Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 9, 1993, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor David 6977042 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 november registry move poses dangers in disappointed to learn that the court of Queens Bench has upheld the process whereby names of suspected child abusers Are included in the child abuse registry free october i sincerely Hope that an Appeal will be lodged and that it will be sus the aim of the registry of admirable to help prevent the occurrence or recurrence of child no one condones the mistreat ment of children and society rightly expects that All reasonable Mea sures will be taken to prevent it seems to say the to sidestep the Normal processes and protections of the be Gal system and to put into the hands of a very Small group of people the on suspicion to Brand someone child abuser in of to convict that person in the minds of Many it is More than just harsh it is fundamentally even though there seems to be some quasi Judi Cial proceedings followed in the pro Cess of placing a persons name on the the fact remains that there is a denial of the Basic Princi ple of the presumption of innocence and the Burden of proof seems to rest with the accused and not the a this is dangerous in its Imp Lica not just to those specifically involved but to us All those suspected of child abuse who the injustice and danger seem obvious when one considers two there have been occasions when persons have been listed in the registry upon suspicion based on evidence so slim that no charges were Ever Laid let alone proceeded with in the courts in at least one in As Justice Robert Carr observed in his the inclusion of a name resulted from the review committees misinterpretation of the facts placed before we should not forget that the however laudable it May does not always justify the Means used to attain sir William the Emi nent 18th Century British said that it is better that ten guilty persons should go free than that one innocent Man should be this is not an easy principle no Many sincere and Well mean ing persons might reject they would be less Likely to do Howe if they were the innocent party David Mills Winnipeg youth violence has to be stopped i am writing to you about the Ris ing amount of youth some people May think that its just stories or headlines in the news but its someones son or daughter is be ing murdered or severely injured Over a something has to be done to Stop the Young offenders act should be changed dramatically if not thrown out More people need to get together to do if no matter what can commit an adult crime like they should be tried in an adult court like an kids need to take on the responsibilities of an adult because they wont be the same age if they Are Able to kill at an Early think what they will be Able to do As parents cannot give the excuse that their kids didst know How Many kids grow up in a Home where its All right to kill or severely injure another human youth violence has to be we need to get together More peo ple to reduce if we dont get to Gether to protect our who will Staci Neufeld Winnipeg hurting Rural area hurts cities sunday Good for the or bad it would create a few badly needed but when retail outlets have to hire More it increases their Cost of so they have to raise the consumer gets hit a Little harder in the it does not make much difference whether there is six Day shopping or it would not make much differ ence in the amount of Money being the Consumers can Only spend what they have and seven Day shopping does not increase that it just increases the time they can spend letters to the editor the free press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All letters May be edited for style and Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg r2x letters can be sent to our fax number some of the City stores Are think ing of the shoppers from the Rural but taking Money from the Rural areas that would normally be spent in the Rural areas in the mean a loss for the cities do not live off they produce very Little of the coun try real they live off the Rural areas and any gain the cities make is a loss to the Rural and a loss of the loss of Rural if it will eventually destroy the the cities problems increase in direct proportion to population loss in the Rural Killarney new government same old ways we have a new Federal govern but it has the same old racist Canadian would they appoint an Atlantic Fisherman to be in charge of agriculture would they put a Man in charge of the status of women Bureau would they appoint a que Becer in charge of Western economic development a unilingual anglophile in charge of French language promotion a separatist in charge of National Unity of course would they appoint a White person to be in charge of Indian affairs no they had a couple of Northern aboriginal members to choose from to be the minister of in Dian and Northern in not i am deeply in Why do they loathe the first peo Ples of this great land so much if Only this was a Case of Gross stupidity its its the same old Rud Janz Winnipeg Youcan shut television off i am writing in response to Lindor Reynolds column on violence on All i can say Way to Lindor you Are absolutely right if parents Are so concerned about violence on then just shut the thing in sure your can survive without a or at least you can find a de nonviolent program to As for the 17yearold who died when he was trying to imitate some if we cant even Trust a 17 year old to handle violence maybe wed better just throw our tvs in the trash and go Back to Julie Pizzey Argusville pathbreaking reports in an extremely rare move the free press claimed copyright on Gordon Sinclair hrs pathbreaking reports on euthanasia Sisters helped mom die and want to go october my understanding is that the paper expects to be recognized by other Media copying these right to die these pieces once the Superior Quality of a journalist with a rare ability not Only to re search but also to put a human face on crucial social and to in Earth information that would never otherwise see the Light of it is no Accident that Sinclair has been credited with journalistic awards by his Peers this latest tour de Force May Well bring another Well deserved recognition to sin Clair who has often evoked reactions and but always had a Point to Winnipeg a column of tanks from the South korean army moves along a Road As it holds Field manoeuvres near cornered kims worry Petersburg times Washington theres a sizable number of people in this town who make their living by trying to figure out what the leaders of other countries Are Likely to do when things get one of their favorite ways of doing this is to work up a psychological profile of the Leader in the idea is to be Able to predict what this or that prime minister or president might do for his or her country got invaded or if there was an assassination this kind of brainstorming is especially popular at the the state department and other places that Deal with National among the Many profile models they use is something Best described As the crazy Man unpredictable the crazy Man you May have already is usually applied to foreign leaders our experts cant figure at least not using the Ordinary these Are people who dont seem to act in their own Best interests or those of their us at them generally Moa mar the libyan is probably the bes known example of what in talking another notorious one was former ugandan president Idi most the Cia has been trying with mixed results to pin the crazy Man theory to Jea Bertrand the would be president of but if theres any place where the crazy Man theory really its North not Only is North korean Leader Kim ii Sung considered a total but so is his Kim Jong the country Secondi command and heir Lunatic int my i heard it earlier this year from a state department far East expert who also described North Korea two kims As screw balls and nut cases capable of totally irrational and dangerous behaviour when these it the two kims feel and people in Washington Are starting to this was apparently the main thing on defence Secretary Les crazy Man theory has been applied to Kim ii spins mind Friday As he flew Back from a fou Day visit to Japan and South two nations especially concerned about the two i say apparently Only because reporters travelling with Aspin got a background briefing on the subject but could write about it Only if they attributed what they heard to a senior official travelling on spins plane who is familiar with the Secretary in any this senior official noted that North Korea now had 70 per cent of its army deployed near the Border with South Korea and that we May be entering a kind of danger zone he also was quoted As saying that these Guys the North koreans Are starving and May have concluded that you can either starve or get killed in a we ought to think our Way through what they might be thinking about and what might cause them to make a grave the senior official what this is All about is North Korea continued refusal to allow United nations inspectors to poke around its most secret nuclear research installations at Yon Byon and these Are the places where most experts believe the North koreans Are working on an atomic the Stan doff on this Issue began in March when the two kims announced that North Korea would pull out of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty rather than let outsiders into its secret this made a lot of people despite almost nonstop negotiations since the two kims have rejected every proposed As the pressure against them began to they warned that North and South Korea might have to be unified by Force and that War could break out at any the big of is whether the two kims mean Are they really considering an attack on the South and All the killing that would mean to get an idea of just How bloody this could be even if the North koreans dont have an atomic bomb consider the numbers the North korean army deployed mainly near the Frontier has a total of million compared to South Korea and the soldiers stationed near the Doz Between the two the North also is believed to have three times As Many tanks and half again As Many heavy artillery pieces in the area As South Korea and the americans Superior weapons War planners Are fairly confident their sides Superior weapons would win the but Point out that this be anything like the on sided operation against Iraq almost three years but lets get Back to what May be the whole Point of this North Korea nuclear weapons program and its determination to keep it this is where the crazy Man theory comes in the thing to remember about theories like this is that people we believe Are crazy can also be shrewd and Qadhafi is a Good so even if the two kims Are lunatics As the Man at the state department we have to consider another we have to figure they like being considered or at least find it they must for that their erratic and sometimes bizarre behaviour Over the years has completely spooked they know we consider them irrational and dont have a clue what kind of awful things do that their they must be expecting that our fear and uncertainly will keep us from pushing for strict in economic sanctions that would make life in North Korea even tougher than it already and if we wont even push for in economic sanctions Over the nuclear inspection we certainly wont go for anything More drastic like military Kim ii Sung and Kim Jong ii May be perfect models of the crazy Man but that Doest mean they wont outbox us in the doonesbury by Garry Trudeau to Tofino the an my gotta Fihma ;