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T trotted into the North ,
_ Shore News an Briday ta le
“conttonted with a piece writ.
ten hy David Mitchell whieh

© Was headed.

a isig free speech a bad

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free speech.a bad name,
What took hint so pre
He was way behind’
* aughn Palmer, Allan”
‘Fotheringham, Denny Ba
Michael Smith, Paula Brook,
a Miro C vernetig, Rafe Mair,
_ John Pifer and others in the ;
“pack of the politically correct.
All of whom hile pro
~‘ilbunced nie, the: Great Satan
‘of British C luinbia, tilly as
~ Chargeds all of whom know
they themselves: ‘are too sil

"Dear Eaton a oe

“a Res the: Mon 13): "ete.
‘from Tiffany... Wightnian
“Doug" 8 oldsschool is ote’ 1
. Was struck by the sheer intaler-
ance of this’ letter, Wightman
whines ‘one .“Each “Collis
‘article: upseas ne In its’ own:
wretclical little way.” Oh, how,
pathete Why can’t ce just Skip

He neat me, ‘Law giving

to be fxed by the Inasilink’:
glare of the Hunan Rights
Gestapo and that they: will
never rock aby politically tore
reet boats, 7
Davld dsappolated ine,
He should have beet able to.
think up better epithets than
“ntolérant nantiags,” he
sive ravings,” and “well.
known antl Semitism,” 4
That's kid stuff How. o
about stink weed, wart, bated

; wietch, rugeheaded ker, sere

pes  sliglewit, Bony
toad, or diinghill?

But did David really write”

the column? It read tke tt
could have been written by

his squeeze, Shari Graydon,
one of the many fems who

welte bilge for. the Sun,

Kther that or they had a
lil lateenight conference 4 ,
during which she poured ~
advice Into his ear, like a
win “Cleopatra wa minis
Anthony, +

“Louk; David dartingy:
You've simply got to do somes
thing ‘about that horrible ne
Colllns man”.

— Tsat next to Graydon at
the North Shore New :
Chiristanas party, Somehow,
she managed to keep her
sauce down, So'did 7 But ft

"ip

the Doug Callas eoluinn?
“Does she. have nos ‘willpower!
‘Why hit-one'sIusad against a
wal

wants to: censor hin, because :

* she“allows his column to upset

chert Is” ‘Tiffany Wightman so ,
insecure in her beliefs that she
€aninot cope with another Point

: of View? cee

- English,”

if it: hurts. to dogo? She”

ne wrest yma: eet TS mee

north shore news

___ VIEWPOINT

“took at ftir Whoever
aesunnggedd te sealing fad a
sense of humor

More recently she was
sven ond CBGT'V pragran
dropping the North Shore

. News nto a garbage ean with

it feminazd sneer, Let's hope tt
was a Prlday Ussue. *

In 1789 she would have
been dutig, hee kitting as the
arlstos lost thelr heads, .

As for David, let's not be

too hard on the “dear boy, He.

Wasn't had the right educa:
tlon. Frobably went to UBG

or sone other speech-eontral-

ha

ling soot fetory,
Ldsten, David Bree speech

has abvays had a bait name,

tr had a bad name when
Luther nailed bis theses to the,
door of Wittingen Cathedral:

It had a bad name when 9
John Milton wrote that Truth)
and: Falschood should grapple
freely,”

And when Job ‘yndale.

~ was burned at the stake for

ig the Bible into:
he peasants could
n't the trusted with it, Who

knew svhat ideas! they Inight, is
gen ;

And whiin Maleoim ;
Muggeridge'\ Wrote a mage:

tine article on The Roya Soup

2 Mat) Box___ |

at

“Trante that the very feedom
she wishes to remove from your

fate c allows her to: express Sher ve.

views freely, Many people pass”
over the sports oF “classified Sees
s if they have no interest in
vo T stiggest that ‘Tiffany

‘AVightman exercise her “right®

wer the Collins coum,
he rest of us to enjoy

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_ Free speech's always had bad name:

Opera and had to move out
of Ragland for a while to earn
a tiving,

it hada bad name whe
commuulata were up belore
the un-American Activities
Comarttee,

Te had» bad name when,
the ayatoltahs sentenced 2
Salman Rushdie to death for
bsasphreny,

Do you understand,

David? Repeat after mes free |
speech has never had a yood
names There have ahvays been
people like you who believe, |
they havea ‘nonwpoly on
moral absolutism. |

Stick with me and 1 wilt”
editeate thee, Difficult but,

not Impossible, Won't ehrge _

you mutch, either Two gin

and tonics atime _
David asks, who are the

supporters of Doug Collins?

- “Mostly aged and insecure vo

folk’ wha geta thrill out off.

os My venomous musings, ” he

Says”
“Hi there; you aged and.
insecure, Rottamss up. Have’

‘eanother drop of venom,

3. Perhaps David has cons.
ducted: poll Perhaps he isa.

“, titid reader, Perhaps he isa. 2 :

* fiction writer, ; i.
ai ,No wonder the

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4

Ase even it we don't hays

agree with Doug Collins’ views, -

At feast: Doug Collins: has
the backbone to call a spade a
spade, which is a very rare qual
ity. B.C. hope he carries'o

writing controversial, thought=!;

_provoking: articles for: many

“years to come. i
Patricla Keenan

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Bot alan famously,

“As for the Holocaust, ont
either,

which David despises ne for”
my views, what doey he Know,
Me

© about dt,

Not much, He gets ‘his. i
Information from movies like
Swindter's List. Whe pot ht
from seholies Ike Professor

Faurisson of Pranee or Breach

historian Paul Rassiiler who

‘was netually inv the camps, or

‘from David Irving the Brit

who was arrested while make

‘Ny

_ (ng a speech on freedom of
speech tn Victorla, he toa *
night be Riel any iiss
ton, ;
That reminds ni he i,
original Spanish Inquisttlon,
had no tine for free speech

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— The North Shove, News ; fi

” believes ste rig | in Sreedum of of

speech and the right ofall sides

a debate to be henvd. The

coliannists published in the

_ News present differing points,
uf rien, duet those views wee not
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