DOES THE news confuse
you? It confuses the news,
too. Especially where scare
tactics and left-wing news

management are concerned.

Here's an example.

In 1991 somcone did a little
cross burning outside a house in
North Vancouver that was occupied
by Iranians,

Panic! Headlines in the North
Shore News read:

“Cross burning incident raises
outcry in [ranian community.”
“Racism protest tield at NVD

-tunicipal hall.”

~The Vancouver Sun and
Province fell over themselves to
denounce “racism.” TV types pon-
tificated.

fhe sinister Collins came in for
a mention or two, of course. One-

Siavfash Alamouti declared:

“On the North Shore... people
like Doug Collins and the Reform
purty have paved the wity for this
lype of sentiment. H's no accident,
They've created the environment.”

We now fast-forward to April.
Kaywan Dashti, publisher of The
franian, tells a Sun reporter that the
cross-burning was “not reat.”
Faked, in other words, Or so bis
inquiries showed,

He pointed out, toa, that the
incident was used by radical left
wing Iranians as “evidence of
racism” on the North Shore. “And
then they contacted their friends in
the NDP.”

That's the way things work in
our wonderful multicultural society,
But it's hardly news to me,

In 1987 there was a real champ
ofa fright, and the media, us usual,
needed no help in letting them-
selves be suckered, Nor did the
politicians.

It too began with “cross burn-
ings.” Whether they were per-
formed by phoneys, genuine
looneys or stupid kids was never.
established. But there were fires on
the beach at White Rock and you
would have thought that Genghis:
Khan had set up camp.

Acres of trees must have been
consumed to provide the newsprint
those stories inspired.

The Sun ran front page pictures
of blazing crosses. Radio and TV
types wore their tongues out.
Trumpets sounded. Cymbals
clashed.

On Vancouver council, Harry
Rankin the COPE commie and his
comrades hopped up and down

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Emery Barnes and Rosemary
Brown sounded off in the legista-
ture. Agonizing editorials were
written, A “Grind Wizard”
appeared, anxious lo get his name
in the papers.

All the usual characters joined
the parade, Aziz Khaki, Delicin
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Williams, now a West Vin council:
for, brought in Bill 32, otherwise
known as the Civil Rights
Protection Act. It would separate
badspenk from goodspeak. Take
(hit, you KKK!

Needless to say, the bill was
supported by every MLA.
Motherhood had nething on this,
Freedom of speech? Forget it, man.
This is war.

Meanwhile, the dreaded KKK,

which may have had 20 members in.

B.C., half of whom would have
been RCMP, threatened to use the
bill against an: East Indian group.

The Klanners claimed the East
indians were promoting hatred
against the hood-and-sheet folk.
Funny, no?

The whole thing was a bad joke
scripted by lunatics. And Bill 32
was never used, probably because it
was ‘vritten in too much of a hurry
aud would not have stood up in the
courts. But the pols got what they

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wanted, “Tough B.C. rights bill
fails racism,” read the headline.

We fast-forward agatn to Last
year, when it was claimed in
Victoria that Nazis were active.
Who said so? None other than
Allan Dutton of the 1.C.
Organization to Fiyht Racism,

Yes, them Nav. were said to be
recruiting in tea-and-crumpets
town, But apart from the usual dis-
play of “hate graffiti,” Which could
have heen anyoue's work, no evi-
dence was provided, That didn’t
slop the Victoria T ‘ines-Colanist
from giving it the splash treatment,
however, The cily’s gup-toothes
city councillors swailowed the stuff
whole, end shortly thereafter

Dutton and Co. were given a grant
of $20,000 to promate racial peace
and understanding. Nice work if
you can get it

These seares and alarms ure
part of a pattern, Sometimes, ina
smallish way, they are real, More
offen they are not. Some months
ago a German girl claimed “neo-
Nuzis™ hacl carved a swastika on
her check, ‘The story went round the
world. The Vatican denounced the
atrocity, A hundred policemen
hunted the perpetrators. And then it
was found she had done the deed
herself.

Came next Easter, ask your
baker to lake the crosses aff those
hot cross buns. You never know

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