Our good Doug Collins is feisty again.
We all knew that ". . . once a columnist, always a columnist" would apply, and here he is, guesting at the North Shore News in all his politically incorrect splendor:
"NOBODY SEEMS to be worried about our budding Police State. We are like a bunch of frightened rabbits. Some are used for vivisection. The others go on munching.
"Officialdom can jump into your car at the border and seize books from you - claiming they might be subversive. A booklet I wrote years ago has been seized that way. I am in good company, however. Books written by Melvin Smith, QC., and the late Judge Bewley have also been grabbed.
"Here's the story:
"Paul Fromm, director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression (CAFE) was in the Okanagan recently to make a speech. He popped over the U.S. border to do some shopping, taking his luggage with him, which included 98 Canadian books and tapes.
"On his return a Customs inspector seized the material, worth about $1,500, on the grounds that it might be hate literature.
"My booklet was Immigration: Parliament Versus The People; Judge Bewley's was The Breakdown of the Criminal Justice System in Canada; Mr Smith's was Our Home or Native Land, a study of Indian land claims.
"Other sinister titles included The Irish Fairy Tale Book, Myth and Romance from the Old World, and The Hate Crimes Law in Canada, 1970-1994, by Ontario lawyer Barbara Kulaszka.
"Fromm is a prime suspect, of course. He puts out newsletters on immigration, censorship, and other politically incorrect issues, so he must have been on the Thought Police Watch List.
"He was also questioned. Was he related to Ernst Zundel? (No.) Did he know Bernard Klatt, the man who ran the controversial Internet service system in Oliver? (Yes.)
F"romm, born in Canada, has a German name and got the impression that his interrogator thought that German equals Nazi.
"He was told that the order to seize the books came from Stu Piggot, of the Customs and Border Service in Penticton. Who got his orders from.....?
"The material was worth about $1,500 and it will be months before the deep thinkers in the Customs Service and their bosses in Ottawa can come to any conclusions about this 'hate literature'. All part of our Police State policy of harassment.
"Does any other Western country have a Directorate of Prohibited (Books) Importations? We used to kid ourselves it was only the Nazis and the Commies who burned books.
"A year or so back an academic work by Professor Philippe Rushton of Western University was published in New York. It too was seized at the border even though it was already available in Canada.
"'What's going on up there?' asked the American publisher.
"What's going on, in Fromm's words, is that we have become Cuba del Norte. Yet Jean Chretien and Lloyd Axworthy see nothing wrong with kissing Castro and asking him about human rights in Cuba.
"The antics at the border are not confined to doltish officialdom. The sickness is in the system and has now permeated much of society.
"Human rights gestapos proliferate, watching for the wrong word. 'Holocaust denial,' or what some claim to be such, can land you in front of a rights tribunal, even though there are no laws against it.
'We have an attorney general in Ujjal Dosanjh whose 'police hate squad' liaises with the B.C.Human Rights Tribunal. Dosanjh also lusts for a nation-wide 'Bill 33' and has said he would like the mere possession of 'hate literature' to be a federal crime. So do his accomplices, like the left-wing extremist Alan Dutton, who is funded by government. (...)
'Who cares? Not the politicians and not the academics, judging by the universal silence.
"Rabbits all."
Thought for the Day:
The leader of the extreme right asked French people '. . . to ponder over the nature of the secret power which bends all the politicians to its will like spaghettis bend in hot water."
'That problem will have to be solved one day', he said."
(Quotes attributed to Jean-Marie Le Pen, sent in by a Zundelsite reader)