Cross cultural

EVER SINCE that
massacre in Vernon
the major media and
other purveyors of
false news have been
assuring us it wasn’t
a cultural matter.
Here on the North
Shore we had
Mobina Jaffer’s word

for that, too.

Of East Indian origin her-
self, an immigration lawyer
and vice-president of the
Liberal party for “English
Canada,” Jaffer has a certain
interest in saying so.

But of course the kilfing
was cultural. It is true that
people other than Sikhs have
committed mass murder. We
have only to look at what
happened in Scotland. Or at
Clifford Olson.

But the man in this case
had suffered a loss of face in
the Sikh community as a
result of his arranged mar-
riage having gone on the
rocks. He took his revenge by
killing his ex-wife and eight
others.

If-that isn’t a cultural mat-
ter then nothing is. He may
have been bom in Canada but
he was a Sikh first.

In the inevitable discus-

pret anoett

“it’s much more conve-
nient not to have an elected
school board respond to
this.”

Fired North Vancouver
District 44 school trustee
Guy Heywood, on District
44's lack of an elected school
board and the comparatively
small amount of extra capital
funding allocated to District
44 by Victoria. (From an
April 17 North Shore News

* Story.)
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“We have to convince
city residents of the benefits
of harmonized services.”
North Vancouver District
Coun. Don Bell, on North
Vancouver City and District
amalgamation. (From an
April 17 News story.)
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“It’s a lot compared toa
speeding ticket. But when
you consider the value of

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sion on CBC radio as to
whether the Vernon deaths
were cultural or not, a Sikh
said there were not “too
many” such events in the
Punjab, Which should tell us
something.

Although our one-
worlders deny it, the fact is
that some societies are differ-
ent from others. But it would
never do for the promoters of
our immigration disaster to
admit the obvious. And some
societies are more violent
than others. A couple of years
ago a couple in Delta told me
the story of the Sikh girl who
was going with their son. Her
parents objected, violently.
Her father beat her frequently
for it and she fled to the
Delta couple and lived with
them for six months.

Could that have happened
in a white family? It is far

less likely, The young man's
parents didn’t tell him to quit
the affair. for example. For
the Sikh parents, though, it
was amatter of no race mix-
ing and no quitting the cul-
ture. Another mass murder
over which a convenient cur-
tain has been drawn was that
of the 14 women murdered in
Montreal. [t was done by a
lunvuc called Marc Lepine,
aud is held up to this day as
an example of woman hating.

No doubt it was. But there
was also another factor.
Lepine's father was an immi-
grant from North Africa and
the family name had been
changed. In North Africa, as
in many other parts of the
world, women are dirt.

You can bet that Lepine
couldn't stand the thought of
women going to university
and lording it over him.

While we are on this sub-
ject, let’s take a look at the
immigration crime rate.
Actually, we can’t because
we are not allowed to know
what it is. That would be
“racist,” as fact-concealers
are always saying. But it
must be high. There was a
time, for instance, when it
was perfectly safe to go to a
night club in Vancouver. No
longer. East Indian and other
Asian gangs fight it out in
them. And bomb them.

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trees to the community at
large, then $250 is not
enough of a deterrent.”

Coun. Jim Cuthbert, cail-
ing for an increase in the
penalty applied to people
who illegally chop down
trees in the district. (From an
April 19 News story.)

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“?’ve lost all confidence,
all confidence, in this staff.”

North Vancouver District
Coun. Ernie Crist, responding
to revelations that there is a
$20-million discrepancy in

‘the value of the district's land

bank between staff figures
and those of an outside audi-
tor. (From an April 14 News

Story.)
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“Nobody wants to play
agzinst us for some reason.”

Carson Graham assistant
coach Brad Baker, on the
North Shore’s first high
school girls’ rugby team and
its difficulty in finding oppo-
nents after posting wins of
16-0 and 62-0, (From a
March 29 News sports story.)

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“Three dead in club row"
was the headline ina
Vancouver paper only dis
after Vernon. It was deseribed
as “a gang bloodbath.” We
were also told that more than
a dozen aien marched in, all
“apparently armed with
knives and machetes.”

Why “apparently?” And
of what race were they? Put it
down to discreet reporting,
which is now the fashion, lest
the NDP’s Thought Police
arrive, But at the end of the
item we saw that the club
was a known hangout for
Asian gang members.

This page could be filled
with other examples.
According to a former RCMP
officer (who can't now be
thrown out of the force for
being politically incorrect)
there are 245 Vietnamese
drug dealers in Nanaimo
aione.

Things have changed, all
right. For the worse. But the
apologists keep coming up
with their excuses, In the case
of “refugees,” real and
phoney but mostly phoney, it
is that they have seen horrors.

Quite a lot of our people
saw horrors during the war,
too. But they didn’t come
back and beat the place up, or
kill people in nightclubs.

[ have seen the future, and
it doesn’t work.

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