It was not until about the third rereading of a complaint the other day that I recognized the compliments in it. And I am pleased to report that most of the comments on Babel-on-the-Bay are complimentary. Though not always.
When you write a daily commentary on the topic of politics, I must admit that there are some days that the hot cup of coffee does not warm you to the subject. And a daily effort can be demanding. The other day, on the subject of The land the law forgot, the complaints were heated.
The most interesting was one from a gentleman in Toronto who described himself as a Canadian Senior Citizen. Since it did not contain any scatological words, I will pass some of the comments on to you. I will let you judge.
The first sentence was that this was “Very likely the most disappointing post (from me)” he has ever read.
I will take that as a compliment. My regular readers are precious to me. I am not writing to piss them off but to, hopefully, inform and entertain.
He further tells me that my post was “Shallow, uninformed, biased…even lazy.” Which he found “quite surprising.” So do I.
I think I had best plead guilty to the ‘lazy.’ These are not supposed to be learned tomes. They are intended to be brief and breezy, easily digested, comments on the state of our politics.
I was also appalled that this senior citizen should accuse the RCMP of having snipers on Wet’suwet’en territory. This story appears to have originated in the United Kingdom and has no credibility. And, as far as I know, the only rifles in the Mounties’ arsenals are carbines with which they might hit the broad side of a barn from less than 10 metres.
But I stand behind my comments in The land the law forgot. There is considerable depth behind those few comments and a deep concern for our native peoples. I fault the politicians, who say much and do little.
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