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By OutOfTowners (anonymous) | Posted May 20, 2010 at 16:27:46

"I'm no fan of Dreschel. On the contrary, I think he's a terrible journalist and a pretty mediocre writer to boot. Nevertheless,"

“…Please, please, will someone tell me how the heck this isn't an accusation of racism?

“… Please don't move the goal posts, it's disingenuous." “…his name-calling is indefensible - especially coming from a mayoral candidate. It's not a very good place to start if you're trying to combat nepotism, racism and divisiveness, is it?”

“Just to be clear myself, I'm not even saying he's wrong. I'm saying that in the absence of evidence, and in the context of this election, it's in poor taste and disrespectful. It also lends credence to Dreschel's column, as no serious contender for the mayoral office would write such an ill-conceived sentence - although there's no question Dreschel still behaved unfairly.”--(TD)


TD,

We sincerely apologize if anything we said got you so bent out of shape over this. That was not our intent. Now you are all over the place.

Having served in more countries than you possibly care to know, we have seen more human misery and suffering being veiled over by media spin than we wish you will ever get to see in your lifetime.

Mr. Butani gave two concrete examples of the "odious opaque veil" being put on him by Dreschel. So, how do you explain Dreschel's behavior from three years back, when as Mr. Butani's mentions in his response, that Dreschel even back then completely ignored his major contribution to the music hall pier 8 project and other works? Was Mr. Butani running for mayor back then too?

We happened to see Mr. Butani’s referenced link to his redesign of Pier 8 only on the Hamiltonian site, and which does not show up here on his response on this site.

If you have missed it completely, here it is:
http://s265.photobucket.com/albums/ii216/hamilton2-0/Pier%208%20Hamilton/

We showed this link to our dear friend who is a celebrated Canadian architect. He was totally shocked to see these images for the first time. He was very familiar with this project, which he said was part of a design competition among three cities and was well exposed in the media for months. He was in total awe of Mr. Butani's design and revenue ideas, and swore that he had never seen this design till now, and was wondering why Hamilton had not presented this more striking and viable design in its bid?

So TD, what do you think Dreschel’s reasons were for demeaning Mr. Butani, not once but twice? Could this have anything to do with the tendency to put an odious opaque veils on others based on personal preferences?

What can be construed here is a case of discrimination. Not just against Mr. Butani, but also against other candidates running for office who have been intentionally ignored by Dreschel and his so called news organization.

Now can you see where one can go with this, when the doors of the Citadel have been busted wide open?

“According to the United Nations conventions, there is no distinction between the term racial discrimination and ethnic discrimination”.

The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) is a United Nations convention.

“Article 1 of the Convention defines "racial discrimination" as: “...any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.”

“Institutional racism is the differential access to the goods, services, and opportunities of society. When the differential access becomes integral to institutions, it becomes common practice, making it difficult to rectify. Eventually, this racism dominates public bodies, private corporations, and public and private universities, and is reinforced by the actions of conformists and newcomers.”

Well known Canadian Human Rights & Labour lawyer Ms. Mary Cornish points out that, “In law, one does not have to intend to discriminate. Findings of discrimination are based on discriminatory outcomes, not on intent”.


So TD, what exactly is your definition of Mayoral in our times?

Someone who touts buzz words from having political experience, while destroying the well being of the entire community and its eco-systems? Or someone who makes you all warm and fuzzy with charm, and ends up hanging onto any public office they can get their hands, on for decades?

What exactly is the context of this election that is different from the previous four that you’ll had?

You are fortunate to have someone who is not afraid of bringing change in your city, even before he has been elected to do so. Do you see what we see from here?

After seeing that you had Mr. Butani targeted in your sights on a banal spin issue which you created, we got very interested and read many of his writings here and on Hamiltonian and Hallmark.

For crying out loud son, we seriously think you are as blind to truth as your dilettante journalist who has exposed his aversions one too many times here.

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