Rother hand WOULD you shake hands with Liberal can- didate Warren Kinsella? Reformer Ted White wouldn’t and neither would I. I would rather give a French kiss to the Phantom of the Opera. It’s not true that all is fair in love and war. There are limits. One doesn’t shoot prisoners, for instance. Or rape women. And Kinsella should not claim, hypocritically, that he wants to campaign “on the issues,” and then dig up non-existent dirt about his _——MAIL Box Doggie ao’s and don'ts Dear Editor: Now that the warmer weather has arrived, we note ‘that many joggers are once again enjoying the many paths and roadways around North Vancouver. As a dog walker and owner I would like to offer them some advice that would benefit not only _ themselves but we who walk many breeds and size of dogs. Please when coming up to someone walking a dog, espe- cially a large dog (as [ have), joggers should announce themselves in some way before getting too close. Once again [ have been startled by the soft arrival of someone at my elbow and my dog has reacted to prorect me. Only my fast reaction averted = (him/her) — trom being bitten or myself from once again falling. This is just a sensible sug- gestion and one that perhaps has not been thought of by the many joggers and bikers. B, Smith North Vancouver main opponent. I know of no one else in polities who has a bad per- sonal word to say about White, who has worked indefatigably for his con- stituents. But Kinsella is out to smear. You might think his Reform party opponent has direct or indirect links with all kinds of sinister folk. Here’s how it goes: White was a member of Doug Christie’s Western Canada Concept (WCC) in the carly 1989s. Therefore, White is a secret separatist. Fact: thousands of good people joined the WCC, At that dme they had nowhere else to go if they were fed up with the Liberals and Tories. Fact: even Gordon Wilson of the Progressive Democratic Alliance has mused on how B.C, could do quite weil as a “nation state.” Christie defended Ernst Zundet in his “spreading false news” trial. But in Kinsella’s view that reflects north shore news VIEWPOINT Jenouncing Liberal dirt-digging badly on White. Isn’t Zundel a “holocaust denier” and a neo-Nazi (whatever that is)? Those are MeCarthyite tactics. Besides which it was thanks to Christie that that dangerous “false news” law was defeated. Does Kinsella wish it hadn't been? Tt doesn’t stop there. Kinsella is still claiming that Christie “is the lawyer to the KKK.” Bad grammar and a falsehood. T checked with Christie about that months ago. He said he is not, and never has been. He once detended three men in a “hate trial,” one of whom had been accused of being in the KKK. All three were acquit- ted. The innuendo is that White equals Christie who equals the men in the white heods. “Racism,” and all thar. Is Kinsella running against Christie, or White? At times, as David Mitchell has suggested, he even seems to be running against me. I have news. Christie is worth 20 Kinsellas. He has acted in the most important free speech cases in the country, often without fee. If there were a few more Christies around, tree speech wouldn’r be in so much trouble. If there were a few more Kinsellas, though, it would be in much more trouble. As is clear from his error- ridden book, Web of Hate, he favors every anti-free speech law there is and would like a few more, “to restrict the dissemination of hatetul messages.” We all know where that kind of thinking has got us. As for “issues,” White isn’t one. But Kinsella is. He’s also a political trick cyclist. As has been pointed out by others, students turning out for him when Jean Chretien was at Cap College had been bused in from elsewhere. 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Tory Mary Collins used it to send out brochures. White uses it for an infor- mative, party political col- umn. Are we to assume that Kinsella would give that allowance to charity, or reduce the debt by not using it at all? As the man said, you can fool some of the people some of the time bur you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. Only recently there was a letter in this newspaper on which the headline read: KEN BAXTER LAWYER 25 Years Experience “Kinsella an ‘oppor- tunist’. ” Yes. His one ambi- tion is to get back to Orrawa and climb again on to that bandwagun he liked so much when he was Chretien’s boy. Your interests are secondary. 1 neasly forgot. His ads state that he “neither con- dones nor advocates the views taken by some of this newspaper's columnists.” Who the hell asked him 10? 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