolution? Well you know we all could use some target practice.
That a**hole doesn’t even know the meaning of “veteran or mercenary”. How can he? He was nor is neither. I am both, and have been for 20 years. The old saying of I may not agree with what you are saying, but will defend your right to say it to the death does not apply to this piece of commie scum. Make no mistake, the NDP are commies, always have been. The PM and others need no defense, nor deserve none. We have pros (RCMP…cough, laugh) to look after these twits. Remember, there are only two requirements to be a politician, sociopathic and megalomaniac. I will and have defended the guy or gal next door who tries to rid this world of these kind of scum, and have even beat the so called courts at it. Try standing up for your neighbour. You may be surprised at the rewards you get.
This is a Mayor??
All this talking sphincter does is parrot Librano talking points and blame his and the province’s Lack of economic performance on Harper – Like since when has the global economic crisis a “made in Canada recession?”
Oakville better turf this vacant washout before he helps Wynn lose Ford Oakville to Mexico.
I don’t know where Oakville is. I know only a little about the mayor of Oakville, some guy named Burton. What I do know, I gathered from the Tweets at the link. Scanning through them, I found this gem:
So the US is special in some things:
Rob Burton added,
urbandata @urbandata
USA is home to:
5% of world population
31% of mass shooters
62% of school and workplace mass shooters
And I thought to myself, does he really believe this? I mean how is this even calculated? 31% of mass shooters and 62% of school and workplace shooters…. Has he not read about the events in Africa (Sudan, Nigeria, etc, etc, et al). Well then maybe black lives don’t matter to him and don’t count.
Then I thought about about the recent carnage in Turkey or Thailand…. but of course those were bombs so they don’t count. Then I thought about Norway and Syria and ….. oh forget it. The man’s an idiot.
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Maybe it’s only me. The presence of something that doesn’t affect me at all, I don’t care about. If I was trying to pick a rose, or blackberry, I would be concerned about thorns.
Why would anyone, unless they were an a-hole, care about a-hole protection?
David,
Much like the US – we have no shortage of idiots in Canada.
Oakville’s mayor couldn’t hold a candle to Burnaby’s mayor when it comes to Harper hatred, and it pays off when civic labour unions start to donate to his continuous elections. Of course it works well for the unionized staff when negotiations begin.
Larry,
It works better for the unions when you have a major event planned – like say, the 2010 Olympics.
That took a lowlife SOB to post such a tweet. The mayor knew that (for example) Commissionaires are made up of army, and other Cdn. vets. They patrol (unarmed) hospitals, oil refineries and a host of other facilities. In our town, they enforce local municipal bylaws, most are very reasonable. Where I live, they always give you a warning before a ticket. And you can rest assured that the next FORD product I buy will NOT be manufactured in Oakville as long as that lowlife is in office.
The good mayor has proven himself to be a complete idiot however he was duly elected. What does this say about those that voted for such a waste of oxygen? I guess when no one really gives a sh*t about municipal elections you end up with cretins such as Burton at the helm.
Some years ago I organized a rally in opposition to our then NDP gov’t. We had some 3,000 people attending in our hockey arena. Well before most people arrived, unbeknownst to us a large contingent of NDP supporters arrived, commandeering the first few rows of seats in front of our stage.
Havoc ensued. First, a bunch of university radicals attempted to take over the stage, unfurling a large banner. Then the NDP loonies, including a sitting MLA from the city, stood up and began to shout and jeer the speakers. A couple of union heavies attempted to provoke a fight and finally, someone pulled the fire alarms – thus bringing the event largely to an end. Oh, and then one of the union thugs had the temerity to complain to the RCMP that one of our group had assaulted him.
And that’s why the Conservatives require additional security.
“The past forty years of dumbing down the educational system and planting liberal thoughts in the mind of children has worked really well …. I think it’s too late to turn it around now,…”
You just nailed it.
Anyone else notice that the left has become more vicious with every election lately. Why, even Bob Fife is acting like an a-hole.
Bob Fife “acting” like an A-hole. He’s a damned good thespian, he had me convinced!
Where does it say that “Harper is using mercenaries’? You did read the article, of course, or you wouldn’t comment on it.
Members of RCMP prime minister personal detail are in attendance, as usual.
The party hired a personal security team to keep the peace at their event. Considering that only the Conservative events are in any danger of being hijacked, it wouldn’t be necessary for either the NDP or Liberals to hire their own security teams.
This is very similar to explaining something to a child: read first, then comment.
Just don’t forget folks that according to NDP election platform people like him could for example prohibit residents of Oakville from owning fireamrs.
Done.
I can just imagine Ms fife furiously searching for the definition of thespian LOL
Lance has made a very good point about the Commissionaires corps, which is comprised of ex-armed forces and (I think) ex-police personnel, which he points out. The Commissionaires have been around all of my cognizant life of more than 50 years; heck, I even remember some of them being quite elderly back when I was a lad — which would have meant, I’m guessing, that some of them fought against the, you know, fascist elements in Europe during the Second World War.
Now, one of the things that Commissionaires do is provide security and, essentially, concierge services at government buildings across Canada, including (wait for it)…municipal buildings in the Province of Ontario.
So, on the basis of Hizzhonour’s outrageous complaint, I would sincerely hope that the Town of Oakville does not employ Commissionaires at, say, Town Hall. Because that would have to make, by the twisted “logic” of Mayor Burton, the Corporation of the Town of Oakville a fascist organization, and Hizzhonour, er, Der Fuehrer.
Some jackass somewhere penned a piece the other week comparing Mr. Harper to Mr. Putin, and was quickly shot down by a fellow journalist on the basis that such comparisons undermine [sic] “legitimate criticisms” of Mr. Harper. Mayor Burton has helpfully furnished a similar gun shot wound to his own foot, or head, according to taste.
SDA’s results are good so far, but Mayor Burton is still not (politically) dead enough. And if you think he’s bad, check out the character the NDP has running in Oakville:
http://www.oakvillendp.ca/che-marville
That will give you a clearer picture of what the hard-working, tax-paying yeomanry of the Town are up against.
Since Burton became mayor, property taxes +40%, spending increases +50%, Oakville’s debt $500 million. Naturally loves Justin
Not to deny SDA its dues but it’s the Twitter storm that has His Tardship on the defensive and how it came to the MSM’s attention.
The mayor called them “mercenaries” in one of his now-deleted Tweets; Dick by name and by nature was just promoting that position that the mayor has now, cowardly, disavowed.
Ken;
Sorry to say but I also kinda agree. The only thing that really impacts progressive thought is when the bottom falls out of the economy. Fear sets in and the desire for
someone who can get the job done reasserts itself. If this thought has any validity then one must consider that ‘as a rule’ progressives are actually in the game for whatever or however they can benefit from the process.
As an aside. I was at a wedding reception last night and had a political discussion with a Dipper who I have known for decades. He was bemoaning the fact that there is no
real growth in the Dipper movement. ‘We set signs up in the same lawns each campaign’ and we are more likely to be met at the door by people who are irate about NDP requests for money. He is disappointed in youth because he does not see a thought process as they make political decisions. I laughed as I said, you educated them, what has gone wrong. He thinks the NDP are top down and media driven. Again I chuckled as I told him I have started to think the same way about the CPC.
The comments from the Left are that Harper is being a coward and paranoid. One guy a while back even wrote that there is no terrorism in Canada so why do we need a Bill 51. Considering what just happen in Parliament I find the ignorance of the Left beyond belief. Air India, I guess is just a distance memory.
With all the hate that the press prints and promotes about Harper, he has ever reason to be cautious and wary. They would love to see Harper or his family get hurt, it would sell so much news, exactly what their dying business needs.
So i wonder how this compares with the FHRITP crowd?
Mayor or not he is entitled to his stupid opinion and should not be denied it. As dumb as it is public or private we have freedom of speech in Canada even for mayors. If he thinks that our soldiers are friken Nazi’s and Harper eats live babies let his electors decide his fate.
He made some pretty stupid and disgusting comments but he is allowed to make them YES even as a mayor holding public office and he should not beforced to resign or fired by anyone else other than the voters in his city we will all remember who he is and what he thinks.
I am not defending his silly comments i’m defending his right to say them and not be fired.
Remember the mozilla ceo who donated money and was fired? Remember the FHRITP guys who were fired? For all of these stupid comments no one should be fired or punished in my opinion its their thoughts and opinions not yours or mine and while you could argue that they represent his constituents, it will be his constituents who have the final say.
I’m so tired of both sides calling for people to be fired for having offensive thoughts or saying mean things how does that further the defence of freedom of speech? i think both on the left and right should be ashamed of themselves by trying to punish stupid thoughts. That includes employers who are now forced to do things that otherwise they have no obligation to do ie firing someone for a mean sentence or words or what ever.
Again i realize that this was an absolute repulsive thing to say ESPECIALLY for a public figure such as a mayor but i still defend his right to say it and not be fired or punished by anyone other than those who voted him into office. And in the private sector i dont think employers should be forced t opunish people who say bad things thats simply silly for someone to try to tie x employeee to Y brand or brand name. simply stupid!!
“So i wonder how this compares with the FHRITP crowd?”
It doesn’t period. The FHRITP guy was not an elected politician. It is really that simple. Once you become an elected representative of the people the people can fire you when they do not like what you are saying. That is all.