POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY RICK SALUTIN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
It is in such an ugly struggle that we often see the true characters of people who normally manage to keep a relatively benign face to the world.
Richard Colvin is calm, articulate, brave, and clearly someone who took his responsibilities towards others seriously.
Peter "my word ain't worth spit" and "my Ex is a dog" Mackay once more displayed his deeply flawed character.
His sputtering, arm-waving attacks on an honest man truly had the tone of accusations from the prosecution at a witch trial.
But we already knew Peter lacked the ethical stuff we teach our children.
A new and unexpected actor in this orchestrated passion play of attack bowed in with an astonishingly nasty performance a couple of days ago.
The high-water mark in sewerage overflow was reached a couple of days ago, on CBC Radio's show The Current, when Pamela Wallin gave an interview on the subject.
Her words simply dripped with the noxious stuff of obtuse dishonesty serving politics, truly enough to induce nausea, including her much-repeated claim she just simply could not fathom Mr. Colvin's motives.
Ms Wallin apparently lacks the moral radar to perceive when other people act bravely out of decency, ethics, and humanitarianism. Either that or she was flat-out lying on national radio to attack a decent man whom she regards as a threat to her party.
Hers was another version of kicking someone who is down, ironically enough put to the service of a matter involving the torture of prisoners.
She convinced me only of one fact, one for which I needed no convincing, and that fact is the banality of evil.
And that phrase, “the banality of evil,” best characterizes the entire matter from the original acts in Afghanistan to the efforts to throw dirt at those revealing them.
