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freedom to be unpopular

Dear Editor:

Tam responding to the “Letier of
the Day” by David Hunnings, as
published in the News on Jan. 9. as

* well as to many other letters of sini-
ilar nature appearing frequently. as
reactions to columns by Doug
Collins

First, Thave not read the specific
article the writer is referring to.

Second, | believe (after exten-
sive reading) that the Holocaust
happened in the full documented
horror, and, together with the geno-
cide by the Khmer Rouge regime
against the people of Cumbadia,
rates as probably the greatest orga-
‘nized. act of violence against
humanity in history.

However, how can Hunnings
(and others) call the expressed
views, whether they are lies or mis-

understood beliefs, raping of the

‘truth?
Rape implies a violent act. No

one is forced to read news articles,

Does nota “disagreeable” article
provoke readers to search for the
confirmation of truth, and conse
quently have a stimulating effect?

Would Huanings have sat down
lo write a letter for all to read and
react to had he not been provoked
by the said article?

Would f have written this lever?

Is this not the way we learn to
think?

What kind of exceptional human
being is he and other would-be cen-
sors to presume that, while immune
themselves, other people can be
duped by untrue news articles into
becoming fascists and becoming
filled with hate, and consequently
should be protected from such
views?

Many letters to the editor of this
paper, and in other news media,
would like to silence unpopular
views of the Jikes of Collins,

NOTICE

Does it ever oceur to th

the hack of audience, invalves daws
burcaucracy.cind human appointees
to define and administer such a pol-
icy? .

Once this mechanism is estith-
Jished, if will, as any bureaucracy.
grow in the quest for power iis own

jobs and demonstrable results.

Mt will censure, burn atthe stake.
kick people from their jobs and
studies, force people into (or abol-
ish) labor unions, confiscate prop-
erty as punishinent, allow only
proper (ie. their) truth to be
expressed, and iry to force on the
whole society what to tink, all it
the name of justice, equality and
better future.

Then we will have the real rape
of truth!

Vladimir Ulovec
West Vancouver

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mites of such views that the process ;
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Civil War raiders
helped save whales

Dear Editor:

If your readers enjoyed
Marsha Boulton’s heritage article
(Dec. 24, 1993), then research
ivterial for my next book may
be an interesting epilogue,

With iumination by whale
oil being the mainstiy of the bar
barous whaling industry, the sup-
ply was virtually wiped out atthe
end of the American Civil War in
IS6S,

The Yankee whaling (leet in
the Pacifi¢ and Arctic oceans wails
all but) destroyed by the
Confederate raider Shenandoah,

This lone cruiser pleasantly
the populace of
‘Melbourne, Austratia, by her
Jarrivad ona “secret mission in

January 1865,
Following completion of

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badly needed repairs, she cap-
tured and burned 30 Yankee
whaling ships.

Whale oif was such a strategic
material that the OLS. Army of
the West, long deprived of light-
ing oil, eagerly accepted the
newly invented superior
kerosene, The while oi) shortage ’
that Shenandoah helped create,
accelerated a boon in prediction
of lower-cost kerosene derived
from newly discovered petrole-
um wells int Pennsylvania,

CSS Shenandoah's gallant
rebel captain, James f. Wadell,
had made a timely contribution,
albeit unwittingly, tthe ecology
of the oceans by his 19th century
“Save the Whales" intrusion,
Russell C. Shelton

West Vancouver

Public Hearing will be held on MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1994 at 7:30 p.m., in the Council-C hamber, City Hall, 141 West 14th Street, North :
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“ “To rezone Lots 25 & 26, Block 88,'D.L; 549, Plan
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FROM: RT - 1 Two Family Residential Zone.
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To permit development of five two-storey
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will: also regulate t the size, shape : and siting of
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878, located at 249 East 8th Street, (as
indicated in hatched pattern on the map below).

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To permit development of a four unit
townhouse development on the site. The:
amending bylaw will also regulate the size,
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off-street and accessory off-street parking
requirements, location and screening of refuse .
containers, landscaping and maintenance.

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FROM: RS One Family Residential Zone. 7
CD - 261 Comprehensive

Development 261 Zone. .

To permit a two-storey, three unit ;
development on the site. The amending bylaw.’

will also regulate the size, shape and siting of

buildings and structures, off-street and.

accessory off-street parking. requirements, a
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"Lb PERSONS who believe that their interest in ‘properties is affected by the above proposed Bylaws shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be ;

“heard - in person, by attorney or petition. The proposed Bylaws and relevant background documents may be inspected at the office of the City Clerk
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