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9 - Sunday, June 14,

Doug Collins

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iT WAS predictable that the Ontario politicians would be
revoltingly weak in the Zundel affair and order a second
trial. Chasing Ernst Zundel, after all, is safer than safe. It
panders to the Jewish vote and no one who counts will stick

his neck out for a ‘‘Nazi’’.

It was pressure from the Cana-
dian Jewish Congress and the
Holocaust Rememb.ance Society
that pushed Ontario into bringing
Zundel to trial in 1985 for “‘know-
ingly spreading false news’’.

Specifically, he had distributed
a booklet called ‘*Did Six Million
Really Die?’’ which disputed the
number of Jews who died during
the war. For that, incredibly, he
was sentenced to 15 months in the
slammer after a trial in which the
court showed bias and made a
series of serious legal goofs..

The judge failed to tell the jury,
for example, that for Zunde! to be
found guilty it had to be proved
he knew he was spreading false
news. Zundel obviously ‘‘knew’’

nothing of the sort. It may be that
he chose not to know, of course.
But where is the mind-reader who
can show that?

Five judges of the Ontario
Court of Appeal saved the face of
Canadian justice by ruling
unanimously that Zundel had not
been properly tried. He was entitl-
ed to a new hearing, they
declared.

That should have been the end
of it. lan Scott, the attorney
general of Ontario, should have
called off the dogs, saying that
one chew at the Zundel can was
enough. But this was a political
issue when the Tories were runn-
ing Ontario and it is the same now
that the Liberals are in power.

Motor-mouthed pressure

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Teachers shou

Dear Editor:

In. addition to the emergency services (fire, police,
ambulance, rescue, etc.), there are three professions
that should NEVER strike: physicians, teachers and

the clergy.

Those individuals who would like to strike should

groups are not to be ignored, ap-
parently. So Scott curries favor
with them just as eagerly as‘ his
predecessor did. Natural justice?
What's that?

Ontario asked the Supreme
Court of Canada to strike down
the appeal court decision and
uphold the original savage
sentence. But their honors refus-
ed to hear the Ontario submis-
sion. How could they ignore the
logic of five appeal judges?

Whatever you think of Zundel,
he has just as much right to peddle
his version of history as anyone
else does. If that is not the case,
what we have in the little-used
Section 177 of the Criminal Code,
under which he was prosecuted, is
a kind of War Measures Act that
is convenient for harrassing a
single unpopular man.

Consider: would anyone be
charged for claiming that Stalin
wasn’t really a bad chap and did
not murder millions, only
thousands?

idn't strike

choose a different profession. A strike action should

those with souls.
Lloyd Burritt
Teacher,

North Vancouver

NOT be at the expense of the old, the young and

Vander Zalm compared to Hitler

Dear Editor:

Our political system, our labor
negotiating systems, even our laws
are far from perfect, but they are
the best we have. These systems
grew slowly from dictatorial power
to a reasonable democratic justice
system. It definitely still! needs im-
provement.

This improvement takes time
and effort. Mistakes are made and
growing pains exist until the
system is arbitrated, negotiated
and grown to an acceptable level.
Throughout history, any time this
growth was rushed, the drastic
changes in policy resulted in
serious repercussions.

Like Hitler, Stalin and others,

‘Vander Zalm believes his inten-

tions to be correct. His efforts to
make the province productive and
desirable to outside interests are
laudable and supportable. But his
method and priorities, like
Hitler’s, are questionable.

Destroying the labor bargaining
system will achieve his goal, but at
what costs? What do we want for
the province? If our prime concern
is business and outside interests,
then Vander Zalm is right. But if
we value our quality of life, and
the people of the province are the
prime concern, he is wrong.

Federally, John Turner has ex-
pressed a policy of increased ef-
forts to improve labor-manage-
ment relations. To speed up this
process, more effort and talent
should be put to use, not more
drastic measures. When one has
the power (mandate), drastic
measures become too easy a solu-
tion. A solution requiring little ef-
fort or talent. A cop out.

Vander Zalm’s views are naive
and immawre. Even though the
man has presence, style and pa-
tience, I can’t forgive him for the
mistake he is about to incur on the
population of B.C. There is not

enough room in the province for
everyone to be a_ self-made
business entrepreneur. The
economy doesn’t work that way.

We need the special talents of
the trade workers, even gardeners.
They can’t aif grow to manage-
ment and ownership positions. We
need them where they are. And
they are the majority, the people
whose interests must be consid-
ered. These people may be inno-
cent enough to be duped by
vaguely-defined policies into
voting a party or government into
power, but this shouldn't lessen
the importance of concern for their
best interests.

In Vander Zalm’s utopic fan-
tasy, businessman owners and in-
vestors would be all-important and
given extreme powers not seen
since the English feudal system.
They would then supposedly take
care of the rest of us. The people
to suffer most would be long-term
and oldes employees, union af-
filiated or not.

Vander Zalm is smooth and, I
believe, a well-intentioned man.
He should put his talents and ef-
forts into improving some of the
problems in our system without the

drastic measures and with concern
for the majority. Check your
methods, check your priorities,
Mr. Vander Zalm.

L. Birarda

North Vancouver

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EATON'S

“Life is precious
from its natural beginning
to its natural conclusion
and the preservation of that life
is a priority.”
Geoffrey Still

Lions Gate Hospital goals worth supporting.

It is all right to snuggle up to
the Mao Tse-tungs and the
Castros, as Pierre Trudeau did. It
is also all right for Joe Clark to
crack jokes with the current rulers
of the U.S.S.R. and Poland. But
mention the word “‘Nazi’’ and the
shudder-machine goes to work
even though there is no Nazi
threat today. As for Zundel, he
could never have been a Nazi in
the formal sense because he was
only six years of age when the war
ended.

it is true that he is an admirer of
Hitler. But if a Trudeau can

follow Ais foibles, why can’t the
insignificant Zundel follow
Zundel’s? Precisely because he is
insignificant, that’s why. If the
Toronto Star had published ‘‘Did
Six Million Really Die?*’ there
would have been no prosecution,
not even if a complaint had come
from Moses.

“‘Justice’* and politics often
make an easy mix. As soon as
Zundel was found guilty the feds’
ordered him to be deported, he
not being a citizen because citizen-
ship was denied him. Yet known
crooks of all descriptions get to
stay here and immigration
ministers don’t even blush when
they sign the permits. If Zundel
loses his case, however, he will be
sent back to Germany as soon as
his sentence is served. That’s how
lickspittle the pols can be.

I attended the first Zundel trial
as a witness for the defence and
will attend the second if asked to
do so. This time, | hope some of
my media collegues will keep me
company in offering a word or
two in defence of freedom of
speech. But I’m not betting on it.

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