6 - Sunday, October 9, 1994 ~ North Shore News yew, TE, una § tas Hey Tm garina have 8 good | Segson , iotiine hot air. HE SUPERIOR Voice of Radio hotline has advised, nay, exhorted North Shore «& News readership to rise as one and cancel delivery of their community newspa- per. The reason: The Superior Voice does not like the North Shore News. That alone should qualify the News as required reading for all thinking folk — the Superior Voice of Radio being often full of hot air and empty rhetoric. More importantly, however, human minds need more than one information source to live full and happy lives. Despite the vapor- ings.of The Superior Voice of Radio, thinking people are more than capable of digesting ' severai points of view on the long road to making up their own minds on a given issue. The Superior Voice of Radio, however, would prefer to have the monopoly on points of view. And The Superior Voice of Radio is Feter Speck Doug Feot Chris Johnsen right on many issues. But en the issue upon which its latest vol- cano of rhetorical fire was unleashed — North Shore News columnist Doug Collins — The Voice treads on less assured ground. For the mug of Mr. Collins alone is enough to raise radio blood pressure and skew nor- mally reasoned thinking. The result: blowhardedness and windbaggery of the first order. . Mr. Collins, of course, had already been tried and convicted in the court of Pacific Press on charges of denying the Holocaust before the full radio fusillade was unleashed. His rebuttal was published in the Oct. 7 News. News readers and radio listeners should consider both sides of the issue before passing judgment, as should The Superior Voice of Radio. The court of free and open speech demands it. Timothy Renshaw Linda Stewart Editor, The Province: The article you ran by Gordon Clark on Oct. 6 (“Holocaust just a story: Collins”) was the grotticst piece of “journalism" [have seen in a long time. And that's saying something. 1 did not deny that the “Holocaust” occurred. [ stated quite ciearly that large numbers of Jews died in the camps, as did large nuin- bers of non-Jews. Just ask the Poles. 1 did not say that “it” was “just a story.” If your reporter was taping our conversation J challenge him to produce those words. They were simply not spoken. I did say that the six million story was not true. And I quoted several Jewish sources to that effect, including Professor Yehuda Bauer, the Israeli Holocaust scholar who in 1989 was quoted in The New York Times as saying: . “The larger figures have been dismissed for years, except that it hasn’t reached the public yet.” When Clark said that historians stand by the six million story I replied that many do but some don’t (including Professor Arthur Butz, author of The Hoax of the Twentieth Century). Also that Prof. Daniel Vining. another American, has stated that to question the six million story is a quates “I cannot tell you how disap- pointed our children will be when there is not a piece of land big enough for fireworks on our block.” North Vancouver District Coun. Pam Goldsmith-Jones, on the district’s proposed fireworks restrictions. (From an Oct. 2 News story.) ‘What I’ve noticed recently is that the popularity of video has almost taken over the field. It used to be that you came out with an audio recording and you thought about doing a video. Now the reverse is almost hap- pening and I think that’s a shame. Audio gives children an inner experience of imagery that they can’t have with video.” Kids’ pop king Raffi 1 Cavoukian, on the negative Peter Kvarnstrom Vaterlo Stephenson ng tabloid ‘trash’ to task; good way for academics to lose their jobs. Jewish pressure groups don’t mess around. Nor did 1 state, baldly, that “none of my best friends are Jews." Asked whether 1 was anti- Semitic t stated that the usual cliché response to such a question was to state that “some of my best friends are Jews.” But | added that it would be idiotic to dislike Jews simply because they were Jews, - [did say that I do not believe in the gas chamber stuff and could have quoted Jewish academic Arno Mayer who stated in his book Why did the heavens not darken? that sources on the gas chambers are “at once rare and unreliable.” A particularly stupid statement by Clark was that “Columnist Doug Collins has come out of the closet and denied the Holocaust.” Closets are not my style. My views, including those on this sub- ject, have been up front for years and as far as | am concerned anyone can have them, including the Institute for Historical Review, Your newspaper is a tabloid trash bag. Next time you want to interview me, don’t bother. Just make it up out of whole cloth. The result would be the same. Doug Collins of the week aspects of video’s popularity. (From an Oct. 5 News story.) “Along British Columbia’s coastline, the most rugged and . under-populated coastline in the world, these keepers-of-the- lights are eyes and ears to the marine community. Nothing can take their place.” Daryl Bean, the national presi- dent of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, on the value of West Coast lighthouse keepers. (From an Oct. 7 News story.) ‘Some of the women have got Stories that will tear your heart out.” Donna Sauve, a member of the Disenfranchised Widows’ Association Group, on the finari- cial and social plight of widows. 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