DOES THE news confuse you? It confuses the news, too. Especially where scare tactics and left-wing news

management are concerned.

Here's an example.

In 1991 somcone did a little cross burning outside a house in North Vancouver that was occupied by Iranians,

Panic! Headlines in the North Shore News read:

“Cross burning incident raises outcry in [ranian community.” “Racism protest tield at NVD

-tunicipal hall.”

~The Vancouver Sun and Province fell over themselves to denounce “racism.” TV types pon- tificated.

fhe sinister Collins came in for a mention or two, of course. One-

Siavfash Alamouti declared:

“On the North Shore... people like Doug Collins and the Reform purty have paved the wity for this lype of sentiment. H's no accident, They've created the environment.”

We now fast-forward to April. Kaywan Dashti, publisher of The franian, tells a Sun reporter that the cross-burning was “not reat.” Faked, in other words, Or so bis inquiries showed,

He pointed out, toa, that the incident was used by radical left wing Iranians as “evidence of racism” on the North Shore. “And then they contacted their friends in the NDP.”

That's the way things work in our wonderful multicultural society, But it's hardly news to me,

In 1987 there was a real champ ofa fright, and the media, us usual, needed no help in letting them- selves be suckered, Nor did the politicians.

It too began with “cross burn- ings.” Whether they were per- formed by phoneys, genuine looneys or stupid kids was never. established. But there were fires on the beach at White Rock and you would have thought that Genghis: Khan had set up camp.

Acres of trees must have been consumed to provide the newsprint those stories inspired.

The Sun ran front page pictures of blazing crosses. Radio and TV types wore their tongues out. Trumpets sounded. Cymbals clashed.

On Vancouver council, Harry Rankin the COPE commie and his comrades hopped up and down

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Emery Barnes and Rosemary Brown sounded off in the legista- ture. Agonizing editorials were written, A “Grind Wizard” appeared, anxious lo get his name in the papers.

All the usual characters joined the parade, Aziz Khaki, Delicin Crump (To not making up that name), Chacan Gill, the lot. They were thieker than grass in June as they wept and moaned like a Greek chorus,

The Socreds (led before the storm, Attorney General Aliun Williams, now a West Vin council: for, brought in Bill 32, otherwise known as the Civil Rights Protection Act. It would separate badspenk from goodspeak. Take (hit, you KKK!

Needless to say, the bill was supported by every MLA. Motherhood had nething on this, Freedom of speech? Forget it, man. This is war.

Meanwhile, the dreaded KKK,

which may have had 20 members in.

B.C., half of whom would have been RCMP, threatened to use the bill against an: East Indian group.

The Klanners claimed the East indians were promoting hatred against the hood-and-sheet folk. Funny, no?

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We fast-forward agatn to Last year, when it was claimed in Victoria that Nazis were active. Who said so? None other than Allan Dutton of the 1.C. Organization to Fiyht Racism,

Yes, them Nav. were said to be recruiting in tea-and-crumpets town, But apart from the usual dis- play of “hate graffiti,” Which could have heen anyoue's work, no evi- dence was provided, That didn’t slop the Victoria T ‘ines-Colanist from giving it the splash treatment, however, The cily’s gup-toothes city councillors swailowed the stuff whole, end shortly thereafter

Dutton and Co. were given a grant of $20,000 to promate racial peace and understanding. Nice work if you can get it

These seares and alarms ure part of a pattern, Sometimes, ina smallish way, they are real, More offen they are not. Some months ago a German girl claimed “neo- Nuzis™ hacl carved a swastika on her check, ‘The story went round the world. The Vatican denounced the atrocity, A hundred policemen hunted the perpetrators. And then it was found she had done the deed herself.

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