Freedom Flyer (Issue #7: July, 1986)

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Jul 011986
 

Contents:
Openers; Group of Conviction Run By Man With Many Convictions; Action Director Marc Emery Goes to the Polls in London Civic Election; Tax Credit Ceiling Raised; Freedom Party Supporters Help Win a Big Battle for More Freedom for Merv Lavigne and Millions of Canadian Workers; “Teacher wins key case on use of union dues” (newspaper report); Promises, Promises! (socialized medicine); Freedom Party Campus Association Gets Rolling in 1985-1986 Campus Year; “Wage gap blamed on women’s own views” (newspaper coverage); Unemployment – As a Goal in Life; A Four Letter Word Starting With “F” (Censorship Alert campaign). Continue reading »

Censorship Alert! (Volume 1, Number 1): reprint – white paper

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May 011986
 

1986-02-xx.censorship-alert-white-thumbContents:
Sounding the alert!; Censorship: Let us count the ways; Political books seized by Canadian customs; Censorship- A black and white issue; No humans allowed; Still the censor board to us; More censorship has all party support; Smurfs, Jedi manipulate children through sexual stereotyping; Swedish censor board restricts E.T. – The Extra Terrestrial; Four Star Trek episodes deemed unsuitable for children by B.B.C; Thousand and One Nights ruled obscene; Censorship Alert! Contributions tax-creditable; New type of censorship; Toronto Sun publisher finds anti-censorship ad “respulbive, tasteless, and insensitive”; Religious conviction can get you a legal conviction; Pro-apartheid speaker ban sought at Toronto university; Censorship violates all our fundamental freedoms; No nudes are good nudes; Disarmament groups cite hate literature provisions in attack of Red Dawn; women primary market for ‘blue’ videos; Racist trash; Help us soud the ALERT! through newspaper advertising; Censorship aided and abetted; draft of proposed newspaper ad; Rock music & videos under attack; The sounds of censorship; Canadian writers, artists, plead for forced support; Feminist view of men irrational & hateful; Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me!; Sex toys now ruled obscene publications; ‘Disgusting’ objects determined by number on display; ‘Art police’ at work; Brotherhood of censors; Nyetto videos; Artistic fascism; Child pornography: the censor’s favourite myth; Linda Lovelace still a “victim”; Ontario teachers favour censorship; Who’s responsible?: Ideas vs. action. Continue reading »

Censorship Alert! (Volume 1, Number 1): newsprint – original version

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Feb 011986
 

1986-02-xx.censorship-alert-original-thumbContents:
Sounding the alert!; Censorship: Let us count the ways; Political books seized by Canadian customs; Censorship- A black and white issue; No humans allowed; Still the censor board to us; More censorship has all party support; Smurfs, Jedi manipulate children through sexual stereotyping; Swedish censor board restricts E.T. – The Extra Terrestrial; Four Star Trek episodes deemed unsuitable for children by B.B.C; Thousand and One Nights ruled obscene; Censorship Alert! Contributions tax-creditable; New type of censorship; Toronto Sun publisher finds anti-censorship ad “respulbive, tasteless, and insensitive”; Religious conviction can get you a legal conviction; Pro-apartheid speaker ban sought at Toronto university; Censorship violates all our fundamental freedoms; No nudes are good nudes; Disarmament groups cite hate literature provisions in attack of Red Dawn; women primary market for ‘blue’ videos; Racist trash; Help us soud the ALERT! through newspaper advertising; Censorship aided and abetted; draft of proposed newspaper ad; Rock music & videos under attack; The sounds of censorship; Canadian writers, artists, plead for forced support; Feminist view of men irrational & hateful; Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me!; Sex toys now ruled obscene publications; ‘Disgusting’ objects determined by number on display; ‘Art police’ at work; Brotherhood of censors; Nyetto videos; Artistic fascism; Child pornography: the censor’s favourite myth; Linda Lovelace still a “victim”; Ontario teachers favour censorship; Who’s responsible?: Ideas vs. action. Continue reading »

Robert Metz versus Gar Mahood and anti-smoking censorship

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Dec 021985
 

1985-fpo-radio-thumbAUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
In the 1980’s, Garfield (“Gar”) Mahood was the head of the Non-Smokers Rights Association (NSRA). The group’s purpose, essentially, was to get people to stop smoking tobacco. In this recording from the Wayne McLean talk show on Radio 98 in London, Ontario, Mahood was McLean’s in-studio guest. Freedom Party president Robert Metz calls in in reaction to Mr. Mahood’s comment, apparently made earlier in the broadcast, that if the London Free Press newspaper and other newspapers do not police themselves as he said they promised to do – i.e.., stop publishing tabacco advertisements – then the NSRA is in favour of a legislated solution (i.e., censorship). NOTE: this is the only portion of the broadcast that was recorded.

Complete Recording
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Women Against Censorship…but for taxpayer-funded feminism

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Dec 011985
 

1985-fpo-radio-thumbAUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
In late 1985, radical feminist Varda Burstyn was the guest of a CBC talk radio show hosted by David Shatzky. The two discussed a book that had just been published (release date: November 28, 1985): Women Against Censorship. Burstyn was the book’s editor. The book contained a number of essays concerning feminist views on pornography and how to combat it. The general message of the book was that pornography should be eliminated not by censorship but by the promotion of feminist ideas. Freedom Party of Ontario’s Robert Metz initially found the topic hopeful – because it was opposed to censorship – but his hopes quickly were dashed: Burstyn was advocating taxpayer funding for the promotion (on air, etc.) of feminism. Metz called in to the show. This is the recording of his call.

Excerpt: Robert Metz
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The Conviction of Jim Keegstra (1985): Collectivism & Censorship

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Jul 251985
 

1985-xx-xx.keegstra-thumbAUDIO – DESCRIPTION:

On July 25, 1985, Wayne McLean and Ann Robel, hosts of “Hotline” (Radio 98, London, Ontario) held a 2-hour radio discussion with Jim Keegstra, who had just been convicted in Alberta on a criminal hate speech violation: he had been sentenced to pay a fine of $5,000.00. Keegstra denied several widely accepted historical accounts of what happened in Hitler’s Germany, and believed that Jewish people – as a collective/group – were involved in a conspiracy to take over the world. Keegstra had been a mayor and a school teacher. After spending some time interviewing Keegstra, Keegstra stayed on the line as the show took calls from listeners in the London area, including Freedom Party president Robert Metz and Marc Emery (Action Director). Metz pointed out that both Keegstra and his opponents were making the same mistake: essentially judging people as a collective (in this case, Jewish people). He pointed out that such collectivism and suppression of speech were exactly the sorts of things that Hitler used to oppress Jews and others, and that gave rise to the second world war. Emery – who had personally interviewed Holocaust survivors and published their accounts in his publications, including the London Metrobulletin – explained that although he rejected Keegstra’s claims, he thought it important for every individual – right or wrong – to be free to express his or her views. He also pointed out that law enforcement tends to apply censorship laws not against big media companies, but against individuals with limited financial means of defending themselves.

Five (and, again 11) years later, the Supreme Court of Canada would reject Keegstra’s challenge to the constitutionality of Canada’s criminal law against the wilful promotion of hatred against an identifiable group. He received a one-year suspended sentence, one year of probation, and community service. Keegstra died in Alberta on June 2, 2014.

Excerpts (McLean, Robel and Emery, Metz):
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Censorship: Radical Feminism versus Depictions of Sex

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Jul 231985
 

1985-fpo-radio-thumbAUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
On or about April 23, 1985, the federal Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution (also known as the “Fraser Committee”) released a report of its findings (the committee had been formed in June of 1983, and held hearings across Canada beginning in December of 1983; it held a hearing in London, Ontario on February 9, 1984). The London Status of Women Action Group was a radical feminist – i.e., cultural Marxist – group in London in the early 1980s, and had actively campaigned in favour of banning pornography. With respect to depictions of sexual activity in magazines or movies, virtually all such depictions were rejected by LSWAG as depictions of female degradation and violence against women.

On July 23, 1985, Radio 98 talk show host Wayne McLean began his show by interviewing the then-president of LSWAG, Judith Moses. Thereafter, McLean took calls from listeners in London, including Freedom Party of Ontario president Robert Metz, who shared an interesting fact about a study about men and what they find attractive or repulsive in sex between a man and a woman (the results were regularly being misrepresented by radical feminists, so as to leave the impression that men are attracted to non-consensual sex with women).

NOTE: This recording was captured from a cassette tape that had been in storage for over 30 years. The first 20 minutes of the tape suffers from increasing audio distortion, but the distortion disappears thereafter.

Excerpt (Metz)
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Freedom vs. Feminism: Marc Emery vs. Heidi Strasser

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May 031985
 

AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:

In 1985, Heidi Strasser was a London area radical feminist and a representative of the London Status of Women Action Group (LSWAG). In the early eighties, LSWAG ran campaigns to ban or otherwise censor the wide range of things it considered “pornography”. As a result, in those years, pornography “dominated the news” in London (in the words of then talk radio host Wayne McLean).

On May 3, 1985, McLean dedicated two hours of his radio program to the issue of feminism versus individual freedom. His guests were Strasser, and then Freedom Party of Ontario Action Director Marc Emery, who opposed censorship.

NOTES: This recording – including the introduction by Freedom Party’s Murray Hopper, which was not part of the original broadcast but was added by Freedom Party – was featured at page four of Issue 5 of “Freedom Flyer”, Freedom Party of Ontario’s newsletter as one of Freedom Party’s “Hear the Voice of Freedom” audio cassette series. This recording was #3 in that series.

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