Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 1, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ocus Winnipeg free press november Klansman candidacy causes concern Washington former grand wizard Davjd Duke has blown a gaping Hole in the established View that contests for governing Louisiana deserve Little attention and have no effect at the National level in the National spotlight is on Louisiana be cause a Man who Rose to the top of the Kun flux klan by despising jews and while worshipping Adolf is running for governor As a Duke has written an explicit sex did not pay his Federal taxes Between 1984 and is a Vietnam Era conscription dodger who fantasized military exploits in communist Laos and Calls the holocaust a hoax perpetrated on christians by a Good Chance of he proved that october when he ran second in a Field of three in Louisiana unique Al party primary eliminated from election first came Democrat and former governor Edwin Edwards with 34 per second came with 32 per third came the serving Republican buddy Roem with 27 per this eliminated Roemer from the november 16 general Edwards is a meaning a descendant of the French speaking acadians expelled by the British in 1755 from what today is Atlantic Edwards might have been expected to be in first place in a state with 74 per cent of voters registered As he a controversial known for gambling in Las vegas and chasing Young women while he was his Campaign meetings sometimes include a line about How he has been acquitted of political corruption Roemer Defeated Edwards in running As a in March this Roemer jumped to the this angered some Louisiana who sat on their hands during his run for it pleased other who wanted to avoid a Duke Republican As also has been controversial but More because of his 1990 veto of two antiabortion followed by the Legislatures override of his veto of a Simi Lar Bill last possessing a Harvard Roemer is seen by influential figures in Loui Sianas Power Structure As too keen on re form and administrative was born in Oklahoma but has spent much of his adult life in Ris ing by 1980 to klan grand he concurrently propagated Neo nazi after he created the National association for the advancement of White patterned on Washington editor David Macdona the National association for the Advance ment of coloured he was the a Yawp organizer and fund Raiser until winning a seat As state representative in Louisiana Legisla Ture in these Are his Only known Louisiana democratic party chairman Jim Brady addressed this Point while in an Dukes fitness to be Gover he said Dukes sole experience in Man aging anything is a Oneman Bookstore that sold nazi David Duke has not had a Job in his entire adult Dukes coded messages to White Louisiana voters about their residential Standard of living and families being in Dan Ger from a horde of crime prone helped him into the state legislature in 1989 and to get 58 per cent of the White vote when he ran As a Republican against incumbent democratic senator Ben Nett Johnston in Blacks make up per cent of the states about 25 per cent of its by beating the incumbent Republican governor october he became the Republican Standard bearer for the november 16 elec still using the same anti Lack coded Lan that fact has produced repudiation of him by the National Republican by White House officials and by president George Bush last influenced decision hours before that presidential had come a presidential surrender on civil rights Reform that Bush had resisted since the Duke Factor was As influential in that decision As the changed political environment in the Wake of the Clarence Thomas supreme court nomination Dukes successful Appeal to White Louisi Ana voters suffering economic distress has also affected National shortly after declaring that the recession is the Bush White House has had to acknowledge that this perception is shared by few voters in Louisiana or in the other 49 while patches of economic optimism Are to be found in certain reflecting local fac Many Are opinion surveys show National discontent with the Bush performance on economic a Harris poll in september found 55 per cent believing the country will still be in a re cession one year a Gallup poll in octo Ber found 64 per cent disapproving of How Bush is handling the the civil rights turnabout by Bush last week was the Issue dates Back to several supreme court decisions in the Spring of their effect was to make it harder for women and minorities to sue in cases of alleged Job Bush first denied that these decisions would have any such then switched opening negotiations with Congress Over a new Law to override the effect of the supreme court vetoed rights Bill one year ago this Bush vetoed a civil rights Bill passed by claiming it would result in hiring this brought Bush into political confrontation with the civil rights movement but it also helped two republicans to win elections later that senator Jesse Helms overcame a Strong Challenge in North Carolina from Black Democrat Harvey Gantt by persuading White Vot ers that Blacks would take their jobs through the establishment of hiring quotas by demo cratic californian Pete Wilson be came governor partly because of voter fears that they would be edged out of their jobs by quotas favouring the growing hispanic minor Ity in the last Bush tried to decide How Best to react to the Duke primary election Strong showing in How to take advantage of having got a Black nominee on to the supreme How Best to Dampen the National outrage Over the treatment of Law pro Fessor Anita Hill during the Thomas hearings and How to Deal with evidence that Republican support in Congress for his quotas stand was Bush was weakened by opposing a Compro Mise Bill being championed by Missouri re publican senator John who was the most persistent and Able Backer of Thomas throughout the confirmation con Gressional republicans admitted privately that they could not get anyone at the White House to define coherently the differences Between the Bush and Danforth in the Bush declared a Compromise had been his efforts to put distance Between himself and Duke Are unlikely to affect the Louisiana vote says democratic pollster Geoff the president Calls on pro Bush re publicans Down there to vote for the demo White House political advis ers gag at the former Kkt grand wizard Duke might be Louisiana next cultural rights should be entrenched this time by David Matas special to the free press right now the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms focuses on civil and political it says Little or nothing about so Cial and cultural social and cultural rights should be entrenched in the Canadian All the objections that could be raised to entrenching social and cultural the Constitution Are ill these objections Are no More than myth number one social and cultural rights Are not As important As Politi Cal and civil first priority should be Given to the realization of political and civil equally important the International there is no ranking of social and cultural on the one and political and civil on the each is viewed As equally Pursuit of civil and political rights does not justify violation of social and Cul Tural the two sets of rights Are generally considered interdependent and in it is impossible to realize one set of rights while ignoring the myth number two it is inappropriate to have social and cultural rights in the Constitution because the realization of social and cultural rights involves the expenditure of which is better left to the realization of Politi Cal and civil rights do on the other involve the expenditure of the Are a number of Politi Cal and civil rights that Cost the state Money to there a number of social and cultural rights that Are Cost for instance both the right to a fair trial and the right to free both political and civil involve substantial state sex to take examples from the eco social and cultural recognizing the right to form Trade or equal Opportunity for promotion subject to no consideration other than seniority or competence involves no substantial commitment of state myth number three even if we Are pre pared to accept social and cultural rights in the we should not put All such rights in the we should limit ourselves Only to the negative prohibit although a few positive political and civil rights Are in the by and the positive civil and political rights have been omitted from the same restraint should be shown for social and Cul Tural it is True that Many positive political and civil such As the obligation to pro Hibit hate propaganda or the obligation to promote racial have been omitted from the that creates an unhealthy situation that needs even in the political and civil it is not a Situa Tion that should be duplicated in the econom social and cultural negative prohibitions the problem is that with the negative prohibitions in the charter and the positive obligations the negative prohibitions sit in judgment on the positive the positive obligations must pass charter scrutiny of the negative negative prohibitions and positive obligations Are meant to to be read they Are All part and parcel of the same human rights by placing one set of rights in the charter and omitting those rights inserted Are artificially Given an importance they should not have in relation to those myth number four promoting respect for social and cultural rights is bet Ter left to experts than human rights systems and the the courts have Little or no experience with the Protection of so Cial and cultural they Are ill placed to be the defenders of these the reality that is an objection that could be raised equally of political and civil if economic rights should be left to then one could also say that Polit ical rights should be left to politicians and rights in criminal proceedings to Crim nolo the knowledge of what so Cial and cultural rights Means is something different from the knowledge of social services or it is a knowledge of what rights that is essentially a Legal properly the Domain of human rights institutions and the myth number five judges will use the Power Given to them by entrenched econom social and cultural rights to usurp the role of the reality social rights cannot be left to Legislatures any More than political rights if social rights Are left to then the majority decides what rights the minority will the realization of social rights becomes a matter of convenience for the the notion that rights Are inherent in the individual is giving courts the Power to interpret social rights does not mean that courts can do what Ever they they Are limited to enforcing respect for entrenched it does mean that Legislatures can no longer or neglect to whatever they but that is what the entrenchment of rights is All no Good reasons conclusion there just Are not any Good reasons Why we should keep social and cultural rights out of the and there is every reason Why those rights should be in the this new round of constitutional Reform we Are though it has created a Good Deal of May be a Blessing in if it allows canadians to entrench in the Constitution eco social and cultural this current round of constitutional would have been Well Worth All the turmoil we have in David Matas is a Winnipeg lawyer and a former chairman of the Constitution and International Law Section of the Canadian bar photos branded As exploitive by some readers some readers were offended and disgust Art Mauro was and the free press took another Tongue lashing this week from readers who accuse the newspaper of lapsing into gratuitous sexism while at the same time reporting about and comment ing on the important issues of sexual harass violence against wife abuse and exploitation of last several readers reacted angrily to an 18 photo showing Britain Duchess of York exposing a measure of thigh As she left a Limo in there was Only one reason for your using that photo and it was the wrong said Florence this tuesdays front Page color shot of Grey cup 91 festival chairman Art Mauro flanked by two showgirls of fended Many of the same i feel its time your editors were Given some sensitivity training on women said Gloria this week its the front Page photo of Mauro and those two scantily Clad a week or so ago it was that photo of Sarah its time the free press got in step with the shame the one Day it reports on sexual harassment and wife beating and then sees nothing wrong with exploiting women and sex on the front commented Tracy Elmer and Ruth Ken and Hazel Susan Van Dresser and a Host of oth ers found no redeeming qualities in tues Days this is not Las it was an inappropriate said said Van one of the options is not running something that tasteless at the Phillips found it other callers were embarrassed that Mau president and chief executive officer of ombudsman Bany Mullin investors Syndicate had been placed in the position of having to pose with the he Mauro looks uncomfortable with the said Harold i dont think he would approve of something like i was Mauro said in a Tele phone Mauro added he want aware organizers of the Media at which Gregrey cup game activities were outlined and had chosen the show one of several entertainment a the Royale dinner the evening before the it want reflective of my taste in in assessment like members of the news Media often find themselves in uncomfortable the up photographers assignment was to bring Back shots of the that he selection of the photo was left to design and graphics editor Paul Pihi Chyn in Well aware of How the photo May be seen by it was the Only photo that was not Worth the negative in addition to rubbing some readers the wrong the photo also served another it showed some Winni Eggers that certain aspects of Gregrey cup celebrations May not be to their no will take another color photo on last sundays front Page also prompted readers captioned pretty hot the outline read three restaurant workers think passing firefighter is cute yesterday As he stops to Chat while battling Blaze on Keewatin the All Young were said Greg Winkworth in View of All the recent publicity about sexual harass i think it was a real boo the photo was an innocent enough picture until they editors made a sexual connection in feel the free press has to make a retraction or an apology or explain the i know if that were my daughter out there i certainly would take great exception to the sexual Angle bothered was it really necessary to lend a sexual element to what was Only a fire asked one Winkworth wanted to know How the caption writer could know the Young women thought the firefighter was it bordered on kiddy he graphics editor Pihi Chyn said the photographer overheard the Young women laughingly commenting on the firefighter and included the observation for outline inform assessment under the circumstances Edi tors should have played the outline straight without going into any readers noticed the grand a grand on Alex Laws Road talk column on the front of last fridays motoring but no listing of the tested cars base not available was what the column very id said Curtis How can the free press say its grand value when it cant even Tell us what the car Sells for added an other Reader another example of Sloppy a local pm dealer said the suggested dealer list Price for the four door grand am is the two door is readers were right to question the the vehicles Price puts the article in the misspelling in a front Page photo last the outline showed Princess of and said she was dressed in a fus Chia Chanel style skirt and observed one Reader if you cant spell fuchsia use mauve last sundays issues Page the nip showed three photos but no identifying a couple of readers assumed two of the men shown must have been Saskatchewan Premier elect Roy Romanow and the Premier elect Mike the Man in the Middle was Liberal Leader Gordon doonesbury amour 5ipepiphjasplaya by Garry Trudeau i but misconstrue to apolo6ibb for my in to put gwm Ciment on with our Healing i i 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