SO iam to have the honor of
being the first columnist in
Canadian history to be hauled
before a Human Rights
Council on a charge of politi-
cal incorrectness,

It had to happen. The only won-
der is that it has taken so fong,

— “Thought police coming after
Doug Horrible” was the headline
over one of my columns dealing with
the NDP's Bill 33.

This great piece of democratic
legistation was dubbed the Kill
Collins Act as soon as it poked its
dirty nose over the counter, But
North Van MLA David Schreck
claimed it wasn't aimed at anyone in
particular. Of course not.

His socialist buddy on the North
Van City Council was not so reti-
cent. Bill Bell said publicly that Bill
33 would “put a stop to the kind of
writing Doug Collins does.”

The Canadian Jewish Congress
has fired the opening shot because it
didn't like my columns on the propa-
ganda movie Schindler's List, which
I dubbed Swindler’s List.

It said that after the columns
appeared in March it was “ponder-
ing” legal action. My response was
that | was doing some pondering.
too. But no pandering.

You gotta love their movie and
the people who made it, you see.
Otherwise it's off to the dungeons.

The CIC must have burned mid-
night oi! over the hate laws, looking
for ways to make it a federal case.
But they came up with a blank.
Never mind, they decided. The NDP
has opened the way for us with that
Amendment to the Human Rights
Act (Bill 33).

Tally ho! They haven't caught the
fox yet but the scent is strong and the
hunters are all riding hard. Also, the
act is worded so as to snare any fox
on the loose.

First thing that NDP gang did was
to remove the right to free speech
from the act. Not necessary, said
Education Minister Anita Hagen.
Don't we have the Charter and
Rights and Freedoms?

What she really meant was that
she and her fellow freedom-lovers
didn’t want to be encumbered with a

ON THE OTHER HAND

one of her MLAs put it during the
debate, “The courts don't always do
the right thing.”

The government set out to correct
that anomaly by ruling that “no per-
son shall publish... any notice, sign,
symbol ... that indicates discrimina-
tion against a person ora group or
class of person... or is likely to
expose a person ora group lo hatred
or contempt.”

That covers the waterfront, the
key words being “indicate” and “is
likely.”

Are you left-wing, Jewish, Sikh,
Muslim. homosexual, etc’? Ifso, step
right this way. Your friends in
Victoria are here to help you.

The Kill Collins Act got a Jot of
coverage when it first saw the dark
of night in June 1993.

The Globe & Mail called it “<
criminal abuse of human rights.”

“We are witnessing a bid to crim-
inalize certain types of speech,” it
stated editorially, “but without actu-
ally using the criminal law to do it.”

Her: in B.C, the new terror
weapon was bashed by the B.C.
Press Council, the B.C. chapter of
the Canadian Bar Association, the
Opposition in the legislature, and
every columnist in the country who
dealt with it.

Free speech student Roger
McConchie, a prominent lawyer, had
this to say:

“Make no mistake about it, every

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permanently ‘gageed" by an injune-
tion.”

I wrote that the Human Rights
Council hid been
tude judge, jury and
prosecutor,

That the bill was
ialended to be selee-
tive is obvious, But
ona level playing
field its tentacles
could grasp any-
thing.

How about that
lousy CBC “docud-
rama” The Valour
and the Horror?
Couldn‘t that be
seen as discriminating against the
Canadian air crews of Bomber

Commiand who risked their fives in contempt?"

the fight against Hitler? Weren't they
depicted as being on murder mis-
sions against civilian populations?

66 This great piece of democratic
legislation was dubbed the Kill Collins
Act as soon as it poked its dirty nose
over the counter, 99

Couldn't the film be seen as expos-
ing surviving veterans to “hatred and

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{wrote years ago that the CJC
and its allied organizations were our
biggest threat to free speech. and this
latest move proves me
right. The CJC complaint
is a direct attack on free-
dom of the press.

One more point: am |
anti-Semitic?

Do you beat your
wife?

American columnist
Joseph Sobran has said it
used to be that an anti-
Semite was someone who
hated Jews, Now he's one
who is hated BY Jews.
However that may be, [
ask for no quarter and will give none.
Look fora donnybrook when the
“trial” takes place,

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