Rob Ford Crack Scandal: Toronto police chief Bill Blair confirms that the cops have the Rob Ford crack video
At a packed press conference this morning, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair completely and utterly shocked the city by revealing police “are now in possession” of the Holy Grail Rob Ford crack video. While Blair wouldn’t explicitly state that the video shows Ford smoking crack, he confirmed that police have a video file of the mayor that is “consistent with what had been previously described in various media reports”—referring, presumably, to Gawker and the Toronto Star’s bombshell articles from May. “I think it’s fair to say the mayor does appear in that video but I’m not going to get into the detail of what activities is depicted in that video,” said Blair.
Blair explained that warrants from the Project Traveller drug raids yielded multiple mobile devices and hard drives, which contained deleted files that police have now recovered. Along with the video described by the Star and Gawker, police have recovered “at least one other video file that appears somewhat relevant in the case,” Blair said. He added that there is nothing on the video that would allow police to lay criminal charges against Ford at present.
Blair’s other bombshell: Sandro Lisi, Ford’s (very close) associate and an alleged drug dealer, was arrested this morning for extortion charges, though Blair wouldn’t confirm if Ford is the victim of that extortion. The police chief also said he wouldn’t comment on what he has seen—but then immediately proceeded to say, “I’m disappointed.” His final gift to reporters: confirmation that the video will be presented in court.
Ford: apologize to the citizens of Toronto, apologize to the press, esp. the Star, and resign. now.
Ford is the victim of an obvious conspiracy. The unavoidable symptoms of “crack” addiction are massive weight loss and black and brown teeth within weeks. Ford is obviously not a “crack head”. Video made by criminals is not “evidence” of anything. Videos have been easily faked by anyone since the Video Toaster came out more than twenty years ago. Today any kid with a smart phone can create a video of the Mayor dancing with space aliens or whatever. What will this rumoured “evidence” prove?
It is time to remove all of the conspirators from public office.
While professionals make editing, doctoring, creating special effects on video SEEM easy, I assure you that it most certainly is not, otherwise YouTube would’ve been filled with hoax videos of the alleged “crack video.” A quick search on google will confirm that no believable hoax videos have taken a one sucker.
Let’s just hope this video makes Mayor Ford show at least a little bit
of remorse for the way he’s acted. It’s hard to imagine just how thick-skinned
someone can be.
Going off on a bit of a tangent, however, this case raises an interesting debate
about whether data recovery is a boon or bane for us in the digital age. Did
you know that it’s impossible to delete data permanently off your hard disks?
This post here was an eye-opener for me.