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COLLINS AND THE HOLOCAUST

Free speech ‘a smokescreen’

_ Dear Editor:

Columnist Doug Collins makes
reference tc me. in an article the
general tone of which suggests that
he protests too much in attempting
to refute the charge of an-
ti-Semitism.

Mr. Collins implies, without
stating explicitly, that some sort of
powerful Jewish conspiracy, with
the acquiescence of a ‘‘lot of dumb
Gentiles,’’ is imposing restrictions

Greenspace loss protested

OPEN LETTER TO WEST

_ VANCOUVER MAYOR DON

LANSKAIL

Opposite the front of our house
lies the south abutment of the Up-
per Levels Highway, here perhaps
30 feet high. Between the base of
the wall and the street (Nepal
Place) there is a strip of land 15 to
20 feet wide.

When the abutment was built
and then faced with fieldstone in
the carly 1970s, we were told that
the provincial highway department
would plant shrubs and ivy to
cover the bare ground and wall. Of
course, this was never done.

However, slowly brambles and
wild shrubs took root there, and
after 15 years the result was pleas-
ant enough — a strip of wild
greenery where birds nested and
one could pick blackberries in
summer.

One day in March of this year a
municipal work crew came by and
tore this all out. A neighbor asked
the leader of the crew what in the
world they were doing and was
told that the work was necessary
“to improve drainage.”’

This is patent nonsense: without
vegetation cover, dirt has been
washing into the ditch and the
runoff is far worse than before.

My wife phoned the West Van-
couver Municipal Hall to find out
what was going on. After several
runarounds she was referred to the
supervisor of the work crews —
who was not in his office and who
never did her the courtesy of reply-
ing to her call.

We have waited two months to
see whether the municipality would
do the planting necessary to
remove the eyesore, restore
drainage, and recreate a small nat-

electronics.

on Canadian freedoms. He cites as
an example the removal of the
Lord’s Prayer from schools.

Does Mr. Collins expect me, a
Jew and a supporter of the separa-
tion of church and state, to have
my children be made to participate
in or witness a sectarian religious
exercise in the public schools they
attend?

Far worse, Mr. Collins states
that an author who called the

ural outpost — but nothing. I
therefore turn to you to try to
learn who is responsible for this
piece of environmental vandalism,
and what is to be done about it.
Ronald C. Newton

West Vancouver

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Holocaust the hoax of the century
**had made a substantial case.”

I believe in freedom of speech,
even for Holocaust deniers. But as
a Holocaust survivor whose
maternal grandparents were ex-
terminated at Auschwitz, I regard
such views as delusional, bordering
on the psychotic. Their pro-
pagators, intentionally or not,
contribute to confusion and evil in
the world; their efforts must be
exposed and repudiated.

Attempts by some Jewish
spokesmen to limit debate on the
painful and sensitive subject of
Israeli government policy towards
Palestinians may be misguided.

Mr. Collins’ defence of free
speech, however, appears to be no
more than a smokescreen for views
which have caused unspeakable
suffering for the Jewish people.
Gabor Mate
Vanconver

926-2615

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