Thank god we like in Canada where freedom of the press is enshrined in our beloved Constitution.
In many other parts of the world the freedom to print anything you like about anything you want about anybody is not enshrined. In those barbaric countries little things like facts, innocent until proven guilty, and one's right to confront their accusers in a court of law are such a nuisance when a nice juicy paper selling article is the offering. Those rights are just soooooo 20th century.
As for the Province newspaper trying to raise $100k for the Ford video is absolutely incorrect. The money is actually for a new video that has surfaced that shows Christy Clark giving Adrian Dix oral sex in exchange for his willingness to "blow" the election. Both, it seems have egg on their face although clearly some of that substance on Christy's face is questionable. I know this for a fact because somebody saw a video of somebody who looks like somebody with somebody else.
The Toronto Star has sunk to new lows and for them that is no small feat. Not that this is at all unexpected as little things like journalistic integrity have never stood in the way of the Star when selling papers is on the line.
Tell me all you Ford haters out there..........what is going to happen if the video turns out to be false? Ford, love him or hate him, will be forever referred to as a coke addict. Most of you are too young to remember the infamous case of a nurse in the 1970s in Kingston. She was accused of a series of murders in a hospital. She sunk into a deep depression, her career was destroyed, her father had a heart attack and died due to the stress of the media and courts yet he had no heart troubles before the witch hunt began, and she will always have to deal with the stigma of being a murdering nurse. Turns out, she was completely innocent, she got a huge settlement but the damage was done.
What happens in a week if that video turns out to be true.............well kids that too is irrelevant and I mean COMPLETELY irrelevant. Unless he admits to the crime, despite what The Star says, he is innocent until proven guilty. Has The Star been granted divine authority by the almighty to be both judge and jury or for that matter has the general public? If the public feels he is guilty does that make it so and to hell with that little concept of justice?
I hope that all of you, Torontonians in general, and The Star have never bitched about this new US style justice you are emulating...................it's called Guantanamo 101.
