John Lorinc @JohnLorinc · 1h
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The telling detail, and really the only thing we need to know, in Dwight Drummond's excellent invu with @TOMayorFord today was his answer to question about cooperating with the police.
As he did before rehab, Ford referred Drummond to speak with his lawyer b/c the cases are "before the courts."
That answer is disingenuous on so many levels that it's worth unpacking.
Yes, Lisi is in court, but the subjects of Project Traveller are not.
And one reason they're not before the courts is because a key witness/participant, who also happens to be the mayor, is not cooperating and helping our law enforcement officers break a gang that deals drugs and peddles weapons, etc.
If Ford has gained insight into his addiction, as he claimed, and if he is authentically contrite, as he's claimed, and if he's no longer associating with known criminals, as he's claimed, what possible reason could he have for demuring on this most important of all questions?
On this point, there is no transparency, no penitent behaviour and, most significantly, no effort to align himself with the law-abiding portion of our society.
Yes, he has the right not to self-incriminate.
But with rights come responsibilities, as countless conservatives have said, and where is the suddenly responsible Ford when it comes to assisting the police in taking down a gang that has been a menace to Etobicoke?
That sort of responsibility, it appears, is not part of the new and improved Ford.
If he had truly gained insight, and truly wanted to make amends, he'd have made a clean, as opposed to lawyerly break with his past.
As it stands, there's still a big piece of Rob Ford that's being kept behind a curtain, or perhaps more appropriately in a black box. And that's the part that is so singularly unsuited to lead.
His refusal to go to the police and to suck up consequences is proof positive that his 60 days at [Greene]stone was nothing but new packaging on the same old, um, junk.
Cut and pasted into an easier to read format than multiple twitter posts.
