8 this small measure?”

fits Canada’s two major political parties,

’s behind it all

What’s behind it all?
re all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, sunk to
How well that classic query.

Tory and Liberal

in today’s parliamentary burlesque.

Medicare, increased pensions
better use of our natural re-

education, hospitals, the

~ sources, the vital issues of peace

for the aged and infirm,

and war and where our

country stands on the US.-inflicted genocide upon the

people of Vietnam; these are only

needs of the Canadian people.

a few of the urgent

Yet all such pressing needs are cast aside while the

isan “gladiators” of

Tweedledee and Tweedledum

wallow in the mire of political scandal, mud-slinging and

low-grade filth. In

this sorry e

xhibition they have made a

mockery of Parliament and its constituted function, turn-
ing it into a Roman forum for the propagation of partisan

advantage,
center for political corruption

a crude caricature of national

degradation of sex.

anti-Soviet coldwar propaganda,
and character assassination;
“security” coupled with the

a national

‘Over a barrel in their mishandling of the alleged

Spencer “spy” farce,
semble during the

security” is also alleged

Diefenbaker regime,
to have slipped a cog during Tory

the Liberals dug up a Tory sex en-

in which “national

ministerial flirtations with one Frau Munsinger, herself

labelled a “security ri
measures.
Happily,

” according to U.S. weights and

the whole stinking mess is now turned over

to a judicial “inquiry.” We don’t envy the eminent Judge
- his job. While one doesn’t have to be a qualified veterin-

arian to detect horse manure,

that commodity will smell

like “Attar of Roses” compared to what the Judge will

have to poke around in to find

Truth!

something resembling

Behind all this there is something much more impor-
tant for Canadians than whether Spencer was/or is a

“Russian agent”, or how many gangsters,
Frau Munsinger may have “enter-

politicians or
have established the val-

A> ¥) . a
ART eg he was disturbing the war”

|

Speed NATO exit

I: the not distant future the 14-nation treaty governing
tthe North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will
come up for revision by its member nations. —

Ind®ative of the dissentions within this NATO cold-
war creation, French President De Gaulle has ordered the
withdrawal of all NATO forces, military equipment and
bases from French soil, and the withdrawal of all French
forces from NATO command.

_ Already groaning under heavy NATO military expen-
ditures, other member nations, while not approving De
Gaulle’s decision, are looking for some new NATO form-
ula to ease the financial load. Washington, while berating
the French decision, looks to other NATO nations to
“spend more,” thereby enabling the U.S. to effect a “Sav-
ing”’.

| Quoting

Worth |

Jules Feiffer, cartoonist and social
satirist, had @ pithy comment recent-
ly on how government “‘sociologists
concoct issue—avoiding names. Pic-
turing an age beneficiary sitting ina
chair, Feiffer developed the following
dialogue.

‘used to think | was poor.

“Then they told me | wasn’t poor;
1 was needy.

“Then they told me it was self-de-
feating to think of myself as needy; |
was deprived. ; :

“Then they told me deprived was a
bad image. ! was under-privileged.

“Then they told me under-privileged
was over-used. | was disadvantaged.

“41 still don’t have a dime. But I sure
have a great vocabulary.” ’

—PEOPLE’S VOICE,
New Zealand, Feb. 2, '66

%

t
The attitude of the press toward |
the labor movement is historically one
of unremitting hostility; and | suppose =,
it will always be, unless automation ‘
progresses fo such an extent that pub-
lishers no longer need any employees
at all, and therefore have no unions
with which they must bargain. __

—U.S. Senator Wayne Morse
inAFL-CIO NEWS, Feb. 5, '66

x

The Worker salutes the thousands
of Irish people, who will be marching
this St. Patrick’s Day in New York and
elsewhere — these brave men and
women, who feught in Ireland for
their native land's freedom from
British imperialism and whe, in their
adopted land, have always been in
the forefrent of the struggles for the
werking people’s end national interest.

—NEW YORK WORKER, Mar. 15, '66
*
"The Western alliance hes to make =—_—™

of the former, and Parliament didn’t have to be drag-

When the government-owned CBC - TV dug up the
odoriferous Gouzenko from RCMP cold-storage to spread
his mental ravings on “Soviet espionage” across Canada
last weekend, that simplified many questions on the aims
of Tory and Liberal scandal-mongers; to cover up their
failure to meet the needs of the people—by hotting-up the

es

Far from rooting for NATO, Canada should call for

its early dissolution. This would make possible an equally
early end to the counter Warsaw Treaty Organization,

and in place of both a European

Security Treaty, dedicat-

ed to peace and an end to NATO war provecations and
conspiricies. And not the least important for the common

people, the saving of
wealth, now going down the

086%, *.8, 25058,

“keep the peace and remove the
geese,” almost poetic in its
rythmic jingle. This Mr, Livesley
flatly declined to do.

Then the city fathers swung into
action with an “amendment” tothe

_existing civic ordnance, designed

to run the three “peace disturb-
ers” out of town, In this amended

billions of dollars and material
NATO arms drain.

Comox Free Press columnist

‘Ede Anfield, who usually does

her weekly ‘Timely Topics’ in
most sedate and restrained
prose, declared she is “serious-
ly thinking of getting a skunk for
a pet. I do not think a skunk
makes much noise, but they sure

can raise a stink, Sure would be -

a challenge to the ingenuity of

@ choice between whether it will allew
the West German Government to get
its finger on the trigger, either directly

er by devious means, er whether it is _

really sincere in wanting to prevent
proliferation ef nuclear weapons.”

—Prof. Burhop in British

not like to see our civil rights

in a

being eroded to the degree that

they are being eroded. And I am

sorry to see any council no mate |

ter where it is, lending itself to
this sort of thing. Police states

have come about in other coun

tires, and no matter how much’
"we say it will not happen herey
- it could.”

or some three or four re-
: cent editions of the Comox
Free Press the “case” was front-
page news; a real cause celebre.”

It all began when a touchy
Courtenay citizen lodged a com-
plaint with“ constituted authority”
that his sovereign right to his late
morning sleep was being rudely
violated by three geese.

The quiet atmosphere of Court-
enay may be shattered at times
with the sonic boom of jets break-
ing the sound barrier; by in-
numerable heavy trucks, “sport”

cars, Hondas or what have you,
but the citizenry are a kindly
tolerant people. When some
* young blood’’ roars upthe street
with all the emphasis on noise-
making, citizens may let loose
with a nice round of choice na-
tive profanity, but they don’t hold
a grudge when the “peace” is
thus “disturbed.” Moreover, on
their own admission they are able
to sleep tolerably well, even
with several truck loads of U.S.
warheads literally “under the
pillow.”

= But this “cause celebre” is.
something quite unprecedented.

It involves three geese, lovingly
christened by their 70-year

owner James. Livesley, as
“Lovey,” “Dovey” and“Tweedy.”
Certainly not names to indicate
a trio of confirmed “peace dis-
turbers,”

Some time ago Mr, Livesley
was charged with contravening
some civic bylaw by harboring
such malefactors as “Lovey,”
“Dovey”? and “Tweedy,” whom it
is alleged are wont to greet the
morning sun with a series of
exuberent “honks,” thereby “dis-
turbing the peace” of Her Majes-
ty’s realm of Courtenay, B.C.

Hailed before the local “beak,”
Mr, Livesley was clipped a$5,00
fine for the alleged “disturbance.”
Mr, Livesley elected to spend the
day in the local hoosegow rather
than pay the fine, acidly com-
menting meantime that he de-
clined to pay such fines unless
“they raise the OAP pension to
cover fines.” A moot point for
OAP’ers to mull over,

The next act in the case of*L,”
“Dp” and “T” was an appeal court

ruling that Mr, Livesley sign a
$50.00 bond requiring him to_

ordnance the local poundkeeper the pound man.”

is *... hereby expressly author-
ized and empowered, and it shall
be lawful for him in preverrting
and abating the nuisance created
thereby, to enter upon any lands
situate within the Municipal:
Boundaries of the City for the
purpose of seizing and impound-
ing any animal trespassing there-
on, or being housed, pastured
or maintained thereon contrary
to the provisions of this bylaw
oo Setere 5 etcs

Ede has a point there, She also
made a number. of other good
ones relative to “law” and “good
lawyers,” combining the two with
those who should be“behind bars,”
but aren’t because “they had a
good lawyer.”

The prime point inher column,
however, brought the case of
principles, that of civil rights.

“This is one reason why I do

That looked like the “coup de
gras” for “Lovey,” “Dovey” end
“Tweedy” — then the citizenry
moved in—with scorching letters
of protest to their city fathers.
“This new bylaw,” saidone, “will
allow pin-headed Gestapo types
to seize any animal,” while an-
other described their civic body
as “small miserable people,” One
irate citizen described Council’s
anti-Lovey-Dovey-Tweedy hys-
teria as “picayune, sniping, rot-
ten, petty tactics.” Even the
Mayor himself is reported to have
mournfully observed “we are
very sorry we have landed inthis

“Lovey,” Dovey” and “Tweedy” |
and their owner, back to first.

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That is deserving of an encore —
of lusty approving “honks” from
Courtenay’s most glamorized —
“peace disturbers,” plus ahearty —
salute to their owner who stood
firm against any erosion of those
rights. :

As Voltaire once declared,
“Mais extreme justice est une
extreme injure” — “Extreme jus

“tice is often injustice,” and no —
where is this more true than ings
the “legal” abrogation of the civil _
rights of the common citizens —

Tncbune

MAURICE RUSH

situation ourselves,”

March 18, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pag