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| Brits back free expression

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the throttling of free speech,

fi does have a Race
Relatlons Act. But real courts
deal with the accused, not
the kangaroo sort,

Several columnists | read
in Rngland would be up on
the, carpet if they lived in

we

; on the
Bo other hand

berets tena ne,

“Taki of Spectator maga-
zine, covered a “Pride Day”
in New York attended by two
million Puerto Ricans and
had this to say about it:

“Never have J seen a more
motley collection, They were,
fat, ugly, dusky, dirty and
unbelievably loud,

“None of them spoke
English except for ovo wards:
f—~ and mother—. They
turned Manhattan into
Palermo quicker than you can
pic as
¢ ridiculed Mayor Rudi
Guiliani, who had gone on at
length about the wonderful
contribution Puerto Ricans
have made to America.

“Ina civilized
society,"wrote Taki, “this

T have just spent a
couple of weeks in
England, now ruled by
nice Mr. Tony Blair

Party.

Tony (“Call me eI Tony,” he
"says) shows every sign of
being as politically correct as
> Glen Clark-and Jean

When I left he was plan-
ssing to make it legai-for 16-
year-olds to be sodomized,
At the same time, it will be a
crime to ‘sell cigarettes to:

: anyone under 18.
Ag a Daily Mail columnist
sputit, Britain is getting a abuse of language by the
grotesque two way-switch,. mayor would carry the death
that will make it OK to have . penalty ... There has never,
hanidsexual sex with a lé- Been, nor will there ever be, a
year-old: yet a crime to sell single positive contribution

a packet of cigarettes, by a Puerto Rican outside of

~.: Canada: has no monopoly receiving American welfare
on madness:* and beating the system.

But that’s not the item, as ““Why in hell,” he asked,
that old gravy-grabber Jack “should the taxpayer carry
Wasserman used to say. The the load for a bunch of semi-
item is'that there-is scant sign savages to march down Fifth

f the -UK following th a. Avenue and turn it into a
xample of this provine mini San Juan?”

The North _ News isn’t the first: to |

He predicted that multi.
culturalism would do to the
US. what Stalin and his kind
failed so miserably to accom:
plish. “If ever there was a
time to emigrate to Grozny it
Is now.”

That makes my stutf look
wimpish, He even called New
York The Bagel,

He has had death threats,
Guiliano, the “Democratic”
mayor, screamed that he
should be fired, Failing that,
he wanted Taki banned from
the country, Failing that,
Conrad Black's publications
in the US, should be sub-
jected to economic sanctions,

He sounds just like the
Canadian Jewish Congress
and the Simon Wiesenthal
Institute. But ny one in the
media called Taki a monster,
or contemptible,

Instead, Paul Johnson, the
historian, author and colum-
nist asked what was happen-
ing to America’s traditional

“regard for robust discourse

and fierce debate.

“It is bad enough that
political correctness, the dead-
ly enemy of free speech (my
italics), should spread its ten-

tacles across the campus,
Must they now emerge from
the sewers into municipal
politics, too?”

Be my guest in B,C, Paul.
But instead of a Johnson we
have the fatuous Paula
Brooks of the Suz, Rafe

~ Mair, David Mitchell, and a

datt kid on The B. wince

called Michael Senyth,

T wonder what Winston
Churchill would have made
of our thin-lipped Human
Rights Gestapo and the B.C.
Press Corps?

He called Gandhi a “silly
old loin-clothed fakir,” which
he pronounced “faker.” ‘Told
about the growing
Communist forces in China,
he said that “four million
pigtalls don’t make an army.”

He referred to the Italians
as “a nation of ice-cream
men”

He wouldn’t stand much

“ofa chance at one of our

human rights heresy hearings.
But neither would they,

Speaking of which;-the
best line to come outof that
final “rights” session, which |
couldn’ t attend, was “One
man’s Hemingway j is another
man’s Hitler.”.

Oo

Down in Texas they're
selling “Swindler’s List” T-
shirts. { think Il get some

and send them to Brooks and ©

her accomplices; also to
Lionel Kenner and Sol

’ Liteman, The Sun’s Patricia

Graham should get one, too,

—— The North Shore News
believes siromgly in freedom of
speech and the right of all sides
in a debate to be heard. The -
columnists published in the
News present differing points
of view, bur those views are not
necessa rily those of the newspa+
per itself.

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