CALLING
ALL SUPPORTERS OF FREE SPEECH
Some Canadian newspapers have a pretty restrictive idea of freedom
of speech. All last week, the Telegraph-Journal which serves Fredericton,
New Brunswick and its sister the Saint John Times-Globe carried front page
articles about CAFE Director Paul Fromm,
who was scheduled to speak in Fredericton at the Fredericton Inn on Saturday,
April 19.
During the front page coverage, there were lengthy quotations from
such outspoken enemies of free speech as Bernie Farber of the Canadian
Jewish Congress and a Prof. Thomas Kuttner of the University of New Brunswick.
The Telegraph-Journal (April 16) reported: "Mr. Fromm was scheduled
to address a seminar at the Fredericton Inn this Saturday, but motel management
pulled the plug on the event yesterday after Prof. Kuttner told them of
the former Ontario teacher's links to the extreme right."
Free speechers have become used to the twin phenomena of harassment
from the dark forces of bigotry and political censorship and the swinish
cowardice of certain hotel owners who treat a contract with utter contempt.
The Telegraph Journal managed, by quoting Bernie Farber and CJC member
Kuttner, to spin the usual fog of guilt-by-association, dotted with utter
untruths. After all this publicity, C-FAR thought it might be a good idea
to offer the people of New Brunswick the chance to buy a tape of Fromm's
speech and hear for themselves what the forces of ignorance and censorship
had not wanted them to hear. Accordingly, the following ad was submitted
to the Telegraph Journal and initially accepted for publication April 23
and 24.
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Hear
[PHOTO OF FROMM]
Paul Fromm
Get a Tape of the Speech They Tried to Stop
"Immigration & Multiculturalism: The Views
that Got Me Fired As A Teacher -- Confessions of a Political Heretic"
Opponents of free speech in Fredericton pressured
a local hotel to prevent this talk. Send $6 for a tape of this dynamic
address.
Also available from C-FAR Books
* IMMIGRATION: PARLIAMENT VERSUS THE PEOPLE
by Doug Collins. Vancouver journalist shows how Parliament imposed radical
changes in immigration against the will of the overwhelming majority of
Canadians. $3.00
* IMMIGRATION: WHERE CANADA'S FOREFATHERS STOOD -- Liberal, Tory
or socialist, English or French, the major leaders of our country stood
for restrictive European immigration. This was never a multicultural country.
$4.
* THE BREAKDOWN OF THE CANADIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM by Judge Les Bewley.
Blasts permissive courts that coddle the crooks and ignore the victims.
$2.
Order from C-FAR Books, Box 332, Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 5L3. Make
cheques payable to C-FAR. FAX 905-277-3914; Webpage http://www.ftcnet.com/~freedom/c-far"
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On April 23, the following letter was FAXED from the TELEGRAPH JOURNAL
to C-FAR.
"Regarding your request, the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal and
the Saint John Times-Globe advise they will not accept the ad for publication.
Regards Charlie Fraser Director of Sales and Marketing"
A call by Paul Fromm to Fraser elicited the comment : "The publisher
does not wish to publish your ad." Asked for a reason, he would not
explain. When Fromm asked if there was anything false or offensive in the
ad or whether some wording might be changed to make it acceptable, he was
told it was not negotiable that a decision had been made.
When Fromm contacted publisher Jaime Milne, he too refused to explain
why the ad was being rejected: "I'm using the publisher's right to
reject and I've rejected your ad. Goodbye."
The arrogance and insolence of the Telegraph Journal is an effort to
deny interested readers the opportunity to hear for themselves what the
forces of repression and censorship moved heaven and earth to prevent them
from hearing. The Telegraph Journal has clearly lined itself up with the
forces of thought control, feeding the peons in New Brunswick only what
it feels they ought to know. Their behaviour is an affront to thinking
Canadian men and women and a betrayal of the free and open communication
that they should be in the front lines defending.
If you'd like to register your protest at this stifling of free speech
and at this utter arrogance, call Charlie Fraser or publisher Jamie Milne
toll free at 1-800-222-9710
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