HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-02-09, Page 25H. GORDON
GREEN
"Let your fingers do the
walking!"
This from old Ma Bell, and
we've been heeding her ad-
vice for years now. But of
late fingers have been doing
something more than walk-
ing. They are in the news be -
cause they have been talk-
ing. And because they have
been talking obscenely.
In London, Ontario on the
Thursday before Christmas
a 19 year old youth found that
out to his sorrow.when, after
a Provincial Court Judge
had sentenced his young
brother to six months in jail,
he showed his displeasure by
holding uphis middle finger
as he was about to leave the
courtroom.
The judge promptly had
him hauled back. "Seven
days in jail for that!" the
judge told him.
And that seven days in -
chided Christmas.
The Crown Prosecutor
later commented that the.
youth had made the mistake
of giving the judge "the Tru-
deau finger" .
Now the Prosecutor didn't
say as much but it seems
that while our Prime Minis-
ter is permitted to show
anger and contempt by
pointing his middle finger to
the North Star, such liberty
is not extendedo less not-
able individuals. Particular-
ly when they are in the pre-
sence of a judge.
I hope I'm wrong, but it
seems to me there is some-
thing ominous about both of
those upraised fingers. To
many Canadians Mr. Tru-
deau's was not just a lewd
gesture. It was a sign of his
disdain for those who dis-
a
agree with his attitude as
well as his politics, and if the
opinion polls are at all accur-
ate, his critics now constitute
a sizeable majority of us.
Could be of course that Mr.
Trudeau's gesture was pre-
cipitated by nothing more
than thoughtless impulse or
momentary exasperation.
But to far too manyna-
dians that angry finger as
sign language which i di
cated the disregard our
Prime Minister and his
government has shown so
often of late toward the will
of the majority. The imposi-
tion of metric, for instance,
without a single word of par-
liamentary debate about it,•
and in spite of massive pub-
lic resentment, or the PM's
telling us with a shrug that
elevating friend Pitfield to
the Senate really `shouldn't
concern us, or the increasing
tendency of his government
-to legislate by Orders -in -
Council and Cabinet, and to
govern by bureaucracy
while our duly elected Mein -
hers of Parliament become
virtually powerless.
Now Mr. Trudeau un-
doubtedly justifies all this by
believing so firmly that he is
right and that we the critical
majority, aren't smart
enough to see that. That we
are dead wrong. What he
seems to overlook is that in a
democracy such as ours we,
the people, have a sovereign
right to be wrong. And surely
history has proven time and
again that when those who
seek to govern without re-
gard to the will of the people,
danger lies ahead for them.
as well,as for their country.
As for the London youth,
well raising his obscene
finger for the judge's benefit
Crossroads—Feb. 9, 1983—Page 5
was no doubt contempt of
court. But it could have been
more than that. Maybe it
was an expression of defi-
ance at a system in which, to
the little man, the cards
seem always stacked against
him. He now inhabits a world
where the great people can
do:. pretty much what they
will to those beneath, and
that there's damn little that
„ can be done about it. Not till
next election, at least, and
even then there's no voting
that man defrock a judge.
Fingers are amply capable
of a nobler sign language,
but before the average Cana-
dian will feel like greeting
1983 with thumbs up or mak-
ing Churchill's determined V
for victory, there must sure-
ly be an end to this indecent
exposure of middle fingers
both from the man on the
street and from the great
people. And the first to
recognize this fact should be
our Prime Minister and his
government.
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If the name Rebecca
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