THAT CANADIAN pates
have become addled is ob-
vious. And although the
disease is not-confined to
this country, we are world
leaders in dottiness.

. That’s why it took us nearly
five years to get rid of Charles
Ng, who is accused of mass
murder in California and who
became a criminal in his own right
in Canada.

That’s why we have Somalis
collecting welfare and sending it
home to the warlords of their
choice. And why murderers,
rapists and other such gents are
allowed out of jail for a day’s
golf,

So 1 was astounded when a
bunch of hairies and other un-
washed practitioners of pro-

.testology were sentenced to up to

60 days in the slammer for defying
the courts in the Clayoquoi Sound
affair. :

This can’t be true, I thought.
Some reporter must have been
drinking. No judge in today’s
Canada could be that bold. But

= Mr: Justice Jchn Bourk was.

Alas, disappointment lurked.
The second batch up on criminal ©
coniempt of court charges got

‘lesser sentences. -

Well, let’s hope that the B. c.

' Appeal Court ignores all the orga-

nized howling that’s floating from

‘those socialist screwballs in Vic-
toria — and that it doesn’t revert .
‘to form.

It’s a shame that the courts
“have been deprived of other

. deterrents. Ball and chain work

and the rack come to mind.

If those were still available the
appeal judges would be more than
justified in applying them. Forthe

offenders in question thought they,

could make their own laws, and
damn the public.

If you ask me, there was much
to be said for Henry - VII}. In
his day, law meant order, not ©
disorder, and criminal contempt

_ of court was unheard of. Boiling

cin oil was a definite dissuader.

If brain-softening do-goodery
and political correctness had not .
.weaseled their way into our af-
fairs, contempt of court would
still be unknown. But now we get
.weak-minded editorialists in the
“mainstream media blubbering for

_Bporthewrst sentences.

ON THE OTHER HAND

Think about it. These long-
haired loonies persisted in cheir
Clayoquot Sound anarchy even
after the courts had warned them
off. Why? Because they wanted
their ugly mugs to be seen on TV
” and because they were convinced
nothing much would happen to
them.

Nothing much had happened to
them before. In 1985 there were

. Similar demonstrations in South

Moresby. ;
Court orders or no court orders,
White Swan, aka Svend Robinson,

- Burnaby’s pasty-faced MP, jig-

gied and joggled around with
feathers on his head and paint on
his face, preventing honest men
from doing a day’s work.

’ Hauled up before.a judge, he

was told to go away and be a

good boy.

He appeared in Clayoquot, too,
but jiggled away before he could
be arrested. B.C. Forest Alliance
chairman Jack Munro said
Robinson was a coward. Well
spoken, Jack.

At the other end of the country
nothing much has happened to the
Mohawks who decided they were
bigger than the law, even though a
policeman was killed. At this end,
nothing at all has happened to the
Indians who held up CNR trains
for a week.

Yes, the tree-huggers thought
they were on safe ground and now
they whine. Unfair, they cry.

In thinking they were safe they
were encouraged by many in the
media who built them up as
heroes,

Awed respect was shown to two

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off. Misguidedly, a judge ruled
that thase two old girls not be
shackled. But don’t people like
them demand equality of the
sexes? If so, why don’t they get
it?

Encouragement and mis-advice
came also from the far places.

The Kennedy kid arrived. But
that was to be expected, seeing
that he belongs to a mad family.
Then there was Peter Garrett of
Midnight Oil, a ding-dong from
Australia given to warbling horri-
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Humbug being handmaiden to
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deploring the sentences.

But there was no protest from
the Sihotas when the anti-abortion
demonstrators who ignored a
court order were sent to prison.
Quite the opposite. Warm approv-
al was the sentiment.

A word about the loggers. Their
restraint astounded me. For
months, they were harassed and
often prevented from going to
work. So every time | watched the
professionally unemployed strut-
ting their stuff | expected the log-
gers to toss them into the bushes
and stamp on them. Maybe even
break a few arms. And (forgive
me, Lord) secretly hoped for it.

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Henry, the courts must do their
best to prevent violence in this
kind of thing. So let the loonies
pay their debt to society. In full.

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