6 ~ Friday, August 1, 1997 ~ North Shore News
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__ VIEWPOINT

ET on the bus with Ernie

Crist. The North Vancouver

District councillor is fast. pick-

ing up speed on the local transit issue.

' And he needs all the supportive
passengers he can get,

Crist, the curmudgeonly thorn in
the backside of complacency every-
" where, wants better transit service for
. the North Shore.

It’s an-issue that: most bus-riding
“North Shore residents would. be
-hard- -pressed to argue against.

* Crist is calling for a local transit

‘authority ° ‘to service the needs of

North: “Vancouver. auch. .as the Blue,
Bus systeni. services ‘the tieeds of West ©

‘Vancouver...
He's of the right. track;
ransit service to. much of the
“North: Shore;’ as. supplied by B.C.
- Transit; j is inadequate and inefficient.

For a good example, try travelling
anywhere cast-west or west-cast on
the North Shore, In some cases it
would be faster to walk.

Transit decisions made in distant
bureaucratic lands are ill serving
North Shore residents.

The North Shore is topographical-
ly different from other arcas of the
Lower Mainland and its transit needs
are also much different. They call for
strong local input.

While establishing a local transit
authority could spawn another local
bureaucracy, wresting the power from

B,C. Transit over how focal transit: _

routes are set and how local buses are

_ dispatched would more than, offset ..
“any. nominal ‘transit authority red*,

tape generated,
On this issue Coun, Ernie is dri-

AS TWAS
SANING! “ONE THING
WE LEARNED You DONT:
WANT To BE 15 AHEAD
IN THE POLS BEFORE
AN ELECTION"

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ust inive some bitter memorie I am sure it hurts to see these
» freedoms eat way.”

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SMASH institutional feminism!
That is the theme of today’s
_quict little talk, Because the
apparent settlement of the outra-
geous injustice done

to Liam Donnelly

changes nothing.

The mechanisms, the
kangaroo courts, the ide-
ology, and especially the
unt inking mind-serof
the clites that credited the!

j monster that would have
the Century Pisza Hotel, 1015 Burrard /}

remorsclessly chewed up

the Simon Fraser %°

University swim coach and |

moved on.-— all'that remains intact.
"And be sure of it: The Donnelly case.
is far from unique.

Certainly i it was more sennational than

other gross miscarriages of justice in
many alleged sexual harassment (and
“chill y. climate” | complaints, more hugely
bungled by the'lies, evasions and seurry-
ing around to cover the academic /xt admin-
istrative ass at SFU, But aot unique; as
attested by many published accounts of.
ferninist abuses, including trials by any
name for which feminists themselves act
as police, prosecutors and judges.
: Had Donnelly not spoken out, and
~ had nat some very good and relentless
the story, his. firing
would have been shroude in secrecy like
other feminist Darkness at Noon episodes
in schools and public and private compa-
nies. Reinember, SFU ar first refused to ©
disclose aiything at all about the case,
raising that reliable old‘shicld for the:
wrongdoer and stone wall for the truth-

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seeker, “confidentiality.”
Picase note that this brand of femi-
ism has little to do with, or indeed con-
cern for, most women, though i it natural-
ly affects to champion and speak for ail
women,
This is the straight
Marxist, collectivist,
group-identity stut?-class
warfare translated into =,
gender warfare,
Go back to the man-hat-
_ing, family-hating bibles
of feminism, the back- By
-bone (cr: wishbone?) of
‘the women’s studies
OIASES departments entrenched»
in universiti¢s, . *

Overton irs

sarden |
Vi of biases

In her 1970 book Sexual Politics Kate. -

Millett approvingly quotes Marx's side-,
kick, Engels: “In the family he (the man).
is the bourgeois, the woman represents
the proletariat.”

nd lesbian Susan Brownmiillér, whose
words were hysterically seized like eterrial
truth by the usual crazed “liberal” “
trendies, popularized the ideology that all
male- female sexual intercourse «~ includ-
ing married couples’ — is rape, So she
wrote in her hook with the admirably
revealing title Against Our Will.

More recently; The National
Organization of Worsen (NOW) in the
has come down against the men’s’

movement called the Promise Keepers,
which imposes serious responsibilities on
men as husbands aitd fathers, Why?
Because NOW secs it as'a threat: ‘Strong,
responsible family men aren't in its inter:
ests, Feminists need the abusive, drunken, +

" rreszionsible image of men. That's where

the grants are, the studies, the’ harass- a

_, ment sindustey apparatus’ —_ = the’p wer,

A great many women (and men) wi

“have,come to think and say that'the

feminits have little knowledge of the.
small-¢ and sometimes of course big-C
communism the vicious ideolugy. that:
gave Eastern Europe! 70 years of cruelty,
class murder, arbitrary:imprisonment and
economic disaster —- without whi

‘Western feminism could ne
_ ed or be sustained,

It’s the survivin branch plant of «
big losers of 1979-80 when'European
communism’s house of cards collapsed
and with the same object: the destruction

» of Western values including the much-

“derided “traditional family” that gets i
the way way ‘of'all revolutionaries and aspir
es

pubic policy’ ina those rahe for |
tter term, comprise the influent
of the establishment, since: thote i int

definition with
sea of power in
ly swims.
And it sets the'n ;
Just think, ira reader; of another story
that coincidentally broke while the

. Donnelly i issue was unfolding: yet ancahe

case of a wife’ severing her;
penis.
No, it wasn’t really that stor
the follow-up “reaction” — ~ stiry, Agi
about it, many women kind of siggl
sina, puede moti New brltever i
by sn freedom. of speech an ght.
of ofall vides ina ‘dcbate tole ‘The:
columnists published in the Ne :
differing points of view, bret shose view: a
not necessarily those of the newspaper ‘teself-

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