Ammo for the Bay Streeters?
A recent report to the Cobourg Police Services Board concerned the amount of policing delivered to the waterfront. The story is here, written for the NNews, written by Jennifer O'Meara - "August was the busiest month of the year for police calls to the Cobourg waterfront, and the vast majority of the incidents were liquor licence act offences" the report states.
Now not to be alarming we need more than a blanket statement to be objective. For instance if, as the report states the majority of the offences took place in the afternoon was that as a result of "cooler searches" which may or may not have been illegal, or was it just teenagers hanging out on the Pier, or was it as a result of "Beer Tent calls".
Because if we do not know these things it is just ammunition for the people who think that all visitors behave badly and shouldn't come to Cobourg to spoil their front yards!
Now not to be alarming we need more than a blanket statement to be objective. For instance if, as the report states the majority of the offences took place in the afternoon was that as a result of "cooler searches" which may or may not have been illegal, or was it just teenagers hanging out on the Pier, or was it as a result of "Beer Tent calls".
Because if we do not know these things it is just ammunition for the people who think that all visitors behave badly and shouldn't come to Cobourg to spoil their front yards!
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I thought the timing in releasing this report two days before Christmas was interesting.
It would appear they are hoping nobody even remembers it after the holidays.
Exactly what they want I suspect, no public interest in this issue so they can do what they like without our interference.
Or maybe because there is a public meeting on the waterfront in early January.
Better keep an eye on that grassy knoll!
It's one of those things about the local press that, unless you really pay attention, you might not pick up on; a fawning, grovelling, ass-kissing worship of anything the cops have to say. The cops are heroes. Lantern-jawed heroes second only to the hapless dead saps who had no more ambition in life than to make a difference in some hellhole nobody without a nuclear weapon could ever possibly hope to make a difference in. Good for them I say. Just don't EVER say with that oh-so-ordinary supreme gall that you're doing it for me because you ain't. Like the cops -the hard worn set upon misunderstood cops- you're doing it for you. And there you have it; self-glorification of a job nobody wants by a press nobody reads. Did you catch that smarmy little piece of preachy bullshit by Big Julie Fantino this week after the lesser conviction of the guy in Cobourg court for doing 10,000k.ph (or 15,000 or 20,0000K.ph) down the 401 0n his croch rocket last summer? Well, according to a letter written by The-Commish-Too-Chicken-Shit-To-Testify-At-His-Own-Inquiry and published in the press without quesation, the young man needs to be mentally assesed. Got that? The Commissioner of The O.P.P., Julian Fantino, is now a fucking psychiatrist! How lucky can we get? A Woodbridge shrink with a uniform and a gun who, it seems, has bounced around from every godamned force in the province before finally ending up head of the second largest bunch of epaulet-adorned dolts in the country.
"Grassy knoll" my ass. More like a friggin' iceberg. Maybe -just maybe- we get to see 10 lousy per cent of what the cops want us to see and no more. Sure as hell the local press is no help. No godamned help at all.
Hell -I'm still wondering about the sharpshooters stationed on the rooftop of every building in Cobourg for the funeral of Chris Garrett. What the sweetgeezusH was that dog-n-pony all about? And how many more streets, trails, parks, malls, convenience stores, public washrooms, No Left Turn signals, fire hydrants, days-of-the-week, stars-in-the-sky do we have to name after Chris Garrett before somebody stands up on their fucking hind godamned legs and says out loud for all to hear "ENOUGH IS A FUCKING ENOUGH!"
Merry Christmas everybody.
It's been public knowledge for months that there will be a public meeting in January, that's not new.
Perhaps Council wanted to wait awhile to let passions cool before we discuss the issues. That's the charitable view.
The cynical view is that they waited til the dead of winter to discuss it in hope it would all just fade away from our consciousness.
We shall see, won't we?
And not just the Chris Garrett annual flogfest, but the same for the Mistress of Misandry, Linda Janzen, Executive Director, Northumberland Services for Women, and her parsing of stats for the annual excoriation of all men, as represented by Marc Lepine.
ENOUGH IS FUCKING ENOUGH! said the lipless Merklin Muffley.
Marc Lepine....hmmmm....Marc Lepine? The name's familiar. Let's see....oh....oh....you mean Garbil Gamil, don't you? Yeah, yeah...that's right, I got it now, GARBIL GAMIL -The Name The Press Dare Not Speak -preferring of course to imagine Mr. Gamil was just another Habs fan gone a little crazy instead of a culturally-indoctrinated woman hater sprung from the loins of a few thousand years of femal oppression.
Yeah, that's right, now I remember -Garbil Gamil. And so should we all.
It might be worth noting that all of the 'progressive' males in the classroom with the girls meekly stepped outside while Gamil took care of business on behalf of all men, (as many of the leading feminist misandrists would have it). None of those milqtoast men behaved like a real man; a man would have jumped and sunk their teeth into the throat of that spawn of Islamic debris.
Needless to say, none of those students or teachers packed any heat that could have been used for the defence of innocent life.
Oh yes, a long gun registry, to take guns out of the hands of those who could have defended themselves; with the mistaken belief that a registry would take guns out of the hands of a future Gamil. That's progressive culture. I'm sure there are tough talkin' whiners, armed to the hilt with compassion who will blame Free Speech for warping Gamil to kill kill kill everything of the essence of estrogen.
Odd that an item about Cobourg beachfront issues has turned into a tirade against Julian Fantino and the head of the local womens shelter.
I am always happy to see that pig Fantino exposed, he deserves it, but Linda Janzen? What did she do to deserve that other than respond to a local columnist's editorial?
I guess one person's free speech is another person's gold plated invitation to attack.
I'm still in my Jingle Bells mode. Ho Ho Ho and a bottle of rum, or something like that.
A shooting in the foot has been reported ; the devil cavorts in details. Happy New Year !
Jingling Bells’ comment that Mr Fantino is a "pig" is all too typical of the schoolyard name-calling bully techniques that Mr Hayes recently opined about.
I had refrained from the childish smear and criticized Ms Janzen for "her parsing of stats for the annual excoriation of all men, as represented by Marc Lepine." That does not constitute an "attack" as the spineless coward, Jingling Bells, contends from behind their pseudonym.
Ms Janzen's lapdog, the progressive Grahame Woods, a retired mental health counsellor, yapped in a Sept. 9, 2008 column in the Cobourg Daily Star that "Marc Lepine very much represents men…".
The bigotry of that statement is breathtaking:
1. Osama Bin Laden very much represents Muslims.
2. Jimmy Swaggard very much represents Christians.
3. Monica Lewinsky very much represents women.
Who represents men? The men who tackled the Detroit airline terrorist before all the innocent men, women and children on board were blown up. And then there are the men who selflessly risked their lives and safety by attacking the 911 airline terrorists on United 93, thereby saving countless lives on the ground.
These courageous men are far more representative of their gender than Marc Lepine, in spite of the misandrist bigotry spread by Ms Janzen, Mr Woods and their progressive ilk.
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