8 - Sunday, September 8, 1985 - North Shore News THE FRENZY of liberal protest against South Africa reminds me of the Gadarene swine, those lit- tle piggies that were too busy hurling themselves over the cliff to stop and think about what they were doing. - I thought of that the other night when little piggies Art Kube and Cliff Andstein of the B.C. Federation of Labor ‘were running around with placards and speaking against that ship that was be- ing unloaded in New Westminster. African steel on board, and according to Kube/Andstein crew the steel ‘was contaminated. Made from black blood, etc. I also thought: how come those guys never have anything to say about the it had South’ the: even seem to get worked up about the real dictatorships in Moscow, Peking, Havana, etc. . Fact is, there is no dictator- ship in South Africa. What thereis a racial oligarchy of which a lot of distant critics would be enthusiastic members if they were there. Here are a few com- parisons for such foggy thinkers to be getting on with. In South Africa, it is true, the, blacks do not have the vote, In the U.S.S.R., nobody has a.vote, except of the rub- _ber stamp. kind. But that’s no vote at all, any more than it would ‘be a vote if South ‘African blacks were told they In South Africa, those who. : have the: vote also-have the power to change the whole system; just. as the tuling {Glasses of yesteryear ‘did in’ “Britain and Europe. But -there-is no way the com-