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THE TRIAL of F tang:
. Kafka’s “K”.never ended, so
‘it’s'a pity, the great German-
Jewish- Czech writer isn’t
around now. He would have
a field day with the Keegstra
affair, which by coincidence
features another K,«. :
+ Keegstra’ s ordeal has been going
on since 1984 — Orwell’s year —
“and has to be one of the worst
examples of unnatural justice...
* He was charged under the hate
laws for telling'the kids in‘his; ..:
schoo! that the holocaust was a.

hoax’ and claiming there wasa

Zionist conspiracy to control the
world... **
Weird theuries abound, but if we:

ageed, every ‘dissident or advocate”
of the Weird into court we would’

eed 10,000 new judges. is history :
no longer debatable? * .
An England, some historians are
now arguing that World War One.
could have been avoided and that it
wasn’t all the Germans’ fault. i
don’t agree with that. Being a sim-,
pleton, I believe that wars are
caused by the guy whose troops :

first cross a neighbor's border i in an -

unfriendly” manner.
A prominent British acadeinic
en had a book published recently °,
n which he argues that Winston
Churchill made a mistake in not
making peuce with Hitler in 1940,
and that ‘if he had done so the” °
British Empire would still exist and '
the world would be’ ‘a more stable
place. os
I don’ t agree with that, either. -

“Ultra Wheels
“The Great One”

KEN BAXTER |

Had antes ati

But who am 1 to write things in
stone? :

Anyway, there Keegstru was,
yakking on about international con:
spiracies etc.

* Ina sand country, that would
have been a matter for his local
school board to deal with.

Instead, he lands up in court

where he has remained éver since at

huge cost to the taxpayers, most of

» whoin couldn't give a damn.
whether he had said the Second

World War was the fault of the
Icelanders and that it was the pyg:
mies who were out tg rule the
world, :

On duration along, this case

“belongs in the Guinness Book-of

Records, thanks to attorneys general
who have an eye for politics and
pressure groups, -

To describe this legal process in

detail would only put you (and me)

to sleep, But here’s a short synop-
sis.
‘There was four-month trial in

1985. Mass murder trials don’t take

that long. And all over what

Keegstra told some kids.
He was found guilty and sen-
tenced to pay a fine of $5,000.
Complaints from the lobby that’:
he should have been sent to jail.
. The defence was not actually
countenanced by the law but only
tolerated, and there were differ- .

ences of opinion even on that, —

Kafka.
'” Keegstra appealed and won.

The case reached the Supreme
Court of Canada and by the narrow-

* est of margins (4-3) the hate laws
were niled constitutional. But a new

trial was ordered.
It was held in 1992 and again

“lasted for months, Keegstra con-
ducted his own defence and was

again found guilty. But this time the

_“ fine was reduced to $3,000. More

bitter complaints. °. ~
He appealed again and the ver- ’

‘dict was again overturned, with a
two-judge majority recommending

yeta a THIRD TRIAL.

LAWYER
24 Years
Experience .

It seemed te the accused as if
two giants af enormous size were
negotiating about his head, —
Katka,”

‘The attomey general of Alberta
could then have entered 1 stay of
proceedings. Heeding the provests.
however, he decided to appeal
which means the case has! gone to”
the Supreme Court of Canada once
more.

Where was the dudge? Where
was the High Court of Justice? 1.
have sométhing to say. — Katka's
“KK.

Well, that gives Keegstra and
lawyer Doug Christie, who has re-
entered the
challenge the hate laws.

66 Weird theories
abound, but if we
dragged every dissi-
dent or advocate of
the weird into court

we would need
10,000 new judges, 9?

Typical of press reaction to this
legal marathon was an editorial
written by some idiot at the Calgary
Herald.

The editorialist complained
about the possibility of there being
a third trial, but only because it

“opens the door for yet more grand-

standing: by a tiresome group of:
actors.”
“Keegstra and his kind must be

chalienged by all those who see the . |

value of keeping track of the truth

of history.” stated this editorial

expert.
Progress has always been made,

but the nature of the progress in in the

. trial could never be divulged.

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