| Kiddie po ‘Doug Collins Contributing Columnist JUDGING from the headlines and Jamenta- tions on the child porn issue, I must be one of the few who believe that Justice Duncan Shaw was right in rul- ing that kiddie lover John Sharpe had a right to possess such - muck. The judge found that laws permitting “the invasion of freedom of expression and personal privacy (are) pro- found,” and that as long as Sharpe wasn’t translating fan- tasy into action — he had every right to gaze upon sin in his own home. Now I have about as much time for pedcphiles _ and kiddie porn lovers as. I do for poisonous snakes. But a struggle for freedom is taking place in this country, which is already awash with so-called hate laws and human rights . atrocities. And things are _. likely to get worse before they. get better. Your demented rulers are even now planning more dra- conian measures on alleged hate literature, or what pres- sure groups like the Canadian -* & Jewish Congress and leftist politicians like Ujjal Dosanjh » choose to see as hate fitera- ture: ~. Draft legislation is in the caiveonvi scapes. Ujjal Dosanjh — were unani- mous in saying thar it tasted good. The scope of the omnibus bill is as wide as a barn door ling was ti and also harbours a strange contradiction. Critics of Justice Shaw's decision want mere posses- sion of kiddie porn ta be a criminal offence, as we have seen. But if the omnibus bill goes through it will probably become a crime to denounce homosexuality, because “sex- ual onientation™ is to be pro- tected under the new kate laws, So in gaining a point against the Sharpes, oppo- nents of sodomy and kiddie porn may find they are on the criminal court griddic themselves, simply for their views. To repeat. I’m for Justice Looking for a better RRSP? Take a look at ihe ScotiaMcLeod making that would render the - § mere possession of “hate litera- ture” a crime. It is part of an omnibus bill to be intro- duced in Parliament. It has all been done on carpet slippers and we proba-: bly wouldn’t know anything about it at all if the National ‘) Post hadn’t run a story on it a_ * couple of months ago. '- - Unsurprisingly, little rage has been expressed about it in the rest of the media, who are inclined to catnap over “ such things until. they are hit _over the head with them. In contrast to that, they are screaming that Justice Shaw’s decision favouring » - freedom to look at pictures ‘ should be overturned. They _ don’t understand that if mere possession of one sort of lit- erature can become illegal, so can others; Like alleged hate “Jiterature.' For who decides ‘what hate literature is? For "-. the most part, those who don’t like, what someone else ois saying.” It gets worse. It is pro- ; posed that truth will be no defence, just like in B.C.’s anti-democratic human rights laws. Constable Pokenose will be authorized to enter your home and seize the hard ~ drive of your computer if the narks and snoops of the anti- : | free speech movement denounce you. | - Is there any difference . _ between entering a home and “seizing a hard drive and seiz- ing books and magazines? Or #, letters? If the one. thing is ‘approved can the others be far behind? “We are developing a veule= ture of conformity. “The dangers of this plan ‘to. make us all go bad on cue, like Dolly the cloned sheep, ‘go. beyond anything we have cen yet. Declaring that truth is NO ‘defence is an outra- “geous denial of justice, «The attorneys general who > got together to bake this new cake — led by our very own -Jantiary specials at 40-599 % OF F throughout the store. é “ - Valentines gifts, for the heart. 5349 Headland Drive 7 West Vancouver 921-5900 Shaw. He knows what is at stake. — Doug Collins retired bis reqular North Shore News col- saan in September 1997. He will contribute occasional pieces to the newspaper's Other Voices feature, The North Shore News req- ularly allocates space for reader input on a wide range of com- munity issues in the form of auest columns, Ifyou have a column please send it c/o The Editor, North Shore News, 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, V7M 2H or via e-mail to tren- shaw@direct.ca. Submissions must be typewritten and should be approximately 500 words. Sunday, January 31, 1999 — North Shore News - 13 A North Vancouver judge fined Domtar Inc. $45,000 and ordered it to pay $105,000 restitution after a company repre- sentative pleaded guilty earlier this month to putting harmful wood preservative into fish- bearing water near New Westminster. The charge stemmed from 1991 incidents. 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