wastikas and double standards

WHIT sells? Sex,
swastikas and crime.

That explains in part why
“holocaustomania” ts never
out of the news. One might
think the war ended last week.
The holocaust has become an
industry. Just consider the
pressure on Switzerland.

It is claimed that the
alleged Nazi gold in
Switzerland belongs to holo-
caust survivors. But no one
has proved anything. And a
Jewish “investigator” was on
the air recently stating, “the
war is not yet over.”

So it seems. Over half'a
century since the last shot was
Gred the hunt for Nazi war
criminals — real, imagined,
dead or dying, has reached
frantic proportions.

It is a tribute to the power
of groups like the Canadian
Jewish Congress (CJC) and
the World Jewish Congress.

One is not supposed to say
things like that and the main-
stream media never do. But
not saying it does not make it
not true.

Recently, the TV pro:

60 Minutes accused this oun
try of harboring war criminals.
We are “a Paraguay of the
North.”

The item was done by
Mike Wallace who, being
Jewish himself, might not be
entirely unprejudiced. And all
the usual faces appeared,
including the CJC’s Irving
Abella and the ubiquitous
Bernie Farber.

The next night the CBC's
National took up the story

and most of the same faces
appeared again.

You have to hand it to
those groups. They press a
burton and the film starts
playing.

Thar’s how crimes commit-
ted outside of Canada by peo-
ple who were not Canadians
became a Canadian affair. And
why Ottawa set up the
Deschenes Royal Commission
of inquiry on war criminals in
1986.

Tt came up with the recom-
mendation that 200 suspects
should be investigated.

Millions of dollars and 11
years later only one war crimi-
nal has been extradited —
Jacob Luitjens -— and that was
because the Dutch govern-
ment was after him for
offences against his own peo-

ple.

Why only one? Fifty years
after the war is a mass of con-
fused memories and debatable
storics.

Several high profile “war

criminals” have been shown to
be innocent, the classic case
being that of John Demjanjuk,
accused of being “Ivan the
Terrible” of Treblinka.

After he had spent years in
jail in Israel three Israchi judges
acquitted him. Unanimously.

The pressure groups keep
pressing. So Ortawa agreed to
do an end run around the
failed war crimes prosecutions
by making those who may
have lied about their military
background subject to depor-
tation.

Those cases are proving,
difficult, too. Only a few
weeks ago, 90-year-ald
Antanas Kenstavicius of Hope,
a former Lithuanian, had the
bad taste to chear his accusers
by dying the very day he was
to be heard.

60 Minutes ran a tape made
by a private eye, Steve
Rambam, who claimed to
have tricked Kenstavicius and
others into making confes-
sions.

Outraged over StatsCan scam

Dear Editor:

Bravo, Mr. Collins.
(StatsCan’s snooping storm-
troopers, Feb. 19 News). It’s
important that this littlc-
known Survey of Family
Expenditures and the man-
date granted StatsCan be
exposed to the full glare of
public scrutiny. The knock on
our door Jan. 23 was a rude
awakening to the sweeping
powers granted. this agency.

That day we were
informed the laws of this
country required us to under-
go a face-to-face interview in
our home, revealing every
detail of our financial life in
1996 — a full accounting of
every dollar earned, inherited,
gifted, won, or dug up in the
back yard; a complete
accounting of every loan,

mortgage, credit card bal-

ance; the net change in cash
held in the bank; RRSP hold-
ings.

Government bonds, pri-
vate stocks and mutual funds,
etc., etc. We were to provide
minute details of every dollar
spent that year, listed sepa-
rately for each family member.

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Want some specific cate-
gories? Socks, underwear,
neckties, watches, shampoos.
toothpaste, razors and razor
blades — and on and on. In
1992, the last year the survey
was conducted, it was +7
pages long. Fail to comply —
you may be imprisoned or
fined or both.

Whar, you might ask,
could be of such pressing
national interest to compel
some 16,000 Canadians to
tell all? To help rebalance the
Consumer Price Index and

rovide info that is sold for a

efty $3,000 for companies
to do market research and tar-
get specific consumer inter-
ests.

By the way, this is done

= Homeowner

an

ravel,

every two to four years. And
the sample size keeps grow-
ing. In 1990 it was 4,569; in
1992 it was 9,492 (and cach
of these surveys was still vol-
untary). Maybe in 20 years
itl simply be filed as part of
your annual income tax. And,
maybe, in two years it will be
you answering the knock.

So ple.se, if you care a
whit for personal freedom and
democrat rights, say no! Tell
your MP, tell John Manley,
minister in charge of
StatsCan, and tell Bruce
Phillips the Privacy commis-
sioner of Canada, that this is
an outrage.

Dr. and Mrs. I. Scott
and Terry Cornell
Lions Bay

a Defieux-Saxelby
minsurance
maSservices Inc.

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105-200 West Esplanade
North Vancouver

{Located beneath
Famous Players Theatre)

Rambam turned over six
such “confessions” to the
RCMP war crimes squad.
Whether they included the
alleged Kenstavicius statement
is not clear. But the police
were not impressed.

Set. Pierre Bisson has been
quoted in the Western Jewish
Bullerin as saying: “There was
no admission from the inter-
viewcees, contrary to what Mr.
Rambam said.” It was also
stated that Rambam had
“exaggerated the so-called
confessions he had obtained.”

Were atrocities committed?
Yes. Especially on the Eastern
Front. And Jews were mur-
dered because they were Jews.

It’s worth beanng in mind,
though, that in spite of
Atlantic Charters and other
soothing declarations, large
numbers of Germans were
killed for being Germans when
the Russians arrived. And mil-
lions were expelled from their
ancient lands. Rape and rob-
bery were routine.

Similar atrocities took place
when the Czechs took back
the Sudentenland. The Czech
president has apologized for
them.

This has been a century of
holocausts. But you could be
forgiven for thinking there had
been only one. Meanwhile,
war crimes have been commit-
ted by those who denounce
them most.

Ask the Palestinians about
Israeli war crimes. Ask the
Lebanese. Consider, too, the
response of the Israeli govern-
ment to last year’s news that
its troops had massacred
Egyptian prisoners in the wars
ofl 956 and 1967.

The prime minister of the
time, Yitzhak Rabin, said
nothing could be done about
it now. It was all too long ago.

I agree. But why the dou-
ble standard?

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believes strongly in freedom of
speech and the right of all sides
in a@ debate to be heard. The
columnists pie in the yf
News t differing points o
view, but those views are not
necessarily those of the newspa-

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