Vic Toews becomes target of personal attacks on Twitter

An individual or group with the Twitter handle vikileaks30" has started a Twitter account and is posting details about the personal life of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.

Most would agree Toews' comments, from earlier this week were pretty stupid.

Asked Monday in the House of Commons about the Protecting Children from Internate Predators Act, Toews told a Liberal MP he could either stand with the government or "with the child pornographers" prowling online.

But even after making that comment, Toews doesn't deserve this:

"Vikileaks30, with the motto "Vic wants to know about you. Let's get to know about Vic," is tweeting what it says are quotes from affidavits in Toews' divorce case with former wife, Lorraine Fehr.

On Tuesday, they posted a string of tweets that claim to be quotes of Fehr's comments from an affidavit. "He telephoned me and said that he was moving out, stating 'get a good lawyer because you are going to need it,'" one reads.

Another claims Toews had an affair was with the couple's former babysitter and others attest Toews stopped paying Fehr support. "In February 2010 Vic closed the joint account into which the support was being deposited," the tweet reads. "When I asked him to send the money to another account, he ignored me."

All of the tweets are completely unverified.

Many on the Twittershpere didn't agree with Vikileaks30's tact.

Ottawa based public relations specialist Jeremy MacLaine tweeted this: "I don't agree with the political stance of Vic Toews, but things like this Vikileaks keeps decent people from entering public life."

Even Liberal MP Justin Trudeau came to Toewes defence: "I want to express my support for [Toews]" Trudeau tweeted. "The invasion of his privacy that @vikileaks30 represents is reprehensible."

And Vic Toews himself responded to the attacks with this tweet: "I won't get involved in this kind of gutter politics. Engaging in or responding to this kind of discussion leads nowhere."