IF WE HAD 50,000 folk with as much determination as Don Currie of North Vancouver, the pseudo-liberal cancer that is eating at the heart of Canada could be halted and common sense would rule where madness now reigns. But the big battalions are on the other side, more’s the pity. Dou is the chap who told me about the human rights maniacs who didn’t like the picture-caption of a dog called ‘‘Nigger.”’ The pic- ture had been run in Air Force magazine, and K.O. Taylor of the New Brunswick Human Rights education section wanted the mag- azine to cease and desist from committing such crimes. But I won’t go into the whole thing again now because the subject is Mr, Currie and his fight for sanity. If Don has written one letter about the works of K.O. Taylor — who turned out to be a fem — he has written 50. Brian Baloney, Joe Clark, John Turner, Ed Broadbent and a sackful of other MPs have Me ae / here are so many ramifications to stories about dogs that were erroneously and perhaps even JSeloniously called ‘Nigger.’”’ EE Ea all heard from him, as did Frank McKenna, the premier of New Brunswick; Max Yalden, the business-building bureaucrat who runs the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and an army of lesser folk. Our North Yan freedom-fighter made no discernible dent on the forces concerned, but he certainly took up some of their time and, as I say, if there were 50,000 of him, we would be able to steer Canada on to a different course. Still, some of the response he got is worth noting. The feds had an easy out, since the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission is not in their bailiwick. Those in Ottawa who did reply were ‘‘pleased to hear from him’’ (the fibbers), but please get lost. Yalden told our man that al- though New Brunswick is not fed- eral territory, ‘‘I do have some sympathy for the sentiments Mrs. Taylor expresses. That (our) socie- ty has, in general, become more sensitive to the use of arbitrary and unjust language is to be applaud- ed ” You bet. The day Yalden or any of his prosperous human rights ac- complices take off against other WH level of service. YTECLIFF WiNvtESOEF TRAVEL| would like to thank its clients for their continuous support over the past year We now require additional experienc- ed staff to help to maintain our high Please phone Mona humen rights officials will be the day he joins the Free Speech ie. Judging from what he said, he clearly believes it was ‘‘racist”’ of the magazine to mention Gibson’s dog ‘‘Nigger.’’ Well, one of these days he may remember that Guy Gibson, V.C., died so that he and the Taylor woman can prance around the country dispensing human rights, if indeed that is what they are doing, which I doubt. Don Currie does need correcting on one point: he seems to think that the human rights gurus are not empowered to act as both pro- secutors and judges. But they are. It may be contrary to our tradi- tions, but so are a lot of other things that are going on in our multi-cult democracy. As for Yalden, he believes he should go out and search for of- fenders rather than wait for people to make complaints about them. Perfect 1984 stuff! That’s almost as good as James Lockyer, Q.C., Attorney General of New Brunswick, saying that society should not tolerate thoughts, which he did in the Malcolm Ross case. (Ross is the teacher who is being hounded by the New Brunswick “righters’’ and Jewish groups.) Do I digress? Sorry. There are so many ramifications to stories about dogs that were erroneously and perhaps even feloniously cail- ed *‘Nigger.’’ As mentioned, one of Don's targets was the premier of New Brunswick, who passed the North Vancouver man’s missive to Mike McGee, the responsible minister. McGee had a lovely out: the “sense of outrage’ expressed by Don was “‘of great concern’ to him, but McGee would ‘‘as a mat- ter of principle refrain from any action that may be seen as inter- ference’’ (with the works of the commission). Of course! Where would we be if human rights commissions couldn’t peer into the sins of mag- azines who run pictures of dead heroes and their dogs? At the local level, Chuck Cook did say that the New Brunswickers should have better things to do than worry about dogs called “Nigger.’’ The egregious Mrs. Taylor of New Brunswick, howev- er, has said nothing. In her view, obviously, an- swering letters from critics is not part of the human rights pattern. 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