PROT Brie, nt aE Ea on IN 1940 f was serving an apprenticeship in interna- tional affairs in jolly old Stalag VILIB, in Germany, but was short of news. We were never short of rumors, however, and the best place to pick them up was in the camp toilet, which could take 50 bucksides ata time, ‘They were called “shitehouse rumors.” There we learned that Adolf was -a goner, that the Russians were about to invade Germany and Hber- - ate us, that Red Cross foad parcels _ ‘Were due to arrive next week, and that our side was sinking German U-bouts faster than they could be built. -Many branches of today's medis are direct descendants of that grand news operation. Especially in Vancouver, The famous Province newspaper is a good example, Last Sunday it had a front page “splash” on the shooting of Dr. Garson Romalis. It read: “SHAD- OW OF HATE.” On puge five the big black headline was: “Racism theory in Doc shooting.” “Neo-Nazis are suspected in the attempted murder of a Jewish gyne- cologist who does abortions in Vancouver,” was the breathless “news.” Your agent expected some hot _ stuff. But the story was bang in line .With the sort of thing dispensed in the Stalag V111B john. It was based on a pro-abortion woman having said that “the chance that there are connections with white supremacists .. Should not be Tuled out.” ‘Of course not. Nor should it be _Tuled out that a lunatic was passing who liked guns. Or that a pro-abor- _ tionist had done the deed to create ‘sympathy for his side. No one knows who did it. The shitehouse effect was enhanced by a comment from the ‘ubiquitous Alan Dutton, the leftist who heads something called the Canadian Anti-racism Education and Research Society (more gov- ernment grants). Dutton opined that neo-Nazis ‘ EARCLIPS OF POLISHED AND TEXTURED GOLD VITH A TOUCH OF DIAMONDS UNIQUE AND SPECIAL, AT CAVELTN'S TONI CAVELTL&- MAKER AND DESIGNER OF FINE ITWELRY 565 WEST GEORGIA VANCOUVER, (C. VOH 175, PHONE (thie 6D aT OFFS MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY 9 i008 40: ON THE OTHER HAND “are militantly anti-abortion because their main agenda is to cre- ite a whites-only country.” In the mind's eve [can sec Dutton now, seated in the Stalag V111B stinkhole and delivering the goods. . Nazis, Nazis everywhere; and nota drop to drink! : The trade in fictional Nazis and neo-Nazis is booming. Reds under the bed had nothing on this. Some of today’s trash-bag news- papers have whole platoons scour- ing the countryside for people with swastikas tattooed on their bums. “Island man fights Nazis on computer,” read a recent headline in Victoria's Times-Colonist, the island man being a gas station attendant out to expose “holocaust deniers” and other criminals. He’s also looking for a few bucks to help him in his important work. A real idealist. The Times-Colonist is an even greater provider of news on Nazis than is Pacific Press, if such a thing is possible. Not too long ago it ran an unsubstantiated story about how “Nazis” were recruiting young pco- ple in Victoria. The source — you guessed it — was once again our anti-racist hero, Dutton. I commented that f could believe many things, but not that Hitler was hiding out in Oak Bay. . Marching ever onward, if not upward, we see on Oct. 160 picture ofa bunch of masked youngsters in the same Victoria paper under the headline “Reform protest draws 25 in Saanich,” The masked characters, some of whom sported nose-rings, were “anti-faseists" who don't like the Reform party. They had to wear masks, they said, because they feared violence at the hands of nea- Nazis and skinheads, Sure, Wonderfully exciting news we get these days. Anyone who stands to the right of the Liberal party is a tirget. As 1 wis Writing this column | heard that B.C. Report magazine, a publica- tion in which you get alot of stuff you won't see in the dailies, had been condemned by itsneys in “Kamloops as “racist.” Weleomie to the club. Not even Diane Francis is exempt She's the editor of The Financial Post and wrote: “lve been picketed by poverty organiza- tions, called ‘irresponsible.’ a *red- neck,’ ‘neo-Nazi,’ ‘heartless bitch, and worse.” What's going on here? A battle for the hearts and minds, The peasants are revolting ‘against immigration, crazy spend- ing policies, grants to Jooneys, the handing over of Canada to minori- ties, skewed liberalism, and the Duttons. So it is necessary to damn the peasants as “neo-Nazi” and “racist.” And corrupt media stand ready to help. Pity the Pacific Press _ strike didn’t last a big longer. 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