. « . ‘ - 4 4 _ - en a . av Sane On Coe sre ethaiaa dived iathcin cahmnadtaditertaneanaten artesian aan sinh medina ttnmnen, Siitabiiehebienemintineatinaanll a nay, Hg - ’ : - . . . aout : ' ' ‘y % HOOORDAAFOFEDeaednonaenearesanacentoncaeteenes ‘ co a ’ AFTERTHOUGHTS on Gustafsen Lake, _ Here was a situation in “which armed mien defied the ” police and society at large for months; in whieh five people were nearly killeds in which two police officers would have been killed ifthey had not’ been wearing protective vests, All that at enormous cost “tothe taxpayer, both for the: efforts of the police and in tris. _als that last for months. " Somebody should make. movie of it all, Somebody "probably will, { have no doubt "tharthe CAC and the National Film Board are, already on the trail and that what we shail get will be yer another version of how badly _ Off the poor Indians are under” *avhite fascist racist ritle, * notwithstanding the fact that we support them:to the extent of about $7 billion a year. 4s Imagine that some crazy, _ _caWwbite “militia” group had » «been holed up there, singing vc “this land is our land” and announcing that they would - defend their position by force of arms, leaving dead if neces- sary, Bk -" How long do you think it Sr we oe qule Som ‘ ’ north shore news EWPOINT svould have heen for the cops to have sent in the SWAT team? How long would the crazies have beet leit to shont their slogans and to fire at helicopters? Tawould have given it about 24 hours. There would have been no Colin Gabelmann wringing his hands in Victoria as attorney general, vittering soothing words, 3 "There would have been no Ujjal Dosanjh, bis successor, Jntoning that no one can be allowed to defy the law with » impunity, but actually doing nothing more thatito talk, There Would have been no do-gooders, carrying on about how, while the Indians may be doing the wrong thing, they have to by understood : It would have been useless for the. “militias” to have made statements about how they were only trying to defend their racial rights, which is what the Indians were ¢laim- " _ing, They would have been behind bars faster than a cat could run up a pole, And _ tightly so, Indians can be nicists, So can other minorities, Whites can’t. 4 ~ O00 Trivial pursuits from the “human rights” front, A professor appeared at the “tribunal last Wednesday talking «about anti-Semitism aad Der Stuermer, the Nazi paper whose editor was Julitis Streicher, hanged at | LACROSSE CLUB Laster nemesdeimtmmememlomeetaentr on nema nemeemmne nee enema mee ected tems seme aaemieramsneuttnmaeemiraiian menhamronineetnanasenstin tnd iret |W nasa AAPen ne enerHO tein he ants Gtemneesint wtnath SARA, - More native nonsense — Nuremberg. Although 1 was not present that day the impression seems 10 have been created that Collins and the News were almost equally dangerous, Or so [was told by a non- paicticipating lawyer who was present, No doubt about it t should have been hanged at Nuremberg too. Maybe there's stil dime? Before that, Milo Ceretig, the unblased reporter who is covering the tribunal for the Globe & Mail managed to dig up a quote from Mark Leiren- Young, described as “a sharp political observer of the West Coast seene,” ‘The sharp observer was quoted ‘as saying: “T remember reading that Mr. Collins escaped from more POW camps in the Second World War than any other Allied soldier. “T finally understand why. Obviously, the Nazis felt he would be of more use to them on the outside,” My sceret is out! Has been for years, It was carried in 1904 in the News, but was used May 17 in large type in the Victoria Times-Colonist together with the comment that | had written that the holocaust was Jewish propa- ganda, Cleansing Facial a Letehiean si alin aeaeecindiheanatematates didiadneaticenanaihaniinitta ta, and indie f a . 1 dealer ge eM ye eR Emenee mea cere mpi ghee YR tapas bere ‘ Wednesday, May 26, 1997 - North Shore News ~ 7 Greon Tip from Environment Canada yy . an't top up the , : yas tank, Gasnline vapours will escape when our gas tank 1s too ft and contribute to smog, RAPERIES & BLINDS BY S. LAURSEN & SO vt : i ie CUSTOM DRAPERIES, TRACKS AND BREDSPREADS Labour $10.50 per parel unlined, $11.50 iined. Not so, My point was that itis belng sed as propaganda, No poiit ti weiting a letter to the editor, though, Now long ago a lady’ living in West Vancouver volunteered the news that her father was censor at Stakty, VELUB, the prison camp in Geenany Where [got iy dectorate in Nazi Atfates, We could send postcards hone and in one ofthe | wrote that we “would of course sin the war,” Not to worn, Mum and Dad, My parents kept the card, on which the censor had added the comment: “Na! (Well) we shall see.” ; He must have been the guy who fixed it so TL could get through the wire. 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