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6 PENINSULA NEWS REVIEW . ___ COMPIENTARY _ pte: Wednesday, April 8, 1998

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THE P THE PENINSULA’S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
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E Broken; promise: eaves Sister
‘Cities to pick up the pieces _

t seems the ‘powers that. be south of the border. are bent on.
breaking our 47- -year-| “link wey Anacortes. Sure, the decision to.

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“Who can say? But! wish just a faction of the ‘coverage. .
Canada. Orso claims the Simon Wiesenthal Centre i in far- ae accorded the Nazi attempt to exterminate Europe’ s Jews
off Toronto, which may well be olive authority on antiSemi- y

‘gwastikas, the laws: ani secret practices
exchuding Jew ews fon public office? ‘Not ef

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: The Wr C has decided to put blinders on and ignore all that has: a
: ‘been said and done. It has chosen to ignore the relationship that ax
: has been built between the Sister. Cities ©: Pi Oth
And so; with a quick snip, the cord is precariously cloas to be
ing cut, Sidney is left to flounder: from this decision'while, as Fra-’
Bier so clearly states, the beneficiary, of the shift in ferryboat' as.) °
4. signmients i is clearly San Juan County which, he adds “has chosen:
‘|: to abandon z any partnership interest in preserving the. Sidney’ run’
“in favor of going for maximum possible service ‘between Anacortes _
. and the San Juans, Sidney be damned.” | —
* We must further agree with Frazier in his closing comments: are

Wen sau Collins, the. controver:
~ sial columnist recently brought up be-.
fore the provincial Human Rights Com-
mission on anti-Semitism charges (and~
“acquitted’), never advocated any Kind

of negative action at all against Jews. .

. Which is why: anti-Semitism poses.
's0] little threat here: it is by definition
AB counter-cultural and marginal.
:.' ‘When. our news media give ‘Nazi:
- stories such unwarranted credence »
= they» are partly exhibiting this general attitude, but also, 1.
ns suspect, revealing a left-wing bias. cos
“dering whether. it was the donicedon of Hollywood oy For the Left needs Navism to justify its own tired, tat
"Jews that was responsible for extensive (and in his view, tered existence.
. ‘unwar ranted) coverage given the Jewish Holocaust in film - Similarly, organizations like the Wiesenthal Centre per:
Sand TV ee ets . _ petuate their own existence - and salaries - by regularly j in-
« “Lower service Icvels can‘ only’ translate into lower ‘revenues © ie “As to the domination of Hollywood by Jewish i immi- _voking the bogeymar: of revived Nazism, °°
from the Sidney'run, and they latter is unlikely to interest too many “il” grants, the CBC just presented a documentary making My fear for Jews in general is that they may be using

private ‘ferry operators.” 9. eS Precisely, this point, produced by a devout Jew, nehenag es" the Holocaust as just such a negative self; justification, hav-
We couldn’ t have: said it better routselves, D Duncan, Cay ~ Is the Jewish Holocaust's level of exposure in _ en- ing let their raison d’ etre for 3 000 0) years. “their admirable
-Aertainment media unwarranted? po EON ee faith: largely fall away,

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. . public out cy at the i injustice of it “ss could easily have happened in

- Cocker 6 covera rage. SE colors

Eo ‘ eh ie i on as “that community. It happens all
e details of wha 1086 vie= oe the time, only this time it wasn't
of an apathetic community — _~ tims suffered at the hands ofa’ YOu, 80 You do nothing, ....

_ trusted teacher speak for them «This is no time to sit back in par

“ter of Rights and Freedoms. He AS
was granted a judicial stay of pre: 7 cote
“ceedings because his right to. a.
‘speedy trial had heen denied...)
Let's get this straight. He was. Br
‘found guilty. He was sentenced.
~ But'bocause his rights had been
| denied, he walks tree and his stu: ©
~ dent§ are forevér branded as View
“thins because of his actions,
‘After the series ran, I recelved i pat
~ calls from the victims and their. ‘any ‘indivi living on the.

- selves, and should have moved at’: “thetic apathy. It’s time to speak. up
» Jeast_a few people to some sort: of and let your outrage be known.
action. Letters calling for reform Do nothing, and you could find
.. of ajustice system that some be: yourself i in the same position as”
~ lieve protects the rights of the © > these families have — bewildered
‘criminal more fervently than the atthe lack of support. from their’
rights of the victim. Letters de. communities, ING ae a
y © manding action go that thistype:” What this ian did to those’ ae Sede
ania of thing never happens’ again, ‘families is painful enough without
pi » Something. Anything. 3): c trying to walk through their com |
i i _ But everyone sits backs ‘and /munitles and see the apathy that
thinks yes, it's shock exists on every corner...

disappointed by the reaction of
our local residents to former.
“Mayne Island. school teacher Tan
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| mous caus i hy ha thay read. da the érimes committed against. girls. Good thing it didn’t happen _Ml've upset anyone with this col
a r was sentenced to uw were moved by what they rea “these young girls -~ should have: “in our community. : umn, then that’ 8 pood,”
ee for Ais crimes, but won an. ‘Two calls, That's it. ‘been shocked, outraged and dis: Wake up, people, This could Maybe: now yous write about
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