ANYONE WHO thinks that this country is not riddled Doug Collins @ get this straight @ with the work of lunatics should take a look at the case of Charles Ng, the former Hong Konger wanted in the U.S. on charges of murdering nine people and suspected of be- ing involved in the deaths of three times that number. He must not be sent back to California, say our “thumanitarians,’’ because that state has the death penalty. So all legal devices known to the system and some that have not yet been invented will be used to keep him here. The Ng affair caused a fuss when it hit the news a couple of years ago but has since fallen into limbo. Now, former federal parole board member Lisa Hobbs Birnie hes revived it in Influence magazine. Whether Ms. Birnie is in favor of the death penalty I don’t know. But the article demonstrates just how nutty the anti-death penalty mob can be. Ng scarpered to Canada from California in 1985, and it is Cana- dian policy not to extradite people to countries where they may be ex- ecuted for their crimes. Usually, we send them back only if the state to which they are being returned guarantees that capita! punishment will not be applied in the instance concerned. There is some flexibility on the extradition point because the agreement with the U.S. says that a person may not be returned unless our conditions are met, not shail not. But our sob-sisters of both sexes apply pressure to en- sure that any kind of monster is protected. If Ng is guilty of the crimes he is charged with, he is a special kind of monster. The California cops link him with a property in that state that was used as a burial ground and crematorium for at least 25 vic- tims. I quote from Influence. ‘Police investigators uncovered .. the bodies of two men who had been shot; two others buried in sleeping bags; a headless torso; 50 pounds of human bone fragments; baby teeth, and a hillside covered in human ash and fine, crushed bones.’ Diaries and videotapes were aiso found. They featured young women who had been held as ‘‘sex slaves’? and then murdered. Ac- cording to the investigators, Ng and an associate figure in the tapes. The associate was a man called Leonard Lake, who com- mitted suicide within minutes of being arrested. | quote from the article again: “The film of Brenda O’Con- nor shows her handcuffed and en- chained. She is begging for her baby. She is told by the two men that they have given the baby away. Terrified and distraught, she is told to take off her clothes. She hesitates. She refuses. A man takes a knife and hacks off her bra. Police say the man is Charles Ng.” No trial having taken place, it cannot be said that Ng is guilty of the crimes on which he faces | charges in the U.S. But we know for sure that he is a crumb. He’ entered Canada illegally with the FBI at his heels, committed assault and robbery in Calgary, was armed, and was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison. He is now in the Saskatechewan | Penitentiary and becomes eligible for parole in June. Ng’s ‘lawyers say it would be “morally reprehensible’ to ex- tradite him. So they plan to use every trick in the book to keep him here, not forgetting the op- portunities presented in our | idiotic Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Win or lose, they will probably be able to delay a deci- sion for years while the courts fur- row their brows over whether the cabinet has the right to order Ng out, assuming it would want to order him out. Put our stance down to a deep national sickness. My files iell me, } for instance, that when the Ng case made headlines in 1985, War- ren Alimand the former solicitor general said that extraditing the likes of this guy would be ‘‘con- tributing to human rights viola- tions’’. Can you beat that? If keeping Ng in Canada is a matter of human rights, give me § human wrongs. Why should this country be a bolt-hole for mass murde: ‘+s, real or suspected? For a fuller scan of the case, read the June-July issue of influence. New development plan features lower densities NORTH VANCOUVER District’s latest incarnation of the contentious McCartney Woods development plan calls for a lowering of building densities and a potential decrease of mature trees now standing in the area. Proposed changes to the mix of housing types planned for the site, located east of the Blueridge area, reduce the number of dwelling units from a total of 262 slated in the initial plan to 246. The revamped layout increases single- family housing to 162, up from 14S, and reduces attached housing to 84, down from 113. The reductions in density come in the form of traditional lot and street layout, a move away from Man charged with fraud A. 67-YEAR-OLD North Van- couver man appeared Monday in North Vancouver provincial court to face three criminal charges laid against him in connection with an alleged insurance fraud. Clarence Arthur Billett, a former Victoria police officer, was originally charged with two counts of fraud and one count of mislead- ing a police officer in connection with insurance claims alleged to have been made with the Canadian Northern Shield Insurance and the General Insurance Co-operators Insurance companies, after Billett claimed his Lynn Valley home had been burglarized. Appearing before Judge B.P. Byrne, Billett was remanded to June 12 to stand trial on the charges. By MICHAEL BECKER News Reporter the clustered housing originally proposed. In order to retain major tree stands, a district planning report points out that covenants restric- ting the total clearing of trees from fots in designated areas may be necessary. Said Ald. Mary Segal: “‘In the interest of putting in more single- family homes, we’re compromising jf the environment.” The planner noted that at a re- cent meeting held which included representation from the Seymour Heigh:> Residents Association, the land owners and the district plann- ing department, the inclusion of some multi-family housing for the area was seen as a potential point of contention. Council moved to make the new layout plan available to the public to be presented at an upcoming June 24 public meeting scheduled to take place in the Seymour area. A location for the meeting had not been arranged to press time. Luigi’s Moka Ristorante : “SPECIALIZING IN’ AUTHENTIC ITALIAN CUISINE * DINE & DANCE FRI. & SAT. 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