8 - Friday, August 9, 1985 - North Shore News

LORD KNOWS what the censors, backscabs,
lickspittles and other friends of democracy will
have to say, but I have a proposal to make:

ISSUE WS JUSTICE
ho will be jailed next

claimed for free speech, for
instance. On the contrary,
The Sun's contribution was
a sickeningly smug editorial

Mail had a few doubts about
the outcome, but sounded
apologetic for having them,

In fining Keegstra $5,000,

public, pay that fine it will
send a signal to some people
that Canadians are concern-
ed about freedom of speech.

there 200 others who will do
the same? The deadline is
August 20,° and, cheques
should go to: The James

wet

Send some money to the
Jim Keegstra Defence Fund.
By doing so, you could
strike a blow for freedom.

The .Keegstra trial was a
travesty. .Not because ‘the
jury were bad; still less
because the judge was bad.
From all accounts, Mr.
Justice. John MacKenzie did
a first. class job. Aid it ‘was
‘clear from che time they
took ta make up their minds

‘that the jury hardly: knew
which way to. jump. It’s a-

pity they jumped they way
they did, but. trials of this
sort are a gamble and in this
case the wrong side won.

straight

freedom of speech issue, just
he. Zunde} ial.

r.'was.a: travesty”
co “*hate. law’? :
am hich Keegstra : was:
. charged “should ° ‘Never’: have
- passed. It’ was. created - to
placate a powerful pressure’:
- group.and was given the'nod -
by..a. minority vote. of ~
~ Parliament.’ ‘Tt was Politics,

of: brains that this was not a.

Keegstra believes what he
says and has been financially
tuined for espousing his
beliefs. His tormentors,
meanwhile, complain that he
hasn’t been sent to jail.

You might as well send
any preacher to jail. For

that, essentially, is what

Keegstra is. Anyone who can

. spout inthe witness stand

for nearly three weeks about
Christianity, Judaism, Jew-
.ish conspiracies and the Se-
cond Coming of the Lord
has to be a preacher. He
may be a kook as well, but if

_ kookery is to be punishable

with up to two years in ihe
clink, who will be safe? Isn't

. it only in’ people's

democracies’ like.‘ the

“U.S.S.R. that “kooks”, are

sent to jail.
Like all True Believers,

+ Jim Keegstra will continue to
_ pteach his gospel. You could .

nail him to a cross or hang
him up. by his toes and he
would praise the Lord for

‘making him a: martyr. For
~ him, the trial was an ‘oppor-

tunity .to--invest’" in the
hereafter. ~

But Keegstra himself is
not my concern. Nor am |
worried about -his having

. been fired from his teaching

job, That is the local school

‘board’s - business. What we
- should be concerned About is
justice, and- justice is not

served by persecuting people

for their beiiefs. If it is, then

ours is a fake democracy.
Keegstra today, you

tomorrow.

‘In/its way,” it is amusing

-that one of his sins -was
‘teaching | that a person can-
“not. go to heaven without

believing in Chyist, and that
Jews and. all other: non-
believers are condemned to

-the fires of hell. Well, the
. Catholics and other Chris-
‘tian denominations teach or |

As: usual, the mainstream

“press. fails to meet the
‘challenge: It floats on.a safe
- tide, Neither the Sun nor the
“Wimp... has . _ Pro- .

E HAVE. QUAL IFIED

SHIPWRIGHTS FOR:

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in which it stated that the the judge was obviously be- The jury foreman had the Keegstra Defence Fund,
guilty verdict showed that ing as lenient as possible in| same concern, for he too P.O. Box . 332, ‘Eckville
“such behavior will not be the circumstances. And for said he would contribute. ,
.’ The Globe & goad reasons. But if we, the

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