4 i f ; ! } | DouG COLLINS * get this straight ° In the first place God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made schoo! boards. — Mark Twain. WHY ARE we such suckers for sob-stories? And why do we fall for that “hungry children"? stuff? Vancouver politicos and the media are the main offenders. They feed on cach other’s horsemanure. The ‘hungry children"’ fuss started with piteous cries from a left-wing schoo! official who went out of his way to ask some kids of Asiatic immigrant paren- tage whether they had had breakfast. They said they hadn't. Right away, it was off to the free food races. Weak-minded school board folk joined the claque, led by Ken Denike, the schoo! board chairman. Mark Twain sure had a point. No one called this nonsense by its proper name. It’s O.K. to be against motherhood, as the abor- tion fiasco shows, but there were no volunteers to play Wackford Squcers (a much libelled character). So down the road poured the local lamenters, mouthing one another's slogans. Vancouver’s yuppie mayor ap- pointed a committce headed by Carole Taylor, a liberal wench who said she had a ton of ques- tions but no solutions. Well, that’s what comes from having been brainweshed. The solution . was to forget the whole thing. If there are hungry kids in B.C. it’s their stupid parents’ fault. Everyone knows that. And short. of having the state occupy the dining rooms of the nation there’s nothing much to be done : about it, Fuel was added to this false fire when the Evening Wimp sent a radical reporter across the country to do some “investigative reporting."* With predictable results. Yes, this country is stuffed with hungry kids. _ The sobbing grows louder. “Feed the children, argue over the check later,’ was one of the more idiotic headlines in The Wimp, which argues editorially that the Socreds have no warm ... blood in their veins. If they had, they would join the campaign for giveaways. “A group involved in aid to the. , / Third World and hoping to em- ..barrass Victoria has offered to provide funds. Fair enough, real- ly, since the: Third World is fill- ing Vancouver schools and it is -, mainly their kids that allegedly aren’t being fed. There being so many cowards around, the Vancouver taxpayers are now going to have to fork out $25,000 a year to satisfy the whims of nincompoops, And that's only the beginning. Three cheers for Bill Vander Zalm, one politico who refuses to be bamboozled and will not contribute a penny to this silly enterprise. x o* I should like to raise as many cheers for Attorney General Brian Smith, but can’t even raise a whisper. It's difficult, when we are be- ing treated to nightly spectacles of condominium conservationists preventing people from going about their lawful business in Strathcona Park, and Smith's contribution to the upholding of the law has been the washing of his hands? He had more important things to do, he said, than to enforce civil injunctions ordering such persons to cease and desist. The so-called Friends of Strathcona Park should have been in Oakalla from day one, preferably ir that nasty hole. Or otherwise brushed aside by bulldozers or whacked over the napper by the RCMP. Are they the law in this province? But faintheartedness is to be expected when similar antics in South Moresby brought about the retreat of government. Appeasement has become popular. in the postics’ strike the Vancouver chief of police said he didn’t want to interfere in a civil dispute. Never mind that the public couldn’t get into the post office. In Strathcona, the law has been flouted by 20 fools who say they are acting on our behalf. One of them even had the gail to say he was answering a Higher Call. A few arrests have now been made, but we don’t have Smith te thank for that. We're a funny lot. 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