YOUR FRIENDLY NDP
MLA, David Schreck, is upset
with the North Shore News.
He objects to the News’ con-
stantly reminding people that
the Nasty Party wants to
‘squelch criticism of its
favorite folk. And that it
“wants to favor its candidates

'. at election times.

The offending item has been run

regularly under the headline “*NDP is
- eroding your rights of freedom of -

spzech.”’ It points an accusing finger,

“not only-at Bill 33 — the Kill

Collins Act — but also at Bills 28 .

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‘, Bill 28 prevents people from”

\/ spending as much money as they °
“like‘on their favorite candidates but

doesn’ Uprevent unions from donat- *
- ing as much labor as they like to
/ THEIR favorite candidates. |
And'as MLA Jeremy. Dalton has
pointed out, there, are'no restrictions
* on what | governmeiit can spend. So
"far, he says, it has spent atout $10
“million on advertising its wonderful
“works,

vo Bill 32, meanwhile, makes i it poss -
sible for the human rights pokenoses
=», fO.tnake complaints on behalf of |

‘people’ ‘who have made no com-
plaints. °

‘ According to the BC. Press
Council, government busybodies :
will also be able to raid premises —

including newspaper offices =— look-
, ing for offensive material and to find =
“out whether employers are hiring the
“fight (multicult) people.

"1 Iva letter to dhe editor, Schreck

“assured the North Shore that things
are getting better all the time. Free:

« Speech and the right to know are

- actually, being EXPANDED here in

“ Beautiful B.C. We are just too dumb ;

to realize it;

Dear Editor: ; :
Re: “Big game tradition lives."
Aug::20 by. Mr. ‘Doug Collins, -1

can’t agreé, Mor re with the author of
the colurnn.”.:.: s,

ao dojnot understand ‘those nice
gentlemen going fishing, not eating =

fish meat at all, catching "and throw- :
at ing the fish back to.the water.,

“How would these nice fclks like

. the dentist to pull out ‘their tooth and

stated that if the News is.so wrong in
‘its interpretation of how the NDP”

legislation works, it’s no surprise
that it supports “Holocaust-denier”
Doug Collins. :

Schreck is a PhD. who probably
doesn’t know what a nan sequitur is.
So, it being hard to see what my
‘alleged sin has to do with how legis-
lation works, let me explain that itis
an inference that does not follow

* fron its premise,

Here is an example: All black-
birds are black. Some hawks are
black. Therefore, some hawks are
blackbirds,

‘| Get it, David?

Our man’s political life is fii led
with similar confusion, When he was
pushing Bill 33 he saw nothing ©
trong with removing from provincial

laws the right to freedom of speech. It
was all’ matter of fighting “hatred.”

“Who would decide what hatred

“was? The Rights Police, that’s who. -
- What could be fairer? |

We had hate laws before Bill 33

was passed, of course, But Schreck .

and his accomplices didn’t think
much of them because they involve
going to cotirt, As another NDPer
put it: “The courts don't ulways do
what we want them to do.”

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{do not agree with’ fanatics. who

“are destroying - laboratories where _
mice and other verinin are used for

different tests, which should? bring
“, the remedy for diseases that people

are suffering from, Such killing has

“purpose, which. could be ‘justified.
Another kind ‘of killing or hurting

-animals, however, hardly comes to

the same category.
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North Vancouver: .

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Much better to have your own
“coun”

We hive nothing to worry about
because, as Schreck has put it, his
party’ is “fundamentally committed
to freedom of speech.”

As long as it's the right speech,

In his letter to the editor, this cat

“purred that “no dire consequences
-have flowed from the (Bill 33) legis-

lation.”
Putting Collins and the News on

the griddle for up to $100,000 is not -

a dire consequence, Not for David, °
anyway. The same thing applies, pre-
sumably, in the case of John Ball,
the former Socred candidate who is
another target. Plus. that of the news-
paper owner in Victoria who dared
to run my column.

In the legislature, David the free-,

-dom fighter claimed that the “human”

rights approach to this type of legis-
lation is not punitive.” But in his let-
ter to the editor he stated that Bill 33
provides “the power to investigate
and levy heavy. penalties in cases of
the promotion of hatred.”
Confusing, what? And one sup-
poses that handing “victims” up to
$100,000 of the accused's money is

‘not punitive. It’s just being helptul.

Drawing another contnidiction -
from his bag of tricks, he declared:
“Thave said it before and I'll say:

it again, that the purpose of this legis-.-

lation is to provide redress to victims:
it is not to punish the perpetrators.”

| too have said itbefore and will
Say itagain. What hope is there fora

_ Province govermed by such danger

ous nincompoops?

Wednesday, September 13 - North Shore News - 7

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