THAT was The Week That Was. Coast to coast coverage. Plus long interviews with the Christian Science Monitor and the Daily Telegraph. Perhaps Canada wili wake up to the fact that the forces ' of censorship are a bit more dangerous than.I

am. The Globe & Mail put the

story on its front page and published an editorial headed “B.C,’s Gag Law,” in which it stated:

“The quality of his [my] views is not the issue; his right to express them is.'It is an inherent right. This pre-

stinptuous B.C, legislation should be struck down by the COUNTS

Southany correspondent lan Haysom sent a perfectly bakinced account of this farce and fracas to the Southam papers. The headline in the Edmonton Journal was: “Does free speech pive free rein?”

It should, but doesi’s, And won't until this Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) attack on free speech is smashed. Will the courts be so bold? Who knows? ‘This is Canada, not the U.S,

At the “tribunal” (lovely word) a multicult law profes- sor by the name of Nitya lyer is in charge. Gordon Watson the anti-abortionist says she is an NDP insider who helped to write the controversial “bubble law” that prevents demonstrators from getting too close to abortion clinics. Freedom of speech at a dis- tance!

An army of lawyers is on parade. Four of them are against the most dangerous speech law in 60 years, The rest represent the govern

ment, the Jewish Congress, the drafters of the Human Rights Code and the mis- named Chinese Benevolent Suciety,

Min blased, but it seemed to me that in the preliminary skirmish our side cut their side to pieces,

B.C. Press Council lawyer Roper MeConchie stated that the Code is the most signifi. cant legislative infringement of press freedam in the histo- ry of British Columbia and that nothing like it has been seen since the province joined Contederation in 1871,

It is “a serious menace to the health of our democracy and an intolerable violation of constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech,”

He and News lawyer David Sutherland talked about “structured bias,” meaning that the Human Rights Commission and the Human Rights Tribunal are all part and parcel of the same NDP crew, The former Human Rights Council actu- ally lobbied for the law,

The government lawyer claimed they were indepen-

dent, What a joke.

“A free press is the prinel- pal restraint on government power,” said Mr. Sutherland,

{t's surprising how many people can't fathom that, Aven in the media,

‘To listen to the other side’s lawyers you would think the country will lapse into civil war unless Fam restrained, The ghost of the Vancouver race riots of 1906 was raised. (Yep, ft was all my fault.)

We are also told that they will produce Kathleen E, Mahoney, a fem prof in Calgary who has several degrees in political correct- ness and is knowledgeable on genocidal wars in Bosnia,

She'll probably prove Lam a Serb,

Government lawyer Lisa Mrozinski said the reason there had been io prosecu- tions in B.C. under the feder- al hate laws was that the need for proof in court makes them difficult to enforce! Hence the new law,

Progress! 1984 style!

Amazingly, a CJC spokesman has complained

MAIL BOx

Columnist Collins’ warnings are accurate

Dear Editor: :,

You have a prize in Doug ‘Collins. | wish we had someone like him to inject some sense in our community, What Mr. Collins warns you of is not only true, but San Francisco is a living example of what happens when you ignore it.

T heard criticism of Mr. Collins on the

~ radio from the ‘NW (we were visiting

“beautiful Whistler last week). They're say-

ing that lesbianism should be promoted in the schools under a B.C, textbook that you have, Also, during your election cycle, candidates are pulling away from being associated with Mr. Collins ... Why? How is it that less than 1% of the population, characterized by its behavior- Berne and untreated anomalies, could so

direct the populace and politicians that

they Scave-into” their every whim. Now

promotion of the behavior in textbooks? Thank you for your paper and espe-

_ cally for upholding Doug Collins.

Dr. Arthur Barrons

Univ. of Calif., Dept. of Physics and Engincering, San Francisco art@fog.net

Sunday, May 18, 1997 ~ North Shore News -: 7

_ Free speech message missed

VOOFLOEHNOOLL Onan nansoenenadenacasendacsanens

that the press has been too friendly to our case,

He can't have been read. ing the Vancouver Province, in which a jackass named Smyth ciaimed 1am a bigot, and oat and an ignoramius. Or the Saa’s Vaughn Palmer, who says Lam “con- temptible” and reters to “Collins? Hitler.”

The Province is the scum- rag that ran a cartoon show- ing a man in KKK hood giving advice to J.V, Clyne, the late, great British Columbian, Since which I have never bought a copy.

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On the secaund day of the hearing f walked up from the bus, Several drivers sounded their horns, More bigots, oats and Ignoramuses.

At the hearing a young Jew shook my hand and sald not all Jews are against free- dom of speech, T know,

Coming back on the bus, a Chinese man asked me If I was Doug Collins, 1 admitted Iwas he, Whereupon he said:

“TE like your column, Missa Collins.”

— The North Shore News believes strongly in freedom of speech and the right of all sides in a debate to be beard, The columnists published in the News present differing points of view, but thase views are not necessarily those of the newspa- per itself.

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