MY COLL EAGUE Doug Collins has campaigned in’ ‘his
usual relentless style against the decision of Canadajs courts

: to throw Ernst Zundel behind bars.

: 1 have to add my two-bits here,
if oniy for the reason that the more
voices raised now, while they still
can be, the better. :

‘Let's be clear about this:
. To arrest anyone in Canada for

" publishing anything is a traitorous

act. The judges, police and politi-

‘cians who were responsible should ©

be arrested themselves... ..-..,

:, Rounding up publishers.or

‘writers is the work of fascists, not

; democrats: As samebody who fects
that all minorities must be pro-
tected, I have to say that it is just
as bad for a minority to impose its
views on the rest of us as it is for:

|| us to single minorities out for

- special treatment... 2 - *

As far as the Jewish minority is |

concerned, the Zundel trialhas ©
| been an enormous pain, a public
” selations disaster they didn’t need.
Zunde! gained an incredibic -
amount of notoricty and his
., bizarre ideas were magnified al.
_ thousand: fold through the media.
“TD really do.wonder about most .
 .of the media.-When they want to»

freeze someone out, they know ex-.

1: actly how todo it, ‘So when they

{open their pages {o a pasticuar «+

| view, you know it's because they ©

' secretly want to pass. that view -

| along. © i

ic df they didn’t’ ‘want to, it. woe
wouldn't be there: You wouldn’t .
be reading it,’swectlieart.- =",

‘The second time around in the

Zundel trial, the media tried to’
make up for its guilty, feelings by

Forget the legalistic, fine print.
The man was nailed for putt ing

f
forward an unpopular view, It is a.

view so unpopular’ that allthe =/ (2

normal defenders of free specch
have shunned him./ i
I don’tsec the, Writers Union‘of._
Canada springing/to his defence, |
for instance, ‘and this i is damned |
peculiar. If Pierye Berton was ta be
arrested for sayi! ing.the War of ' i
1812 never happened, all hell’ fo
would break loose. fa ‘
A worm like Zundel merely. |
; questions the verisimilitude of the,
< Holocaust and he’s busted. / ;
Zundel i is’ lg pariah, for sure. 1
fee] that way about him myself_1 |
wouldn't stay in the same room if
he walked in. bP ot
And that’ s.my right. |
‘But I should not have the wight;
to have, shim arrested for saying the
_stuff that he does. he ;
| thought ‘this i issuc was settled .:
_by the Second World Wer. Hitler |
fould seize publishers. He, did..

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j TIME AS running out, and sailors have only, two more days
ito Bet their entry forms.in for the annual! North Shore: noon!
i Sailing Race set for June 19. Deadline for entries is ngon

June 17.

The © North Vancouver band
Freddy Fuddpucker and his. Roll-
ing Clones will be on hand to pro-
‘vide. fun-filled. entertainment be-

‘ fore the race awards presentations,
which ase ‘to be held at the Gran-
ville Island, Hotel's Pelican Bay
Dining Room.

North Vancouver's one and only
Buddy the Clown and his sidekick

Chugger : the Train will keep the.

fun going Jeading up to the awards
presentations.

Lending a hand with the race are
the’ West Vancouver Yacht Club

and the Hollyburn Sailing Club;
Brian’ Morse -- co-organizer of |
past News races — will conduct:a_
pre-race skippers” meeting Junc 16:

at 7:30 p.m. at the News offices. -
_A day of nautical fun, racers

dress up in costume or decorate

their. boats. at. their’. whim.
In addition to plaques for skip-

“|
“Andithe frecdom- loving ut Oro
tf

dettiocracics,. pius the Statin gang,
knocked him of fto guarantec li
erty; democracy, all that j. jazz.
{Have I got this right?. -
. i AM that jazz includes, ‘most i
. definitely, the right to say that. the

| Mulroncy. has never lied, or the “
; Holocaust never happened. | —
i, Whatever you | want. eh
I have plenty of friends and.

" ignorin thei issue, hoping it would | | tives who are Jewish: Tam a sup- ;

oll
dent has been set: the outlawing of
ideas. :"

porter,’ ‘admirer and fricad of
israel, ‘even if 1 choke over isracl’s
" modern’ ‘role as x jackbooted OC,
“cupier. and opriressor, ala South

i _ through '‘marridge, plenty of rela- | 4a

‘Africa, in’ iermis of what is happen i

*“Butl understand perfectly the
Jewish cry: Never again! And in!

any final battle,. I know, whose side

> Lwould stand } on, Nf, infact, my

2. SONS were to someday choose io

tn Canada; the line between is as

is guarant
Constitution: Somehow, our. own

obvi usly;
guaranteed sight to freely express «:

Israel's right to

fight to: defend -
proud of them, J"

ist, I would be

go too, but who ‘would want me?. "

owe are ata moment in time where
the door of freedom i is creaking’!

slowly: and painf ully open i in n the
*s te

the Iron Curtain,” ‘you can hear the: .

hinges squeakitig too. But the door
is swinging the’c ther way,

I have ay

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pers: who “finish first. in. their

‘class, there will also be a host/of -
other awards handed out at! yy St-

race festivities. i
Onc of. the ‘awards is the hoest
bribe attempt; /so far only’ ose at-

-tempt to icurry the judges’ jfavor
has. been | received, so changes. of:

winning are good..
Starting from Dundar

the race! course mins -w

marker :near . Point

‘across’ the mouth of Burt

Racers will this year be tying 10

break the 17-nautical mille course’s -

record time of 2:07:55/ which was

almost caval by, las

year's win-

7 looms for
ailing, race

“Race entry forms — available. at
the North Shore News or'co-spon-
sor radio station CHQM — and
the $25 registration fee -rnust be
received by the | News at. 1139
Lonsdale Ave. in North Vancouver
by noon June 17. ;’ .

An entry form can also be found

"on page 22 of today’s News issue. :

' .For.more details on the: 11]thian-
nua! race, call- Janice Silver ® at’
9B5-213h. ee

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