So GOVERNMENTS at _ all levels are easy touches as far as giv- _ing our money away to minority and other _ pressure groups is. concerned. Such beg-, gars have only to . Whisper that they are fighting “racism” and they go away danc- ing on dollars. Alan Dutton of the so- ‘called Canadian Anti-Racism Education and Research ~ Associations (CARES) is an : | expert at it. A couple of years ago, over in Victoria, he spoke on.behalf of the Race Relations Committee getting a grant from the Capital - -Regional District to fent the” “growing Nazi menace” ‘ there. my “| joked that Adolf Hitler, “Must be, hiding i in Oak Bay. “No “Nazis” were ever identi- iéd or even seen. Whether Dutton is other- wise gainfully employed I “don’t know. But last year the eae to the Ke NDP handed over about $135,000 to him so that he could pursue his noble trade. You can be sure he gets money from the feds, too. ‘He used to be head of the B.C. Organization Against — Racism, another leftist lot. - The media wouid always run to him for comment when " the evil “racists” raised their heads. Then he had the bright - idea ‘of promoting himself to be executive secretary of (CARES, which sounds even better. So the media run to “him even more. In Toronto, meanwhile, ~ something called the Anti- Racist Action (ARA) -Road ‘on: ‘ramp’ ‘closure, the ‘De artment of Highways has been sadly negligent in the i) process, ° “While: recognizing the need for road improvements “and advccating: for bicycle: paths -and trail networks, nota 1" thought.was.given to the fact that increased traffic through residential area that holds a community centre, a daycare and a’school traffic route will ‘put pedestrians and cyclists at ‘risk : Neither the ‘schoo ‘nor the local residents were notified. rahe = epartmeni of. Highways ‘until construction had _ “Lf jt. was difficult for me to‘get tothe bus stop in the. ause a backhoe was’ swinging ‘around ‘jit its : place ‘and the flagperson ignored me because of all the traf. fic, imagine how confusing it.is “kids! toads ‘were torn‘up before an alternative trail was put: éa.deep hole in’ the ground gaped hazardously’: the children’ 's bike route'and ali sidewalks have disap-. put up with machinery every, rig and d people have basically’ lost the privacy of their Property, Value has been degraded ‘and govem-, meant has barreled its way through again.’ 2. ming forthis Keith Road ramp closute. is badly 1 pl should have. at least. been: held: off suntil See id Narrow Bridge Construction was over. “| mp blicly: calling for. a halt to this ramp closure plan voice of. the 3 area re i heard, a 105-200. West Esplanade’ North, ickbenae appealed recently to the Metropolitan Council for $18,000, it being ARA's plan to hold a two day “anti- Fascist, anti-racist, organiz- ing conference.” In some secret location, in case Hitler heard about it, no doubt. Dutton’s crew was listed as the financial trustee for the event, and according to the pre-conference blurb the great man was io be flown down for it. ‘The ARA can best be: - described as a neo-Bolshevik group that is by no means averse to violence. Columnist Christie Blatchford has stated in the Toronto Sun that it is a “street-level anti-Nazi group whose tactics historically have been as violent and "ugly as those of its targets.” The “targets,” are, I think, the Heritage Front. But t have found no evidence of the Heritage Front or any other right-wing group in Toronto having starting a rampage. It has defended itself against physical attack. But the ARA has used vio- lence more than-once. Blatchford stated: “ARA became most infamous for its Dear. Editor: After, reading the letters _ from Faro and Dahlie in the June 12 News I can see why we're in this sad situation. It seems that. NDP. sup- f porters fail to look at. their own party’s dismal corrupt” June 1993 trashing of a Heritage Front leader's house in which a crowd of about 300 smashed windows and doors, and threw eggs, paint bombs and rocks. “In 1944, its radio station , CIUT, was briefly yanked . from the air after complaints that the hosts were calling for ‘direct action’ against racists, Later that year, a group of ARA activists shut down a store they claimed was linked to white suprema- cists.” I pause here to gape at the ~ news that a Bolshevik bunch like this can actually get a broadcasting licence from the CRTC. Would any right-wing organization be able to get one? Not bloody likely! Bill Dunphy, another Toronto Sun columnist, says ARA is “fascistic, preaches hate,.and is intolerant of any | views but its own.’ Just like Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, its soul mates. You needn't be a “Nazi” to attract the venom of the: ARA. All you need to do is to put out a newsletter on foreign aid, freedom of © speech and immigration. Or i ,| hypocrisy record and just lash out at | : anyone speaking the truth (if this is still possible now that the NDP is in again). “- Tm sure’ Jorgen Dahlie “ has no trouble looking in the mirror, it’s not what you: ‘look like it's what you stand *: for and the NDP. represents : corruption, , hypocrisy and - “the” restriction of human * tights. When other countries are’ 2 rejecting the oppressive tac- ~ _ ties’ of socialism ; we, have many ‘people in B.C, that embrace: this heavy-handed form of governance. ' ; [suppose .we'll have to - ollow: this damaging route ‘to the bottom. before ‘com- | i MON. sense - prevails and\.we can start recovering from the: ess that we encounter. “When ali investment: is” driven out-of the province where will the: money. come from.to fill ‘all ‘the trucks? -, The NDP is against free “speech, human rights, com-- ‘mon ‘sense and the right to; be successful. - I ask, how. can” anyone possibly support’ them. I still have a hard, time believing © that they won the election. . Bob Jay... : bjay@nanaimo.ark.com Nanaimo mg hold peaceful discussion on those themes, all of which is what Paul Fromm of Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform does. Last December about two | dozen ARA members broke into a private dinner meeting he had organized in a restau- rant in downtown Toronto. Fromm reported that they assaulted an old lady, spat on the owner and other people and tossed cream on a table of books. Then they boasted on’ their website about having ruined the meeting. ~. So much for the “democ- ratic” connections of - °. CARES, which also has «: friends in the B.C. Human en | ri 985-9321. 105 Feil Avenue at ist Street yNorth Vancouver ng the new racism racket Doug Collins Rights Council andi in the . NDP government. How else would Dutton get money - from it?: Fromm was here,to hold a. meeting a few' weeks ago. - -And who should be outside, filming people going in and taking ‘their car numbers, but Dutton. ‘When the police state comes into full bloom, he will need such details. 9 They go'’with the territory. within’ Tics ND YOUR MONEY?