Doug Collins ®@ get this straight ® TO THE Commonrot Conference in Vancouver, where one of the few things that made sense was the weather. For it was hard to say what was more ludicrous, Brian Baloncy embracing Kenneth Kaunda, the boss of the police state of Zambia, or the way our media took this bafflegab festival seriously. There was no end to the in- congruities. Rajiv Gandhi of In- dia stated, straight-faced, that African National Congress violence avainst South Africa is necess2zry. On the other hand, Sikh violence against India is not necessary. But where’s the logic? If there is any, wouldn‘t it also follow that Sikhs who want to knock Rajiv off are also entitled? “The reason for their arrest was that thev had been carrying military-type water battles!" a a0 One can only shake one’s head, too, at the pentecosta! eagerness of our bush media to demolish the White Monster of South Africa. You could be forgiven for think- ing, for instance, that the Globe & Mail was an arm of the Baloney Regime in this matter. So it was no surprise when Jeffrey Simpson wrote that sanctions should be ap- plied even though they may hurt the blacks. According to him, they don’t mind being hurt in a good cause. If he is talking about Oliver Tambo and his terrorists he may be right. As far as most other black spokesmen are concerned he is wrong. But ignorance should not surprise us. One reason for that is that blacks who oppose sanctions — at the risk of being murdered by the ANC’s “‘comrades’’ — get little press coverage. Example: Bishop Isaac Moekena of the Reformed Black Independent Churches of South Africa was here all week speaking against sanctions. Open line radio gave him a fair searing, but his press exposure could have been carried on the head of a pin. Yet his churches number 4,500,000 members. Archbishop Tutu would have made the front pages, naturally, yet his black members number only in the thousands. Did I mention Keunda of Zam- bia? Readers of this newspaper may recall how his police thugs ar- rested Brian Prentice of North Vancouver and beat him up for no other reason than that he had a South African stamp on_ his passport, a common occurrence there. On Wednesday, the day the papers carried pictures of Baloney and Kaunda kissing each other, I had a call from a Dr. Edward Cain in Pretoria. He’s the direc- tor of United Christian Action in South Africa. And he said that ac- cording to the British High Com- missioner in Zambia, four British missionaries had been arrested by Kaunda’s cops as they entered the country, The leader of the group was Rev. Peter Hammond, chairman of the Front Line Fellowship of Missionaries Society, which would imply that these clerics were sympathetic to the anti- South African cause. If that is so, it hasn’t helped them any. On Wednesday, they had already been in jail for a week without charges being laid. The reason for their arrest was ‘hat they had been carrying military-type water bottles! Dr. Cain said this information might be of use to Maggie That- cher in talking to Kaunda. I wrote it all down and as luck would have it the first briefing of the day was from the British delegation, one of whose members said he would be pleased to hand the letter to Mrs. That- cher’s secretary. x kek When Brian Prentice’s treat- ment at the hands of the Zambian police became known, I said that if he wanted to carry a placard against the likes of Kaunda, I would do the same. Well, I didn’t see Mr. Prentice but joined 100 others to express my disgust at Commonrot hypocrisy. Not a big item. But what Baloney has to worry about is that most of those people were Tory types who had never carried a placard before. 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