Out in Left-Centre Field

Despite my many disagreements with Rob Ford's policies and ideals, I was more than prepared until now to give him and his municipal administration the benefit of the doubt.

Then he goes and invites a man to his inauguration ceremony who promptly rubs it all in with as much force as he can muster.

Really, Don? "Kooks"? "Pinkos"? Reminds me of the good old days when all the talk was of the Red Scare hiding behind every corner. We, as a society, haven't changed since then, have we? Have we? Or are we stuck in an era where "socialist" is a swear-word and paranoia reigns supreme?

No, instead we have a man living in the past, where it was "us" against "them", "good" against "bad", "patriots" against "traitorous Communists". Sorry to have to break it to you, Don, but that era died with the fall of Joseph McCarthy. It lives on in the minds of many on both the right and the left, but to most, it has been cast utterly into the trash bin for all eternity.

So go on, Mr. Cherry. By all means, keep using your manufactured soapbox to spout your divisive and hateful drivel to all the world. Keep using "the troops" as both shield and tool to bash those who disagree as unpatriotic. Keep being a smug, asinine jerkass to people who already know that they took it on the nose from the public.

Just know that anyone with half a brain sees you for the arcane, obsolete and pathetic loudmouth that you really are.

Mr. Cherry, you're a disgrace to Canada.