AB - Sunday. December 2, 1984 - North Shore News oor humorless B.C. HE HUMAN RIGHTS loomes are up in arms again. This time it’s the case of a dame who claims the manager or a restaurant over in Victoria was after her body. It he was, yo what? There's an excellent remedy at hand tor such crimes, it they be L refer to the good old slap in the kisser Mind you, the good old slap on the kisser is a little out of style. That's probably because the women of today don’t have the dash of the women of yesterday, they having been taught at school (to run to some human rights tribunal as soon as someone looks at them. You only have to watch old movies to see how things used to be. Chances are, you'll see Betty Davis hauling off and Crimes giving some upstart a whacker ot that kind. ** Take that, Sebastian!’ We are becoming a nation of humorless wretches, just like the Swedes Jokes are forbidden in Sweden I once knew a Swede who didn't laugh for two years Straight But you couldn't blame him, really, Sweden having had socialism and all the human nghts garbage for so long It's my behef that an thropologists, sociologists and political scientists have caused this human rights mess, they having nothing better to do, and viewing society through the wrong end of a telescope. Only the other day I was pointing out to the press council that peo- ple can go to jail now for say- ing the sort of thing they said a while back Thirty years ago, I told them, the [WA was in a big battle with the Commies, and IWA sceretary George Mit- get this Doug Collins | chell made a speech in which he said, ‘the only good Com- mie’s a dead one,’’ a remark that was greeted by cheers from the assembled toilers Any umon leader who said that now would make head- lines and probably be charg- ed with inciting violence. But at that time, everybody knew what George meant and the statement didn’t even hit the papers, the reporters of those days not being mostly women and budding social workers. But back to the dame in Victoria who ran to the human rights council instead of slapping the guy in the kisser (rf indeed he commit- ted the offence of patting her on the bum and touching more delectable parts in any serious way, which he denies) He hugged, kissed and pat- ted all the girls, a seems (which 1s a4 damn sight better than hugging, kissing and patting all the boys) and would write notes with funny drawings of them, appending lewd statements like “Let's make love!’' Really! In the opimon of your average hard-eyed human righter, such stuff is proot posiuve that a sex fiend 1s on the loose, and that he should pay. And pay again Or be sent to Siberia Fortunately, the provincial government got rid of all the real rights fanatics in its big restraint sweep, and hired a few people who have some sense. So one of them, coun- cil chairman Jim Edgett, found that the accused was not guilty. No one else at the restaurant had been offended by the manager's fun-filled ways, you see, even though they had all expernenced them The manager was nothing more than a George Mitchell of the love front The welktn rings, natural- ly, with howls from the pro- fessional miseries of the body pohtie Rosemary Brown, whom the people of Burnaby Edmonds are daft enough to send to the legistature, does a war dance and yells’ for blood She wasn't at the hearing, but she just knows that a great sin has been committed. This decision, she says, serves notice that the govern. ment condones sexual harassment Rosemary needn't worry. 0% DISCOUNT ON TRACK “_S It yoru vape EXCLUDING SPECIALS) TTS, | wt 11st T COIAHIEI 12 “POLISHED BRASS SET , SHG SET OF 2 LYTESPOTS AND ONE 4’TRACK WITH CANOPY stern Cara had A CLAP GC Cott vgeer yoo Wofinved tae MATTE WHITE. SET. 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