Montreal residents were rightly scared last week to learn that a killer was prowling the city shooting indiscriminately at his victims.
And they were certainly relieved to learn that the police, whom he had also shot twice, had neutralized him.
Abdulla Shaikh was shot dead by the police.
It quickly became apparent that the man had mental problems. Without surprise. A balanced man rarely feels the need to shoot those around him.
Scandal!
When François Legault learned that the killer was gone, he summed up the feelings of most of his countrymen. I quote: “I’m glad we got rid of this person.” It was a cry of relief.
However, it was enough for his opponents to denounce his supposed inhumanity.
They therefore accuse him of treating psychological problems with a mixture of contempt and nonchalance. It is wrong ! He commented on the neutralization of an assassin!
The opposition, panicked at the thought of being swept up in the Oct. 3 elections, is so desperate for a handful against François Legault that it throws itself at even imaginary handfuls.
And of course there was the commentator’s flock of sheep. Oh man ! François Legault chose swear words! You had to say that to sound humanistic in the media.
We even found some saying that François Legault made his method so famous: he wants to get rid of problems without worrying about the complexity of the world.
He even lacked sensitivity to the killer’s family.
As for me, I think of his sacrifices.
In the end, François Legault felt it necessary to apologize and said he chose his words poorly. The media pressure was probably too great. He shouldn’t have done that.
Because this episode is particularly revealing for the existence of a language police force that tracks down the alleged coachmen everywhere in order to create artificial controversies.
And this isn’t the first time we’ve done it to François Legault. Some examples. Let’s recall a different kind of controversy regarding the Louisianization of Quebec.
The prime minister only recalled the danger of the disappearance of the people of Quebec with a word rich in history and symbolic.
This is what lies behind what is all too often referred to as the clumsiness of François Legault: a word unfiltered by the pseudo-communications experts whose essential work in life is to sanitize public discourse, reducing it to the point of meaninglessness to smooth.
disinfection
Politicians should talk like robots and will be scolded if they don’t. Ordinary people are fed up with it.
Democracy then goes under in the great sea of petty communication and theatrical outrage.
It’s fair to think that François Legault sees part of his success in the simple fact that we understand him when he speaks.
