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Guns, Liberals, Socialists

Protecting Toronto the Good from gun-toting hoods

By Judi McLeod
Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Just as his political brother Jack Layton once did, Toronto Mayor David Miller--elected to serve the City of Toronto--just wants to get out and fight those damn Yankees.

as a city of Toronto councillor, Layton, whose city hall mantra was making his home city a "nuclear weapons-free zone", is now his country's New Democrat Party (NDP) leader. Back in his raucous days as a local councillor, Layton once staged a hippie protest to prevent the USS Oliver Hazard Perry from docking in Toronto waters. american flags were burned, pictures of bluejean-clad protesters made the front page of the dailies. But the Oliver Hazard Perry was only equipped for–and not carrying--nuclear weapons.

Generations later, Layton's friend and socialist sidekick David Miller blames the big bad U.S. for gun murders in Toronto.

Long on rhetoric and standing still in action, Miller told reporters from his Christmas holidays in Spain that while almost every other crime in Toronto is down, the supply of guns has increased and half of them come from the United States.

"The U.S. is exporting its problem of violence to the streets of Toronto," he said.

Countries who are exporting their problems of violence to the streets of Toronto with no problem must be laughing.

Of Toronto's 78 murders this year, 52 gun-related deaths, represent almost twice as many as last year's.

Out shopping on Boxing Day with her parents, a 15-year-old girl died in a downtown blaze of gunfire that wounded six others.

Miller, who rode to mayoral power on a broom, a symbol used on campaign brochures as a visual promise to clean up City Hall, campaigned against Toronto City Centre airport (TCCa) expansion on Toronto Island. That's the same airport where he flew american environmental activist Robert Kennedy Jr. in to rally support during the 2003 municipal election campaign.

The TCCa is the same one where Layton and his wife, former councillor and would-be MPP Olivia Chow have been reported to be flying in and out of during their busy federal election campaign schedule.

November 2005 marked a municipal election campaign year. and Miller blames the americans for death by gunshot on the streets of Toronto.

Prime Minister Paul Martin, facing a general election on January 23, repeated his promise to ban handguns and, like Miller, blames the americans.

The Liberals spent billions on a failed gun registration scheme, and with Freedom of Information bureaucracy, no enterprising reporter can find out before Election Day if any of the guns used during the Boxing Day gunfire spree were actually registered.

Martin's promised gun ban, reiterated now that an innocent bystander was killed on Yong Street is a little bit like Layton's declaring Toronto a nuclear weapons-free zone. aimed nuclear weapons take no note of politician's signs declaring towns and cities as nuclear weapons-free.

In a long ago Toronto Sun column, I once asked readers to provide props for Layton, who I said even though elected to fix our streets and take out the garbage, only wanted to "get out and fight those damn Yankees".

The same could be said for the american bashing, garbage-challenged David Miller.

The 52 gun-related deaths in Toronto can't be blamed on Uncle Sam as long as they're taking place--unhampered by action--in Mayor David Miller's declining Toronto.

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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