ALL I can say is if Doug -
Collins goes to jail for
“hatemongering,’’ Pll try to
find some way. to go with

' him.

To quote the founding fathers
of America, we either hang
together, or we hang separately.

You cannot have me, or Trevor
or Paul or Noel, without having
Doug.

We may be liberal wimps, c com-
pared to Doug, but our freedom
-to mutter our wimpy, vaguely an-

‘ti- or pro-establishment views de-
pends utterly on the freedom of .
_the North Shore News to publish’
Doug’s views as well,

A freedom untested is a
freedom i in doubt; a freedom

_ unused is a freedont that withers
on the vine. "-. ;.

“ : “Hatemongering”’ i is something
defined: ‘by people with fascist
tendencies. That’s all there is to it,
fat in the free exchange. of views,
- one side can always accuse the
© other of hatemongering.

“ Our curreit prime minister,’
‘Kim Campbell, would have
: broken the rules 5 Suggested by the:
. Harcourt government concerning
_ hatemongering with her. rash

"comments about Canadians who

‘don’t join partie being -

in ‘fait, she: was ob iously guilty a

f sexisin, since we all know that:
‘the ‘D?'in 'S.0.B.'s”? refers to
bitches, not bastards .

Call in the thought police! ...-
t-amazes me that in the 1990s ~-
there could still be parochial poli...

ans who fail to understand the”

importance of- freedom of speech. oo

Yet; scary. as. the thought may.

‘British Columbia is ; controlicd.. ,

ff D

4d the moment by a party pro-.
‘ftaiming itself to be “‘pro-

essive,”” which is willing to bring
‘in. yepressive legislation that/even
the most right-wing of parties, ‘the’

Socreds,; dared not introduve fo:
fear’ of the wrath of civil liber.

‘The amendments of the B.C.:

Has Mikey completely lost his’;
mind? This is bad stuff indeed!

“OF. course, “whatever. I have: to
say is going to be dismissed i in po- -
litically correct NDP circles: °

‘because I am writing: in the same

paper.as’ Doug; and therefore .

miust be getting my marching
rders from the same source. :

‘Nothing, in fact; could be fur-’ a

‘ thet-from the truth, And failure
to recognize the freedom Doug.
and I both enjoy is failure to un-

derstand what a wonderfully open

“ society we actually have...

“Im a place as close 2s Mexico, » -

the chances are Doug would al- |
ready have been shot by some
government operative.
« Tmyself would have been'shot
years ago by federal agents.
' That’s how trouble-making j jour-,

/ nalists are dealt, with i in the Third: a

- World." :
At doesn’t maiter that we might
have quite contrary views. They
’.'would be unauthorized, unor-
“thodox, unofficial, uncensored .

©. views. We fall under the category, ,

‘still all too rare in the world, of
-“‘uncontrolled people.” :
“You start to chip away at the
- freedom we enjoy by limiting our
. freedom to write what is on our
. twisted (or inspired, whatever the
“ease may be, and who knows?) -
.minds,.and you chip away at.
fi reedom itself. ,

; Wood burning contributes significantly ee Fa

to local air quality problems.

STRICTLY PERSONAL

Like it or not, we newspaper
columnists are one of the

measures of a society’s f reedom of

expression.
We are the front-line “penny
dreadful” pamphleteering litmus
tests...
If you don’t allow us to express
ourselves freely, as, indeed, our
publisher.does, then you have -
pulled shut one of the doors to |
freedom of thought. .
Of course Bill 33, the “‘anti-.

_ hate’? law, threatens free speech!

It.is an abominable piece of leg-

: islation. -
I should say that while 1 admire ;
7 Doug Collins for his proven:

courage during the Second World

~- War and his uncompromising te:

nacity of ‘Viewpoint since, |} cer-

“tainly don't agree with hin about
a whole lot of things. es

His attacks on homosexuality ”
frankly embarrass me. It seems to
me that one of the key tests of a’

: free society is the freedom te |
“s:choose your sexual kick, If you
"happen to be more turned on by .
people of the same sex as, yourself ot
I, than otherwise, ' so what? sod

:. Keep in mind that the Nazis

‘ went after the: homosexuals fitst. °
~ Then they expanded their base. :

We all, as. I mentioned earlier, * |

hang together" or we most assured-

; Jy hang alone.’ e
Human Rights’ Act enacted recent- ."!
ly. by the NDP. are totalitarian...

‘Ym surprised, actually,’ that,

. Doug isn’t a defender of |
homosexuality, since he champi- '
-ons the right of individuals tc

believe what they want to: believe,”

‘to be what they want to be, ”
-: regardless of what the central

authorities expect...
“Sexual freedom and literary

= freedom are inextricably joined.

“The NDP would be smart to

‘remember this. For while, on the

one hand, they champion the right
of people: to choose same-sex’
relationships, on the other they
propose to deny the right of peo-
ple to write what they honestly
think about that. -

Wait a second! Freedom to a)
what you want physically, but not
mentally?

To wade into the dark waters of
increased censorship is a bad, ug-

_ ly, horrible thing to do. I’m

shocked that Mikey and the boys
and girls in the NDP would even

‘consider such a thing.

‘They are forgetting that they
have the right.to exist as a party,
and even to become the govern:
ment, precisely because of the |
freedom to express unpopular .
thoughts, such as socialism used

.to be.

Hate?. Who defines hate?

~ “Class struggle’”’ used to be view-

ed as a form of hatemongering. _
Seriously, you jail Doug, you bet-

; ter r be ¢ ready to 0 jail u us s all.

' Greater
Vancouver
egional

istrict

WY man fined under Income Tax Act

A WEST Vancouver man was
recently fined $3,060 for failing

to provide information under the |

Income Tax Act. .
Raza Hussein Devji, no birth-

date given, was charged with
three counts of failing to provide
information stemming from in-
cidents that
April 30, 1992 and June 16,

occurred between:

1992.

Judge Reginald Grandison
sentenced . Devji in West Van-
couver provincial court. <

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Zoning Bylaw Amendments

| Bylaw No. 6424

To amend the t text of "Zoning Bylaw, 1967", known as Bylaw No. 3778 as it pertains
and Commercial Uses in the P-1 Zone to permit an expanded range of commercial U

APPLICANT: LONSDALE RECREATION CENTRE/ CENTENNIAL THEATRE

Bylaw No.: 6428

“APPLICANT: CITY OF NORTH VANCOUVER

Bylaw No. 6431

hatched pattern’ on: the- ‘map below), from RS ‘One-Family Residential Zone to’ ‘RI
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Columbia,

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MONDAY JULY 12, 1993 at 7:30 p.m.

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