Doug Collins

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PITY YOU weren’t on holiday last week in the
Bahamas. If you had been, it would have been
your pleasure to be entertained by as big a crew
of robbers, beggars, dictators, racists, con men
and hypocrites as you could wish to meet.

I refer to the gathering
of the so-called Com-
monwealth, a cabal that
was facing a crisis, we were
told, over South Africa. If
Maggie Thatcher & Co.
didn’t start acting tough
with the besieged white
tribe, the Commonwealth
might cease to exist.

Why anyone should
worry about that is beyond
me. The sooner the Com-
monwealth draws its last
breath, the better.

There are 44 countries in
that shambles, and no one
can name them all without
looking them up. What we
do know, however, is that
many of them are not
where you would want to
be if the cops didn’t like
you.

‘The sooner the
commonwealth
draws its last
breath, the
better.’’

Uganda, Ghana,
Nigeria, Sierra Leone,
Tanzania, Singapore and
Bangladesh are a few ex-
amples of countries that
put people where the moon
don’t shine. Others are
heading that way rapidly.

They include Zimbabwe,
ruled by Comrade Robert
Mugabe; Malaysia, where
you also have to be on the

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yeu want to get ahedad in
life; Zambia, where Kenneth
Kaunda, like his buddy
Julius Byerere of Tanzania,
has discovered the secret of
staying in power for ever.

They're a fine bunch, all
right. It’s a wonder they
haven't invited Master
Sergeant K. Doe of Liberia
to join them, he having
“buried his predecessor
like a dog,’ as the news
reports of five years ago
put it.

Being rascals doesn’t
prevent them from crying
the blues about South
Africa, though. Listening
to them, you would tink
they were all parsons. But
our media and politicians
take them seriously.

Even so, my scaly old
eyes nearly popped out of
their holes when 1 saw
Brian Baloney smiling and
bobbing aroung on TV
with Nyerere a couple of
weeks ago in Ottawa. And
I fell down in a spasm
when Baloney and Joke
Clark talked about getting
advice from that experi-
enced African democrat.

_The advice they wanted
was on ‘‘possible new Ca-
nadian economic sanctions
against South Africa’.
Can you beat that? Why
don’t they go to the USSR
and ask for advice on how
to run elections?

According to Freedom
House in New York, Tan-
zania has 5,000 political
prisoners. .South Africa,
with many times Tan-
zania’s population, proba-
bly has no more than a
couple of hundred.

Since 1962, Tanzania has
had something called the
Preventive Detention Act.

straight

If Nyerere doesn't like you,
goodbye and good luck.
This year, South Africa
also enacted emergency
legislation. But that
docsn’t mean a guy is
clapped in irons just
because Pik Botha points
his finger at him.

In Tanzania, indepen-
dent trade unions and po-
litical opposition don’t ex-
ist and, thanks to its Great
Leader, the country is an
economic shambles. Yet
Nyerere is the most suc-
cessful foreign aid
Scrounger of all, and the
Baloney/Turner/
Broadbent regime is his
biggest supporter.

“Why don’t they
go to the USSR
and ask for
advice on how to
run elections?’’

SEER

Baloney no doubt sought
advice on how to give the
bum more money.

The most sick-making
Bahamas incident of all
was Baloney’s pious state-
ment that the South
Africans were now hanging
poets — a reference to the
black man who had swung
for murdering another
black man — a policeman.
Never did Baloney look
more smug.

Let us now pray. Let us

pray that Margaret That-
cher’s stand on South
Africa will indeed lead to
the dissolution of this
phoniest club in the world,
a club whose only function
is to provide grist for
hypocrites and half-witted
editorial writers. ‘

JUDY BENJAMIN R.MLT.

and
JUDITH MALLETT R.M-T.

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