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WATERS CAN SCORCH

not so pathetic

Dear Editor:

One can appreciate the
News’ robustness in laying
itself and its star columnist
open to slander tempered
criticism. But I was
astonished recently (Sunday,
June 9} to see the News open
its ‘pitiless’ pages to a par-
ticularly barefaced list of
slanders, in the letter of Mr.
Colin Stacey, entitled ‘'Col-

lins deserves sympathy.”?
Mr. Stacey is unwittingly
right to prescribe for himself
sympathy for the ‘‘fallen’’
Doug Collins, dubbed by
Mr. Stacey as ‘the most pa-
thetic of God's creatures."
Indeed, the situation Doug
finds himself in in his ac-
cuser’s letter ought certainly
to guarantee him all our
sympathies. Doug is too dim

to reahze, we discover, ‘that
there are many newsworthy
topics of much greater rele-
vance to the average North
Shore resident than that of
‘freedom of speech’."" And
even too dim to understand
that in defending such an ir-
relevant principle in cases
sufficiently tough to actually
test ii—viz., in the cases of
Zuendel and Keegstra—he is

by this action compelled to
partake of more than the
principle itself: ie. commit-
ted to an ‘irrational hatred
of Jews.”

My, what a brave new
logic. | wonder if Barbara
Amiel, in facing the implica-
tion of her action of simi-
larly defending freedom of
speech at its most trying and
unappealing moments, has

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come {to grips with her own
‘irrational hatred of Jews.”
Of course, in Barbara's case,
such hatred would be ex-
traordinarily irrational, and
she would be at least a thou-
sand times more pathetic
than ‘‘wretched"’ Doug. But
then, perhaps someone has
gone amiss in his thinking,

Vol. Il

always a danger when one
dives into the emotional
cauldron of Doug Collins
scholarship. Here, even
distinguished university pro-
fessors have been known to
scorch themselves in the
walters.

Michael Bourke

West Vancouver

by
Len Macht

All I hear is sunshine on everyone's lips. It makes the
grouchiest of humans more human. And, if what I
see is any indication, even sedentary types are get-
ting off their watoosies and hoofing it in our pleasant
weather. Believe it or not, there appears to be less

accidents in good weather. That doesn’t mean Crash
Pad goes on summer recess, We're not politicians you

know.

Sunshine on Our Shoulders

Take a good look at your car. If it needs body work
now's the time to do it. You can walk to work and
enjoy the sunshine while we fix it. We'll even drop
you off at the seabus to go to work if you like, or
try one of our new service cars. All just part of our
sunny disposition here at Crash Pad. See you at the
beach in your body beautiful.

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