Doug Collins

@ get this straizht @

Gun
grabbed

9 - Friday, August 1, 1986 - North Shore News

AN COLT 45 handgun was stolen
from a North Vancouver home
Tuesday. along with an undeter-
mined amount of jewelry and cash.

North Vancouver ROMP are in-
sestigating the theft rom. a resi-
dence in the [200 block of Plateau
Drive.

Police say the break-in occurred
sometime between noon and 6
pam,

The handgun has a seven and a
half-inch barrel.

If anvone has any information
about the theft he is asked to con-
tact the RCMP at 985-1311) or
Crimestoppers at 660-TIPS,

Hhose foot is to be the measure by which ours are all to be
cut or stretched? -~ Thomas Jefferson.

3 DAY B.C. DAY

WITH FEW exceptions, Canadian jurists, politicians,
academics and media people do not understand freedom of
speech. They pay lip service to it while ignoring the rape of |

Fit or helping to destrey it.

Vhat's why Ernst: Zundel was
sentenced to 18 months for
distributing a pamphlet, why
members of the bar can advocate
secret trials for “hate mongers”’
(lest foul beliefs gain credence)
and why cheers are heard when
Doug Christie's Canadian Free
Speech league is denied a forum in
Victoria.

An example of what £ ain talk-

F ing about was seen last week ina

¥ long CBC so-called news item in
which ‘investigative reporter’
Rick Ouston put on a display of
hunt-the-devil.

The errors and idiocies of his
‘expose’? were documented here
on Wednesday, but it remains to
emphasize that if his targets had

| been left-wing rather than right,
his act would not have got on the
air. He is in tune with the times,
though — especially the CBC
times.

QOuston is probably too young
to remember it, and too dim to
care much about it even if he did
remember it, but 20 years ago a
national debate began that ended
in victory for people who demand
freedom for themselves but love
to deny it to others.

I refer to the passing in parlia-
ment of the hate laws in which

| Ouston apparently sees no fault.
We have them because the Cana-
dian Jewish Congress wanted
them, and if it’s anti-Semitic to
mention that, that's too bad.

The hate laws are used selective-
ly, just as their critics predicted
they would be. In other words,
they are applied by politicians (at-
torneys general) when they think
political yards are to be made.
And if hate charges won't stand
up in court, the much looser Sec-
tion 177 of the Criminal Code is
dragged out -- spreading false
news,

The anti-free speech mob has
only to mention the words Nazi,
KKK or anti-Semitic in accusing
someone, and free speech
pharisees who would bear arms in

Pageant

From Page 8

and remembered me from school,”’
she said.

Dixon, who still lives in North
Vancouver, was known as Katie
Spees in those days.

After she won the Miss North
Shore title she competed in the
Miss PNE contest. Although she
wasn't successful there, Dixon did
meet some prestigious PNE guests
— celebrity Jimmy Durante, singer
Frankie Lane and comedian Candy
Candino.

“T had my picture taken with
Jimmy Durante,” said Dixon.

“IT had to take my shoes off
because I didn’t want to be too
much taller."’

Dixon said another highlight
during her year as Miss North
Shore was doing professional
modelling assignments, including
the Christmas advertisement for
B.C, Tel.

the defence of freedom for com-
munists to walk byon the other side
of the street, Which is not surpris-
ing, really, seeing that they are ex-
perts in the double standard.

Some judges don’t impress ine
with their logic, either. In both the
Keegstra and Zundel trials, the
gents of the bench said that
freedom of speech wis not at
issue. But if it wasn’t, what the
hell was?

The judge in the Zundel trial
even told the ‘criminal’ that
while awaiting appeal he could
not mention anything related to
the Holocaust (the official version
of which Zundel had denied). As
one of the Toronto newspapers
put it, this was ‘‘a stunning gag of
a Canadian resident".

The Oustons obviously believe
that the hate laws are not bad at
all, because they never investizate
them or otherwise question them.

This stunted view of freedom of

speech is shared by the Art Kubes |

and Renate Shearers of the B.C.
Federation of Labor, who went
into ecstasies when Zundel was
prevented from appearing at the
Empress, even though he couldn’t
have done much more than talk
about the Moonlight Sonata, But
the Kubes are badly placed to cast
the first stone. How many trade
union leaders have not poured
hate on ‘‘scabs”’ and employers?

It is safe to chase people like }
Zandel and the loony KKK, but f

any investigative reporter with
guts would ask why the hate laws
were passed. why the Charter of
Rights and Freedoms is worthless

where freedom of speech is con- |

cerned, and why Jewish and left-
wing pressure groups find it so
easy to tell Ottawa what to do.
But don’t hold your breath,

At the end of his prograrn,
Ouston peered into the camera,
piggy-like, and made some inane
remark about what his right-wing
targets say is freedom of speech.
(His emphasis.) But what does he
say it is? The hate laws? Witch-
hunting?

parades

The only advice Dixon said she
has to offer her daughter and the
other contestants is to enjoy the

experience.

“We watched them at their fash-
ion show (one held July 25 and the
other July 27) and they all looked

lovely,” she said.
‘*They're

they're in the contest.”

The Miss North Shore Pageant
begins at 7 p.m. Aug. 2 at Centen-
nial Theatre. Tickets are $5 for
seniors and

aduits, $2.50 for
children under 12.

Capilano Mall is hosting the
reunion ball, which begins at 9:30
p.m. and is expected to last until 2
a.m. The cost te attend the ball is

$25 per person.

Tickets for both

West 16th Street,

Capilano Mail.

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