What kind of 'democracy' allows this?
Submitted by Graeme on Mon, 10/25/2010 - 2:05pm
The sidewalks in my own neighborhood have been strewn all summer with the victims of our city 'democracy' - those souls who have literally nowhere else to lay their heads except for the concrete passageways of our 'fair city'.
After the next four years (regardless of which of the Top Two winds up occupying that big second-storey office at 100 Queen St. W.) the bodies may be too densely packed to step around. And yet nothing has been said at all during this campaign about this desperate, escalating poverty and homelessness.
The NIMBY-ites shriek like scalded cats at the mere suggestion of affordable housing being located in their elitist midst, and their Shitty Hall minions (along with their upper-echelon sociopath counterparts up the street at the Pink Palace) leap to in order to ensure the Yuppie enclaves remain unsullied by us po' folk, de-institutionalized 'crazies' and other assorted 'undesirables'.
And the over-funded police force has been using the same folks as target practice, with five fatal shootings so far this year in our city.
The stories have quietly faded from media 'scrutiny' almost as soon as the cordite smoke cleared from the air, ensuring that no cop will ever have to account for why they pulled the trigger on a vulnerable (and generally unarmed) civilian. Our beloved City Council endorses this slaughter on behalf of the elite with each year's newly expanded police budget.
With a provincial ballot also supposed to occur in a years' time it's becoming clear in what direction the wind is blowing - and it's an ill wind indeed. With the demise of the Special Diet allowance looming, food will literally be snatched from the mouths of children, with desperate families being forced increasingly to give up their housing in their frantic efforts to prevent this.
Whether it be four more years of McGuinty's Marauders. or our increasingly 'me,myself and I'-oriented electorate forgets all about the social destruction of the Harrisite years and takes a right turn by opening the door to Hudak's Horror, in conjunction with Toronto's expected political downturn this evening things are about to get a whole lot worse for those who had so little to begin with.
And this (plus stuff even worse, directly or in principle) is what people are endorsing with their ballots today - no matter whose name they mark that 'X' beside.
Think about it.
Graeme
After the next four years (regardless of which of the Top Two winds up occupying that big second-storey office at 100 Queen St. W.) the bodies may be too densely packed to step around. And yet nothing has been said at all during this campaign about this desperate, escalating poverty and homelessness.
The NIMBY-ites shriek like scalded cats at the mere suggestion of affordable housing being located in their elitist midst, and their Shitty Hall minions (along with their upper-echelon sociopath counterparts up the street at the Pink Palace) leap to in order to ensure the Yuppie enclaves remain unsullied by us po' folk, de-institutionalized 'crazies' and other assorted 'undesirables'.
And the over-funded police force has been using the same folks as target practice, with five fatal shootings so far this year in our city.
The stories have quietly faded from media 'scrutiny' almost as soon as the cordite smoke cleared from the air, ensuring that no cop will ever have to account for why they pulled the trigger on a vulnerable (and generally unarmed) civilian. Our beloved City Council endorses this slaughter on behalf of the elite with each year's newly expanded police budget.
With a provincial ballot also supposed to occur in a years' time it's becoming clear in what direction the wind is blowing - and it's an ill wind indeed. With the demise of the Special Diet allowance looming, food will literally be snatched from the mouths of children, with desperate families being forced increasingly to give up their housing in their frantic efforts to prevent this.
Whether it be four more years of McGuinty's Marauders. or our increasingly 'me,myself and I'-oriented electorate forgets all about the social destruction of the Harrisite years and takes a right turn by opening the door to Hudak's Horror, in conjunction with Toronto's expected political downturn this evening things are about to get a whole lot worse for those who had so little to begin with.
And this (plus stuff even worse, directly or in principle) is what people are endorsing with their ballots today - no matter whose name they mark that 'X' beside.
Think about it.
Graeme
