Heavy-handed Ford losing respect of ordinary people

V incent J. Curtis

21 Sept 20

A car show in Hamilton Sunday night made the Canadian national news.  Over 500 show cars spontaneously appeared in one of Hamilton's largest shopping centers, along with a commensurately large crowd.  Premier Doug Ford on Friday laid now severe new restrictions on crowd size to combat, so he thinks, a second wave of covid-19 infections.  Ordinary people responded with this act of defiance.  It took Hamilton Police, together with reinforcements from Peel Regional and York Region Police and the Ontario Provincial Police to break up the show.  Three hours were required for the police to muster their forces before moving in.  There were no arrests or fines.

“Reckless behaviour,” “totally unacceptable,” “should be ashamed of themselves,” “actions….abhorrent,” “unacceptable behaviour,” “threatening,” these are the scolding words used to categorize a car show, featuring over 500 vehicles, held in the Ancaster Power Center.  Social distancing wasn’t maintained!  People went maskless!!

People don’t like being infantilized, but listen to the scold-to-child talk from the authorities, Premier Ford, Supt. Mason, and Mayor Fred.  They must have missed the upraised middle finger the car show represented.

What they aren’t missing is that the scaremongering isn’t working anymore.  People have this figured out, faster than the medical professionals advising Ford.  The pandemic, such as it was, is over.  Life needs to get back to normal.  And they’re going to take it back in a way that’s fun and makes a mockery of the authorities.

The argument that you have to curtail my freedom because it might benefit somebody else doesn’t impress after six months.

If the scolds in power are smart, which they aren’t, they’ll lighten up, or they’re going to create a generation of scofflaws.  A rule of command is to never give an order that won’t be obeyed.  We’re getting to the point where ordinary people are ignoring the orders and trolling at the scolds in authority.  Premier Ford better find the civil libertarian inside himself quickly, because shaming doesn’t work.

Ordinary people are learning to how play the games of the far-left, and that won’t be good for civil order in the future.

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