With respect I believe that the picture illustrating this article was taken at a Toronto municipal open house party, to which the public was openly invited. As can be seen, Mr. Ford was wearing his chain of office, and it's likely that he didn't specifically know who the fellow was that he had his picture taken with...no doubt one of many at that occasion. So let's please not make this photo part of the witch hunt against Rob Ford, as popular as that seems to be at the moment....
25 May 2013 at 19:42
Anonymous said...
Harry`s right - at these events Ford is basically like Santa Claus. People line up and he smiles and takes his picture with them. It`s totally unfair to try to link him to this fascist moron, just like the fact Mel Lastman shook hands with a Hell`s Angel didn`t make him sympathetic to criminal biker gangs.
As to Latvis - it`s hilarious he is telling people to read Machiavelli. Yeah, that genius is obviously a Machiavelli-like political strategist. The clown costume is just to lull us into a false sense of confidence.
God help us if he ever gets hold of a copy of Sun Tzu. He could end up as the next Gengis Khan.
But it's makes for a much more interesting conversation if we somehow link Ford to the Nazi. I don't know about you but being a man in Fords position I would demand to know exactly what he was wearing considering it's some sort of military uniform that obviously isn't Canadian and then Google it before posing with him, but that is just me.
25 September 2013 at 13:01
Anonymous said...
We Canadians, Torontonians in particular, are sooooo laid back and forgiving.
When that amounts to acceptance and openness, it's a good thing. When it amounts to reasoning like: "Hitler was just a little psychotic", "toronto-laid-back" becomes TORONTO-DUMB-STUPID.
The Ford bros are a case in point. Before I elaborate: let's be frank: anglo-saxon bigotry was, has been, and continues to be O.K. in T.O. Ditto in Quebec, where it's morphed into Franco-fascism.
So the Ford boys are stupid Nazis, and that's OK. They have a home here in T.O... because we're so laid back. Because if some jerk says "I'll reduce your taxes," we're stressed enough to BELIEVE unquestioningly.
Hmmm.... I think we're smarter than that....we don't fall for BIG LIES, like: "We're for the taxpayer"; "subways will save the taxpayer money"; "I'm proudly anti-gay"; "I give tidbits to Toronto's "minorities", you know: those "immigrants".... etc., etc...
That's the language of Nazis in modern garb.
The Fords.
11 July 2014 at 15:44
Remember this photo?
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It recently appeared on "The Daily Show" earlier this week. This is Toronto mayor Rob Ford with Jon Latvis, founding member of the racist band RaHoWa with ties to the Heritage Front, Creativity Movement, and violent racists. We found this photo and sent it to Warren Kinsella by way of a friend, and long story short, it created a bit of a minor scandal. Latvis himself claimed he was not racist and in fact had been fooled by RaHoWa. He further threatened to sue (including a direct message) Kinsella, however Latvis seemed unaware of how the Internet actually worked and that he had left a very long record of his active and enthusiastic involvement with organized racism. And to his friends who might have been concerned about his public rejection of racism and antisemitism, he offered this as an explanation:
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At the time ARC suggested that this incident was just yet another in on a long, long, list of poor judgement calls made by Ford and his team and that he was likely not sympathetic to National Socialism. We generally still believe this to be true, though given other statements he might generously be considered to be rather bigoted. However, as a result of the current scandal (and you would have to be living under a rock to not know what we are referring to) we've learned that at least some of his immediate family were active to a degree in the racist movement in Canada. The relevant section in a "Globe & Mail" article alleging the some members of the Ford family have had a long history of being involved in the drug trade details Rob Ford's sister's involvement with members of the KKK and Heritage Front: Ms. Ford’s relationship with Mr. MacIntyre is even more perplexing because
of an earlier incident: In 2005, he and another man were accused of shooting
her in the face during an altercation in her parents’ basement. She survived
the blast and was rushed to hospital, while Mr. MacIntyre fled in her mother’s
Jaguar. Crown prosecutors later dropped numerous charges against him, while his
co-accused, Michael Patania, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a
handgun. But even before that, there was gunplay – and it was fatal. Seven years
earlier, Ms. Ford’s lover was fatally shot by her ex-husband, a drug addict
named Ennio Stirpe. At his trial, Mr. Stirpe testified that his victim, Michael
Kiklas, was a martial artist, which forced him to bring along the shotgun as
“an equalizer.”Not mentioned in the press at the time was the fact that Mr. Kiklas was a
white supremacist – a group with which Ms. Ford associated in the 1980s.Her friends included Gary MacFarlane, a founding member of the short-lived
Canadian chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as the late Wolfgang Droege,
perhaps the most notorious white supremacist in Canadian history, a former
Klansman told The Globe in an interview. Two other former associates of Ms.
Ford confirmed her association with known white supremacists.Among Mr. Droege’s numerous criminal endeavours, he also sold cocaine and
marijuana, which led to his death in 2005 when he was killed by a customer. Mr.
Droege was incarcerated for much of the 1980s in U.S. prisons – both for drug
trafficking and for his role in a bizarre plot to overthrow the government of
Dominica in the Caribbean.The former Klansman, who agreed to answer questions by e-mail on condition of
anonymity, confirmed that Kathy Ford was close to the movement, but he said he
couldn’t recall meeting any of the Ford brothers. He described hanging out in
the Fords’ basement and being snubbed by Doug Sr. when Ms. Ford invited him to
a party on the family boat. Her father, the former Klansman said, clearly did
not approve of his beliefs, while she was engaging and fun but hardly a
committed soldier in the race war.“Some people are real ‘believers’ and know all the history, dates, facts
etc… Others just join to piss off their parents, or carry out some other act of
personal rebellion,” he wrote. “Clearly [Kathy] was the latter camp.”
Again it should be noted that there isn't as yet any indication that Rob Ford was involved with these groups and individuals and it seems that the father, Doug Sr., disapproved of his daughter's relationship with white supremacists. Still, given how things have been for Ford the past week and a half, this revelation doesn't help.
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Close this window Jump to comment formWith respect I believe that the picture illustrating this article was taken at a Toronto municipal open house party, to which the public was openly invited. As can be seen, Mr. Ford was wearing his chain of office, and it's likely that he didn't specifically know who the fellow was that he had his picture taken with...no doubt one of many at that occasion. So let's please not make this photo part of the witch hunt against Rob Ford, as popular as that seems to be at the moment....
25 May 2013 at 19:42
Harry`s right - at these events Ford is basically like Santa Claus. People line up and he smiles and takes his picture with them. It`s totally unfair to try to link him to this fascist moron, just like the fact Mel Lastman shook hands with a Hell`s Angel didn`t make him sympathetic to criminal biker gangs.
As to Latvis - it`s hilarious he is telling people to read Machiavelli. Yeah, that genius is obviously a Machiavelli-like political strategist. The clown costume is just to lull us into a false sense of confidence.
God help us if he ever gets hold of a copy of Sun Tzu. He could end up as the next Gengis Khan.
8 June 2013 at 16:05
But it's makes for a much more interesting conversation if we somehow link Ford to the Nazi. I don't know about you but being a man in Fords position I would demand to know exactly what he was wearing considering it's some sort of military uniform that obviously isn't Canadian and then Google it before posing with him, but that is just me.
25 September 2013 at 13:01
We Canadians, Torontonians in particular, are sooooo laid back and forgiving.
When that amounts to acceptance and openness, it's a good thing. When it amounts to reasoning like: "Hitler was just a little psychotic", "toronto-laid-back" becomes TORONTO-DUMB-STUPID.
The Ford bros are a case in point. Before I elaborate: let's be frank: anglo-saxon bigotry was, has been, and continues to be O.K. in T.O. Ditto in Quebec, where it's morphed into Franco-fascism.
So the Ford boys are stupid Nazis, and that's OK. They have a home here in T.O... because we're so laid back. Because if some jerk says "I'll reduce your taxes," we're stressed enough to BELIEVE unquestioningly.
Hmmm.... I think we're smarter than that....we don't fall for BIG LIES, like: "We're for the taxpayer"; "subways will save the taxpayer money"; "I'm proudly anti-gay"; "I give tidbits to Toronto's "minorities", you know: those "immigrants".... etc., etc...
That's the language of Nazis in modern garb.
The Fords.
11 July 2014 at 15:44