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THE JACKBOOTS
have struck again. A
meeting that was to
have been addressed in
the Surrey Inn by Paul
Fromm of Toronto,
Doug Christie, Pat
Burns, and myself,
among others, was
cancelled when the
hotel was intimidated
by ethnic groups and
labor unions.

The conference had been
called by the Canadian
Association for Free
Expression (CAFE). But.
free expression is now seen
as a threat.

The meeting took place
anyway, but in secret. The
early Christians had to do
the same sort of thing in the
catacombs of Rome.

All this with the support
of your NDP Attorney
General; Ujjal Dosanjh, who
said he was “appalled” that
such a meeting should be
planned.

Hardly surprising, since
Punjab-born Dosanjh backs
Bil! 33, this country's
biggest threat to press free-
dom. His view is that we
can say what we like as
Jong as we don’t “promote
racism.” He wants a sliding
scale of free speech.

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was still Canada, a

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province's top law officer
would have said that anyone
should be able to hold a
peaceful meeting and say
what they damned well
pleased.

But that's not the way
attorneys general think these
days. A few years ago the
A.G. in New Brunswick
said there was no room in
his province for “wicked
thoughts.”

The Canadian Jewish
Congress was also on
parade. Marilyn Berger said
it was “disconcerting” that
the hotel should open its
doors to “these people.”

Labor unions played >
their role, too. Forgetting
that it was the struggle for
free association that made
them possible, they joined
the intimidators, and an
union rep in the hotel said
its employees might be in
danger if there was acon-

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Who would have caused
the danger? Not CAFE.

CBC-TV news asked me
for an interview on al] this
and | was dumb enough to
agree.

The reporter wanted to
know what I planned to tatk
about. “Bill 33." 1 told her.

“What's that?” she asked.

So, off camera, I had to
explain it!

Her “news” item fol-
lowed the predictable pat-
tern and my bit lasted all of
10 seconds.

The Vancouver Sun's
“information” came entirely
from hostile sources, chief
of whom was Dosanjh. The
paper followed up with the
joyful headline: “Racists”
meeting cancelled.”

Inevitably, the Sun's
multicult girl got quotes
from Alan Dutton, the
Marxist who is now getting

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government grants for
something called the
Canadian Anti-Racism
Education and Research
Society, He said that while
the topic of the meeting was
free speech, it would “more
likely promote hatred
toward minorities.”

Here are more of the sin-
ister topics.

Customs Censorship,
Censorship in the Media,
Thought Crimes Trials,
Censorship and the Political
Process, Forging a Strategy
for Freedom.

CBC radio carried the
“news” that Fromm “cele-
brates Hitler's birthday.”
But he wasn't asked about
that. If the pressure groups
claim he did, that's good
enough.

Fromm says he attended
a meeting some years ago at
which someone shouted,
““Phis is Hitler's birthday.”

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He was not a speaker at the
event and said nothing him-
self. Shades of the fuss last
year when a Reform Party
MP delivered a harmless
Hitler quote,

1 described recently how
a Toronto newspuper
claimed that Fromm, “a
teacher with neo-Nazi links,
had given a talk to Heritage
Front members in Nazi
regalia.” He denied it and
complained to the Ontario
Press Council. His com-
plaint was fully upheld.

I take his newsletter but
have never seen anything
pro-Nazi in it, And | think |
can judge because right
after the war | was a
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Nazification of Germany.

Charan Gill, an NDP
candidate in Surrey-
Cloverdale, dropped by the
Surrey Inn to congratulate
it. Surrey Coun. Judy
Higginbotham told the CBC
she will push for a bylaw
that prohibits such meet-
ings. Hitler's boys did the
same sort of thing.

If the conference had
been allowed to take place
as originally arranged, the
media could have reported
on it and then made their
comments. In only one
speaker ——- who thought he
was being satirical — would
they have found anything to
support their thesis.

Instead, they accept as
gospel any statements put
out by the wrecking crews.
The same thing was true of
the McCarthy years.

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