Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 20, 1992, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press ij55 phone 6977000 it Nimson newspapers company led a6 Winnipeg free press september editorials i Freedom Trade Liberty of religion Equality of a Fth rights Maurice John Dafoe editorial Page editor David c editor Christopher Crank of finance Stephen j Ray marketing director Bruce director Craig Barnard director Stephan Majorki production manager Winnipeg me press 8sit872 Winnipeg Tribune Estt 190 a member of the Mankota plus Council cynical voters cynicism continues to be a powerful political there is deep distrust of politicians at All Levels of government and across International three important votes to be held in three different countries within the next two months Supply ample the referendum in Canada will offer a Sim ple question to but the factors which will motivate the answers Are com the referendum question asks canadians to approve a set of constitutional Amend the Many thousands of canadians who cant stand the sight of Brian Mulroney will be sorely tempted to vote in spite of the Virtues of the constitutional package it people with prejudices against aboriginals or Quebe cers will see the referendum As an Ideal Opportunity to throw spit in some body political leadership is supposed to Sway Public voters Are expected to give weight to the pronouncements of those they have put in High they want their politicians to choose what is right and not what is simply when that Doest the voters become alienated and take every Opportunity to strike Valu Able goods get caught in the in the United campaigns for con state governments and the presidency Are currently in High incumbents Are in deeper trouble today than they have Ever been in political 19 incumbent congressmen have lost primary Many More will lose their seats in the general election of november Ameri can voters have been casting looking for something something the word change dominates the rhetoric these Days exactly what is to be changed and How that change is to be accomplished is never entirely ephemeral answers came from Pat Bucha Paul Tsongas and Ross the Amer ican electorate is behaving like someone with a chronic backache who cant find a comfortable place to the French vote today on whether or not to More fully integrate their Economy with the rest of the european president Mitterrand is unpopular at the Many French voters Are expected to vote no in the referendum Way of telling Mitterrand after eleven years in office and a deep and lingering recession during his they Are sick of him the advantages of european integration no with these examples demonstrate a curious re Versal of traditional political rather than placing Faith in their electorates Are threatening to defy them by defeating those things most important to them in the Case of the United by dismissing a whole pile of incumbent Legisla All of this has been brought about by a generation of political leaders who have promised miracles they cannot deliver and by voters who expect miracles from their the danger is that worthy causes will be the victims of irrational perhaps the voters will have the Wisdom to make their judgments in spite of their political leaders because of bosnian options As the negotiations began in Geneva on Friday Between the various factions fighting in ser Bian artillery shells continued to fall on Sarajevo and other bosnian moslem continued to attack serbs and croats continued to snipe at both it is not an optimistic scenario for a peace Bosnia Herzegovina is an ethnic Hodge podge a cultural and religious there Are linguistic and ethnic differences Between the three main groups although they Are All that the main problem in be an inability to overcome his the inability for serbs to forget croat Ian atrocities during the second world for croatians and others to forget serbian atrocities after the War and for christians both orthodox and serb and croat to forget moslem depredations dating from hundreds of years since the disintegration of Yugoslavia be Many people have there is no exact body but thousands have been killed in the conflict in Bosnia Herzegovina in the last few thousands More in the War Between Serbia and Croatia that pre ceded no one has done much about internal sanctions have been imposed against which claims the Mantle of the for Mer Yugoslavia and is the chief instigator of the in peacekeepers have been sent to separate the warring but their Job has been very difficult and even More dangerous because none of the factions seems really to want to be inter National Aid has been committed and continues to go in when a Lull in the fighting permits the Slaughter continues and the ques Tion that remains to be answered and which the world has been reluctant to is what can be done about there Are three obvious one is to simply let the croats and moslem and albanians and when the conflict inevitably at each other until the Issue is that is the easiest but also the most cowardly and a second is that backed by Canada and the United states under the authority of the United goes to War against serbian that would almost certainly mean a Long and bloody War in the might resolve there is no West Ern nation that has the stomach for the third is economic and political Sanc these have been tried to a degree Al and they have had Little Serbia is hurting a but is clearly willing to Bear the pain As the Price of Bosnia Herzegovina has already been carved up and no amount of negotiation in Geneva is Likely to put it Back together what should be made absolutely Clear in Geneva is that Serbia will not be allowed to enjoy the fruits of its aggression without pen sanctions Are of doubtful but they should be maintained and Serbia should be politically isolated and abandoned economically As Long As it continues its aggression and refuses to give Back the spoils of this is a Lon term response to an urgent it requires staying Power and conviction on the part of those who claim to Lead the new Europe and the new world we will learn whether the West has the stomach even for in the the killing will think positive Hal female Senate no worse than now now that plans Are afoot to create a re formed concern is being expressed about what to do about the old Many canadians i that once the new Senate came into being the old senators would simply go it appears that it will not be that some senators Are being Good sports about the termination of what Many of them assumed to be a More or less lifetime but a number of senators feel that they deserve More than just a simple handshake and a Pat on the Back As they leave the red chamber for the last some actually want to be paid Messy business it could prove to be a Messy business with sergeants alarms and other parliamentary functionaries literally dragging recalcitrant a senators out of their seats in the Senate throwing tear Gas through the windows and hauling the More unruly sober second Voughters out to the Paddy it is not the sort of thing canadians want to see on parliament a number of senators have expressed inter est in running for Senate seats when elections Are for the Prospect of contest ing an election is an alarming Many senators were appointed to the upper House for the simple reason that they could try As they win a seat in the House of to ask them to mount the Hus Tings now would be too what should be done with them there have been reports that it might Cost almost Mil lion to pay them All although some feel that this is a modest almost everybody feels that it is probably about million too perhaps a pocket watch or a Small medal would suffice helpful suggestions Are pouring in to Ottawa As canadians wonder what to do about the leftover perhaps the govern ment could set up a Home for a senators near letters Christopher Dafoe Ottawa where the former state persons could fade away the former Home of Mackenzie might be used for this imagine the scene old senators wandering among the ruins and pausing occasionally to Chat with the Shade of the former prime minister and his no matter what is done for the poor Many will still feel that they have been Given a raw for some senators the satisfaction of having served the country will be they will return Home proud and Happy and find other things to others will go on sulking and howling about Bompensa perhaps a few of them could be exiled to the Cayman islands or perhaps Baffin is the Senate seem to be giving us More Trou ble than we not Only do we have the problem of How to get rid of the redundant we must also decide who will be Eli Gible to sit in the new two halves should half of the seats in the reformed sen ate if and when it comes into re served for women to the notion makes perfect after the human race is roughly divided into two halves consisting of men and Why not do the same for the Senate others insist that it would be give in to the we Are warned by the usual assortment of and the first thing you know people will want seats re served for ethnic people of various the mentally children under people who Are left handed and those who have Given up i would be Happy to see a Senate made up entirely of after we had a Senate made up entirely of men until senator Cairne Wilson was appointed to the upper House in am sure that a Senate made up entirely of women would contain just As Many self servers and fools not to men Tion hardworking and enlightened states per sons As the old Al male Senate used to after Are no closer to perfection than an Al woman Senate would Proba Bly be no worse and probably no better than an Al male equal status the idea of a Hal female Senate certainly has some after they rep resent the two main branches of the human race although All agree that they Are equal in it is a fact that they differ in a number of rather important to see the two with their different attitudes and Points of contend in the Senate chamber might be would it be democratic is the new Senate with equal numbers of senators from All Large and democratic an equal representation of the two sexes might Well be the Only really democratic thing about the new would it be insulting to women not if an equal number of seats were set aside for All rules Are arbitrary to some degree and some might say that age restrictions on voters Are undemocratic or that the provision that guarantees Quebec 25 per cent of the seats in the House of commons is we if we make a Rule that says that senators can Only make speeches if they Are standing on their after it is our sen ate and we can do what we like with gun regulations All firearm owners must be made aware of recent changes to regulations affecting legitimate gun owners in these regulations were quietly passed by Cabinet in Many provisions took effect on August the penalty for violating these regulations is a maximum of two to ten years depending on the particular the storage of firearms and ammunition is now specified by what constitutes Safe storage is very poorly defined As be ing in a locked Container which May not be readily broken ammunition and firearms must be stored in separate locked restricted fire arms must also be locked so As to make firing the classification of firearms into groups has been expanded the most severely affected Are those now totally owners must turn in these guns and will not receive any the second group Are firearms now declared prohibited but you May retain owner ship by registering the firearm and Register ing yourself As a bonafide As a bonafide collector you become subject to War ran less inspections of that portion of your Home where the firearm is the third group consists of Over a Hundred specific firearms which Are now you must forfeit or Register these they May no longer be used for Hunting Pur you May transport them Only under a permit obtained from the they May be discharged Only at a government approved firearms affected by the above classification include 22 shotguns and Center fire the magazines for Many firearms will be prohibited these regulations should be obtained by All firearm they Are contained in a Mas Sive 200page document available from your member of f Virden fight pornography thank you for the article about Copen Hagens erotic museum Denmark elegantly renovated museum devoted to sep tember More such material is needed to keep us in formed about the sad depth of deprivation humanity is capable of a tableau of Wax models engaged in sadomasochistic games and three rows of the latest hard Core videos we must remember that we Are also taking about a country that trivializes we should be appalled at this evidence of the progressiveness of pornography and its let us be thankful that Canada has an obscenity to limit the above message in Canada is not censorship but an enforcement of Laws if each one of us remains a cow Ard on this Issue and does not demand our own and our childrens Protection will we too glorify this Type of museum some Day the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to our Liberal opposition to censorship and regulations is really a very uninformed Way of supporting the exploitation of another we Are left we Are emotionally then gradually we form a vocabulary and begin to fight for our right to be we work for an egalitarian we work for Zero tolerance of violence against women and what we pay these two critical issues if the proliferation of pornography and its accessory role in society pains never animates us to speak my personal reaction to the Content of pornography is equal to my reaction to the realization there Are intelligent people out there who protect this garbage in their own cow ardly Audrey Krushel Winnipeg gun owners should learn about new Federal regulations accent on tomorrow Spanish Manana in the headline on Page cd of your september 5 with the tilde properly in seems to have posed no problem for the state theart presses at the new free press Why is it then that i turn to the listings for the French channels in to scene and find that French diacritical Marks Are impossible while tokenism is always it seems even More so in regard to Canadas other official especially in 1992 when technology has made virtually any key Board Winnipeg unseen Manitoba the interview with japanese ambassador Michio Mizoguchi Manitoba urged to have yen for japanese Trade free july 17 Points out the underlying reasons Why Japan is pulling its consulate out of we dont have proper representation of our province in for Many through a contractual relationship with Richardson greenshields1 office in Manitoba has had representation in that office in to Kyo disappeared when the government Al Lowed the contract with Richardson to lapse in we have had no representation ambassador Mizoguchi was chiding in a gentle As any japanese would that Manitoba cannot expect to Benefit from a consulate in Winnipeg if it does nothing or Little to promote itself in British co Ontario and Quebec All have Well staffed offices in it is no coincidence that none of the consulates in these provinces Are in Manitoba should have at least four people on the ground in one should be a Canadian and the others locally the recession in Japan wont last forever and As it appears that is edging out of its own it is imperative that the Manitoba government search out new ways to fuel economic farm like no other Industry in can singularly lift All sectors of the Mizoguchi hinted that there May be some Relief in sight for canola japans High tariffs May Edge a proper Trade office sponsored by Manitoba would be the Best Way to lobby for further Tariff reductions to say nothing of the marketing that would be needed once the tariffs were conservative governments have for some time been Strong advocates of International Fine words if they Are How the conservative Manitoba government does not practice what it it is time for someone in authority to show leadership and to invest in Manitoba if such leadership is not Manitoban will have to reevaluate Why the present elected officials Are even in John Dobbin Winnipeg pay too much per View having read Brad Oswalds glowing account of How reasonable and successful pay per View to is wrestling special a roaring Success for free septem Ber i believe its time to look at the True Cost of watching this latest to according to Brad Oswald it is possible to operate a Var on Channel have owned three different Vars and they All operate on Channel 3 or so most people Are forced to rent a Channel 2 which Means the average viewer has three Remote controls Lay ing and if i were to join the pay per View system and watch Only two movies per my Cable rental would go from per month to if i take the full package super and three super stations it would jump to per As a senior citizen with no discount offered by the Cable i dont believe i can afford these kind of Winnipeg ;