IN recent months
ordinary citizens like
you and me have been
bombarded with the
sordid details of the
American [resident’s
extra-marital sex life.

And we've learned 4 lot
in the process, haven't we?
Like what really goes on
behind the ed deers of
the Oval Office, and acw
and unique ways to enjoy a
cigar.

And what about the new
familiarity the press and the
general public feel reading
about and discussing things
normally considered com-
pletely private?

Why, at my own parents’
dinner table night
T heard the term oral sex
spoken by both my grand-
mother and my aunt, and
neither of them even batted
an eye!

Pil cell you what. This
whole Clinton sex scandal
has giver: most of us an edu
cation in human nature the
likes of which we could
never have imagined a cou-
ple of years ago.

But to me the most
impertant lesson of all has
all but been Jost in the pub-
lication of the titillating
crotic details of the
President’s sexual exploits:
adultery is devastating to
those who once loved and
trusted the adulterer, ic. his
or her family.

*m speaking specifically
of Hillary and Chelsea
Clinton. Despite Hillary
Clinton’s obvious political

motivation in life, and even
taking into account her
tough girl act and hee beefy

rear end, neither she nor any

other person in a marriage
deserves to be betrayed by
their partner.

“You don’t screw
around with a
married man unless

you’re pretty
comfortable with
. destroying his

family.”

I don’t care how sympa-
thetic you are to Bill
Clinton, it is his wife Hilla
who has been disrespected,
dishonored, betrayed, hurt,
humiliated, and demeaned
publicly by his thoughtless
acts.

And there is no amount
of press harassment of the
President or public humilia-
tion he will endure that will
ever match the emotional
pain that she undoubtedly
has felt in past months.

The second victim of Bill

Clinton’: inability to think
with the brain in his head
{as apposed to the one in
his pants) is his daughter
Chelsea

You
betrays his w
his tanuils.

What kind of a message
does President Clinton s
his daughter with this
betrayal?

Let me take a shot at it: I
don’t care cnough about my
family to be true to them; I
don’t respect my family
enough to be honest with
th I don’t honor my
family enough to protect
them from scandal; and their
sense of emotional safety
and security with me
unimportant in the face of
my lust for sex.

As a mother, I can’t help
but wonder what Chelsea
Clinton is feeling. No doubt
she loves her father, but
what do you really suppose
this intelligent young
woman thinks about his
behaviour?

My guess is thar bel:ind
the cheerful facade there is
an innocent young girl who
feels confused and betr.
who will probably ha
trouble crusting any man in
the furure.

Some people have been
speaking in sympathetic
tones about Monica
Lewinsky, about how she is
a victim in this affair as well.
I strongly disagree.

Monica Lewinsky is nota
victim here, rather she isa
willing accomplice in this
betrayal. She knew Bill

on was a married man.

yman who
also betrays

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Dear Editor:

Re: Noel Wright’s “Taxpayers biggest vic-
tims of all,”

Mr. Wright captures the feeling of all
Canadians with his rant against the incredible
tax burden we are under.

But his insensitivity towards natives and

the treaty process shows a glaring lack of
knowledge of what the whole proccss is sup-
posed to redress,

Canada is not seeking to redress the sins
of colonization, merely to finally fulfil the
explicit obligations we undertook in. the
Royal Proclamation of 1763.

Until the Klondike Goldrush brought ai
abrupt end to the Douglas Treaties (already
negotiated on Vancouver Island), Great
Britain was negotiating the extinguishment
of native land claims across Canada.

The discovery of B.C. gold gave the land

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abandoned for 130 years.

It is far too convenient to readily accept
the bounty our ancestors provided us, with-
out accepting some of the debt.

Noel Wright doesn’t want to pay, and aei-
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have settied this issue.

We promised to extinguish alf native land
claims, and we have a moral obligation to
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to, and it is not going to get cheaper.

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billion (Employment Insurance) unemploy-
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She knew he was a father.
She had to know that what
she was domg was wrong,
dead wrong, that it threat-
ened all that was important
iinton’s family.

Unlike Hillary and
Chelsea Clinton, she had a
choice in the affair. She
could have said, “No thank
you, Mr. President. Unless
you can show me a permis-
sion slip from Mrs.

Pr ot, Twill not have
sexual relations with vou.”

Call me naive, but |
believe that th what she
would have done if she had
an ounce of common decen-
cy. You don’t serew around
with 3 married man
(whether it’s sexual inter-
course or simply petting)
unless you're pretty com-
fortable with the potential
for destroving his family.
You just don’t.

1 know [ sound fairly
hard line here, and I am.
I've seen married triends gu
through this kind of thing,
and they never really get
over it.

Their children never real-
ly get over it. The memory
of it haunts them for their
whole lives.

Adultery is a bad deal.
There is no valid justifica-
tion for it. It causes nothing
but pain and suffering for its
victims (those who had no
choice in the affair}, and
seriously undermines the
very fabric that holds a mar-
riage and a family together.

Bill Clinton and Monica
Lewinsky lit up a big old

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Adultery is devasiating to families

cigar in the dynamite room
and “BOOM! what an
explosion, Unfortunately
there ¢ innocent victims
serious ured in the blast
too,

I can only hope that this
tawdry media saga fosters
increased public realization
of the devastating conse-
quences of adultery, and
that other cheaters and tl
accomplices will think twice
before they relinquish them-
selves to theie selfish desires.

There are real, painful
consequences for innocent
bystanders.

There are deep emotional
wounds that never com-
pletely iieai on living,
breathing people who

deserve much better.

I don’: care How power-
ful you are or how young
and naive you profess to be:
there's no sympathy here tor
adulte

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