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Fight speech with speech

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“This is nut Germany and
aot Canada. This is the United
States of America and freedom
of speech is still not a criminal
offence here,”

‘too Judge Judith
'.- Beiedman of the U.S.
» District Court.

THE above statement
was made when Jewish
groups in the U.S. tried

' to prevent British histo-

' ~ tian David Irving from
’ displaying his books at

_ the Expomart exhibi-

- ion in Pittsburgh.

‘The judge ruled in

a Irving’ s favor. And showed

_ that this country has a bad
name on the freedom of
speech front.

. Not surprising, secing

7 what has been going on here

~ ever since the “hate laws”

were passed in 1971.

. Tht brings me back to

a the Zundel case, with which I

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ain familiar because 1 gave
evidence at his first trial in
defence of freedom of speech,

Ernst Zundel is described
every time bis name is men-
tioned as a “neo-Nazi” and a
“Holocaust-denier.” And he
is certainly the latter,

There's no doubt that he
likes the memory of Hitler,
cither, although fam not sure
what a “neo-Nazi” is, Is there
a neo-Nazi Party?

But there’s also no doubt
that a Jot of people around
here liked Stalin, who was an
even bigger killer, And noth-
ings happened to them,

“Tt doesn’t really matter
what Zundel is, As long as he
is breaking no laws he should
be entitled to say anything,
Speech should be fought with
speech.

But if you step over the
boundaries set by the pressure
groups you can be hounded
to extinction.

Holocaust denial has in
effect been turned into a.
crime in Canada even though
it is not a crime.

Zundel plans to take his
case to the United Nations.

According to the UN,
interference with freedom of
opinion by the State or pri

vate parties is prohibited.’
Let’s hope Zundel wins his ,

case and-that Ottawa (and
Victoria) are shown up for
being the hypocrite capitals of
North America: :
"If he wins, we all win, just
as we all won when he was
the victor in the Supreme
Court of Canada in 1991 on
that disgraceful “ “passing false

EWPOINT

news” charge.

They've tried just about
everything with Zundel,

He has been strip
searched, Jaileul, anc made the
target of intense vilification,

For a year he was forbid:
den to use the mails,

His house was nearly
burned down, Arsonists
caused $400,000 worth of
damage.

He got a parcel bomb that
could have killed everyone
within 90 yards if he had
opened it,

A crowd of “Anti Racist
Action” commniies and militant

Jews stood outside his premis-

es last year shouting “Kill the
Nazi.” The police stood by.

He would surely have
been deported if the Supreme
Court had not killed the false
news law. Yet killers and ter-
rorists have been allowed to
stay here.’

He has been denied citi-
zenship even though a top

bureaucrat admitted the appli-

cation was “flawless.” This
after 40 years in Canada dur-
ing which he has been con-
victed of nothing.

Then there was the
attempt last year by the
Security Intelligence Review
Committee (SIRC) to have
him declared a threat to

~ national security.

That was a joke. Sort of.
But the courts prevented it,
whereupon the minister for
immigration announced she
would introduce new laws
designed to fix tat.

Now the Canadian «
Human Rights Commission

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(CHR) is being asked to
Wop Internet material coming
into Canada trom a website
that 1s operated in bis name
out of California,

Even though it is con-
trolled by someone else.

But no one has tried to
stop a “pro- Holocaust” web-
site — Nizkor — that oper:
ates from Vancouver Island,

If one, why not the other?

Here’s another question,
Is anyane who stands up for
Zundel’s rights automatically
a neo: Nazi?

Listen to Murray Mollard
of the BC, Civil Liberties
Association:

“Citizens should have

"access to as many ideas as

possible.”

Better still, listen to
Barbara Amiel, NOW press
mogul C ‘onrad Black's wife
and Jewish herself, who wrote
in 1985 at the time of the
first Zundel trial:

“Ts there a Jew, a black, a
white man, a lover of liberty,
who will fight the good fight
and give us our freedoms
back?”

So far, only the North
Shore News and the B. C.
Press Council.

— The North Shore Newvs

‘believes srrangly ji in freedom of

speech and the right of all sides
in a debate to be heard. ‘The
columnists published im the
News present differing points
of view, but those views are not
necesa ily those of the newspa-
per itself

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