3 PUBLISHER'S STATEMENT 7 NOTES & BOLTS 15 SEX RATED 19 MOVIES 26 SLY STALLONE
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52 FREE FALL
Fiction by Kenneth E. Nimocks
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64 WHITE ETERNITY
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73 BOSOM BUDDIES
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PUBLISHER'S STATEMENT
Merry Christmas from the RCMP
Ah, Christmas! Beautifully decorated evergreens, stockings hung by the fireplace
and walls lined with Christmas cards. But wait! Before you hang up those cards,
check the envelopes they came in. Because the Canadian government may be giving
us a little Christmas present of its own.
By the time you read this, Canada's Solicitor-General, Allan Lawrence, may have
pushed through certain legislation allowing the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police)
to open and inspect all first-class mail.
Lawrence says the mail would be opened only in cases involving national security
or suspected criminal activities. The interpretation of those catch-phrases will
probably be left up to . . . you guessed it — the RCMP! What it really means
is that the fun-loving gang in Ottawa is trying to give the Mounties carte blanche
to tamper with our mail. Right now, this is in violation of the Post Office Act.
"National security" — it has an official Watergate-sounding ring
to it, doesn't it? But what self-respecting terrorist or subversive would use
the mail service (especially our mail service!) to transport information? "Suspected
criminal activities"? The key word here is suspected. Can't you just imagine
a group of RCMP officers grouped around a kettle while steaming open your letter
to Aunt Agnes because of that speeding ticket you got three years ago? No matter
how you look at it, you can be nailed to the wall. The terms national security
and suspected criminal activities are so vague that
practically every man, woman and child in Canada is in danger of having their
mail checked.
The sad part of it all is that the government is merely trying to legalize something
the RCMP and its Special Services (SS!) branch has been doing illegally for years.
It seems that if the government can't explain why the RCMP is breaking the law,
then they just change the law to suit their needs and deny us our basic democratic
rights! But why bother?
The McDonald Royal Commission into RCMP wrongdoings has shown us that the RCMP
has continually operated on the wrong side of the law. Operation Cathedral was
a secret RCMP program in which mail was illegally opened and photographed for
over 20 years. What about the illegal removal and duplication of Parti Quebecois
membership lists in 197.3? Then there was the illegal seizure of a fishing company's
computer tapes from Dalhousie University. In a paper by Guy Tardif, a former Mountie
and now a PQ minister, he reveals Operation 300 — a code name for hundreds
of illegal police break-ins during the '70s. The list could go on forever. Imagine
what's going to happen if it's legal!
Merry Christmas to all and to all . . . Good Luck!
