Collins does it his way

Dear Editor: ‘

i grin to myself, accusionally,
reading the many letters sent to
your desk with references to the
writings of Doug Collins. +

Many of these correspondents
write to tell you, and us, of their
support of Mr. Collins’ viewpoints
on a huge variety of affairs in our
troubled world.

Others pour vitriol into the mix-
ing-pots of their angry comments,
often * ‘advising local editors —~
and readers? — to rid themselves of
this troublesome columnist, some-
times causing great wonder about
their own state of mind, in. “such
* matters, °

They seem to forget that Doug
Collins has every right to express
‘what he warts to say to his readers,
in the same way as you permit his
.  teading public to agree, or protest,
‘their feelings about his very partic-

ular way of reporting events, or of
' recording his opinion of any actions

taken: by-certain groups of people.
| etal?
: As a fellow-scribe (and, ‘as
someone once referred to, bya
well-known editor, as “a rabid
Canadian nationalist"), I would
defend to the death, your decision
"to keep publishing Mr. Collins. :
“oy AN-ofsus can only grow in’:
Stature, as’ Canadians, when we.

‘|, refuse to muzzle any free expres-;

--sion of opinion. ,.
Certainly, sometimes, we feel!
“ hurt to-read.an opinion that offends”

. ‘our own ‘sensitivities.

Just as certainly, on some occa
sions, should we ask ourselves, per-

“haps. if it-is simply a matter of

whether “the truth hurts.”

“And, { would ask that question, |

fully: aware of its implications, ;
becatise. professional. writers of the’
stature. of Doug Collins seldom:go'
“to: print without first checking their
-Subject. material very carefully;-and,
“because it-might be pertinent to
note’ how. seldom we have seen this

, particular man defending himself-in .
slander, and/or. libel actions, | in a
court of law. ve

with some item written by Mr.
Collins.

Often, [find myself in total and
complete agreement with almost
every theust of his argument, These
are usually the very items that pre-
cede hundreds of protest letters to
his editors, causing me a great deal
of unrest.

Let me tell you why. | have
often been amazed to find that the
majority of people with whom |
have had conversations op such
subject matters, have expressed the
same opinion as that put forward by
Doug Collins.

So what are we? A bunch of
mealy-mouthed hypocrites?

Have we all become too scared
to speak the truths of our time?
Don't we care, anymore, about
what it takes to keep our country on
the right track, in its search for a
democratic rightness?

No, I am not a racist. No, | do
not hate Jews: — as any who were
present with me in the area of the
Belsen-Bergen concentration camp
around April 13, 1945, will verify.

But the evidences of a grossly
mismanaged immigration policy,
during times of great economic

stress, reward the criminal elements -
«With punishments to fit their

heinous crimes, and, as a result of
such negligence, further endanger
the lives of our police officers, and
of ourselves.

Any perusal of genuine lists of
ownership will clearly show how
many of our news outlets, and other
media and cultural-defining ele-
ments, aré owned by people of the
Jewish faith —- Hollywood being
but one glaring example of such
mind-bending intent.

To me, and to ethers who were
in Germany at the end of the
Second World War, it matters not
whether the figure of Jews
destroyed by Nazi mandate was six

. million or 60,000. Whatever the

number, the happening was a dire

- atrocity against the face of all

humanity.

Since. everything around us can

be utilized as grist to the mill of

. propaganda — then and now —

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who can blame those Jewish ele-
ments who are doing all in their
power to make sure that the actions
of that time will never be forgouen?

That, | betieve, is the true intent
behind their mind-stultifying, con-
stant reminders that their belief and
hope is that it will never happen
again.

In his own way Doug Collins
harps. sometimes abrasively, on all
of these subjects. In a way, perhaps,
he too is reminding us that we
should never tread that path again,
J. Russell-Taylor
North Vancouver

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