ore CSE EI oT 337: arc THER gg * SIRPRS oy s Doug Collins 9 - Wednesday, June 17, 1987 - North Shore News City backs CLC idea NORTH VANCOUVER City deficit. Council endorsed Monday a Ca- Council will ask Ottawa to res- nadian Labour Congress call for pond to the CLC suggestion and Canada Post Corp. to increase will inform local MPs of its move money-making services to slash its ‘0 endorse the idea. ® get this straight @ YOU MAY not be aware of it, but the North Shore is a key spot in the battle to restore the death penalty for first- degree murder. And the reason is that Citizens United for Safety and Justice is on the job here. CUSJ came into being when a | violent criminal was let out of jail under mandatory supervision and promptly raped and killed a 15-year-old girl in the Nanaimo | area. Outraged people cried “Senough!’’, Mrs. Noreen Provost of North Van was one of them and is now the coordinator for the group, which has never had a { dollar of federai funds and doesn’t seek one, unlike many of its opponents. She spends most of her time at her typewriter and on the phone spreading the word, because she believes, like most people in this country, that capital punishment is a deterrent to murder and that when it isn’t, the worst offenders should be put out of action. Right now, we are being treated to the spectacle of the revolting Clifford Olson putting on a cam- paign from his prison cell for his “rights”? under the Charter. Who needs that? Who needs him? Mrs. Provost and her friends are struggling against the official tide. Between 70 and 80 per cent of the population may want to see th death penalty reintroduced, but they don’t count. Under our elitist system of government Ot- fj tawa can and does blithely ignore | the unwashed. . Most federal politicians believe that ordinary people are unin- formed. Father knows best, kids. THE FOLLOWING people ap- peared: in North and West Van- couver provincial courthouses recently to face various charges laid against them., Before Judge B.P. Byrne in North Vancouver provincial court June 1: . . : Russell Lawrence Murray was handed a suspended sentence and placed on probation for one year after the 3l-year-old North Van- couver man pleaded guilty to assaulting 2 female. Rudolf Lovas received a suspended sentence and was placed on probation for a year after the §7-year-old Vancouver man was found guilty of theft under $1,000. Before Judge J.K. Shaw in North Vancouver provincial court June il: Norman Morrison was fined $50 after the 22-year-old North Van- couver man pleaded guilty to a Just leave things to the experts. Many Mirabel airports of the mind are to be built yet! The wets are backed by something called The Coalition Against the Return Of the Death Penalty. It includes most protes- tant churches, the Canadian Criminal Justice Association, Amnesty International, the Association of Professional Social Workers (naturally), the John Howard Society, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, and many other breast-beaters. The John Howard Society seems to be spearheading the cam- paign, if you don’t count the Na- tional Wimp, aka the Globe & Mail, which has been excelling the late John Wesley in its determina- tion to convert the heathen and save future Olsons from extinction. The society trainloads of emotional bosh in ’ which, as is common, it is the criminal who gets the sympathy. To wit: “With the death penalty...there is no recognition that the murderer is also a damaged per- son...(it provides) no humility, no potential for forgiveness, no courage and no hope.”’ (Step right up, folks, and say your prayers for poor old Cliff. And don’t forget to be hvinble.) Here’s another prize-winner charge of failing to appear for a scheduled court date. Before Judge J.K. Shaw in North Vancouver provincial court June 10: Leigh Elizabeth Chapman received a conditional discharge and was placed on probation for six months after the 18-year-old North Vancouver woman pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of cannabis. Robert Norman Hicks was fined $50 after the 24-year-old Co- quitlam man pleaded guilty to fail- ing to appear for a scheduled court date. : Before Judge J.B. Paradis in North Vancouver provincial court June 10: David Alan Friesan was fined $500 after the 30-year-old North Vancouver man pleaded guilty to a charge of theft under $1,000 laid against him ir connection with a Jan. 3 theft of a stereo and a cir- ¢ B.F. 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And again: “The John Howard Society | tries to promote a criminal justice system which is tempered with mercy.’ (Is that why we have ter- rorist bitches like Julie Belmas running around on parole 10 minutes after having let off a bomb or two?) The society asks further: “an we really trust those MPs whe, like Pontius Pilate, wash their hands of responsibility and kill to please the mob?”’ Well, my dears, | would put it differently. I would say it is precisely those MPs who refuse to support the death penalty that are doing the hand-washing. Like you, they are afraid to face nasty facts, one of which is that some people are just too rotten to live. | Idike this gem, too: ‘‘Murderers kill because they are insane, or distraught, or perhaps immoral.”’ Or perhaps immoral? The hired killer springs to mind. But who Luigi's Moka Ristorante ; “SPECIALIZING IN” AUTHENTIC ITALIAN CUISINE * DINE & DANCE FRI. & SAT. 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