IT IS possible that this
country will wake up one
‘day and discover how itis
- hosing Its right to free
‘speech, but one doubts it.

i. It is much more likely.that
: things will get worse, and that
jp any criticism of Jews, Orga-,
; nized Jewry or Israel willbe
;. made at considerable risk.
. Even as J write this, for in-’
stance, | am looking over my
_ |’ shoulder for fear that the
| | Thotight Police will be on my
: track.’One never.knows...For in
this | country whose national an-
th speaks about freedom you
can go to jail for saying that the
ust never happened, cr>
‘itdidn't happen‘on the

scale'that orth toxy says it . =

appened
I speak ofthe second Zundet. :

trial, the outcome of which has

been greeted with dancing in the’

éreeis by Jewish groups and ;
: satisfaciic i Ta the demented’

pause.’ In the next: ‘preath i
says that, any law that imposes :
mits ‘on free speech must be

accusers have spent about five
months in court, at a cost of
millions to the taxpayer. The
wretched witch himself, mean-
while, had to pay for his own
defence.’ And why?
Because he distributed a

bookiet entitled ‘‘Did Six Mil-

-fion Really Die?’', which ques-
. tioned the truth of the

Holocaust...

When the verdict came : down,
‘and anathema was officially
pronounced on this witch for
the second time, a retired
lawyer rang me to say hie
couldn’! understand what all ..
the fuss was about, since the -

: booklet is really only a treatise
on the subject. I couldn’t help

him, except to say that the
strange now reigns here, and

. that he'd better watch his : “

words... :
If the Toronto’ Star or anyone

* else. with clout had run the con-.
“tents of the offending booklet,

there would have been no court
case. You can bet your life on’

“ that=-With things of this sort, it *

always necestary.to start with
an easy, decidedly unpopular ~
witch: ’Twas thus.in the 16th"
and 17th centurics, but the
‘practice soon swelled.:

“Aa.then, 20 now. in Alberta, -
James Keegitra, another witch,

met his due fate, atid in New.
* Brunswick a teacher called ©

Malcolm Ross is being hound-
‘And all to Hogannas. ©
Those villians forgot that
cisan Eleventh Com. :
mandment, you see, which =

;Teads “Thou shalt not deny the ©

spit on them. Our freedom-
loving parliamentarians,
meanwhile, wili out-Pilate
Pilate. Not only will they not
even bother to wash their

hands, they will say nothing at.

all. (For the greater glory of
democracy and the ousting of

” evil spirits and bad thoughts.)

_ As freedom is cast into the
‘memory hole, it is worth recall-

ing that the Zundel trial and the |

burning of booklets would not
be possible in the U.S. There,
they have a constitution that
guarantees freedom of speech,
and arguments about what.

happened in the Second Warld

War rage unabated.

It is significant that no major -

media outiet here in Wimpland_
has had the guts to examine

what the Zundel affair has done .

to this country. Still lees hes

"anyone examined the case for

the defence. If Joe McCarthy

were still around, he would love

it,
It is much the same with
academe, the. civil rights crowd,
- and so on, It would have been

- different, naturally, if a Marxist.
“had been charged with some
. political or historical offence. 4

“In that event, those types | would.

- have been out'in the streets with
_ drum and flag.

Which reminds me: ‘the

= ‘charge was knowingly seating
’ false news, But how could _...

anyone find the witch guilty ef .

that, seeing that they, didn’t ;. ’
. bore a hole in his head to. take a

look at his brain and he didn't

> confess?

Glasnost in the USSR;

- ipreading false news" here,”

‘It’s all enough to make a cat.

9 ~ Wednesday, May 18; 1988 — North Shore News

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