“I disapprove of what yu say
and PH do my best to see that
saving it is made w criminal
offence.” — John Mortimer,
English playwright, commen-
tator and creator of the
Rumpole series on TV.

THE above is of course
a play on the famous
words attributed to
Voltaire: “I disagree
with what you say but
will defend to the death
your right to say it.”

Mortimer was writing in
The Sunday Times, and went
on: “The growing and dread
arm of the politically correct
regards free speech with a hor-
ror once reserved for halluci-
natory drugs,

“We are not allowed to
make jokes about silly
Scotsmen, Englishmen,
Irishmen, or say anything,
insulting of the Weish.”

If Mortimer wants to see
real censorship in action he
should visit this country,

Let him ponder on our
home-made B.C. Human
Rights Act, through which tri-
bunals can inflict uniimited
fines on anyone whuse state-
ments are “likely” to cause

on the
other han

offence.

Let him consider gag laws
that limit political advertising
during elections. The News
and other newspapers face
legal action for ignoring them.

And come the new year the
NDP"s thought police will be
on the loose looking for
“inequality” in business
offices, including newspaper
offices,

None dare call it conspira-
cy! It’s just that government
and non-government censors
are of one mind,

The aim? To “stifle speech
that is not criminal” as B.C,
Press Council lawyer Roger
MeConchie has said of our
“human rights” fiasco.

The censors are brothers in
arms,

When the Surrey fin was
bullied into cancelling a
Canadian Association of Free

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Speech (CAFE) meeting,
Attorney General Ujal
Dasanjh pave his blessing to
the cancellation. His view was
that there should be ne roam
at the inn for people of whom
his friends disapprove,

Some citizens should nor
combine to discuss what is
happening to free speech in
this country, you see.

It made no difference to
him, either, thar David
Lethbridge of Okanagan
College was involved in that
cancellation, even though
Lethbridge is a self-proclaimed
communist,

Lethbridge even advises
Dosanjh, A Shuswap Sun
headline of Oct. 10 read:
“David Lethbridge advising
our A-G,”

The story described how a
symposium organized by
Lethbridge in Vancouver was
informing Dosanjh how to
deal with “hatred.”

The next day The Province
reported that “B.C.’s newly:
formed hate-crime squad will
fan out across the province to
track and investigate hate

crimes.”

What is a hate crime?
Dosanjh and Lethbridge will
decide that, together with peo-
ple like-Alan Dutton whose
groups are subsidized by pov-
emment. ft makes no differ:
ence to Dosanjh, either, thar
Lethbridge was a top partici-
pant ata conference in
Toronto organized by the vio-
lence-prone Anti-Racist Action
(ARA), which has been much
denounced in the Toronto
press.

(The ARA’s latest frolic, as
reported in the Western Jewish
Bislletin of Nov. 1, was to
mass Outside Ernst Zundel’s
house in Toronte shouting
“Lock the Nazis in, burn the
house down.” A Jewish proup
served “kosher” hot dogs to
the demonstrators, many of
whom wore masks, Shades of
the KKK!)

Meanwhile, Dosanjh wants
Ottawa to beef up its anti-free
Speech hate laws, But it seems
he now has some doubts
about his Human Rights Act.

He has been reported,
again in the Bulletin, as saving

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he is prepared to change the
Act “if it is proven to be
unconstitutional.” Which,
clearly, he suspects it may be,

But he’s going to do his
damnedest to defend it, as
Mortimer might sav.

The purpose behind the
Act (Bill 33) is to frighten
people into keeping their
mouths shur and their pens
still, since a decent defence
costs money, The com-
plainants, on the other hand,
have nothing to worry about.
They even stand to get a finan-
cial award.

The censors never
denounce left-wing racism.
Affirmative action is OK. So
are special privileges for

Indians based on race. And
much more,

Finally, the B.C. Press
Council has asked Dosanjh to
exclude the media from the
speech provisions of the
Human Rights Act. He refuses
to do so.

Exceptions can be made for
peaple who wear turbans
when riding bikes, but nat for
newspapers that defend free-
dom,

— The Norté Shore News
believes strongly in ficedont of
speech and the right of all sides in
a debate to be beard. The colum-
nists published in the News pre-
sent differing points of view, but
those views are nor necesarily
those of the newspaper itself.

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