A new Doug Collins wee ON THE OTHER HAND _e A BOOK is out that makes one wonder why reputakle publishers can be suckers for - fibs and fiction posing as non- fiction. It's Web of Hate, Inside Canada’s Far Right, by a Liberal lackey in Ottawa and former specch- ‘writer for Jean Chrétien called Warren Kinsella. The publisher is Harper Collins. From the title you might think the author had penetrated sinister groups and is now telling all. Not so. The stuff is a mish-mash of stale news ard rot designed to persuade people that the Nazis are about to take over. Reds under the bed in Mr TeVerse. The book’s cover displays the obligatory swastika, and Kinsella ‘likes conspiracy theories. There’s \ . this big network of guys who go . gOose-Stepping across farmland in Alberta, you see. Or threatening the peace in Ontario and B.C. That the looney right exists is true. But it has about as much influ- ence as a bunch of Russian royalists _ ina Toronto basement plotting the return of the Tsars. When Kinsella gets down to 4 1457 Lonsdale Ave., N. Vancouver Phone: 980-2451 numbers ong sees only a pult of smoke. He puts the aumiber of skin- fieads in Canada at 2.008 for instance, Even he's right, that hardly makes an army. Besides, most skinheads are simply mixed-up kids whose daddies let then stay out too tate, As for the daft “Aryan Nations.” they have fewer than 200 members. Again, not exacdy enough for a mareh on Ottawa. The book is thick with errors, A Toronto Sur reporter who special izes in “racist” news wrote that he counted 19 errors of fact ina single chapter. (Kinsetla teaches journalism when he’s not writing speeches for the Liberals. Lucky students!) 1 gave up counting its mistakes. Kinsella makes several references to “Adolf van Thadden,” leader of the “pro-Nazi National Party in Germany.” Well, that should read Adolf von Thadden, net van, {knew von Thadden and many other politicians when { worked in Germany after the war and he was no Nazi. He was a right-wing aristo- crat whose family opposed the Nazis. His uncle was in the July 20 plot against Hitler and was executed, if I reinember correctly. [ get a one-line mention in the book but Kinsella couldn't even get that right. He refers to “Doug Collins, a B.C. weekly newspaper columnist.” We come out thrice weekly, old boy. KEN BAXTER LAWYER ‘“ 24 Years oe | Experience _. wee. load of rot about the far right Joe MeCurthy could have taken lessons Tron this guy, Anyoue who ever spoke toa right winger is guilty by association, Even poor old John Dietenbaker is mentioned as having joined “powerful Klan barrister JG. Bryant onstage” inthe 1920s, I the book is so bad, why do | bother with it? Hecause the unin- formed might believe iL and because it isa superb example of the ridiculous, Roger Rogan of Victoria has initiated a libel suit already. In Qtaawa Mrs, Anne Hartniann of the Northern Foundation ts considering similar action. (Kinsella gets her name wrong, too.) He says Mra. Hartmann has close connections ‘with “neo-Nazis” and claims she is involved with REAL Women, the group that stands for family values. She provided them with legal advice, he states. The idea, odviously, was to smear them, too. But REAL Women spokes- woman Gwen Landolt says that although the lady was once a mem- ber she never gave any legal advice and “never opened her mouth on racial and immigration issues.” Tom Flanagan, political scientist at the University of Alberta has called Web af Hate a piece of shady, dishonest writing. True. Itis also a a errr LONSDALE QUAY NORTH VANCOUVER 988-6321 Wedn piece of repetitions, boring writing, and gives tie Gupression Ua Kinsella has interviewed every one and bern everywhere. He chains te have interviewed ‘izens Of Forgign Aid Reform research director Paal Fromm for the book. From siiys he war. not inter- viewed, tle claims to have interviewed 66 That the looney right exists is true. 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