The Horrible Death Threats against Jagmeet Singh

 

A lot of the media are agitated over Jagmeet Singh having been heckled in Peterborough on Tuesday.

From the videos I can find on line, the small mob shouted “traitor,” “I have children and you will not touch them,” “You turned your back on the people,” “for our children,” “We will fight for this country,” ”Not welcome,” “Shame on you,” and “boo.” One male voice said ““get the f*** out of Peterborough,” then, as the car drove off, “stay the f*** out of Peterborough.” Presumably Singh never heard the second sentence.

It was hard to hear clearly. All the legacy outlets had someone talking over the clip so you could not hear what was actually said. This fact is in itself most interesting. You had to take their word for everything; deliberately.

Singh claims he heard “death threats,” and both the Peterborough police and the RCMP claim they are investigating possible criminal behavior. The Peterborough chief went on the air to say to the protesters “your actions and belief systems are reprehensible, unconscionable, and, in some cases, criminal.”

A death threat would be criminal, but I need evidence of one. Otherwise, free speech. There was nothing even immoral in anything I could hear.  BlogTO had it right, if inadvertently, in calling the protest “inappropriate.” Exactly—it was simply rude.

If you are a good person, you should never condemn another for being rude. Only your upbringing tells you what is and is not proper in company. In a pluralistic society like Canada, indeed in any society, upbringings differ. A recent immigrant can have no idea what you consider rude, and vice versa. Even people from different regions. And, significantly, people from different social classes. 

If the police and the government want to criminalize “rudeness,” they are waging a pogrom on immigrants and the working class.

Which indeed they have been doing for some time, increasingly obviously. This is what is behind Trump Derangement Syndrome: he grew up in Queens, and so has the manners of Queens and the working class. It is his manners they find intolerable.

The ruling elite clearly both hate and fear the ruling class. They seem to know no scruples in harassing and wanting to subdue and control them. 

The fact that they make no distinction between bad manners and immorality is most telling. This is the sign of someone who has no conscience. They see ethics itself as no more than manners, and as easily dispensed with.

Also chilling—the Peterborough police chief is openly and unilaterally declaring the Orwellian crime of wrongthink: it is not just the protesters words, but their ‘belief systems” which he calls criminal.

So much for freedom of thought and freedom of conscience.

In any free society, this public statement by a public servant should result in immediate dismissal.

If the Peterborough police chief is not immediately cashiered, that will say all we need to know about our present governments.