Toronto's Beer Mayor

JerCraigs · Post by **JerCraigs** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 11:13 pm

Did anyone else notice that George Kash of drinking beer upside down fame is running for Mayor? Had to chuckle at that one.

As a 905er I don't get to vote, but I'm partial to Miller (not to get started in a firestorm of politics!)

PRMason · Post by **PRMason** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:36 am

I think that George Kash running for mayor is a breath of fresh air! Finally the electorate can vote for somebody that they know is nuts (embarassing and annoying too!) Usually, it takes a week or tow in office before we figure out the crazy part!
Oh, yeah I forgot there was one other instance of this...Ernst Zundel tried (very unsuccessfully) to run for the leadership of the Federal Liberal party in 1968. Politics, got love 'em, it makes the world of beer look so much saner.

JerCraigs · Post by **JerCraigs** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:11 am

Who is Ernst Zundel? (forgive my ignorance)

PRMason · Post by **PRMason** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 5:24 pm

Ernst Zundel is Canada's foremost Nazi appologist. He also denies that the holocaust actually happened. He has been lurking in the Canadian political landscape for about 30 years and is now being threatened with deportation for hate crimes.
Now, back to beer...

borderline_alcoholic · Tue Oct 21, 2003 7:45 pm

He is not really an apologist, I believe he's somewhat more extreme than that. Didn't he indicate that the holocaust was invented as a sort of marketing ploy by Jews to further their own diabolical agenda?

I had not heard about him being threatened with deportation though. Are they sending him to Germany? Is he even currently a national of there? I cannot see them being very happy to take him and it is hard to revoke citizenship - which I assume he had the sense to pick up somewhere along the way.

And going back to more beer-like conversation, I don't suppose that there are any mayoral candidates who are offering to do anything useful for the beer industry whether it be brewing, importing or retail deregulating is there? So far I have heard nothing (beyond some lunacy regarding loans for beer fridges, which does not count).

esprit · Post by **esprit** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 10:36 am

I used to work with his wife, a lovely French-Canadian lady who divorced him when he started going nuts. Despite having lived in Canada for 30 years, He is not a Canadian citizen which is why the government is trying to deport him. He was living in the U.S. for a while but he hightailed it back to Canada when it looked like the authorities were going to go after him there.

borderline_alcoholic · Wed Oct 22, 2003 11:35 am

Ah, interesting. It is always a good idea to acquire citizenship if you are in a place for long enough and wish to maintain the option to remain, especially if you are going to start making a nuisance of yourself.

So where would they deport him to? Is he currently a national of the European Union?

Gunny · Post by **Gunny** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 12:32 pm

I believe he holds German citizenship.

bulba · Post by **bulba** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 3:30 pm

I'd send him to Tel Aviv...

borderline_alcoholic · Sat Oct 25, 2003 1:47 pm

Ooh, international politics...

Yes, he should feel quite at home there. He can help the Likud explain that the Palestinians are inventing their plight as part of their own evil masterplan...

Perhaps some kind of exchange system could be implemented. We send Zundel to Tel Aviv, for which the ICC gets one of the alleged human rights and/or war criminals that they are interested in pursuing from within Israel.

AFAICS, this would be entirely a win-win scenario.

...I will not be holding my breath. :-/

borderline_alcoholic · Sat Oct 25, 2003 1:51 pm

Can open. Worms everywhere.