10 — Wednesday, May 20, 1998 ~ North Shore News Book seizures signal police st Doug Collins Contributing Columnist NOBODY seems to be worried about our bud- ding police state. We are like a bunch of rabbits. Some are used for vivi- section. The others go on munching. Officialdom can jump into your car at the border and seize books from you — claiming they might be sub- versive. A booklet I wrote years ago has been seized that way. Iam in good company, how- ever. Books written by Melvin Smith, Qe., aad the late - Judge Bewley have also been. * grabbed. Here’s the story: Paul Fromm of Toronto, director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression (CAFE) was in the Okanagan recently to make a speech. He popped over the U.S.. border to do some shop- _ping, taking his luggage with him, which included 98 Canadian books and tapes. On his return a customs __inspector seized the material “stating, that it might be hare literacure. And customs did not disprte thar i: was ?<" Canadian and not being - imported. “My booklet was “Immigration: Parkamenct ‘Versus The People; Judge ~ Bewlev’s was The Breakdown, of the Criminal Justice System in Canada; Mr Smith’s was Onur Home or Native Land,a study of Indian fand claims. Other sinister titles includ- ed The Irish Fairy Tale Book, Myth and Romance from the Old World, and The Hate Crimes Law in Canada, 1970-1994, by Ontario lawyer Barbara Kulaszka. Fromm is 3 prime suspect, of course. He puts out newsletters on iinmigration, censorship, and other politi- cally incorrect issues, so he must have been on the Thought Police Watch List. - He was also questioned. Was he related to Ernst Zundel? (No.) Did he know Bernard Klatt, the man who ran the controversial Internet service system in Oliver? (Yes.) Fromm, born in Canada, has a German name and got the impression that his inter- " rogutor thought that German equals Nazi. ~ He was told thar the order to seize the books came from Stu Piggot, of the Customs and Border Service in Penticton. Who got his orders Ride the from . The material was worth about $1,500 and ir will be months before the deep thinkers in the Customs Service and their bosses in Ourawa can make any deci- sion. All part of our Police State policy of harassment. Does any other western country have a Directorate of Prohibited (Book) Importations? We used to kid ourselves it was oaly the Nazis and the Commies who burned books. A year or 80 back an acade- mic work by Professer Philippe Rushtos of Western University was published in New York. It too was seized at the border even though it was already available in Canada. , “What's going on up there?” asked the American . publisher. What's going on, in Fromum’s words, is that we have become Cuba del Norte. Yet Jean Chretien and Lloyd Axworthy see nothing wrong, with kissing Castro and asking him about human rights in Cuba. The antics at the border are not confined to doltish officialdom. The sickness is in the system and has now per- meated much of socicty. Human rights gestapos proliferate, watching for the wrong word. “Holocaust denial,” or what some claim to be such, can land you in front of a rights tribunal, even though there are no laws against it. | Joka, Henry Poker Challenge "Sunday, May 24th at 10:00am Pre-register? $25 Race Day3$35 ‘Proceeds to EMP's Trail. Enhancement... Project hte is a guaranteed good. time. Ride to five stations along ‘Sign-onflate registration at start/finish area in : John Henry parking lot, includes: designation ; of your challenge route. Mass start with routes taken based on riding abitity. Awards for alf and post-event party! (Grand Prize: $3000 Fisher Joshua Z2 ‘For more information call Willie and ~ pick. up. entry: forms at the store The Novel: Share News requ- larly allocates space for reader input ana wide range of com- munity issues in the form of sttest cols. reqular North Shore News col- umn lase September. He will contribute occastunal pieces te the newspaper's Other Voices feature. fc have an attorney gen- eral j in Ujjal Dosanjh whose “police hate squad” liaises with the B.C.Human Rights Tribunal. Dosanjh also fuses for a nation-wide “Bill 33” and has said he would like the nicre possession of “hate Ezer- ature” to be a federal crime. Su do his accomplices, like the left-wing extremist, Alan Dutton, whe ts funded by government, Expect no help trom the mainstream media. They are too busy chasing “racists” £0 get worried about books being seized from Fromm Tr would be 3 different matter if homosexual rights were being trampled on. Taey also try people beror the courts can do it. A person was once deemed to be inno- cent until found guilty. But the coverage of the five Surrey skinheads amounts to a trial before the tial. The police are pardy to blame, which is onty fitting in our budding police state. The day those arrests were made the RCMP announced that the five were certified racists. Equally rotten is the way Bingogate is being handled. “Scupich, associates stole from charities for 20 years: RCMP,” was a headline in the Vancouver Sun, Not “charged”. DID. Isn't thar contempt of court? Who cares? Not the peliti- cians, not the academics, net the bureaucracy, nor the uni- versity: brainwashed media. Rabbits all. — Doug Collins retired his 50% on Wood Blinds Choose from the ‘MARK ASPEN’ wood venetian ~ blind collection. Best quality available made from ? LOA Basswood. 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