A8 - Sunday, August 12, 1984 - North Shore News’

‘Human rights activists’

SEE WHERE THE DEVIL himself has been in
town. Or so one would judge from a front-page
story in the Vancouver Sun.

In this case, old horny-
head appeared in the guise of
Col. Jack Mohr, who was
here to speak to the Canadian
League of Rights. | had never
heard of him, but he is not
loved by the Left. Renate
Shearer, the Solidarity
socialist, doesn’t like him.
Nor do Mark Silverberg, who
is the executive director of
the Canadian Jewish Con-
gress, Rev. Barry Morris of
the First United Church,
various Anglicans, Charles
Boylan of the People’s Front
Against Fascist and Racist
Violence, and others who
pray to their gods that free
speech will soon come to an
end. Except for them.

If the ‘‘news’’ report by
Nancy Knickerbocker is to be
believed (had it been slanted

any more it would have fallen
off the page) Colonel Mohr is
many things, none of them
good. He is anti-Semitic,
racisi, anti-liberal, and Lord
knows what else. And if what
| read is right, the colonel is a
clever devil. For as Silverberg
stated to the avid
Knickerbocker:

‘“*Col. Mohr is a specialist
in twisting anti-Semitism into
a patriotic duty. He did it
well, and he did it with the
blessing of the Canadian
League of Rights.’”’

My gosh! But what did the
colonel say? Did he complain
about the grip that [Israel and
the Zionists have on the Mid-
dle East policies of the
United States? Or was it that
this man, said to be the most
decorated American to
emerge from the Korean War

(but not by Knickebocker), is
criminally infatuated with the

Doug Collins
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white race?

However that may be, he is
a specialist in ‘‘psycho-
politics,’’ a mystery to me
having something to do with
exposing minority propagan-
da. Well, for all | care he
could be telling people that
Belgium started the First
World War. To each his own.

What happened to Col.
Mohr was a perfect example
of a media and left-wing
gang-up. No wonder the
League didn’t allow reporters
into this private meeting. 1t is
often difficult to distinguish
them from the _ protesters.
Mr. Silverberg got in,
however, which was pretty
generous of someone, seeing
that the Canadian Jewish
Congress would hardly have
permitted the League’s ex-
ecutive director to attend one
of ifs meetings.

Obviously, the foo-fa-ra at
the Sandman Hotel was or-

chestrated. Fair enough — if
it is also accepted that an in-
timidating right-wing
demonstration at a left-wing
meeting would also be accep-
table. But we all know it
wouldn’t be. The Lord’s
men and the media would
howl ‘‘fascists!”’

If they could, al! of the
named protesters would ban
the Col. Mohrs of the world.
They would also ban Colonel
Collins, you, and anyone else
they didn’t like. We have it
from Silverberg and Shearer
— transmitted by the faithful
Knickerbocker — that
‘Canadian laws pertaining to
‘hate literature’ are inade-
quate and must be changed.’’
(James Keegstra is to be tried
for his opinions, but that
isn’t enough.)

These totalitarian forces
have close links with authoni-
ty. In Cranbrook, on July
24th, the RCMP descended

the final joke!

on Col. Mohr’s quarters and
confiscated $5,000 worth of
books and tapes. Some
technical thing about
Customs. But you don’t need
a degree in political science to
guess why the cops moved. I
also hear that the B.C. At-
torney General’s office is
‘looking into”’ the situation.
But not to protect the
League’s right to propagate
itS views.

Let it also be noted that the
above-mentioned Boylan is a
big noise in the Communist
party of Canada (Marxist
Leninist), the party that
believes that God lives in
Albania. He and the Church
Militant link hands. Not one
of them would dream of ban-
ning Boylan, of course. He’s
O.K.

The final joke is that the

demonstrators call them-
selves ‘‘human rights
activists.’’

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‘Living’ is different from ‘existing’

Dear Editor:

Few decisions that a
government makes so clearly
demonstrate its approach to
human life as the recent deci-
sion of the Ministry of
Human Resources to
eliminate the funding to three
small programs in Van-
couver’s Downtown
Eastside. These latest victims
of Grace McCarthy’s
guillotine of restraint: The

Eastside Family Place, The
Downtown Eastside
Women’s Center, and the
handicapped program at
First United Church, all have
one unique thing in common.
To the people they served
they made the difference bet-
ween something that can be

called ‘‘living’’ and existing”

Living is to have something
to look forward to in the
course of a week, however

small, as a break from the
dreary monotony of going
through each day the same as
the last day. When you are
disabled and poor, to be able
to laugh, to be creative, to be
with other people and to en-
joy life for a few hours a
week is not a lot to ask for —
but it is a lot to have taken
away.

If you are poor, restraint
means the difference between

existing and living. A deci-
sion, in the name of restraint,
to save a few hundred dollars
a year and co rob anybody of
the opportunity to live
doesn’t say much about the
size of this Government’s
heart — or mind.

Christopher 3. Walmsley,
Executive Director.

B.C. Assc. of Social
Workers.

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