GT, ORbaNiZATONG CHA... CORTMIITEE OW GUSLAT URE BUAL DECENCY IND CORRECTNESS, of COMMITEE TD SFEED UP PATRONAGE APPONNTANENTS 4 | [rks Buns MMKES BUDDIES eet 7a va ~—T i KEN “a ESHOR, r eionsio | com [INSTRUCTOR | LOONY, LEFT-WIING ACADEMICS [ CAUCUS CAF § BOOTSIE NEWS VIEWPOINT S) G WE really want to put guns into the hands of our children? The : é*” question cries for response, for it is happening and it is simply one of the more biatant manifestations of the American culture of violemce creeping into the Ca- nadian psycke. ! The jury recommendations made Tues- ‘day in North Vancouver regarding the ‘shooting. death of 22-year-old | Daniel Possee focus the need for society to react ‘to. the gun-friendly indoctrination of our children. Qpen your eyes the next time you walk . , by a bank of video arcade games and ' you'll likely see children with mock guns in their hands merrily blasting away at video images of. people shooting at them from cars. Watch the children playing in the streets’ and you'll see some of them armed with alike. ooting for awareness dead-on semi-automatic copies of nasty pieces of weaponry. Possee died tragically. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and his life enc quickly and needlessly. The jury at the coroner’s inquest has recommended to the atlorney general that the education minister should consider de- veloping’ a firearms/weapons safety awareness. program for secondary schools. The program should include information regarding the hazards of using devices that resemble weapons, such as pellet rifles. The jury also said that warning labels should be affixed to any weapon look- \- We are bombarded .with preventive in- formation about cigarettes and alcohol and driving. Surely gunplay is also hazardous to our heaith. m7 REWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK — ‘In a perfect world, I would be unemployed.”’ Coroner: Larry Campbell, in his summation at the conclusion of the inquest’ into’ the death of Danny :Possee. (From a May 19 News story.) “What we want to hear from is the young. people of the district: the people whe skateboard and hang around on the corner.” North’ Vancouver District Mayor Murray Dykeman — ad- dressing) Wandsworth secondary opening communication lines be- tween schools and the community. (From a May 16 News story.) “He seemed more genuine than (Capilano-Howe Sound MP) Mary Collins.”” Unnamed student. — to North Shore News reporter Martin Millerchip following an address from North Vancouver — District Mayor Murray. Dykeman to Handsworth secondary school students — on the mayor. 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He knows the numbers. Staff Sgt. Nimmo — guest speaker Thursday at North Van Chamber of Commerce's annual “Take A Policeman To Lunch’’ meeting — knows where the bodies are buried. A 24-year Vancouver Police Dept. veteran, he heads the city’s Asian Orga- nized Crime Squad, a joint mo VPD-RCMP unit. While noting that Asian crime is the work of only a very small mi- nority of Vancouver’s total Asian cummunity, Nimmo zeroed in on three of the special problems in fighting it. One is the fact that most vic- - tims are themselves Asians who | are often reluctant to report the crime. Sometimes because police and the law commanded little respect in their homeland. In other cases because of intimida- tion and threats of retaliation by | the criminals. A second problem i is the highly mobile, international nature of much of the crime — phone and credit card fraud, home invasions and extortion — in which Asian gangs specialize. — Typically, criminals may fly in from Toronto, clean up fast in Yancouver and fly out again to Seattle, San Francisco or Los STAFF. SGT, Andy Nimmo... high time to smarten up. MAYOR JACK Loucks... .Sun- day birthday boy. vite in guys! HITHER AND YON Angeles before being apprehend. ed.: But the biggest headache, Nimmo indicated, is the ease with which criminals can settle here as bogus refugees under Canada’s crazily lax rules — as graphically confirmed by Charles Campbell, -Over a recent four-year period, Campbell notes, the average ac- ” ceptance rate by the Immigration and Refugee Board of arrivals in Canada claiming refugee status was 65%. Last year an independent study by Daniel Stoffman published in the Toronto Star found the average acceptance rate by the world’s 16 main refugee- receiving countries (including our - own) is 14% — less than one quarter that of Canada. At the same time a Geneva- based study of 250,000 refugee claimants revealed that only 16.8% met the criteria set out in. the United Nations convention. This year Canada plans to ac- : cept 58,000 refugees. Yet just be-- ° fore the Yugoslav upheaval the ~ UN put the: WORLDWIDE total of legitimate refugees requiring resettlement at only 42,290! Nobod y wants to lower the toom on: genuine refugees. But , | ,the chaos i in Canada’ srefugee. ’ system smeans we're also letting in“: ever more of the deadly scum of Asia to prey on their innocent ” fellow immigrants. Staff Sgt. Nimmo, who has to . pick up the human pieces, thinks | it’s high time we smertened upat | our borders. aoo SCRATCHPAD: “West Van Seawalk and other Municipal ‘Treasures’? will be the subject next Thursday, May 27, at the 7:30 —~ p.m, meeting of West Van Histor- ical Society in Pauline Johnson . school, 1150-22nd St., with former mayor Don Lanskail as guest speaker ... Nominated 1993-94 directors of North Van Kiwanis Club are Phil Harrison, - Doug Horner, Don McKay, David Maia, Jake Pronk, Paul Stuart and Norm Rutledge ... Hapny 75th birthday today, May 23, to City Mayor Jack Loucks ... Also today, happy 60th anniversary to West Van’s Ed and Jeannette Cahili-Roop ... And wish many ‘happy returns of tomorrow,,May 24, to News managing editor (and - resident gourmet!) Timothy Ren- shaw. ’ WRIGHT OR WRONG: The. , trouble with the world, according to Bertrand Russell, is that the: - stupid are cocksure "and ‘the in- telligent are full of doubt. ..