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Dear Editor:

It never ceases to amaze
me how some people will fly
off the handle, threaten to
do all sorts of things, even
demonstrate, because they
do not happen to like the

point of view of another
person.

1 do not always agree with
what Collins says, however |
do defend his right to say
anything he wants. Have we
forgotten that many thou-
sands of Canadians gave
their lives so that we would
have the right to state our

opinion without fear of
censorship or reprisal?

Your newspaper has
become much more en-

joyable since Collins joined
your staff. Controversy is
healthy and should never be
silenced by people who ob-
viously do not exercise the
ability to think for
themselves and feel that it is
their responsibility to dictate
to the rest of us.

Donaid |. Bird
North Vancouver

Next, move
all traffic
signals!

Dear Editor:

One of our affiliates sent a
copy of Doug Collins’ article
‘‘Why pay the bouncer to
throw you out?’” (Sunday,

March 18). The article is
simply sick, racist in the
extreme.

If your argument for

printing such garbage is to
allow freedom of expression,
why not advocate the
removal of all traffic lights
so that we can all bash into
one another? When one
party argues for the mght to
freely express themselves and
in the process tramples on
the dignity and respect of
another party, all of us lose
some basic freedomis.

Art Kabe
President
B.C. Federation of Labour

going?

How much the NSWC pets
from the unwilling taxpayer
is unclear. According to the
Secretary of State’s office,
they were given $7,000 last
year. But that would only be
part of the story, because
these pressure groups are ex-
pert at squeezing juice out of
the public orange. Not that
they have to do very much
squeezing. Money flows into
their hands like North Shore
rain.

Not long ago, for instance,
1 reported that in 1983 the
feds, acting in your worst in-
terests, threw $3,000,000 in
the direction of organized lhib-
berdom. Now | find out that
on January 26 the egregious
Judy Erola stated in parhia-
ment that for 1984 the
amount will be five times as
much, or $/5,000,000. (Do
you wonder why your
dollar’s going down and your
taxes up?)

HATE MEN

What you are getting for
this money is a lot of left-
wing progaganda and other
drivel. I did my best to
enlighten you on that with
my reports on the antics of
the Vancouver Status of
Women. And there is more
drivel right here on the North
Shore, as a glance at the
NSWC_ newsletters would
show you.

The impression one gets
from reading their stuff 1s
that these babes hate men
You would also think that the
whole male population 1s
perverted and thinks mainly
of rape, porn, and beating up
women, in that order. The
May edition of the letter con
tains this gem, for instance,
over the name DJ. Stewart
and under the ttle ‘Por

SAN FRANCISCO

EER em nae Fh

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get this straight

by Doug Collins

Cut these ladies off

S FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, any
woman is entitled to cook her own goose,
write what she likes, and be a dedicated ec-
centric. But why should the rest of us be made to
subsidize her oddities? Specifically, why should we
have to keep the North Shore Women’s Centre

nography Separates’’ (I edit
some words):

‘‘Men look at objects,
women care about people;
men j— off, women desire a
person, men f—, women
make love, men rape, women
scream; men murder, women

“*These babes
hate men...’

die; men profit, women pay;
men laugh, women weep;
men talk rmghts, women’s
mouths are silenced; men act,
women suffer.”’

In the same issue, readers
are asked to come out

SSA

fighting against the sinister
North Shore News, which
dares to display the harmless
Sunshine Girls.

“MONTY PYTHON”

The Sunshine Girls
porn. The above
clean thinking.

It is possible that the gentle
ladies of the NSWC take
themselves seriously. [t is
also possible that their act is a
state-supported version of
Monty Python. The
September issue, for exam-
ple, is one long diatribe
against the provincial budget,
and contains this immortal
line:

‘The budget is a mgid male
response shaped by a com-
petitive ethic ...”’

As I say, it doesn’t matter
how kooky people are pro-
vided they don’t expect the
rest of us to susidize them. So
I suggest that not one more
public dollar-should go to the
NSWC. The feds, of course
will continue to fund, come
what may. But perhaps Bill
Bennett can take a look at
this. Cutting off the VSW
was a good start.

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