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Free speech and other B.C. labour laughs

Dear Editor:

No one should ever claim that there
aren’t lots of knee-slappers in the papers.

I read in the Vancouwr Sun, tor
instance, that the B.C. Federation of
Labour has given $10,000 to a campaign
on behalf of rampaging students who
fought the police at the Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation conference fast
year.

The students are not being prosecut-
ed, of course. They want to prosecute.

Now for the laugh: Federation presi-

dent Ken Georgetti believes the students”
free specch rights were violated. Free
speech, he said. is “traditionally impor-
tant to che Isbour movement,” the labour
movement having had a history of cham-
pioning free speech.

Well, blow me down for a simpleton.
But how many dollars have floated in
trom that source to the North Shore
News Free Speech Defence Fund. And
what support has he given it? It must be
a matter of whose speech is involved. Free
speech for me but not for thee!

THE CITY OF NORTH VANCOUVER

If Mr. Georgetti is so keen on free
speech, how come he hasn't had a word
to say against B.C's speech-denying
Human Rights Code, enacted by his
cronies in Victoria and the biggest threat
to a free press in over half a century? But
here I go again. For him to do that would
be like expecting the Roman emperor
Caligula. to be against throwing
Christians to the lions.

It’s a funny old world.

Doug Collins
West Vancouver

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