A8 - Friday, July 27

, 1984 - North Shore News

orm's trying to protect his monopoly

Us a pity they don’t give degrees in doubletalk. There are degrees in funny things like sociology

and ‘political science”’

»so no one would notice

if this additional art were slipped in, and there’d be lots of experts able to teach it.

One such would be old Norm Richards, the president of the B.C. Government Employees Union, for | see where Norm has been writing to the papers about the ter- rors Of selling booze in private stores

According tua him, selling liquor that way would en- courage more drinking and be a terrible bother to the cops, who would have to monitor the supermarkets and other sin-bins to see whether beer was being hand- ed oul to youngsters.

“Our present mode ot alcohol delivery in BC ."’ says Norm unctuously, **dves

Not require such heavy surveillance °° Not only that, but tloggzing aleohol privately would have ‘far-reaching

social Consequences

Pardon the

snoring There's) nothing so sleep- inducing as a union leader

who talks about tar-reaching social consequences The preachings of Henry Ford the purity capitalist werent any Worse

There wasn’t a word in the Richards sermon about the dues the umon would lose it there were no more govern ment lquor store clerks. Not that the provincial govern. ment is considering doing away with the stores, more’s

get this straight

Doug Collins

the pity. But that could come. Let a thousand flowers

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bloom. At the vers least, let us See what the social conse- quences of a littl compet. tion would be.

Not that | have anything against liquor store clerks. They're nice people -- except when they tell us there's no

more booze because thes think it’s time tor a studs session

Norm ain't so good then either, even though he’s so coneerned about social consequences

The soctal consequences of having to eo to a toreipn countrys to buy a bottle ot booze ate pretty dreadtul, it vou ask me. So are the social eansequences of dying ot thirst in a hot summer.

In both instances, people are lhkely to cut their throats. I’ve even seen union officials close to suicide at such times. But there's nothing anyone

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can do about i, because Norm and his happy clerks have a monopoly

Imagine the tuss there would be if you could get bread only through a govern- ment bread store Mean- while, the Bible telly us we cannot live by bread alone, and my interpretation of that axiom is that Someone Up There is making a case tor the uninterrupted supply of alcohohe beverages Isn't God yood enough tor the BCGEL ?

Norm should come out against monopolies instead of nattering on about youth problems, etc. Anyone would think he was trving to put social workers out of a job

Certain st 18, anyway, that monopolies have ‘tar- reaching social

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drink 1s as bad as Norm says it is, Why doesn’t he preach tor prohibition instead of en- couraging people to hand out poison in government lquor stores! By what alchemic pro- cess 1s poison made pure by being dispensed under government supervision? . Norm should advise his boys to give up such anti- social work. They could im- prove our world a lot by get- ting yobs in dairies or health food establishments. I've pot news for The local grocery favorite Gulf Island sells li- quor, that being permissible in ‘‘remote areas,’’ where, presumably, the social conse- quences don’t matter. But 1 must report that, so far, the locals aren’t any more drunk than they used to be. Far-reaching social conse- quences my ass, Norm.

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