Still more Dannies
There's the Danny Williams who professes to be thick-skinned, for whom criticism is, in his words, "like water rolling right off my back".
And then there's the thin-skinned Danny Williams who protests, a little too loudly and often, that he is thick-skinned.
One wonders, with totally spontaneous, not at all co-ordinated condemnation of The Cartoon, whether by pseudonymous shills on the intertubes, or non-anonymous ones on the airwaves, or P&P, which of the Danny Williams it was that Kevin Tobin depicted.
posted by WJM @ 5:16 PM
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In many countries, a local politician who ordered tearing down the national flag and personally attacked the national governing leaders would face a trial (or court martial) for treason or sedition.
And in most western democracies, any senior member of the Bar who publicly suggested that a municipal politician ought to be taken out and have the sh*t beaten out of him would have been suspended from practicing law, if not disbarred.
Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the one month suspension from practice of a Halifax lawyer named Lienaux. The suspension was for describing some members of the nova Scotian judiciary as being part of an "old boys' club".
By contrast, Danny said that someone ought to physically beat the former mayor of St. John's to a pulp. Then he asked, rhetorically, whether Judge Halley, who ruled in favour of Max Ruelokke, might not have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed. Neither of these intemperate and inappropriate remarks resulted in ANY discipline of the sawed-off little despot by the Law Society.
He ought to be VERY grateful for the freedoms which he not only enjoys, but abuses.
In many countries, a local politician who ordered tearing down the national flag and personally attacked the national governing leaders would face a trial (or court martial) for treason or sedition.
And in most western democracies, any senior member of the Bar who publicly suggested that a municipal politician ought to be taken out and have the sh*t beaten out of him would have been suspended from practicing law, if not disbarred.
Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the one month suspension from practice of a Halifax lawyer named Lienaux. The suspension was for describing some members of the nova Scotian judiciary as being part of an "old boys' club".
By contrast, Danny said that someone ought to physically beat the former mayor of St. John's to a pulp. Then he asked, rhetorically, whether Judge Halley, who ruled in favour of Max Ruelokke, might not have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed. Neither of these intemperate and inappropriate remarks resulted in ANY discipline of the sawed-off little despot by the Law Society.
He ought to be VERY grateful for the freedoms which he not only enjoys, but abuses.
Hey, that's nothing. He even said people should be shot for a supposed transgression.
The same week he said that a guy in Toronto got hard time for the same thing.
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