Super-Throat

Speaking of whom, let’s start with our very own Super-Throat.

According to this former employee of the Davie Street Super-Valu, he alleges that employees there are often paid illegally low wages, are encouraged to beat shoplifters; the Hells Angels shop for free there and when one disgruntled ex-employee was discovered to have brought his grievance to the Labour Relations Board, he was beaten.

Does this have the ring of truth?

Anonymity in this light is all the more understandable here and also even in the case of the authors of the comments posted here. Isn’t it nice to know we live in a community where we have to hide our identity while practicing our right of free speech?

I was interviewed on CKNW last Thursday during afternoon rush hour by Philip Till (see their CKNW web site and visit their “Audio Vault” for a hearing) and he really didn’t seem to approve of this boycott business. He wanted to know if I had any evidence that Ross McLelland was indeed a member of the Hells Angels. After badgering me with other questions of a huffy nature (as he struggled to emulate a tough journalist), I, feeling somewhat exasperated, stated for all and sundry, “I'm certainly not going to go do my grocery shopping at a place that's owned by a Nazi." I wanted to ask Phil of the silvery voice, “Would you send your boy child to a pedophile to buy his candies?” The general point here is simple: any tolerance of criminal activity or association is tantamount to tacit support. We live in the society we create.