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NOW THAT the country has
been turned into a huge
complaint bureau, no one is
safe. The witch-huats in
17th-century Salem were
exercises in tolerance com-

pared with what is going on
now.

Did you Jook ata woman in
your workplace the wrong way?
Did you make a crack about a
woman's place being in the
kitchen? Did you make a “racial”
remark?

If so, the Thought Police are
looking for you and you could be
in trouble, brother. Better to put a
bag over your head. Make no
jokes..

That is the pass to which femi-
nist madness has brought us.

You are not safe if you are a
parent, either. If you have a falling
out with your kids, especially with
a daughter, you can be accused of
child abuse involving “sexual
harassment” when she was a kid.
And it doesn’t matter a damn
whether you are guilty or innocent.
You will be seen as guilty anyway.
it has happened to many.

Worse still, people may sudden-
ly “remember™ they were sexually
molested God knows how many
years ago and then some poor devi!
is in deep trouble.

The. buzz-words for that are
“repressed memory.” an invention

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of that old fraud Sigmund Freud
and since forged into a deadly
weapon by the shrink industry. It
often pops up — or is made to pop
up —- under therapy and hypnosis.

In Coquitlam , Harold Morioka,
a 52-year-old teacher at Charles
Best junior secondary has been
charged with indecent assault that
is alleged to have taken place 20
years ago when the now adult
female complainant was on his
track and field team.

According to the news report, it
“was not coercive and did not
involve sexual intercourse.”
However, the girl allegedly “got to
know him quite well.” whatever
that means.

Why complain now? Well, she
was watching the Oprah Winfrey
talk show and “it triggered painful
memories.” Also, a friend had

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mentioned that a daughter would
be attending the school and had
said that Morioka had a good
coaching reputation.

The person who sent me the
news clipping underlined the
Winfrey bit and wrote, “This is
madness.”

The complainant need fear no
adverse publicity even if the court
finds this teacher innocent. That's
another little perk the feminists
have been able to put over on us,

The RCMP officer handling the

‘case was quoted as saying, “It (the

alleged relationship) was an ongo-
ing thing during those years.”

How does he know? And isn’t
that a pronouncement of guilt even
before the case is heard?

The story rated a five-column
headline in the local paper. Great
stuff for the teacher, who is mar-
ried and has been at the school for
36 years, during which time his
record has been unblemished.

Guilty or innocent, he will
never escape from the accusation.

It is not clear whether
“repressed memory” is a factor in
this case. But itis in many like it.

In the U.S. an organization that
fights this sort of thing — the
False Memory Syndrome
Foundation — says 16,000 fami-
lies have been destroyed by false
claims.

It isn’t only the courts we have
to worry about now, cither. With
the advent of the Human Rights

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industry. sexual harassment com-
plaints can bring monetary
rewards,

People can be made to pay up
to $100,000 to their supposed vic
tims. And employers can be held
responsible for the acts of their
employees.

The result is that the number of

complaints inerzuses every year.
An Ontario lawyer, Karen
Selick, has stated:
“His illegal to cause someone

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embarrassment in the workplace. It
is egal to be insensitive. It is ile-
gal to be impolite. Orwell's worst
nightmares have come true. Our
rulers now aempt to control by
law the expressions that people
may have on their faces.”

In that respect there are no
worse rulers than your ever-lovin’
NDP government.

Sexual harassment does take
place. But not, I think, on the scale
that is alleged. The nearest thing to
it [ have ever seen was when John
Turner pinched lona Campanola on
the bum at that Liberal convention.

Have a nice day. And spare a
thought for the accused.

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