A8& - Sunday, December 9, 1984 - North Shore News On logic in academe HANK YOU, B.C. PRESS COUNCIL. | couldn’t have done a better job myself. You have given the enemies of free speech a smack in the snout, a blow to the belly, and a hit to the heart. The lackwits, noddies, pimpieheads and mental crip ples of the Kall Collins Move- ment were hoping for some- thing different. They would then have plastered the ver dict all over the North Shore as proof that a maniac was on the loose, and lett-wing vigilantism would have assumed even more raucous tones. As it 18, they'll have to make do with this bit: ‘‘The claims that Collins indulged in errors of fact and that his writing contained mis- information were found to be unsubstantiated Your man had been accus- ed by the amusingly-named Coahtion for Fair Media (prosecutor-professor Robin Ridington’s favorite cabal) as being ‘‘abusive, sexist, racist, mahcious and tnaccurate’’. Which line was continued before the press council The prospective victim pleaded guilty on all counts except imaccuracy. But the council set the rascal free, stating that if a guy wants to oppose multtcult (my main sin), $0 what? It is mystufying that Pro tessor Robin Ridington and his cromes could be so dim The prof's English was bad enough, seeming to have been forged tn Jargonville But hts logic was even worse As | asked the council, how Doug Collins can academics demand academic freedom for them. selves, and less than press freedom for the press? Included in) his” myriad complaints was that I was critical of ‘identifiable groups” From that one can con clude that when television Stations film bast) indians jumping up and down and drinking champagne in cele bration of murder, the crews should go out with a supply of bags, which would be plac ed over the heads of the cele. [8 mailbox >.<| Don’t give them pets! 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