ON THE day your humble
servant appeared before the
Press Council to answer for
his alleged sins, Tony
Parsons of BCTV led off his
Station’s report with these

~ words: “Ultra right-wing
columnist Doug Collins...”.

The dictionary definition of
“ultra” is as follows:
. “Going beyond what is ustal or
ordinary; excessive, extreme.”
_ . That is its adjectival use. The
.. word can also be a noun, meaning,
“An extremist, as in religion, poli-
*. tics, fashion, and the. like.”
Fascinating. Tony’s way of
describing me, that is.

:» Going beyond the usual or ordi-
_. Mary’can be a good thing, of course,
although I don’t think that’s what
-<. Lord ‘Tony had in mind. Some great
‘-. people have been beyond the usual
or ordinary. Winston Churchill, for

instance; also Sir John A.
Macdonald. Lite
~ But itis the extremist and the
extreme that I wish to examine, if
only in an academic way. Let us
not complain about the whips and
-’ scorns of outrageous fortune. They :
~ go with the territory. .
“Just what is an extremist and
- ‘how did ] become one?
Let us consult the dictionary

~ again, An extremist is “a supporter

of extreme doctrines or practices.”
Good, Now we are getting
somewhere. But I submit, Lord *
"Tony, that it is not I but my critics:

’ ‘who are extremists.”

Take the great immigration

_ issue. A’ scant 30 years agu it was
./seen’as perfectly right, natural and
 commonsensical not to flood the :

= country with people who have no °
*» cultural or racial affinity, with the

host population; also, it was not
deemed right to admit thousands of
. criminals; nor was it seen as bene
ficial to welcome even more thou-
sands ‘of bogus refugees.
“Today, anyone } who opposes ©
- such madness is an extremist. So
“you were right. after all, and Iam

Doug -
Collins |

on the
i other hand

How about abortion on demand?
We flush 100,000 babies down the,
drain every year at great cost
socially; financially and morally. :
That, too, is not extremism.

Affirmative action? With gov-
ernments hell bent on discriminat-
ing against whites, Lord Tony and
Co. do not consider that to be
extremist. Hence no references to
“ultra lunatic” politicians.

Sodomy? Until Pierre Trudeau *
got into the act, oudawing this dis-
ease-ridden and disgusting practice
was not seen to be extreme. Today,
the reverse is true. ;

It is not seen to be extreme
when pansies, lesbians, and freaks
of all kinds prance and dance in the
streets of Vancouver. Nor is it seen

~to be extreme when children are

taught in school that sodomy is
“natural. ” .

: ‘The extremists are those who
say that that sort of thing is
extremely mad.

Moving right along, we note
that governments have got us into a
state of national bankruptcy.

_. They handed out money to any :
squeaky leftist-wheel that yelled for

,, it, wasted billions on the bilingual-

ism idiocy, poured billions into
Quebec, financed every racist-eth-
nic group in the country, and taxed
the ass off the rest of us. But none
of that was either extreme or ultra.

The Indians? They defy democ- ,

tatically elected governments, both’
nationally and provincially, laugh’
at the ¢ Taw, set up roadblocks. s shoot

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None of THAT is seen as
“extreme.” If it is Limust have
missed it. ;
It is not seen as “extremism.”
either, that books to which pressure
groups like the Canadian Jewish
Congress object are confiscated at
the border or that people can be

~ hauled into court for holding the

wrong opinions.

Nor have I heard the NDP
described as extremist for its anti-
free speech and antizfree press
antics.under Bills 33 and 32, Not

‘once,

Come to think of it, when Harry

© Rankitt. was big in Vancouver poli-
ics [never heard him described as °

an extremist, even though he was a
communist and a Stalinist: The
media drooled over him.

Tony old boy, the next time you
mention nicsay:

“Ultra, ultra, ULTRA right- wing
columnist Doug Collins..."

As long as you get my name
right, there will be no complaint.
Some of my best friends are ;
extremists. And they are all unusual
and extraordinary. But none of
them are to be found in television. .

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