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Bleeding heart liberalism — works against road safety

OPEN LETTER TO ANGUS REE, MLA

A recent incident on Ridgeway Avenue, where a group of belligerent young people raced their car bet- ween stop signs, led them to careen out of control onto 13th Street through a stop sign and crash into’ the sidewalk curb opposite, very

narrowly missing a pedestrian thereupon. They were travelling so fast that their skidmarks extended an entire half block and through the intersection. A group of neighbours rushed to _ the scene and called the police. There was a passenger in the back of the car who was ob- viously drunk. They would have left the scene had it not

been for the actions of the neighbours. When the police arrived, they charged the driver with failure to stop ata stop sign and speeding.

As concerned citizens, we asked the officers if the driver was going to be charg- ed with undue care and atten- tion. We were told they were only ‘‘considering’’ this. We

Public servant's rights denied

Dear Editor:

I find it extremely unfor- tunate that, as a Canadian citizen with family roots that go back as far as 1690, 1 cannot get involved in help- ing a candidate in my riding.

I want to express my dissatisfaction and, God help me, | still have the right to do that. As a federal public employee (so-called

public servant), 1 cannot take part in political activi- ties without disciplinary ac- tion being taken against me (which could very well in- clude dismissal).

In a democracy the freedom of a citizen to take political action is considered to be a basic right.

In the Civil Service Act of 1918 public sector workers

were forbidden to participate in all political activities ex- cept the right to vote. | real- ly would like to see that our candidates in both ridings (Peace River and Bulkley Valley) take a serious look at this -- so that one day I can have full freedom to exercise my political rights.

Rene Sasseville

Prince George

Likes Doug’s ‘comedy piece’

Dear Editor:

I would like to con- gratulate Doug Collins on his column in the North Shore News of Sunday, Aug. 26th. It is indeed a pleasant sur- prise to see him write a com- edy piece, | must admit. I have not had such a good laugh for years.

A Gallup Poll released this month found that 84% of Canadians support a nuclear freeze. By Mr. Collins’ logic over 20 million people in this

country are taking their orders from the Soviet Union.

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more of us with no political affiliation.

The West Vancouver Citizens for Peace is a non- Partisan organization and to even vaguely suggest myself or members of our group are dupes of the Soviet Union is ludicrous.

The McCarthy era is pro- perly looked upon as one of the brighter spots in 20th cen- tury history by Mr. Collins. Really, how can anyone take the man seriously?

Paul Little, Chairman West Vancouver Citizens for Peace

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asked whether a breath test was going to be administered. Their comment was that there was a lack of physical signs. It would appear that the driver would have to be Staggering and _ incoherent with dilated pupils to warrant a test. The fact that the passenger was obviously drunk and the 100 foot skid were not enough to warrant a test.

The point to be made is that we allow this by our bleeding heart liberalism and the lawmakers must institute larger fines and prison terms for those who are totally ir- responsible on our roads. The people concerned in this incident could easily have killed a child or pedestrian, or collided with another vehi- cle on 13th Street. Would that have been ‘‘undue care and attention?’’

Michael T. White North Vancouver

Peace push is based on our nuclear guilt

Dear Editor:

In 1929 the writer of this letter was a teacher at Lady- smith High School. Lady- smith is a small town a few miles south of Nanaimo, a ferry port on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. This high school offered Senior Matriculation equivalent to First Year University. 1 taught a course called Chemistry I and in- stituted a science club for ex- tra curricula information.

We studied the ex- periments with atoms Ernest Rutherford was doing at Cambridge, England — ex- periments so simple a high school teacher and students could understand them — ex- periments which resulted in the splitting of the atom in 1932 — unlimited energy, a glorious future for all mankind. Only Bertrand Russell, also at Cambridge, had an uneasy premonition that this new source of unlimited power would be us- ed in WAR.

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afterwards graduated from the University of British Col- umbia in the field of physics at the age of nineteen, to the gold medallist of the year. Later he worked on _ the Manhattan Project and the Hydrogen Bomb.

With the concurrence of British political leaders, the United States government dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ear- ly in August 1945, acts of atrocity unparalleled in the world’s history.

Some of us, members of the English speaking nations, work for peace to purge our unwitting guilt.

Freda Handford West Vancouver

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