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Does anyone really give a damn
about the Commonwealth? Couid
you name more than six of its 49
countries? Do vou kneel by your
bed at night to give thanks for
your tenuous dink with bone-in-
the-nose Uganda?

The Commonwealth is a fake
and a phoney and not even good
for the nostalgia of empire. It is
nothing more than a sounding-
board for crooks, cadgers and
scoundrels of all descriptions. Vet
you would think from some of the
stuff that’s being written that this
half-assed organization matters.
Qaly the other dav the Evening
Wimp wrote that it| must be
rescued at all costs. Yet even in
Britain the public see it as a bore
and a pain in the neck, as Richard
Gwyn of the Toronto Star has
reported.

The Evening Wimp is not alone
in its delusions. Prime Minister
Brian Baloney and Joe Dope
Clark keep it company, as do
mast of the media. So do ar-
etbishops and ignorant clergy of
all kinds.

They should concentrate an do-
ing what their religion tells them
to de. Instead, they support ter-
torism in South Africa while talk-

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THERE'S BEEN a lot of
“Boycott Threatens Commonwealth
Another was ‘'PM Doesn’t Sway Thatcher On Sanctions”
A third encouraging report was ‘‘Commonwealth Games

good news this past week.
* was one such item.

ing Jesus-tatk from the other side
of their mouths.

What drives them rou! the
bend, of course, is that South
Africa is not about to hand the
whole kit and caboodle over to
Bishop Tutu, Nelson Mandela,
warring tribes, and the
communist-controled African
National Congress. Our parsons
will be satisfied only when Soviet
warships Ge up in Simonstown,
Thereafter, you won't hear a peep
out of them.

Accustomed though we have
become to the bizarre in word and
deed, however, recent pronun-
clamentos on the South Africa-
Commonwealth issue have been
more than usually insane.

A champ in that department is
Archbishop Ted Scott, Ottawa’s
nominee on the laughable Emi-
nent Persons Group that tried to
poke its nose into South Africa's
internal affairs. Sending him to
report on that country was like
asking Art Kube to write a report
on the Socreds, but nothing is too
dim for Baloney.

Scott’s holy head overfloweth
with dippy ideas. Sanctions
against South Africa, he admits,
would hurt) model democracies

Hhe Matsist Movzamlngque and
Muyabe'’s Zimbabwe So Canada
tnd the Commonweaith should
step up ccononne support for such
basket cases. ATL it would cost the
Canadian taxpayer - for sterters --
would be $100 million a yesar.

As this was bem written, far-
ther good news was pouring in. I
rammed on Balones's parade at ae
po. and nine countries including
several dichttorships  (Upanda,
Tanzania, Nigeria, ete.) had quit
the Commonwealth Games. More
were expected to follow. Which, if
you ask me, isa pood start to bid-
ding goodbye » the whole
mirage.

* * *

Did vou see those TV shots of
Stan Persky smashing botdes of
South African wine ing a Van-
couver liquor store? The itent was
on the CBC news last Mondity.

He had to do it, expostulated
this Marxist muttonhead, because
his conscience told him to. The
same conscience didn't tell him to
smash up a few bottles of Russian
vodka, naturally. Like the clergy,
Persky is selective.

Persky’s purpose was publicity,
not morality, and the CBC oblig-
ed handsomely. The item went on
for minutes, and reporter Rod
Mickleburgh didn’t ask the mana
single hard question. It wus a free-
time political broadcast disguised
as a news item,

As the cops finally took him in,
Persky stood there with a stupid
grin on his face, saying yeah, he
done it. He thought he was being
funny. But let’s hope there's
nothing funny about the sentence
the court imposes, if any.

Wilful destruction of property
should be worth three months.
And in this case such a term
would bring a bonus with it --
while in the clink this chump
wouldn't be teaching our kids.

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