6 - North Shore News — Endless he charges last week against two B.C. men in connection with the 1985 bombing of an Air India jet off the coast of Ireland in no way means that this terrorist act has finally been put to rest. ‘Vancouver millionaire Ripudaman Singh Malik, 53, and Kamloops resi- dent Ajaib Singh Bagri, 51, are charged with murder conspiracy and first-degree murder in connection with the death of 329 people aboard Air India Flight 182, The accused, who favour a separate Sikh state in India’s Punjab, are also ‘charged with attempted murder relat- -ed- to endangering passengers on flights with bombs on board. , Baggage from Vancouver heading for ’ another Air India plane exploded at a Japanese airport, killing two baggage handlers. riday, November 3, 2000 VIEW POINT journey Malik and Bagri, leaders in B.C.°s Sikh militant separatist community, have not been convicted of the crimes, They are merely charged and are innocent until proven guilty. Their trial is expected to take years. Why has the $50 million police investigation taken so long before charges? Some speculative reasons include CSIS bungling and the Mounties being blind to Sikh politics in B.C. The blinders finally came off when the doomed plane rained down from the sky in pieces. It took RCMP years to get up to speed while brazen vio- fence continued such as the 1998 Surrey murder of “moderate” Sikh journalist Tara Singh Haver. Let’s hope the trial progresses bet- ter than the police investigation. The world will be watching. HEY KIDS: GREAT 33! ate CHRETIEN'S pass | THROUGH TOON! ae | mailbox - Storm needed water Open letter to North Vancouver Rec Commission: .:¢ Your Storm the North Shore evene Sunday, Oct. 22 was a great idea, I didn’t take part, but T have friends who did. _Tthought I would pass along their criticism -- one com- aint, in particular, is very serious. You could heve opened - yourselves up to 2 lawsuit by nor having water available on “the course, even though it was advertised that water would -be available. Six hours without water is a major error that could hav resulted in medical problems for the partici- “241 Rave also heard complaints, that the course was not marked, clues were not up on time, and volunteers gaye correct directions. I know of one team that ran six extra “kilometres because of these problems. -T sure hope you guys learned from the experience; if “no one will s sign up next time. L. ‘Alexander ; : i read. with’ fascination and ‘horror your article on. Bill Mr; Bell preaches forth with some very vitriolic fire and brimstone” towards Mr. White. This is just typical of today’s politicians; hé is completely on the attack but has nothing to say about himself cr his new party. ; « However, | iss this stands to reason if we examine Mr. li and ' his’affiliations,* I understand he recently left‘the incial NDP because he was dissatisfied with the direc- tion’ Mr. Dosanjh is going. 1 guess he was happy with the: direction’ Mr.‘Clark had been going.’ The federal Liberals ; are -much more to his liking for things like what? ARDC? ‘ictator PMO? Vote buying at elections? Forcing toddies on ‘B.C. ridings? Gross mismanagement? What then? Please tell us what you stand for before going on the attack. :. Where did y abe. learn your polis Glen Clark? _ including Mark Taccard’s i in B.C. in1996; Borth Share News, founded in 1969 asan independent Slick Chi WONDERFUL that Prime Goblinmcister Jean Chrétien chose days before Halloween to accuse the Alliance party of representing “a dark side that exists in human beings.” While kids were practis- ing cries of “Trick or treat!,” Chrétien — a Muggle, not a Harry Potter, on his best days — was employing his slick political formula of “Trick and treat!” Trick the rubes. Then “treat” them — Liberally — with their own money to ’ buy their votes. Or, more accurately, to buy them with money gathered through our devilish taxes trom those who generate it and then redis- tribute to Chrétien’s favoured groups, caus- es and regions, taking care not to leave a. proper audit trail that dedicated snoops tike Canada’s auditor-general can follow. Such as the billion bucks peed away by Human Resources Distributionist Minister Jane Stewart, which inagically disappeared ». into the void.’ : Such as the unemployment i insurance ‘card tick, a spiriting away of $40 billion from workers and employers, dumped into ‘general revenuc. Such as, same dumping ground, the gisoline taxes (including provincial) that constitute half of the pump price, raise $400 million-odd, and only a fraction of which “goes for the federal highway i improvements and public transport they’re supposedly des- “. ignated ‘to fund.:Then make the oil compa- nies the easy scapegoat. (Every study, euoareccsnecsensacecscsocseserasnarsoscosososs SEE? ate HED “his WING ien tricks. treats has exposed the popular myth of g greedy and/or collusive vil companies.) And then there's the Chrétien disappear- ing act, rivalling Houdini's: There were 12 - Liberal candidates democratically chosen by — their constituency asso- ciations in the 1993 election, five in the ° 1997 one, that Chrétien “disappeared”. with a non-stroke of his “pen, refusing to sign their nomination papers and d dictatorial j impos- in own puppets to me Liberal political correctness about gen- » der and ethnic represcn- tation in Parliament. While Cheétien goes on about “dark. forces” in the Alliance, the RCMP are look- ing for skeletons i in Chrétien's own political . closet. The broois the Liberals should fear is not the witch's, but the one that threatens to sweep them ust of office. Easy prediction: As Nov. 27 ears, the more the left-of-centre nanny-and-biz-gov- ernment parties — Conservative, Liberal, New Democrat — will step up their fear- - and-smear campaigns against Stockwell Day, the one perceived threat to Ortawa’s perpet- ual pork barrel. They're all running against Alliance: “o00 Speaking of pork:-“Here, pig pig pig pig. _ : pig!” Or, pui ‘pute more conventionally: Newly ° ented Liberai Bill Bell is shrewdly jabbing the soft underbelly of North Van MP Ted White. ~ "He's working on ‘political humin ature. Which i is: Cutting waste and embracing ~ ; _ thrift are something that gor ernment ought: : _served on ships of the Cape Breton el to be doing. Elsewhere. But not here. Not. in our front yard. White is not one to rest - on his laurels, He better not. Former news-. papernian Bell is issuing snappy criticisms... |. . A long-time New Democrat until he saw ° ihe light — of political expedience? —in April, othe North Vancouver City counciller : pinged away at White’s “refissal to su port federal grants and student summer jo! and for “turning down federal funding for heritage sites”-— like Bell’s campaign office: in the old Paine’s Hardware, and the pro- posed project to restore the engine of the ” wartime ship Cape Breton and make i ita a big ° draw for a new museum. ‘ A big yawn, I would say. An cn; whose output should be measured in’. porkpower, not horsepower, a model of ::. -waste if it were outatown. But Bell solemnt told the Liberal faithful — including Senator, Ray Perrault, his. wife and Bell’s fellow. cillor Barbara, and NVC Mayor Barbara + Sharp (who surely wasn’t playing ee when she totally charmed my daugh aged 10!) — that he had 1 ors un ned He also has put White on the defensiv ‘for his slim | parliamentary attendance reco! “which White ‘attributes to constituency, and party, scheduling.: Bell cleve ~ comparisons with the “Mexican siestas of . former senator Andrew Thompson. He told the throng that he dida’t t With the rervor-spreading Heath Thomas murder on everyone ’s mind, princi down Oct: 17. Hureafer, a ‘replacement bus - will be’ ¢ provided lantens@ei LETTERS T0 THE EDITOR must incude your ‘name. full address ‘and. telephone. number. suburban newspaper and ualtied under Schedule, _ Submit via e-mail ie: miacker@nsnews. com M4 Paragraph 111 of the Excise Tax Act, is published ath: ednesday, Friday and ‘Sunday by. 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