A8& - Wednesday, October 3, 1984 - North Shore News

Accused pleads before kangaroo court

Y LORD JUSTICE, the hate literature merchants are after my head again. They have written to every North Shore group they could find, asking for support for the Kill Col-

lins Movement.

They have written to the YMCA, for instance. ‘Boycott Collins and the News,’’ they yelled. This man is dangerous and_= socially

irresponsible.

They’ve put Collin’s puls- ing columns under the microscope, my lord, and

found that he uses nouns like

‘‘loonies, commies, pimpleheads, and = nincom- poops’’. The adjectives are

bad too, being words like ‘idiotic, hatf-baked,’’ etc.

It may amuse you, my lord, to note that these critics are skilled in the very arts they condemn. The prisoner before the bar 1s seen as ‘tabusive, racist, Sexist, malicious and inaccurate.”’

This being a kangaroo court, my lord, | plead guilty on all counts except the last. But | would lke to say a few words before being taken off to durance vile.

Their letter is proof of what hes in store for us when they take over. If you don't toe the party line, watch out. Words of the sort mentioned above will be outlawed, too, except when rhey use them.

Like Proteus, these people can change shape at will. But they'ge the same old gang.

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ee get this straight

Doug Collins

They are big on what they are pleased to call Auman rights and in a recent incarnation called themselves the Aborginal Support Commit- tee, although | see few aboriginals among them Now they call themselves the North Shore Coalition For Fair Media, and use a B.C

Human letterhead.

I can tell you why they are creeping around back alleys with knives in their hands, my lord.

fam athornin their side, a pain in their ass, and gall and brimstone to their stomachs. And | am just about the only media opposition they have. With the exception of my fellow rotter Les Bewley, the mainstream media are either in league with them or too lazy to expose what they’re up to.

The North Shore Women's Centre 18 in the action, naturally. That’s why, under the heading ‘‘Malicious’’, the letter in question states that this unspeakable writer ‘‘deliberately muisprinted’’ a poem from the NSWC Newsletter. And it was “‘out of context.”’

Rights Coalition

Since | do no printing, my

lord, | cannot misprint anything. They may mean “*misquote.’” But there was no misquoting. | gave the

whole thing, and that was the context. They are stretching things, too, when they say it was a poem. It was a piece of junk headed ‘*Pornography Separates’’, and contained lines lke ‘‘Men tf . , women make love,’ “‘men rape, women scream,’ ‘‘men murder, women die.”’

It was another example of the hate literature” that

human righters pretend to despise, my lord.

Collins ‘‘talleges’’, they complain further, that the main activity of the NSWC is left-wing propaganda. As you may know, my lord, |

never ‘‘allege’’ things. | state them straight. And _ the NSWC 1s indeed a nest of

left-wing activity. lts newslet- ee

“Tf you don’t toe the party line — watch out’’

ter usually reads just like an NDP pamphlet of the nutter sort. Nothing wrong. with that — IF they admit their allegiances, which they don't — for fear of losing their nice fat federal grant

The Coahtion whines tur- ther that the NSWC ts ‘‘non- partisan’’ and has members of all political persuasions on 1ts board.

Could they name a few

Socreds, my lord? And it

I am guilty, they say, of “implying that the Marxist Lesbian News, which they call Kinesis, 1S government- subsided. | imply nothing of the sort. it us government- subsidized. Last May, the NSWC announced that three jobs were being created on the said rag under the Canada Works Program.

would be hard to separate Kinesis from its sponsors, the Vancouver Status of Women, on which Ottawa wasted $63,000 in 1984 alone.

You are tired, my lord, and I am out of space. If not already in jail, I intend to give more evidence on Fri- day. And | can promise the cOurt an interesting time.

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