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Latvia Needs A Rob Ford

Canadian civic politics almost never registers across the pond. It takes a large story to make a ripple over here and that's where douchebarge Rob Ford comes in. 

I think it fair to say that it would take some fancy footwork to have not noticed the train wreck that is the Mayor of Canada's largest city, one Rob Ford. He casts a large shadow lately appearing almost nightly on the news of every country in the world, parodied on SNL and countless blogs. Blatant misogyny and bullying behaviour, accusations of drug use, drink driving, drug use AND drinking within the Mayors office during & outside office hours, corruption, domestic abuse, employing loyal thugs and prostitutes etc from the city budget. Where to stop?

Here's a nice little web site that pulls all the crazy together into one place. The carpet that ties the room together as it were.

Mayor Ford

But what is this link between Latvia and Rob Ford you ask? It's not much, I wrote about it here before. And of course it is mentioned in the first link above detailing all of the TO Mayors peccadilloes in chronological order.

Still, my point is that all of this was reported by Canadian Journalists without any interference from the police. In fact the police started their own investigation which is likely to lead to a host of charges against Rob Ford and his cohorts rather than open investigations against the Journalists!

Contrast that with the strange story of Leonids Jackobsons here in Latvia. Really an incredible story that has been mentioned in the European Journalism Observatory and the CIA report on Latvian freedom of the press.

If Latvia had a Rob Ford would anyone in the country even know about it? Food for thought.

In the meantime please keep watching the national embarrassment that is Rob Ford brought to you by a Free Press and a properly focused police force.

ZOMG!