Cartoon comeback

The Toronto Star did publish two letters about this shameful effort (both selected as Norman Spector's LETTERS OF THE DAY--good on Norman):

1) Cartoon's implication defies all credibility

Editorial cartoon,
Nov. 10

I regret to inform you that the impending invasion of Toronto has been called off because Canada's soldiers are busy fighting and dying in Afghanistan to defend the freedoms that you and your cartoonist have decided to disrespect.

The implication that Prime Minister Stephen Harper would order the use of military force against a Canadian city, or that the Chief of the Defence Staff or members of the Canadian Forces would follow such an order, is disgusting.

Worse was your decision to publish this cartoon on the eve of Remembrance Day, the day upon which we commemorate the deaths in battle of more than 100,000 Canadians who died to secure the freedoms that your newspaper has elected to abuse.

Donald Neill, Ottawa

2) With freedom comes responsibility

Editorial cartoon
Nov. 10

Your editorial "cartoon" showing Prime Minister Stephen Harper insisting that Toronto be bombed, and Gen. Rick Hillier obeying this command, is pure slander. It is not a political critique. Furthermore, it slanders all of the men and women who died in the world wars. These people gave you freedom and your response is to spit on this freedom.

Edwina Taborsky, Toronto