June 25, 2004
The long-hidden finger of socialist Mayor David Miller has finally reached out to claim Toronto Police Chief Julian Fantino.
It’s been a long time coming, and it comes as good news to the criminal element.
Respected Canadian journalist Michael Duffy is right, "David Miller wears rubber gloves. His finger can’t be found."
It was Miller’s activist minions, Toronto police services board chairman alan Heisey, radical NDP councillors Pam McConnell and John Filion who did the dirty work. Fantino’s contract will not be renewed by the board come March 2005.
In ridding our city of Fantino, board members are hiding under the cover of it being a "personal matter" (confusing the word with `personnel) and say they will not be making "further comment".
Welcome to democracy, Toronto NDP style.
Truth is that the NDP has been out to undermine our police force even before the days when Susan Eng was chairing the police services board.
The opposite of a milquetoast, Fantino, who always went to great lengths to stick up for the rank and file, is the wrong kind of leader for the NDP, whose ongoing agenda is to demonize the blueline.
With former chairman Norm Gardiner headed for divisional court this Monday, there was no seventh member on the board. Members can count on the privilege of the chairman being able to break all tie votes. This was how the dirty deed was done.
Meetings at the police services board do Tammany Hall proud. Books could be written about board members. There’s David Miller handpicked Heisey, who uses a police boat as his personal taxi to and from his "monster home" on Toronto Islands. Media identify Heisey, not as a Toronto Island resident, but as a "resident of downtown Toronto."
There’s Health Board Chairman Coun. John Filion, a career politician who uses innuendo to get his way. Filion recently blamed it on the media when called upon to prove his allegations that local police were spying on him as a means of intimidation.
There’s the shrillest of shrill Coun. Pam McConnell, whose taxpayer subsidized town house and public purse salary, leave her lots of time for hard core anti-police activism.
Canadafreepress finds there is some substance to the stories going the rounds, indicating that Norm Gardiner was framed. a Toronto man, who calls himself "The Chief of Polite" who wrote to the board asking on what date Fantino or his designate requested the Ontario Provincial Police to criminally investigate Gardiner has never been answered.
although CFP has no permission to quote from an OPP letter, that letter states that sufficient evidence did not exist to support the criminal charges against Gardiner.
The board is aware of the OPP letter.
What’s going on here?
Why is the Toronto public saddled with a police services board where politics is the top priority?
It’s because the NDP, through a political, negative and destructive mayor, now dominates Toronto City Council.
The pretext of David Miller, the pro-business leader is nothing less than a joke.
He may be a lawyer, he may be well spoken and he may work quietly in the background, but David Miller was long ago bought and paid for by the NDP and its influential friends on the Toronto Islands.
Irrespective to dozens of anti-police stories in the Toronto Star and articles claiming that crime is on the decrease, Toronto needs the direction and strength of a Police Chief like Julian Fantino.
Make no mistake about it, an NDP "yes man" will follow when the board forces Fantino to turn his badge in.
Toronto now faces a troubling new era, now that David Miller has finally stepped out of the shadows.
Welcome to an era where politics comes first and law and order last.
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