Dear Editor
Ron, Ron, Ron, you
lead such a sheltered life! Oblivious to all but your own opinion. Writing
off all the different folk as 'socialists who are prone to using clichés'.
Does that mean
only you have the truth? Surely you would not be so bigheaded or naïve
to believe so. I bet that when you and your like minded thinking friends
meet you must do so in either fantasy land or a small phone booth.
I have watched you, as you have watched me and yet we have never clashed before literarily. That has been deliberate, I have the feeling that extremists will always expose themselves to public ridicule by the opinions they express. No need for censorship, the language used will always expose them.
But I now must wade into the "Dabor War". Ron Dabor you must either be so secure in your opinion that nothing else is tolerated or you live in your own world waiting for perceived injuries to bang against it. Usually your letters are so laced in your view that many alternate views get missed. The riot that Mr Abbott referred to, that you say doesn't exist, is well documented. In June of this year anti-poverty activists were gassed, stomped on and chased for one half mile from the place of riot, by police on horseback and foot. If you turned your TV away from the republican convention and channel 9 and read a newspaper other than the Toronto Sun you wouldn't have missed it.
Quoting Alliance dogma does not make Canada the most heavily taxed country of any industrial world (reference this please or do not criticize Mr Abbott for not referencing his quotes). This quote has long been disproved; I would love to see your statistics so that I may quote mine!
In closing it is no surprise to learn that Ron Dabor is retired, for he has no understanding of the modern workplace. In its rush to make us competitive with Mexico Mr Stockwell acting on behalf of the modern employer has, as we all know, set up a system of voluntary labour standards. "People will only work 60 hours a week if they agree to it" say the lawmakers. In this day of "families have[ing] less time because they are forced to have two or three jobs to make ends meet" (Ron Dabor 27th December Cobourg Star) is it any wonder that members of those families will be coerced into signing labour agreements just to keep those three (obviously low-paying jobs). "The facts of course are -- the choice is the workers who may volunteer to work extra hours…..No sacred rights are jeopardized by this legislation." I say whose facts Ron, yours or mine?
My final point will be made by Ron Dabor himself, but changed slightly, "I suppose that writers believe that facts and logic should never be allowed to alter their predispositions". Indeed Ron indeed!
ben burd