The City of Toronto is Politically Correct Central in an increasingly apologist nation.
Activists, who rule the roost here, are downright awesome in their periodic demonstrations of power. Joined by well-heeled teachers’ unions, they put the run to Ontario’s first-in-a- decade Progressive Conservative Premier Mike Harris. The former premier’s close personal friend and finance minister, who replaced him, seems so terrified of meeting the same fate that he makes like the enemy--a socialist.
As inexorable as the tide, Toronto activists prove relentless in their approach. Brothers and sisters who dare cross their picket lines end up with their names advertised on the publicly displayed "Wall of Shame." Activists managed to shut down this city’s entire transportation system, stranding average workers and making it all but impossible for them to get to work and their paycheques in a superbly organized, mass 75,000-strong rally during the Metro Days of Action protest on Oct. 25, 1996. Some of the same Save-the- Whale crowd went on to hobble police horses at a Queen’s Park demonstration that jeopardized public safety in the summer of 2000.
Like the sands of the world’s deserts, activists keep shifting. They are the masked faces behind a plethora of pickets, flashing ephemerally from the nightly televised news. The post ‘60s activist is the musician you heard play at the chamber music concert, your local librarian, the kid hanging outside the corner store.
When it comes to recently revived peacenik causes, The United Church of Canada is one of the protests’ key participants.
For protesters, the upending of newspaper boxes and the impeding of traffic is now categorized as "street theatre." And their anti-social behaviour is showcased as street theatre by supportive lib-left media elites.
In the pursuit of keeping the public peace, police in riot gear are now dispatched to many ‘peaceful’ protests. Charges of police brutality spring up with every demonstration and monopolize news coverage for days after the protests.
Activists generally operate in coalitions with innocuous sounding names.
Apple pie and motherhood are the rallying cry of the activist. Last Saturday, the return of the peace movement brought together one of the largest peace protests since the Gulf War days of 1991.
Fifty organizations, including the Canadian Peace Alliance--which claims 120 member groups--the TARIC Islamic Centre, Ryerson’s Muslim Students’ Association, Steelworkers locals, the Canadian Auto Workers, Young Koreans United, the United Church of Canada et al are protesting war with Iraq.
Coalition leaders are politically adept when it comes to giving their enemies a face. Scapegoats fingered by the movement must stand tall on courage and hang tough under the most frustrating of circumstances.
Publicly branded as deliberate racists by the Toronto Star, 7,200 police officers must still perform often-dangerous jobs.
Is it really coincidence that police forces in the United States and in Britain have been smeared as racists in the same time frame as Toronto police? Anyone doubting that the leftwing has an agenda and that its means still justify the end should remember the left’s public record boasts of their successful marches through institutions like public schools and churches.
Public schools and universities can turn out peaceniks by the thousands and saving the environment can be preached from the Christian pulpit without too much danger befalling the unwashed masses. But taking down the police would be the ultimate coup because guaranteed anarchy follows the collapse of the blue line.
The fervour in the left’s desperation to demonize the police is understandable. Activist Enemy Numero Uno is Toronto Police Association chief Craig Bromell.
Cop is written all over him.
Smeared by the media following the Operation True Blue campaign, Bromell was given a TPA second straight term with a standing ovation. Bromell’s first job as returned TPA chief was to negotiate the best salary package in all of North America for local police personnel.
Now that the 7,200-member local force is being smeared with racial profiling by Canada’s largest daily, Bromell has enraged detractors by reminding them that "Toronto police can not be politically correct".
And with so many of the sons of our communities being cut down by gunfire on Toronto streets, Bromell is absolutely right.
In this day and age, who would dare to antagonize the frenzied followers of the politically correct and their media friends with the unvarnished truth?
Only courageous Craig Bromell.
There’s no scourge more hateful to the politically correct than the one who proved himself as a street cop with cojones.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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