4- Wednesday, October 6, 1999 — North Shore News

Protesters funded by
government, says Collins

From page 3

trolled by Dosanjh.
“So far this year, Dutton
has been given $92,000.
Last year it was about
$99,000. In the three years
up to 1996 he gor $741,000
from all government sources,
federal as well as provincial.
“I saict it was disgraceful
that raxpayers should be
forced ta subsidize such a
man, for this was not the
first time he had prevented
people from speaking. He
‘even boasts about it.
“Dutton does physically
what the NDP government
does by other means. iv was
. interesting, I said, that while
_Dutton directs his Red
* Fascists, the attorney general
‘is trying to quash my appli-
‘cation for a judicial review of
the Humian Rights Code,
-Which in effect is an appeal
_designed ro render sslera
- vives a law that totalitarians
“would approve of.
~ “Dutton and Dosanjh
move: in symbiotic tandem..
The code is a blatant
attempt to.censor free -
speech and a free | press, and
has been described as such °
by the B.C. Press Council,
whose | has stared
that thé‘ law ‘is an attempt to -
fle ech ‘tha Rot crim-

Other poin
In,a tribunal hearing, the:
trath-is no defence.
no appeal within:
the framework of the act. All.
ictim of this legisla-
do is.to apply to the,
‘ourts: for.a judicial |
which: is. expensive,
‘Artistic and academic

named before two tribunals.
I refused to appear before
the second one, however,
describing it as a kangaroo

, court.

“The complaint in the
second case was lodged by
Harry Abrams of the
Victoria branch of i$*nai
Brith. It involved four
columns, including
Hollywood Propaganda,
which had been dismissed by
the previous tribunal.
Clearly, the rights maniacs
have never heard of some-
thing called double jeopardy.

“The adjudicator fined
the North Shore News and
me $2,000, ordered the
newspaper to print his rea-

_sons for judgment (which no

ordinary court could do, and
is a direct interference with
freedom of the press) and
instructed me not to write
anything that might annoy
Jews in future, which
amounts to prior restraint.

“As I told the audience
— those who managed to
get past the leftise lunatics,
that is, — 1] have marched on
regardless. :

“Interestingly, the adjudi-
cator in the second triounal
in effect admitted that the
columns were not hate litera-
ture."

“He ruled that indiv: idual-
ly, the columns do not.,
express hatred or contempt,
bur collectively they do.

“I described that as a neat

. piece of politically correct

alchemy.
: “As I told the audience I
have marched on regardless,
.“To the accompaniment”

S of an incredible din, I read’
out part of the press council -

: statement on the decision

The target’ of the
mplain ‘does not, uniess is’

my first tribunal, ari
is qnoney down e
ugh Twas acq ted:

position it has held since 7

made by the second tribunal.

“The B.C..Press Council ©
issued a statement de; loring.,
the: decision of the Human:
Rights Tribunal i

‘Collins case, sa

ppears to be
Cariadian history that a.
overnment-ap jointed tri-
nal such as this has con-
victéd a ‘newspaper’ and its
‘. columnist of violating con-
tent standards sct by a legis-

-*Th council maintains :

- 1993, namely that the

speech restrictions in the

‘revised human rights code

are.an unjustified violation of |

the principle of freedom of

he law is'a Heresy Act and a
Ce hip Law. It states:
n shall publish,
splay ‘or cause to

the press. «
“The press ‘counieil has .

- also stated that the B.C. .

Aights Code is the
nificant legislative :

: infringement of press free-

‘that Tadicates
jon or an inte

iscrimii- -
ion to dis-

iminate against a person ¢ or. :

‘group or. class of persons,
is Likely to cxposc.a person,
Of a group Of persons to;
hatred _or. contempt :
“No prvof of actual harm
s necessary, Likely is good --
“enough.”

dom in the history of B. Cc,
and ‘that nothing fi ike it has

been seen since the province”
-entered Confederation i in

Rights. Commission lawyer at
the first tribunal, who

declared: ‘The criminal stan- :

dard of proof (under th

" “federal hate jaws). ‘makes

““Why the speech: restrict: ©
ing code? Here T'turned to
- the’ szatement by the Human -

difficult. In other words,
they need their own, catch-
all (and unconstitutional)
law.

“Cabinet minister Corky
Evans said, ‘We need this law
because the courts don’t
always do what we want
them to do,

“Mike Harcourt, who was
premier when the rights act
was changed to eliminate the
free speech guarantee, stated:
“We can have liberty as Jong
as it doesn’t offend anyone!”

“Compare such rubbish, |
said, with statements made
by Americans defending the
specch-guarantecing First
Amendment:

“Oliver Wendell Holmes:
‘Freedom of speech involves
the right to think the
unthinkable, discuss the
unmentionable, and chal-
lenge the unchallengeable.”

“Judge Robert Warren:
‘The suppression of specch,
even where it has littic value
and great costs, amounts to
government thought con-
trol.”

“What is free speech?

“As George Orwell told
his critics in che 1940s: ‘Free
speech is my right to say
what you don’t want to
hear.’

“There was more, burt it
will probably have to wait
for a book. The fight will go
on, I said, and we must win.
If we don’t, say goodbye to
whatever remains of free
speech in the True North.”

Doug Collins’ email is
Douglas_Collins@bc.sympa-
tico.ca. His most recent

- book Here We Go Again! .

contains 100 columns,
including those that were the:
subject of the human rights
hearings. wo

The book costs $18.95
post paid. Email Collins for--

- information,

2/th
bear
shot

Anna Marie D'Angelo

News Reporter
dazugelo@nsnews.com

THE 27th bear to be
killed on the North
Shore this year was shot
on Sunday in urban
North Vancouver near a
garage sale and children
playing in a lane.

The animal was shot near
13th Street and Ridgeway
Avenue, about three blocks
east of Lions Gate Hospital.

Conservation officer Fred
Barnes said he had no choice
but ro kill the animal which
had resisted efforts to run up a
tree and be tranquilized.

“The bear was really just in
the wrong place. It had been
moving down for the last week
from north of the Upper
Levels Highway,” said Barnes.

Conservation officers start-
ed tracking the bear when it
was spotted near the
Magnussen recCentre. On
Sunday, it was observed in the
300- block of East 11th Street.

“It is not regular bear habi-.
tat area. It is strictly residen-.
dial,” said Barnes. Barnes said
North Vancouver Mounties

. spent 20 minutes trying to tree

the bear. Conservation officers

‘will not shoot a tranquilizer.

uniless a bear is treed and “con-
tained.” Barnes said Meunties -_

“had lost ‘the bear when he

arrived. A resident saw the bear
in a backyard. Barnes said the
animal was near 2
children were playing. A.

See Move page .

FALL BUL s tut, creme, daffo a

Prperricnd ete. :

= Trees’ & Shrubs

: HARDWARE - Tubs & Planters

fane ‘where ..

“CERAMIC & CLAY POTS - Forti izers
INSECTICIDES -

‘As stated; 1 have been enforcement ot the hate laws

Garden tools, etc., etc |

_ ALL SALES -
FINALY

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