A8 - Wednesday, January 16, 1985 - North Shore News Time to ACT if freedom is to be saved off your butts and do something to preserve Te TIME HAS COME, comrades, to get freedom of speech. There’s no point in just talking. Action is necessary. By action, I mean writing to the prime minister, to your MP, and generally raising hell. Several things inspire this call. First, there are the TV shots of Ernst Zuendel hav- ing to wear a hard hat on his -way into court in Toronto. Zuendel, a publisher, is up on ‘hate literature’’ charges and has been assaulted several times by the heavies of the Jewish Defence League, so called. 1 hear also that his home has been bombed. His crimé: questioning the Holocaust. I don’t give a damn what he wrote, provided ne wasn’t advocating violence. And you can be darned sure he wasn’t duing that or he'd be up on real criminal charges instead of the hokey’ hate | literature stuff. And while we're on this subject, imagine the fuss there would be — and rightly — if a bunch of thugs attacked Jews on their way into court. But I haven’t -noticed that anyone in the ‘big-time media has become “worked up about the JDL boys. Have you? a - . You would think that our ‘ freedom-loving media stars : L weuld be up in arms about ‘this outrage and: the. addi- +tional and connected outrage “of government censorship of ’ :reading.. material. But I'm damned if I’ve heard a ‘squeak out of, them’so far. : The jerks are playing it safe, . just like the. lickspittle On- .. | tayio politicians who allowed ‘the. Zuendel prosecution to go ahead in the first place. The issue goes beyond © get this straight y - Doug Collins Zuendel, and beyond the Holocaust _ matter. But it seems that ‘it is only a few people on’ the smaller _flewspapers who can grasp what is going on. Nigel E. Hannaford, the ' editor of the Alaska Highway News, is one. He has exposed the issue in his paper and has ‘been getting information from Customs and Excise on what books are being banned. The banning of books on sex'and the “how-to’s” of crime figure large on the list, ‘which in the latter case is . understandable even though vdaft. (No real burglar re- ‘quires a correspondence course on how to get into your house. The amateurs do pretty well without instruc- tion too.) But that’s not the sort of stuff at issue, What we are talking about here is political books on which you should be able to make your own decisions without any help from politicians, the civil ser- vice, or the Jewish National Congress. Mr. Hannaford shows there are now many such works on the Ottawa Index. In addition to The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, the banning of which I dealt with a while back, there are such dooks as Gary Allen’s None Dare Call It. Conspiracy, which has sold 5,000,000 copies. I started to read it years ago, but put it down on account of how it was boring. 1 wouldn't even have been able to tell you what it was about if Hannaford hadn’t reminded me. Now that it’s banned, 1 must finish reading "Hannaford makes a couple of telling points in produciag his list of forbidden fruit. “The message is clear,’’ he told his readers. ‘‘Don’t talk about political Zionism, and don't question the so-called Holocaust.’’ He states fur- ther that it is almost ex- clusively the analyses of the political right that are under fire. Only one obscure left- wing publication has been banned. Like myself, he has read — Hoax and says it is “a scholarly book, presenting a documented case that re- quir2s an answer, not pro- hibition.” In his opinion, too, the book ‘is as far See page A9 ‘Announcement MI ‘E }. Punko, CGA The Board of Governors of the Certified General Accountants Association of British Columbia is pleased to announce R. Evancic, FCGA R. 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