On threats

VOCM posted audio earlier today that offers a fascinating glimpse into the mind of the Newfoundland narcissus. Quoth Our Dear Premier:

I don’t respond very well to threats. I don’t listen to threats. Nor will We honour those threats. So its up to nurses to do what they wanna do there… We’ll deal with it. We’ll just deal with it. ButIgottatellya, threats of mass resignation in order to extort benefits or extra salaries or extra leave from government, it’s not on for Us.

Not on, eh? What, so now the guy who threatened a previous group of insufficiently Premier-positive public service strikers that “they will be out 'til the cows come home”; who threatened vague, unspecified, and unfulfilled “dire consequences” if he didn’t get his way on equalization; and who solemnly intoned, “I will sue you. That goes for Roger Grimes, that goes for Sue Kelland-Dyer, that goes for Ed Hollett”; that guy now has a problem with threats?

And the guy who tore down the flag has issues with extortion?

It is incredible, yet entirely predictable, how His view of threats — much like His opinion of those dastardly “personal attacks” — depends entirely on whether he is the target of such utterances, or their source.

Too bad for the nurses that they have to negotiate – such as those “negotiations” are – with such a blatant, unrepentant, hypocrite of the highest order.