Dear Editor:

Allow me to add my voice to the
increasing minority of the Doug
Collins’ and Russell Shelions in this
country. 1, for one, am sick and tired of
being victimized in an ever-mounting
process of reverse discrimination simply
because | am a white heterosexual male.

To the blacks, | am physically inferi-
or, to the feminists, | am oafish and
homy, to the gays, | am uptight and nar-
row minded and to the Asians, I am lazy
and technologically backward.

Given all these character defects, it is
nothing short of a miracle of luck and
blind chance that many of the greatest
works of philosophy and literature as
well as all of the little luxuries such as
cars, telephones, electricity, TV and
tadio were the creations of such ineffec-

tual and insensitive bumblers as we
Anglo-Saxon males!

Now that these benefits and tech-
nologies are firmly entrenched in soci-
ety, many special rights groups (eel free
to slander and criticize the very people
who made these things possible, in their
efforts to wrest an ever larger piece of an
ever shrinking pie.

But if a white heterosexual man
speaks out against what he believes to
be injustices and inadequucies, then he
is immediately condemned as a racist.

Along with the pathetically laugh-
able “political correctness” movement,
we now have the latest Trojan Horse
standing outside the city gates: Bill 32.

No doubt, this will be an excellent
diversionary smokescreen which 1!
believe it is covertly intended to be,

since it will keep so many people of
weak character and Jow self-esteem, so
busy plotting and infighting among
themselves, that they will, in no way,
have the time, energy, or motivation
necessary to notice the next round of
governmental atrocities that will no
doubt ensue.

If insanities such as these, coupled
with rampant, unchecked technological
growth continue, [ envision a country {0
years from now in which hundreds of
thousands, perhaps millions of young
men will be walking around idle. This is
a potentially volatile situation, even in
the best of times.

But these young men will be jobless,
homeless, hungry, and above all else,
angry.

We will then witness what Thomas

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Hobbes wrote about, 300 years ago in
The Leviathan, The War of All Against
All. {cannot help but feel that, all vari-
ubles taken into account, this once
proud land of ours is on a collision
course with a nightmare train, the likes
of which will be unprecedented in
human history.

Along with everyone else, the Roy
Masters, Camille Paglias, and yes, the
Doug Collins’ of this world must be
allowed the freedom of speech, if for no
other reason than to desperately try to
maintain some balance of gravity on a
planet where the natural laws of biology,
psychology and common sense have
become so perverted and twisted that it
threatens to roll over on its axis.
Martin McDermid
North Vancouver

Tap car pools to ease
bridge traffic tie-ups

Dear Editor:

Many people living on the North Shore work or do busi-
ness east of Willingdon Avenue, often in industrial areas,
even south of the Fraser River.

Driving the Ironworkers Mernorial bridge is our only
practical commute.

Car pooling will work for many of us if:

@ there are effective queue-jumping fanes;
Bi two people constitute a car pool;
a good way is provided for people to team up.

Some group, possibly the Jack Bell Foundation, should
register car pools of two people whose work or business sit-
uation can only be satisfied by car pooling.

A simple licence plate sticker can be issued to these peo-
ple. Two people heading into downtown Vancouver would
not qualify for registration as a two-person car pool.
Frank Jameson
West Vancouver

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Ovation for discrimination

Dear Editor:

On behalf of thinking citi-
zens of the North Shore, |
would like to thank you most
deeply for the stand you and
your newspaper have taken
on freedom of expression.

As an educator, I find it
appalling that the right to dis-
criminate has been increas-
ingly mired in sanitized
superficiality and an apparent
drive by government to lower
all thought to the lowest level
of the mass inertia and uncon-
sciousness — or perhaps an
even more dangerous agenda?

To the extent that we lose
our ability to discriminate,
defined in Webster’s as “!. to
see the difference (between
things): distinguish,” surely
we loose the capacity to
think.

How is it that the North
American dream of freedom
of expression could become
so twisted that we fear to hear

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opinions other than our own?

It is my experience that
Doug Collins has a capacity
to ask the hard questions, to
force us to wake up to an
insidious and increasingly
successful attempt to sanitize
all thought, to control free-
dom, to sell out the birth-right
of Canadians in the no doubt
that
some civil servant knows
truth better than J do.

The NDP government has
betrayed the people of this
province in their arrogant,
repressive and sneakily insti-
tuted Bills 32 and 33. Bill 28
has a similar arrogance and
fundamental misunderstand-
ing of the freedom of expres-
sion that is supposed to be so
deeply embedded in the
Canadian Charter of Rights
and Freedoms.

Wake up, if you value your

freedom! And Doug, I think,
personally, that some of your
ideas are incorrect, that you
have a frequently offensive
style of expressing them, and
I stand with you and the
North Shore Wews 100% in
not only your right, but the
absolute necessity of your
voice being heard.

Thank you for your
courage and discrimination; it
makes me wake up and get
clear on my own values.

Unless we put the positive
connotation back into the
word — and process — of
discrimination, we will get
the government we deserve,
one that will “Big Brother’’ us
all into a sanitized marshmal-
low world of non-thought.

Ask yourselves, who will
win if we all stop thinking?
E. Mackee
North Vancouver

jay, June 14, 1996 ~ North Shore News - 9

columnist
Collins

Dear Editor:

{ have been enjoying
your newspaper for years.

thas entertained,
informed and been a
great source for local
commerce and communi-
ty events.

One thing does always
make me smile though;
people that write into the
paper are so miffed as to
why Doug Collins contin-
ues to have a pulpit at the
North Shore News, from
which he can voice his
myopic views.

H-E-L-L-O! —
because he’s good for
readership. He stirs the
pot. Anyone who reads
his column gets painted
black or white, agrees or
disagrees vehemently.

When I read the News
T skip right over Mr.
(Redneck) Tollins.
Although, I admit I occa-
sionally read his headline,
and sometimes even start
reading his column, to
date I am proud to say, |
have never fiitished read-
ing his column because
his musings are.too low
for my standards...

The recent letter to the
editor, suggesting that a
referendum. be held to
determine Doug Collins’
fate, is pure genius. I
doubt the North Shore
News is up to that chal-
lenge though. ;
Brett Humphreys |:
North Vancouver