There is a god! Only weeks after
taking power the new Liberal
government has sacked B.C. Human Rights
Commissioner Mary-Woo Sims. The cheers
have been deafening. Even the Asper-controlled
press approves of the death warrant,
although it had never had the stomach to
demand that she be done away with.
The leather-clad Mary-Woo, born in Hong
Kong, is a former Chief
Lesbian of Ontario who was imported by
the lesbian-lovin' NDP to make
this province the most politically
correct in Canada. Which she did,
even to the far end of the ridiculous.
A Victoria businessman had to pay
$30,000 to a guy who refused to put
poinsettias on display at Christmas, he
being a Jehovah's Witness who
did not believe in Christmas and who
claimed his feelings were hurt. He
either quit or was fired but,
incredibly, part of the award was for
lost
wages.
An American couple were awarded $1,200
when a B.C. lodge owner asked them to
take their three very young kids to the
cafeteria instead of to the dining
room.There have been many such cases,
and it is reported that more have been
argued by B.C. at the Supreme Court of
Canada than by any other province.
Some sort of action by the Liberals was
expected. Mr.Geoff Plant, who
was then the shadow attorney general,
said before the recent election that
something had to be done in view of the
many "goofy decisions" that were being
made. But his rollerblading removal of
Mary-Woo on his becoming the A.G. still
came as a surprise to us pessimists.
Trouble is that the Acting Commissioner
is now Harinder Mahil, an East Indian
who used to run the Farm Workers Union
and is a politically male version of the
Woo girl. Let's hope he doesn't act for
very long. But at least the Woo woman's
departure sends out the right kind of
signal.
There is, however, more to all this than
the above-mentioned goofiness.
I refer to the threat to press freedom,
of which my case is an example.
It was not mentioned in the editorials
on the Woo firing in the Sun and
Province. Perhaps their scribblers have
bad memories, but it's more
likely that they didn't want to upset
Organized Jewry and Izzy, for
whose latter papers I am a non-person. |
For years I have been a major target of
the rights fanatics, but with the help
of lawyer Doug Christie and free speech
groups I am fighting for a judicial
review of the Rights Code in the
expectation that its censoring sections
will be struck from the books. It's a
slow process. The courts have directed
that before our application for a review
can be considered we must ask the rights
tribunal whether the decision it brought
down against me was constitutionally
valid. Weird, because there is about as
much chance of the tribunal's declaring
it was in the wrong as there is of my
becoming
the next NDP premier of British
Columbia. Anyway, when it has said that
what it did was the best thing since
sliced bread it will be back to the
courts. Provided I live long enough.
For the Mary-Woos and the former NDP
regime I am a hate merchant. What is
hate? What the Woos and the Jews say it
is. Under B.C.'s rules,
anyone denouncing Israel's persecution
of the Palestinians could be hauled
before a tribunal for subjecting Jews to
"hatred and contempt".
In my case it was for stating that the
Jews control Hollywood, that the
six- million holocaust story is an
exaggeration, and that the Canadian
Jewish Congress and similar groups are
against free speech. All of which
is true, and none of which is defensible
under the Code, truth being no
defence. What matters is whether people
like Harry Abrams of B'Nai Brith feel
"hurt", he being the one who made the
complaint against me.
It is amusing, in its way, that the
lawyer for the government claims that
"society" demands that people be
protected against "hate speech". She
speaks for the previous government, of
course, whose work flows on like the
Fraser river. In fact, society demands
nothing of the sort. It is special
interest groups, hot-eyed reds and other
freaks who demand that unpopular
opinions be censored.
Attorney General Plant plans to review
the Rights Code. Alarmed Jewish
groups say they expect to be consulted,
which is not surprising, seeing
that they asked for this abominable
legislation in the first place. He
will therefore face formidable
opposition, but the removal of Mary-Woo
Sims shows that he knows which end is
up, and the Liberals may change
the law. If they don't, the courts will
be our — dare I say it? — final
solution. |
