Seriously, I think you may need to adjust your meds.
There have been a total of three political assassinations in the entire history of Canada. Only two of those have been in the past century -- one was FLQ-related, and the other was part of the conscription issue during WWII.
And, big deal. This is Rob Ford that we're dealing with. He's an incendiary figure, the sort which sparks exceptions to general patterns.
The notion that someone in the gay community would murder the mayor because he initially refused to attend the Pride Parade is both insane and offensive to the gay community (who has far more of a sense of proportion than you seem to).
Who says it'd be as simple as "someone in the gay community"? Look: I'm had such premonitions since last fall, *long* before Pride, and in fact I wouldn't be surprised if a reason he lay low over his last month of campaigning was because of death threats (no, not from me--don't get any idears;-)). Nobody's coming up front about it because, well, it's a "code red" issue--but, really. With a mayor like Ford, we're truly in a phase verging on where if there
haven't or couldn't possibly be the rumble of death threats or assassination attempts around the corner, then, uh, the opposition (not the thoughtful, measured opposition--
the opposition at large) has failed. All Pride is, is an archetypal "straw that broke the camel's back" benchmark.
And technically, perhaps I've "needed new meds" ever since 2001, since I've never flinched from the notion of 9/11 being a keynote real-time aesthetic moment in our lives. Maybe you're just scared that it'd be simply a horrible, traumatic event if it happened; as far as I'm concerned, it might as well be transfixingly cathartic, even if I wound up losing friends and colleagues in the melee.
So...I'm prepared.
