“Mayor Rob Ford compares rival councillors to Soviet Union’s Joseph Stalin”
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An excerpt from the above linked-to article follows:
** Joseph Stalin didn’t care about taxpayers.
That’s the most benefit-of-the-doubt way to take a radio comment made by Mayor Rob Ford on Tuesday morning, which likened five political rivals to the murderous Russian dictator…
“These people are all two steps left of Joe Stalin. So I’m not discouraged by that and I don’t expect it. They don’t care about the taxpayers. But I know one person who does, and that’s me.” …
[Adam] Vaughan chalked it up to Ford being Ford.
“It’s one of those things that Mayor Ford says that no one understands. He’s just lashing out. I don’t think anyone should compare any member of council to Joseph Stalin,” Vaughan said. **
My typo-corrected online responses to the above linked-to post follows:
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Fine As Long As…
“Mayor Rob Ford compares rival councillors to Soviet Union’s Joseph Stalin.” Which is fine – and not behavior we can, or should, do anything to prevent – as long as people are beginning to understand it. Most north Americans, and, generally, citizens in developed democracies (who aren’t immigrants from south America, where they have learned things), have become cattle – by design. The majority of the 99% are stirring, a good, if rather late, development. That stirring must be accompanied by education (not propaganda, which we are already getting). Chomsky – who points out that propaganda is more important in developed states where people can’t so easily be physically mistreated by rulers – long ago pointed out the term ‘communist’, for example, is used in a technical sense and slung (hypocritically) by rightwingers at ‘any’ who simply have views that are not elite.
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State Terror
Let’s not let Ford’s ilk hide, even if it’s hard to stand up to their kind. Adam Vaughan thinks no one should compare any council member to Joseph Stalin. Does he mean that free speech is only okay sometimes? Or does he mean that there is no basis for the comparison? If the comparison is education, I’m all for it. To suggest that any council member has ‘actually’ murdered citizens is folly, to be clear. Beyond that… Look at the way western corporations (you name it!) worked with China to create a surveillance/security network that our leaders here would love to employ but can’t, fully – yet (“China’s All Seeing Eye,” by Naomi Klein). We barely rolled back SOPA & PIPA (for now). Will we sorely regret it when ‘democracy’ and ‘advanced’ means that 99% of us are afraid of our neighbors and authorities and, therefore, of our own freedom[?]
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Tags: corporatocracy, gatekeepers, propaganda, Rob Ford, terrorism
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