etiring, not quitting

Doug
Collins

on the
other hand

PUT out more flags.
Collins is retiring. My
last regular column will
appear in two wecks’
time.

Ir will be said that I am
throwing in the towel, that
the heat has been too much
for me. Not so. Heat keeps
me ticking.

For the benefit of liars in
the media, here are the facts.

I “retired” from the
North Shore News in 1989.
Even got a gold watch, cour-
tesy of supporters. But on
being asked to return to the
paper I did so. I owed it.

When I wrote my
$200,000 column on

of 1995.

As I wrote on December
31 of thar year:

“This column was to have
been my swan song. I had
planned to quit today and
start writing The Diary of'a
Redneck. But the Bill 33
thing still bubbles.To leave
now would be desertion in
the face of the enemy.”

Ever optimistic, I then
thought that the Inquisition
would be done with in 1996.
Bur the inquisitors love to
keep people on the rack as
long as possible, in the hope
that they will plead for mercy.

The process forces victims
to spend fortunes on legal
fees if they want a decent
defence, and is a warning to
others not to be too bold.

By October of 1996 it
looked as though The Great
Heresy Trial would not take
place until I was 105. Would
I live that long? So told the
paper I would be leaving in
March, 1997, come what
may.

But lo, the beast in
Victoria suddenly stirred.

Galileo Collins would face his
accusers in June, three years
after committing his

Hollywood Propaganda in
1994, however, T had no idea
that such a harmless piece
would make history. “offence.”

In that same year the cen- Te would not have been
sors and bigots of the roper to leave before the
Canadian Jewish Congress fearing so I hung on once
laid their complaint before more. | would not run out
the Human Rights Gestapo. an the bravest publisher in
Jewish groups brook no the country.
questioning of their ortho- My friends all knew [ was
doxies. planning to retire. Southam

I thought the whole thing correspondent Ian Haysom
over within a year. So I also knew about it when he
planned to leave by the end did a write-up on the case in

9-4-1 system

works very well

Dear Editor:

This is an open letter to K.
Deans, who wrote a letter
questioning the 9-1-1 system

1es that was published
in a recent issue of the North
Shore News.
_ > Let me start by saying that
the GVRD 9-1-1 system pri-
orities are in fact tight on tar-
’ get and reflect the policies in
place in every 9-]-1 system in

orth America.

-* Further, these policies
were agreed upon by all stake-
holders at the inception of the
system. These stakeholders include, but are not limited to, the
ambulance service, the police services, various rescue teams
such as North Shore Rescue, as well as the seemingly disgrun-
tled fire services.

Deans states that she called 9-1-1 and asked to speak to the
fire department, because she had come across an accident and
knew that there was a fire hall within three blocks and she knew
that the victim would need to be extricated before ambulance

aramedics could help him. Wrong on both counts.

Did Deans known whether there was in fact a fire ruck in

. the station when she called? No. And was she aware that para-
medics can provide life-saving treatments to a victim even when
they are still stuck or trapped? Apparently nor.

The ambulance service dispatcher is the only emergency ser-
vice dispatcher who is trained to properly assess any calls that
involve sickness or injury and since they are fully trained para-
medics they are the best judge of what resources will be
required in order to provide the best patient care to the sick or
injured person.

In addition to the above, ambulance dispatchers are also able
to.provide emergency telephone instructions to the calling
party so that they can assist the injured while waiting for aid to
arrive.

"Since her husband is a Burnaby fireman, Deans should be
~- aware that immediately after assessing an emergency call, the
.. dispatcher then relays the call to whichever other services will be
required, be it police, fire, Hydro, whatever.

Perhaps victims will not needlessly wait for help if people like

- Deans would not sit and argue with the 9-1-1 operator, and
instead provide the information requested so that the system
can operate as designed. Personal agendas do nothing to pro-
vide life-saving help when required.

R. Anistasias
> North Vancouver

May. I asked him not to
reveal the secret and he
n't. Charles Maclean knew,
too, but said nothing.

Why the secrecy? Because
if my intention had been
known while the “trial” was
pending it would have looked
as if I were running away.

1 have stayed the course,
no matter what you may read
in the gutter press to the
contrary.

Another thing: next week
I witt Se 77. So the sneering
litde vit who wrote in
Vancouver Magazine, falsely,
that I went into the rights
hearing with a smug smile on
my 76-year-old face will have

r if he does
another piece.

My departure may disap-
point some people. T gave
them something to distort.

There will probably be
another up-bubbling when
Glen Clark’s NDP court
brings down its decision. I
have little doubt what that
will be, but am always willing
to be surprised.

I am leaving now, regard-

Complete rad flush
pius oil & filter change,
Includes all materials

less, because the “wrongs”
die is cast and [ will now
have to wait see what the real
courts do.

In the court of public
opinion, meanwhile, it is my
accusers who are seen as
guilty. But that doesn’t
include the many freaks and
mentally handicapped who
write for The Vancouver Sun
and Province.

The man — and woman
~— in the street have certainly
acquitted me.The mountains
of letters show that. And it
enrages my critics that the
Defence Fund has reached
$121,919. Nothing hke it has
been seen before.

Meanwhile, I still have
two weeks in which to annoy
the nice people who would
like to see me hang by my
heels from a hook, as would
the Su’s Paula Brook, who is
loyal to her tribe.

J now intend to put out a
book of columns, plus a book
entitled Rights and Wronas.

Even if I have to publish
them myself. I may be retir-
ing, but am not quitting.

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