I wrote in May about the scandal surrounding our buffoon of a mayor and his alleged difficulties with some of his Somali druglord friends. Well, the story exploded again this week when the ‘alleged’ incriminating video became an actual video as police recovered it during a drug raid.
Here’s what I found interesting though: as the revelations just kept pouring in (and there were some doozies, including the mayor dismissing his behaviour as being the result of a ‘drunken stupor’ and allegations that a second video existed which showed him making death threats) the government kept insisting that no law had actually been proven to be broken and there was absolutely nothing they could do to remove this embarrassment from office…
…until a billboard went up in support of the embattled mayor, and all of a sudden, the city became concerned. It seems the billboard had the city logo on it, and they are concerned with the unauthorized usage.
We have covered so many stories here at Teleread about copyright, intellectual property, rights enforcement and so on, and sometimes, those stories make a valid point. But it’s stories like this one that leave me scratching my head at where people’s priorities are. The mayor of our largest city, the largest economy of our province and perhaps our country, smokes crack cocaine with a Somali drug lord on camera during a drunken stupor, and there is nothing we can do about it, but somebody uses the city logo on a sign, and that, we can take action on?
