° on the other hand OUG OLLINS IT WON'T be long before a new government ministry is created — the Ministry of Taste, which will be staffed solely by the liberal and loony Left. Those who offend it will be required to apologize, make public confessions, pay fines, and go to jail. That is no fantasy. Except for the title, the M of T already exists. Could you have imagined, only a few years ago, that a rugby club would face censure, humiliation, expulsion from public premises and police investigation? And all because of bad taste displayed at a private party? Could you have imagined that a private leiter like the one sent out by REAL Women could have caused a furor because it suggested amass murderer may have had strange motives for his crime? Or that Mary Collins, stupid though she may be, would suggest punitive measures in Parliament against women who are better Tories than she is? ««.-people with the right politics are never targets for hate law scrutiny.’ Se ee You could not. But in today’s crazy Canada anything is possible, the country being stocked with poor and unhappy brains. That's why our politicians and media thought there was nothing wrong with prosecuting Jim Keegstra and Ernst Zundel for ‘‘spreading false news’’ or ‘‘spreading hate.”’ But soon the net was cast wider and others were caught in it: in New Brunswick a teacher has gone through hell because the Jews didn’t like his books; in Toronto a foolish and eccentric old man has drawn a sentence for putting out naughty messages on his home phone recorder; also in Toronto, a French teachers’ association wants charges laid against opponents of official bilingualism. Ali in the name of “human rights,”’ if that doesn’t make you laugh too much. Thus the unimaginable becomes reality, and judges and juries seem to be incapable of defending free speech. Not surprising, really, since our laws, thanks to poor and unhappy brains in Ottawa, en- courage them to cater to the de- mands of pressure groups. Hence Zunde!’s nine months for distributing a pamphlet. Fashion is catching. When the rugby club was in trouble the mayor of Vancouver said, “There CANADIAN 986-4263 Free home estimates -. NURSING Ro “~~ HOME CARE | CARING EXPERIENCED STAFF * RNs * LPNs * Aides & Homemakers & Live-ins 24 HOURS A DAY DRAKE MEDOX 987-0861 HEALTH SERVICES” are hate laws.”’ With an eye on the Chinese vote, no doubt, he calied in the cops, the club having shown what it thought was a comic video in which a Chinese real estate op- erator was strung up. The city’s race relations mob, meanwhile, wants a ‘‘hate squad’ and stiffer sentences for offenders. They are for freedom of specch, of course, except when they don't agree with what's being said. In the legislature, the egregious Emery Barnes was another who rushed to the hate law barricades, demanding that they be applied in the REAL Women affair. (He once wanted to send the cops after me, too.) Woven into all this is the double standard, since people with the right politics are never targets for hate law scrutiny. 1f you want ex- amples of hate literature, for ex- ample, just take a look at some of the union pamphlets put out dur- ing strikes if ‘‘scabs’’ enter the pic- ture. The REAL Women row also bulged with two standards. It enraged the trendy that the offen- ding letter referred to the the filthy habits of homosexuals and to “Sodom North.’” The press added fuel to what in sane times would have warranted obscure news treatment. ‘‘Ministry paid to mail letter described (my italics) as hate literature,’’ scream- ed the headline in the Vancouver Sun. As for the term *‘Sodom North,” it is an apt description of what Vancouver is becoming, thanks to gutless government. Would you welcome the idiotic Gay Games if you were the mayor of Vancouver? If you were looking for the socomite vote, perhaps. As for the habits of homosex- uals, they are filthy. If you doubt that you can look up the medical evidence. And the double standard in this case is that while it is OK for the revolting pansies to have their mail sent out at public ¢x- pense, it is not OK for REAL Women, who are erdinary, decent, mothers and wives. It’s all part of a pattern, and soon it will be against the hate iaws to fight filth. Organized idiocy and its allies in the media will see to that. When the REAL Women row was at its height, leader Peggy Steacy said, ‘‘There is still freedom of speech in this country.”” You're kidding yourself, Peggy. And watch out for the Ministry of tog - : 3 DESIGN & PRINTING FROM CONCEP? TO FINISHED PROD JCT fled paper uvaia’ M43 Manne Drove. West Vanciwrer Lo 922-0247 Bamen 987-9745 Wool Correction Notice Focus on Fashion Flyer aopearing May 9, 1990 Page 1t —- Unisex Neon T-shirt & Short Sets, and, the Boy's Shirt and Denim Pant Sets 2-3X, price $17 99. 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