Joel West, Comic

It’s been a week.

The men and women who were arrested have been released. The police are blaming the protesters. The protesters blame the police. The mayor is mum. The Prime Minister is hiding.

Yes I mean you, Mr. Stephen Joseph Harper.

Ultimately the blame is yours. No you didn’t march. You were too busy ‘doing business.’ While you frolicked around the two hundred thousand dollar fake lake, cavorting with leaders from other countries, you ate and ‘did business’. You stood for photo ops and did business. And while you did so, your SS infringed on people’s civil liberties.

Mr. Harper, as a concerned citizen, I really need to ask this question: What were you thinking?

You’re not a stupid man, Steve. You went to college. You studied economics (not law which in itself is refreshing). You helped mastermind the dry gulching and take over of the Progressive Conservative party by the Reformists. You stabbed Stockwell Day, then the leader of the party, in the back (and good for you). And you got to be Prime Minister. Not bad for a middle lower class white guy from Leaside.

So what happened? Are you that out of touch with Canadians that you could not foresee problems?  Are you that far removed from Canadians (an accusation you made against Pierre Trudeau) that you could not tell trouble was a brewing? Are you so distanced from your roots of being a common man that you didn’t know that putting a major economic summit in the middle of urban city would cause protesting?

I’m just trying to figure it out Steve.

Even the Liberals were smart enough to put large summits like this out of town. Were you misinformed? Misled? Mistaken?

All we’ve heard from you, Stevie baby, is SILENCE. Maybe you’ve kept silent because you’ve heard silence is golden and you like gold too much? Maybe it’s because you are so horrified that the civil rights of the people who did protest were violated. Maybe it’s because you feel terrible that police went amok and did illegal searches far away from any protest area? Or maybe, just maybe, you just don’t care.

Mr. Prime Minister, we do care. We Canadians are now dedicated to defeating your government. But more than that, Mr. Right Honorable Stephen Joseph Harper, we are dedicated to defeating YOU. You made it personal with your uncaring silence. You made it personal when your police acted illegally, you made it personal when you created the problem in the fist place and Mr. Harper you made it personal when you said NOTHING.

We know what you are waiting for Mr. Harper. You are listening to your high priced spin doctors, the ones that come out of OUR tax dollars, and you are waiting for them to spin you a way out. There is no way out of silence. Silence is cowardly and you Stevie baby are a coward and a bully. And seriously, good luck in the next election. You’ll need it.