THAT was The Week
That Was. Coast to
coast coverage. Plus
long interviews with
the Christian Science
Monitor and the Daily
Telegraph. Perhaps
Canada wili wake up to
the fact that the forces
' of censorship are a bit
more dangerous than.I

am.
The Globe & Mail put the

story on its front page and
published an editorial headed
“B.C,’s Gag Law,” in which
it stated:

“The quality of his [my]
views is not the issue; his
right to express them is.'It is
an inherent right. This pre-

stinptuous B.C, legislation
should be struck down by the
COUNTS

Southany correspondent
lan Haysom sent a perfectly
bakinced account of this farce
and fracas to the Southam
papers. The headline in the
Edmonton Journal was:
“Does free speech pive free
rein?”

It should, but doesi’s,
And won't until this
Canadian Jewish Congress
(CJC) attack on free speech is
smashed. Will the courts be
so bold? Who knows? ‘This is
Canada, not the U.S,

At the “tribunal” (lovely
word) a multicult law profes-
sor by the name of Nitya lyer
is in charge. Gordon Watson
the anti-abortionist says she is
an NDP insider who helped
to write the controversial
“bubble law” that prevents
demonstrators from getting
too close to abortion clinics.
Freedom of speech at a dis-
tance!

An army of lawyers is on
parade. Four of them are
against the most dangerous
speech law in 60 years, The
rest represent the govern

ment, the Jewish Congress,
the drafters of the Human
Rights Code and the mis-
named Chinese Benevolent
Suciety,

Min blased, but it seemed
to me that in the preliminary
skirmish our side cut their
side to pieces,

B.C. Press Council lawyer
Roper MeConchie stated that
the Code is the most signifi.
cant legislative infringement
of press freedam in the histo-
ry of British Columbia and
that nothing like it has been
seen since the province joined
Contederation in 1871,

It is “a serious menace to
the health of our democracy
and an intolerable violation
of constitutionally guaranteed
freedom of speech,”

He and News lawyer
David Sutherland talked
about “structured bias,”
meaning that the Human
Rights Commission and the
Human Rights Tribunal are
all part and parcel of the
same NDP crew, The former
Human Rights Council actu-
ally lobbied for the law,

The government lawyer
claimed they were indepen-

dent, What a joke.

“A free press is the prinel-
pal restraint on government
power,” said Mr. Sutherland,

{t's surprising how many
people can't fathom that,
Aven in the media,

‘To listen to the other
side’s lawyers you would
think the country will lapse
into civil war unless Fam
restrained, The ghost of the
Vancouver race riots of 1906
was raised. (Yep, ft was all my
fault.)

We are also told that they
will produce Kathleen E,
Mahoney, a fem prof in
Calgary who has several
degrees in political correct-
ness and is knowledgeable on
genocidal wars in Bosnia,

She'll probably prove Lam
a Serb,

Government lawyer Lisa
Mrozinski said the reason
there had been io prosecu-
tions in B.C. under the feder-
al hate laws was that the need
for proof in court makes them
difficult to enforce! Hence the
new law,

Progress! 1984 style!

Amazingly, a CJC
spokesman has complained

MAIL BOx

Columnist Collins’ warnings are accurate

Dear Editor: :,

You have a prize in Doug ‘Collins. |
wish we had someone like him to inject
some sense in our community, What Mr.
Collins warns you of is not only true, but
San Francisco is a living example of what
happens when you ignore it.

T heard criticism of Mr. Collins on the

~ radio from the ‘NW (we were visiting

“beautiful Whistler last week). They're say-

ing that lesbianism should be promoted
in the schools under a B.C, textbook that
you have, Also, during your election
cycle, candidates are pulling away from
being associated with Mr. Collins ...
Why? How is it that less than 1% of the
population, characterized by its behavior-
Berne and untreated anomalies, could so

direct the populace and politicians that

they Scave-into” their every whim. Now

promotion of the behavior in textbooks?
Thank you for your paper and espe-

_ cally for upholding Doug Collins.

Dr. Arthur Barrons

Univ. of Calif., Dept. of Physics and
Engincering, San Francisco
art@fog.net

Sunday, May 18, 1997 ~ North Shore News -: 7

_ Free speech message missed

VOOFLOEHNOOLL Onan nansoenenadenacasendacsanens

that the press has been too
friendly to our case,

He can't have been read.
ing the Vancouver Province,
in which a jackass named
Smyth ciaimed 1am a bigot,
and oat and an ignoramius.
Or the Saa’s Vaughn Palmer,
who says Lam “con-
temptible” and reters to
“Collins? Hitler.”

The Province is the scum-
rag that ran a cartoon show-
ing a man in KKK hood
giving advice to J.V, Clyne,
the late, great British
Columbian, Since which I
have never bought a copy.

-

On the secaund day of the
hearing f walked up from the
bus, Several drivers sounded
their horns, More bigots, oats
and Ignoramuses.

At the hearing a young
Jew shook my hand and sald
not all Jews are against free-
dom of speech, T know,

Coming back on the bus,
a Chinese man asked me If I
was Doug Collins, 1 admitted
Iwas he, Whereupon he said:

“TE like your column, Missa
Collins.”

— The North Shore News
believes strongly in freedom of
speech and the right of all sides
in a debate to be beard, The
columnists published in the
News present differing points
of view, but thase views are not
necessarily those of the newspa-
per itself.

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