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That’s . ‘what the government is planning to do at this point. But the ‘time-period being allotted to “talk” is almost as disconcert- } sing as the issue itself. They are proposing to have some Judges who are quoted as saying that very young chil- | ‘dren are not actually being physically or sexually abused ‘in the eyes of the law because they are deemed to be “promiscuous” are jeopardizing a great deal of children— inow. ‘Custody and access rights being awarded to potentially idangerous parents everyday—now. - Children going to school with next to no food in their bellies are all over the province—tight now. _, This new plan by the Ministry of Social Services and itely needed, p no one can argue a poi But let's pin them down into taking action— i Ne are the people responsible to remind the govern- ment that talk is cheap. ‘When the opportunity comes to Castlegar to speak up regarding the new legislation for the Child Protection Act, by all means, shout. Let's take them up on the offer and get involved. A littie knowledge 1) What city dex? bor. the Alben: 2) In military parlance, what does | Triple Astand for?” 3): What is the device which musicians use: to measure -zhythm and keep time? <4) Which Dutch city claims to be the “Venice of the Nom’ 2 q “S}in Ashutian legend, who was Hine ‘Azthu’ Ss S queen?” 3 RINGS Don Addis (© 1991 Castors Sypacate, tne. EARLY ATTEMPT AT ENERGY CONSERVATION S tiggar Sun The Cas < fs "1S POLITICALLY INDEPENDENT AND A MEMBER OF THE STERLING NEWS SERVICE Established N: 28, 1990 epic Class Mailing Permit Pending enone The he Castor Sun 485 oe ‘Ave., Casllogar, B.C. VIN 1G8 We've got time on our hands Everything takes too long these . days. Everything! Well, I'll allow an exception, a single exception. 1 wouldn't mind sceing the date for filing income tax returns moved from. one year to ten. That would give me time to moisten an index finger, then read and obey the instructions, Or even complete the attachments to the annexures to the appendices men- tioned on page 329, subsection iii, para. 5b - as amended Ron Jeffels Syndicated Columnist With that single exception, every- thing else seems to drag on inter- minably. I grow weary in flesh, blood and bone of waiting for things to hap- pen these days. Take my elephant, for example, If Muther Nature had any sense of time and labor costs, she All reports are too long. That's why come clever — and itely opti- mistic — administrator invented the executive summary: you know, the single Page of potted prose at the beginning of any report by — Iet’s see any commission, Say one dealing with the pressing need for radical chickweed control in the sub-Arctic and the capital and operating costs involved over the next half-century. Don't laugh! I'll bet one exists, Nobody ever reads the execu- tive summary, of course — or the report — but it does give frail hope that on occasion, now and then, things can be ... back to my elephant ... truncated. ‘The interval between paycheques is too long. So is the wait at the check- out in any drugstore. Drugstore: oe ‘ unless it’s an aged aunt with a bant account in Switzerland, a mansion on the Riviera and a terminal cough. And I'm the sole heir and assign, of course. ‘That one I can endure, | But time has now stopped com- pletely in Ontario: it’s fixed, frozen, congealed. And I’m not talking only about Ottawa, We already. know . about the slow, vicious sludge of the year in our national capital. Got your tax rebate yet? No, earlier this spring the courts in Ontario threw out Bundreds of cases ° pending, some of them for months, some of them for years. No such things as a quick writ in North York or a speedy subpoena in Mississauga. - Tt now takes years to approach the bench and the beak in Ontario. So 3 deveive te tandoent and the uniaiy. Drugstores don’t sell Jotions and lini- ments, pills and purges anymore. The one near me should be called Las Vegas North. It trades almost solely in Keno, Lotto 649, Scratch and Win and other games of chance. My digitalis q and I can damn well wait. And we do, would shorten the period of in the adult female elephant from two years to two months, See what I mean? Slings ‘| Syndicated &| Columnist For something like forty years, the studies of | human sexuality by Dr Alfred have been considered definitive. It is upon his authority, for instance, that conventional wisdom reckons one man in ten to be homosexual. His writ. ings have also coloured our’ views on the sexuality of children and indeed, form the basis of that sex lly those by politicians on the : stump, seem to go on forever, So do visits by any relative bulb Answer: “Only ‘one, but it ‘ nine years. } And the way we put things these ! days is too long, too convoluted, too’ formsouss In bureaucratese ne | ie extended, factefi Sweden, int afer ttyiag reports and analyses by Gee wool tants, a parliamentary committee has concluded that the traditional doctrine of. free-will no longer has relevance - is spothegm will be placed before the House of Commons in the fall of 1997. ‘Or later.” « Why ‘can't we imitate the lean, incisive prose of Caesar, for heaven's sakel; “Veni, vidi, vici.” Or that report by a pilot in WWII: “Sighted sub, sank same.” Or the > simple, , to educate a citizen, two more if be wants to attend college, at least four if there's a degree involved. Except for medicine: that takes seven. Most MD's are half-way towards the OAP and legislated senility before they're even allowed to practice. That joke puts it nicely: “How many graduate students does it take to change a light grunt by an general when the enemy ‘commander called upon him to surrender: “Nuts!” I think he probably said something else, something bordering on the and vulgar. But at lest he kept it —short! RR, Jeffels is a Richmond free-' lance writer and former principal if The Open Learning Institute. ES, , mee 3 @lleGetleyer Sears 4 ‘ “Let's take this matter of the ten per cent , which is proba- which is euphemistically called ‘family life’ education, (inasmuch as it is actu- ally destructive of traditional family values, it is quite the opposite, but that must be grist for a further column.) ‘The impact of Kinsey's writing on our notions of what is right and wrong in the sexual area could hardly have been greater, as the very concept of family is challenged by militant femi- nists and homosexuals who choose to see the ‘Dad, Mum, Dick and Jane’ model of the family as rooted in noth- ing more than an obsolete tradition, ‘Thus a book which details some dubious methods employed by Dr Kinsey should prove a valuable Public bly the single statistic which most people would associate most readily with Kinsey. By that medsure, Cana- da, with a male population over six- teen of some ten million, should have about one million homosexuals. Think about it; are ten per cent of the men you know a bit on the fey side? I bet ~not. But that’s as far as we have been able to take the argument. Until now. The authors of “Kinsey, Sex and Fraud” reveal that when Kinsey did his surveys, one quarter of his male sample were prison inmates, former convicts and sex offenders. Hardly your typical cross-section of Ameri- can society. I In other words, Kinsey service. It is a matter of to whether it comes in time to arrest the worst effects of Kinsey’s legacy, but that it appears at all must be an encouragement to those of us who always doubted the figures but had no grounds to challenge them. The book is “Kinsey, Sex and Fraud: The Indoctrination of a People.” It is the joint work of four researchers, Doctors Judith Reisman, John H Court, and J Gordon Muir, and Edward W Eichel. They charge that sinsey : d his sample in order to g get the result be wanted. Just to make sure, the authors add, he chose researchers who were sym- pathetic to his direction. People with taditional values were not hired. This of course, is one of the rea- sons why the AIDS epidemic has not been as bad as was once feared. If Kinsey had been right, 25 million American homosexuals would have been infected. But they haven’t been because there aren’t 25 million. The authors it avail- famous works, ‘Sexual Beh the Human Male and “Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female’ are the ‘most egregious example of scien- tific deception in this century’. using present able data, that the figure for exclusive homosexuality is one, perhaps two per cent. Nowhere near ten per cent. But why would he bother? Why to produce anything other than the un; truth? ‘Well, there are hints. The authors note that in 1964, a disenchanted for- mer colleague of Kinsey’s, one Ger- ‘shon Legman revealed that his patron's hidden agenda was ‘propagandistic’ to ‘respectabilize homosexuality and cer- tain other sexual perversions’. He also wanted, said Legman, to establish bisexuality as the nonm and legitimize sex between adults and children. It was ignored at the time, partly perhaps because lots of folk had a vested inter- est in preserving the Kinsey myths, not least those academics who have based their own findings upon his ‘research’. Another of Kinsey's claims was that children are sexual from infancy and benefit from sexual interaction with adults, This flies in the face of what every mother knows instinctive- ly to the contrary but nobody chal- lenged to leamed Kinsey. Now we find that his conclusions are based, say the authors, on horrify- ing experiments comparable in their reckless disregard for human rights to * the medical crimes condemned at Nuremberg. Children were subjected to masturbation at the hands of ‘tech- nically trained” sex offenders to get the ‘results’ upon which Kinsey's rep- utation has been erected. ‘The word charlatan springs to mind but seems inadequate to the task. It is ‘What's good for the gocse’ definitely ‘There are lessons far beyond parti- sn politics to be found in the Partia- mentary C ion of _ Before epi ie Ama emment’s line, consider this, In all of the “Fast Mo” Al-Mashat affair, Some we've already leamed: ¢ When you want something done quickly be the government of Canada, don’t go to politicians. Go to senior the of words of testimony, there was only one time we heard of any official asking him or herself what the “correct” course of action should have been. All of the other senior mandarins ignored the question of right and wrong. ‘We've heard a lot about bureaucrats following policy; and about the special inter-departmental committee that con- siders defectors’ cases. But only once did we bear of a civil Servant who ¢ Or hire a lawyer with connec- tions. Even better, if the layer happens to be a former diplomat or senior gov- emment official. ‘The charge used to be made that has changed. Now they use the mush- room qualify as a defector, he should have unrepentant. Allied intelligence ser- vices said he had no value as a defec- tor, and yet to Canadian bureaucrats he was a figure to be pitied, a man deserving of sympathy. : At least Anthony Vincent consid- ered the moral issue. His colleagues didn't have the courage to go any- where near it. s z ‘And that explains why they didn’t pick up the pone and tell their minis- ters what was happening. They didn’t find the idea of Canada taking in Al- Mashat at all unusual. PEI farmers put more care into grading tumips than Canadians cials put into grading the Al-Mashat case. It is the same kind of bureaucrat- ic detachment va allowed scores of Nad i to settle been helped oa grounds, ‘Vincent chairs the committee on defec- tors and believes the former ambas- sador’s life would have been in danger had word leaked that Al-Mashat had tried unsuccessfully to come to Canada. For nearly six months after the iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Al-Mashat d, indeed here after the Second World War, and allows millions in Canadian aid money * to goto violate their citizens’ human rights, : Paul Tellier, Clerk of the Privy Council, the nation’s top civil servant, ‘wrote a memo that should go ‘into the» ‘They keep n the dark and feed ‘em BS, Saddam Hussein. In fact, even today be seems “Shame. * “cover your ass”” Fall of offi- academia for scholarip to be comupt- ed for personal gain, but seldom has so much damage to society been done for the sake of building a reputation. Every pervert ever challenged has been able to refer his accusers to Kin- sey to prove that he was just doing what came naturally. Every lust that might have been restrained by that old-fashioned morality has been sanc- tioned by Kinsey’s percentages, humanity reduced to animal acts and counted like rats in the proverbial sci- entific maze experiment. If today we have a weakened fami- ly, if today we are a nation of uncom-; mitted parents and a society almost. too fragile to resist a stem Kin-! sey must shoulder much of the blame. - tion which be advocated, rather like the old saw about the fellow who was’ told be would sell less hamburgers because there was a recession coming. (When he ordered - and therefore sold -° less hamburgers, sure enough, he found there was a recession), ‘That'@ if the authors are right. - This book was published in Octo- ber 1990, So far, no defenders have Taised their banners. “Kinsey, Sex and Fraud: The Indoc- trination of a People”, by Judith Reis- man and Edward 'W Eichel, 256 pages, published by Huntington House. applies here Tcllice appears to oppose Al- Mashat’s coming; bat if circum- statices were to change at a later date, Tellier could’ clair that he had never opposed’ Al-Mashat’s entry, be had only opposed giving him special : }” treatment. Mulroney and his crowd will be dged by Canadian voters at the next election. Sadly, the bureaucrats who direct so much of what happens to the nation are immune to such scrutiny, ae In the private sector the guilty par- » ties would be fired. In the federal gov- | emment they’ll:be shuffled offs toa quiet backwater where they'll draw their pay until they retire to an indexed Their successors will be’ using the Al-Mashat file as a case study in what “pot to do” in their bale to coals tha -heights of ‘what foaser Diefenbaker cabinet minister Alvin Hamilton so aptly calls “the brown nosed pyramid." Wednesday, June 12, 1991 The Castlegar Sun Letters to the Editor . it's time for concern over rural postal service ‘Tothe Editor: “Recently, I’ bave become ik: volved in the promotion of Richard Canada citizeus group fighting Postal Privatization and other cuts to rural services), * During this promotion. Thave “spent some time in diffszui loca- uons talking to tise general public -abut what is happening a F at present across our country, Our rural postal service is being totally dismantled ‘and privatized, office by office, and now this process is spreading into the cities. "+" What bothered me most, whilst talking to people, was the general apathy I found. (Up until 2 years ago, I too, was unconcemed about Privatization and underestimated its effect on service), The people I spoke to recently didn't seem to ‘want to believe what is happening, As there hasn't been much coverage on television, where most people appear to get their information, they thought we were making a lot of fuss over Let me assure everyone that it is far from being “nothing” — it is a very serious problem, and will get much worse. Already the Robson, Silverton, Ainsworth and Ymir Offices have closed. How long do the people of Castlegar, Nelson and ‘Trail think that they can hold on to their city offices, while North Van- cCouver and other major cities have already lost theirs? The answer is: NOT VERY LONGI! this process is allowed to con- tinue unchecked, and we don't speak out together, Canada Post will reach its objective of removing ALL retail service from the Post Office by 1996. At that time, we will all be trying to do complex postal transactions at the grocery store or the gas station, and there will be no Federal Post Office in town to go to if there is a problem. Try sending an insured, Double- registered, oversized parcel, by air- mail, to Aunt Maud in the outback Our backyard to disappear? « .To the Editor: It bas been brought to my atten- ‘tion that the auctioning off of -parcels of BC in the form of Back Country Recreation on Crown -lands in British Columbia is still -here. Also brought to my attention, sis the fact that we who live in the ‘West Kootenay are living amongst the choicest morsels of crown land -in Canada, and are in danger to see the most; and without our input to the minister of Crown Lands, it will be property uf for- eign investment. T hate barking up the same old tree, but this, my dear neighbors, is something very pressing and important to every man, woman and child that appreciates the out- doors. We will bicker over parks, timber, bears and other such things, but if this baby goes through we might as well let the would be owners worry about it, because it ‘will be out of our hands for good. The bears will be theirs. Discussion papers are available from the Ministry of Crown Lands, and I’m sure you will be able to see the serious implications for your selves upon reading them. 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