Ford solidifies his position as Toronto’s chief ignoramus
Posted on March 25th, 2013 –
Yesterday afternoon Rob Ford called in to Newstalk 1010’s Closing Arguments show to once again put his ignorance on display for the world at large.
The topic of discussion was Richard Kachkar, the guy who ran over a cop in a snowplow and is now pleading insanity. Ford called in and boldly stated that lawyers shouldn’t be defending Kachkar. At least that’s what I was able to get from a Newstalk blog post that’s since been yanked.
Looks like Newstalk is in the process of covering up Rob’s words (the story yankage, all other shows except this one episode being available, etc.), so I’m not sure we’ll ever have a reliable transcript, but one of the show’s guests, defence lawyer Leora Shemesh, summed up Ford’s comments:
“I just think that it’s perplexing to have the mayor of the city calling in about this issue, particularly because it’s in front of a jury and he knew that, but more so because he seemed to be uneducated about not criminally responsible and what that means.”
Additionally, Toronto lawyer Sean Robichaud weighed in:
“It is truly astonishing that the Mayor of Toronto espouses such a gross misunderstanding of the law and mental illness. There is also something unsettling and disrespectful to the justice system when a politician of his position provides his opinion on a verdict that he seems to know little about, the night before the jury is set to deliberate.”
Is it really astonishing to discover such qualities about Rob Ford at this point? Only if you’ve been living under a rock.
And is it really surprising to hear neo-Cons spouting off such unhelpful, angry, and ultimately harmful ignorance? Ditto on this one.
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March 25th, 2013 2:47 pm
Naty a day goes by without another eruption from Rob Ford. He simply cannot help himself. As for his facilitator/caregiver brother, well, are two heads really better than one? Especially when both heads are determined to challenge the notion that nature abhors a vaccuum? I sense the possibility of a mistrial shaping up here. It wasn’t just your average meatheaded CFRB redneck calling in -it was the Chief Magistrate of The City Of Toronto. Thank goodness CFRB’s minimum wage call screener didn’t have the common sense to say “Sorry, Mr. Mayor, not this time”. Because if the minimum wage call screener did have the common sense to block Ford’s call we would have been deprived of yet another stunning example of Rob Ford’s breathtaking ignorance of just about everything -including the law.