This picture definitely gave me chills, and I thought you might want to post it. It was taken @ 11:10 am this morning on University Ave in front of Mt Sinai Hospital. For most of us, this photo is a sign of solidarity the likes of which we rarely see in Canada, and it makes my heart and eyes swell when I think of why all these brothers and sisters are gathering today. For an ungrateful, and completely heartless loser like Mr. PTB, this will be sure to make him nuts thinking of all the freeloaders that rode GO for free. Read PTB's comment hereSubmitted by LM via pic message to 9054420352
PS. Check out the Toronto Star's incredible slide show of the procession.
hahah. They were happy to get time off of work!
ReplyDeleteI happen to be married to a Durham Regional Police Officer. This wasn't a day off work. I can't believe the assholes who came out of the woodwork today on this website and the disrespect that was shown. One day, when your house is being robbed, let me know who you plan to call.
ReplyDeleteDisrispect my ass! I am sick and tired of the sanctimonious crap uttered by people who have a certain job. Why are the 8 hours they put in equated with heroism...every working person is a hero. Is it b/c of danger....the road construction and miners are the real f'ing heros. Maybe it should be dentists as they have the highest rate of suicide due to job related stress. Get off your horse before your nose starts to bleed!
ReplyDeleteNext time there is an emergency, whether it be a robbery, fire or heart attack, they bloody well better show up when called, b/c if they don't their lazy incompetent ass should be fired.
The backlash erupting in response to the police funeral for Sgt. Ryan Russell is sickening.
ReplyDeleteOn talk radio, in my voice-mail, in letters to the editor, calls to our office, not an insignificant number of people are expressing outrage over the events of Tuesday in Toronto.
They’re furious so many police officers showed up.
They can’t believe how much the funeral will cost the city.
They don’t think this police officer deserves the hero treatment for doing the job he’s paid to do.
They’re mad about the massive media coverage.
And, the biggest conspiracy theory of all, they believe it’s a political smokescreen to offset negative attention from the G20 policing debacle.
One caller to my voice-mail even complained, “what did Ryan Russell do for me, to make my life better?”
My problem isn’t with his freedom of speech, but let’s look at the real issues here.
On the morning of Jan. 12, a wild man behind the wheel of a stolen snowplow went demolition-derby on the city.
The normal reaction of every right-thinking citizen would be to run in the opposite direction.
Sgt. Russell ran into harm’s way. He did his very best to stop the rampage before someone waiting at a bus stop, or heading to Tims for a coffee, ended up dead.
“Ryan always put others before himself,” his amazingly strong widow, Christine, said at her husband’s funeral. “This cost him his life.”
If you can’t understand why this death is different from a construction worker killed on a job site, or a woman waiting for a bus, you don’t understand the job of the police.
Of course every death is significant to someone, but the job of the police is to maintain order in society for the benefit of all. As it says on their squad cars they “serve and protect.”
Yes, they are well-paid. But what they do helps make Toronto a safe and great place to live.
Civil society needs the instruments of law and order, and needs them to be effective and trustworthy.
No one gets a free run at a police officer. Period.
rob.granatstein@sunmedia.ca