Jack Layton is Dead

Now is the time for everyone to forget what Jack Layton stood for and to remember the man that he was. I just can't be that much of a hypocrite. Jack Layton was a socialist, a man who believed that the inalienable rights of man were, in fact, alienable. This was a man who believed what is yours was his and what was his was his. I do not care that Jack was a nice guy to have a beer with, or was a decent guy (happy endings in sleazy massage parlours notwithstanding). To me the only difference between Layton and Stalin, Layton and Mao, Layton and Pol Pot was opportunity. I will not celebrate the life of a man who fought to enslave me to his values.