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Maing acs ale on cog “Entire contents © 1996 North Shore ” Free Press Ltd. “All sights reserved. ats a ae , pepsin nena n pacsutamenseseo AREA N TWA BR ans CAE TE NOT Saat te actin ioney versus HE NDP is banking on this elec- lion's being a battle in which money prevails over memory. Glen “Shovel It” Clark has thus far done all he can to fog public recollection of past party scandals and misdeeds with a mindbending cocktail of hand- outs, sellouts, giveaways, throwaways, payoffs and assorted vote purchases. Estimates of his pre-election vote- buying spree range wel! over $2 billion. His government’s ,hasty pre-election budget, which again sweeps the mount- ing public debt under the accounting carpet, bears out the hypocritical philos- ophy at the core of the NDP psyche. | won'T TOLERATE A STRIKE IN EDUCAT ON IN ALL sincerity: A vote for Glen Clark is a vote for slickocracy, manipulocracy, sneeroc- racy, corruptocracy, and _of course Biz Brother’s Shorter Brother. Shorter Brother Clark is the height-challenged model of the Big-Brother state dictator. He has all the characteristics of Short-Man Syndrome, an affliction that the politically correct wouldn't dare mention but that is well known in common experience: the cocky littie man with an abnor- mal push for power and, in this case, with the socialist strut. ; There is nothing new about this premier except his new office. Clark was a leading and intrinsic part of the government that has moved this province toward a shutdown of freedom of speech such as I wouldn’t have believed possible in what's sup- posed to be a democracy. More sincerity, reader: The New Demagogue Party’s legislation clamping down on third-party advertising and imposition of fussy restrictions on media reporting of opinion polls during elec- tion campaigns are plain creeping Stalinism, creeping Nazism, muffling the free expression of citizen and press alike. And most sincere of all: The New Demagogues’ so-called human rights fegislation, which not only allows members of identifiable groups whose feelings are hurt by some public utterance to file a complaint with the Human Trevor Lautens Responsible fiscal management mat- ters not at all as long as the NDP pre- vails, And prevail the NDP will if the pub- lic lets facile and transparent promises and slick political public relations over- whelm common sense and simple recall. A forgetful public will empower state- think socialists to further violate the public purse and bankrupt future gen- erations to line the pockets of Big Labor and NDP insiders. They will encourage the party of pleasantness to travel further down the road to state-controlled opinion and dis- cussion. .. NOT iF ti AFFECTS | Rights Commission but gives the commission itself power to initiate proceedings when it perceives such a hurt, is reason alone for throwing out the Harcourt-Clark government. Unquestionably the chief target of that legislation is this paper's Doug Collins, with whom I could disagree (and have disagreed) on many mat- ters but with whom [ stand absolutely foursquare in the conviction that nothing either of us or any of us writes is as supremely important as our freedom to write it. I can’t pass this by without praise for Noel Wright's lucid thoughts on this issue in this paper too, enviably expressed, the product of an. evergreen mind. No, this is not just the clubby self-interest of the columnists’ brotherhood, We can be wrong- headed or muddle-headed about much, but we are not flattering ourselves when we say that our interest is your interest, that suppressing Doug is suppressing all, that the abridgement of the free- dom of the press is the abridgement of the free- dom of everyone. It has cost and is costing this paper dearly to defend Doug, and a publisher less courageous than Peter Speck would have surrendered long ago. Reader, | have observed a few high mucky- mucks in my short apprenticeship in this busi- ness, which began as recently as 40 years ago this month (not counting the earlier pre-full-time bits stretching back just 50 years). But never have f witnessed such a chilling one as the woman from the B.C. Human Rights garden of hiases uve gigat They will perpetuate the dangerous socialist dogma that has resulted in cay- alcade of scandals ranging Scom the pil- fering of charity funds to dubious inter-_ national business deals for narty insid- ers, They will shortchange their future and their children’s future for the short- - term promises of a career politician and his merry band of sccialist henchmen. | If money in this election is allowed.to. prevail over memory and coramon* sense, the public will. reap all. of ‘the’: : above and more. And they will deserve -. every painful consequence of their for-... getfulness. my : . mailbox An abuse of public funds : ' for out of their annual Constituency : allowances, which is public spending it Gien'Clark styl f — “Like. shoveling money’ ( , “back ofa truck!" "inelude-your, nani. full’ ubmission ~ Commission who addressed a gaggle of. journal ists a few years ago —‘a woman: the total coldness and bloodlessness of obedience freak, obedient hervelf to the man I versonally quite like, But at the end of the day Schreck is an unequivocal supporter of the legislation that would silence Doug Collins and thus se! pressive warning signal to all,” : For have no doubt: the lobby groups tha would define what hurts this group or that are watching this case avidly i in hope of. expanding ‘ ’ the silence. . Sot hope Schreck i is trounced i in the cori election. The Harcourt-Clark NDP government is the most astonishingly corrupt and scandalous gov-.- ernment I have ever lived under — astonishing most of all because it is so casually, off- handed:, ‘ ly corrupt. ; This has genuinely surprised me, because, although I have long sensed that no thought is - more rigidly dogmatic and self-satisfied than left-wing thought, | sincerely gave the NDP credit for being a party of conscience, of being finer in that regard than other and older parties wherz the deal and the mutual backscratch were; embarrassing but brushed off as part of the price of doing business, : a A tad cynical, in short, : But the cynicism of this government has. destroyed even that illusion. And nothing is as” cynical as its assaults on freedom, assaults that signal that its goal is not only temporary power :, but permanence.