INCREASED TOLERANCE

FOR ANTI-SEMITISM

This article was written by Lee Smith, a senior editor of the Weekly Standard, a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the author of The Strong Horse: Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilization

Why is it that no one bats an eyelash when a former United States adviser says,” The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence”? Last week in an interview, Zbigniew Brzezinski accused the government of Israel of a crime. If he has evidence that Israeli officials have broken the law by bribing U.S. politicians, law enforcement authorities should compel him to produce it. But of course Brzezinski’s not really talking about Israelis. What he means is that American Jews have subverted the interests of the United States on behalf of a foreign power.

You don’t need to know much about history to recognize that Brzezinski here is trading in a classic anti-Semitic trope. Why didn’t his salon interviewer call him out on it? Why hasn’t anyone else? Where are the American elites- the intellectuals, writers, policymakers, and political activists—when it comes to vigilance against anti-Semitism?

The editors of magazines and newspapers have a responsibility as gatekeepers of polite society. It turns out the gatekeepers haven’t been vigilant. We live in a culture where the social taboo against anti-black racism is so fierce that violating the taboo means certain expulsion from polite company. But the very reverse process is taking place is taking place when it comes to anti-Semitism: The taboo is being rapidly eroded and those who ought to confront it are enabling it.

Israel Firsters,dual loyalists, Likudniks, ziocons,neo-cons, warmongers-in the wake of the Holocaust, such anti-Semitic rhetoric would have been unimaginable. Yet it became commonplace little more than half a century later at the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.Midlevel George W Bush administration officials with Jewish-sounding last names-Wolfowitz,Abrams Feith, and the rest of the neocon cabal—were accused of dual loyalty, sending American boys to die for the sake of the country that had their true devotion: Israel. According to this theory, administration principals like Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice and the president-policymakers with actual-decision making power—were merely instruments in the control of vast Zionist networks that were also manipulating the media and financial industries.

This theory reached full bloom in 2007, when Farrar, Straus and Giroux, one of America’s most esteemed publishing houses, handed the political scientists John J. Mearsheim and Stephen M Walt a $750,000 advance for their book The Israel Lobby. As my colleague Adam Kirsch pointed out last week, the books impact was massive because it made possible to say almost anything about Jewish money, and Jewish power and the Jewish State. Walt and Mearsheimer`s thesis was praised as bracing and to question their motives or ideas was to traffic in McCarthyism. And so the book’s argument earned respect.

Today that discourse has made its way into a Washington –based think tank with close ties to the Obama administration. Last month the Centre for American progress found itself in the middle of controversy when some contributors to the organization’s Think Progress blog were accused of writing posts and Tweets that were out and out anti-Semitic. One blogger Zaid Jilani, used the term” Israel Firster” to describe pro-Israel Obama donors.

American Jewish groups were incensed. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center told the Washington Post that, “The language is corrosive and unacceptable”. Jilani left the organization and apologized for using the term, but his colleagues remain, only slightly chastened.

CAP`s (Center for American Progress) chief of staff Ken Gude explained in response to the criticism that, “We have a zero-tolerance policy for racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism, or any form of discrimination.” However, it would seem that Think Progress bloggers were well suited to the general temperament of the organization. The problem isn`t just CAP-sponsored ephemera like blogs and tweets, but its more significant offerings relating to the Middle East, like its massive research project on Islamaphobia. On page 94 of that study, for instance, the authors take issue with the Middle East Media Research Institute founded by Israelis. “MEMRI is respected in some circles for its work to combat hate language and anti-Semitism, but it is also criticized for its selective translations. The institute contends that it highlights moderate voices on its Reform blog. Yet MEMRI`s selective translations of Arab media fan the flames of Islamophobia”.

How do the Jews who run this translation organization promote Islamophobia, according to CAP? By translating the opinions of those who want to persecute and kill Jews. Try fitting this twisted reasoning into Gude`s zero-tolerance policy against any form of discrimination: Women’s rights groups stir up male hatred by collecting statistics of violence against women; the NAACP fans the flames of racism because it advocates on behalf of equal rights for African-Americans. The root of this problem is not a twentysomething blogger writing something stupid on the internet. Rather, it is that anti-Semitic rhetoric and logic are being protected and justified by those who are supposed to be gatekeepers. These people, often in the service of their larger political aims, are willing to apologize for or ignore what is obviously Jew-baiting and Jew-hatred.

WOMEN—AROUND THE WORLD

I have been obsessed since Oct 2011 with the trial of Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba and their son Hamed. They are being tried for the murder of the 3 daughters of Mohammad and Tooba, and the first wife of Mohammad, Rona, who immigrated here under the pretence of being house-keeping help. I will not go into the details of the trial as that is easily available in the newspapers. There is no question the three charged people will be found guilty of murder, as the Ontario Superior Court Judge Robert Maranger instructed the jury that they did not have to understand how the crime was committed to find the defendants guilty.

This crime is different only to the extent that it involves four women, and that point makes it headlines throughout the world. The fact of the matter is in one way or another; women are dominated in every country to a greater or lesser extent. The western world has minimized the domination and the laws favour the freedom of women to act in their own interests, but the number of male police who minimize charges of male abuse when they investigate the cases is legendary, and so many women out of fear withdraw the charges in the presence of the police and their partners. I hate to think about the verbal and physical abuse that takes place in Canadian homes. The abuse in Canada and the west is just the tip of the iceberg.

So let’s look at the iceberg. Most countries in the developing world
have no laws protecting women and in some cases they are literally household slaves. It is a pathetic joke that the United Nations which has passed numerous resolutions on the protection of women does not reject the membership of states which pay no attention to this obligation. Especially during wartime women are used as pawns between conflicting armies with rape being the norm rather than the exception. During the second world war the greatest fear of German women was being raped by the advancing Russian soldiers.

In the past number of years the term “Honour Killing” is used a great deal in describing the murder of women. Religion has some degree of influence in the domination of women as a great number of events involve Muslims, but in the end it is a culture rather than a religion that is predominate. Women are dominated and abused in every religion and culture and in all parts of the world.

THE PRACTICE OF PHARMACY
MUST CHANGE

I’m the king of the castle
and you’re the dirty rascal,
I’m the king of the castle
get down you dirty rascal.

The castle, of course, is the provision of health care for the people of Ontario, and the king of the castle is the doctor. Whether in private practice, in government or in the hospital, the medical doctor has the last word. The practice of medicine, with new scientific discoveries and technologies, has changed in the last 100 years adding more and more jobs to the medical profession but hardly ever taking simpler jobs from the profession and giving them to other health care givers, well trained, who can do the job as well or better, but at less cost. The province of Ontario now cannot afford to pay the doctors for jobs that can be done for less money. If I were a nurse I would write about “nurse practitioners” who also have a part to play, but as I graduated in Pharmacy and with many years of experience,I intend to talk about my profession.

For as long as I can remember the busy pharmacy has had a helper, usually a person who counts the tablets, answers the phone, and puts back the bottles of tablets on the shelf. But all the filled prescriptions MUST be checked by the pharmacist for accuracy and signed. The bulk bottle of drugs has to be checked by the pharmacist .The helper or assistant had no official status with the Ontario College of Pharmacists and learned by experience. With an amendment passed by the Ontario Legislature, a new professional group has been constituted .This group, legally referred to as “Registered Pharmacy Technicians” can fill prescriptions without the direct supervision of a pharmacist. Pharmacists under their scopes of practice are responsible for the therapeutic or clinical portions of the prescription. In essence, they are responsible for the patient. They are accountable for ensuring the medication prescribed or the therapy the patient is being treated for is appropriate. This responsibility extends to both a refill and new prescription and the pharmacist must sign off that this has been checked and approved. Technicians are accountable for the technical portions of filling the prescription, i.e. the drug, strength, quantity, directions and any other technical aspects of filling that prescription and signing off on that portion. Simply put, on any prescription, the pharmacist is responsible for the patient and the technician is responsible for the prescription, i.e. accuracy of dispensing.

The dispensing of medication to a patient is NO LONGER the sole responsibility of the pharmacist when a registered technician is part of the process. It is a shared responsibility.

I believe the Ontario Government through the ministry of health has thought long and hard about this development because it allows the pharmacist the leeway and time to act as a professional advisor to the prescriber, the medical doctor and to do some of the jobs given to doctors, at a lower cost. The big question is how long it will take the politicians to take the next step and allow the Pharmacist to do the job and be paid for same. The medical profession is well-funded and not to be taken lightly. I intend to outline where there is room for improvement.

The government is very worried about the cost of medication for the seniors of Ontario. This is a legitimate problem which I know about first hand, as a senior myself and a retired pharmacist. From my experience filling prescriptions, seniors are on too many drugs and the drugs are not monitored carefully. Many side effects occur, and it takes a lot of time to correct. Doctors are paid by the visit, and too long with one patient is not cost effective. Drugs are the specialty of pharmacists and they can remedy the situation in a shorter time period taking into consideration the senior may also be taking over-the counter drugs of which the doctor is unaware.

Brand name drug companies are always searching for new and better drugs. This is the way the system works. They always find new drugs but not necessarily better drugs and when doctors are influenced to use them, at a much higher cost, the pharmacist can advise the doctor if the change is in the best interest of the patient and not just a move to make money for the drug company.

Pharmacists should legally be allowed to prescribe and administer by injection pharmaceuticals under controlled conditions. Today the public visits the pharmacist much more than any other health professional. Injections by the pharmacist can be allowed for influenza vaccines and for palliative home care patients. Pharmacists can prescribe, to treat minor conditions, adjust dosage, provide emergency supplies and allow substitution of another drug that can have a similar therapeutic effect but be cost effective.

Drug therapy is constantly changing and the pharmacist is in the position, or should be, to be aware of all the changes. The pharmacist is the drug therapy expert, the physician is and remains, the diagnostician

SEPTUAGENARIAN PERILOUSLY TESTS
PARKING-TICKET LAW

While blue hornet writes up his Lexus, Murray Rubin peels off

Globe & Mail article May 29, 2010 by Jeff Gray

Retired pharmacist and businessman Murray Rubin, 79, doesn’t look like an outlaw, with his mustard shirt and wispy white hair. But looks can be deceiving. He was, after all, the subject of possibly the shortest police chase in Toronto history.

Mr. Rubin agrees to tell his tale to The Globe & Mail at a downtown Tim Hortons, flanked by his lawyer and friend of 60 years, John Weingust, an 80-year-old anti-parking-ticket crusader and black belt in tae kwon do who ran against David Miller for mayor in 2006, winning 332 votes.

Around midday on Easter Sunday last year, Mr. Rubin parked his Lexus on Yonge Street to check if a local pub was showing a tennis match featuring Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak.

When he noticed an officer writing him a ticket, he bolted to his car and pulled out before the ticket was fastened to his windshield, as he lawyer friend has told him is allowed under Ontario law. But the officer put on his siren and lights, and gave chase.

As little as 20 feet down the street, Mr. Rubin says he stopped: “I immediately stopped, I never ran away from the police in my whole life!” When asked by the officer what he thought he was doing, Mr. Rubin says he told the cop that his lawyer had told him that driving away before a ticket is issued was “fine.”

(Mr. Weingust, at this point, interrupts his client: “No, not it’s fine. It’s legal. That’s what I told him.”) This did not appease the officer, who warned Mr. Rubin that he was “going to pay for this,” Mr. Rubin said. “He was not angry. He was livid!”

Mr. Rubin said the officer then pointed to his gun and added, “I am not a parking attendant.”

Mr. Rubin insists that he was not intimidated by the gesture, which he understood was meant to illustrate that the officer was a real cop, not a gunless parking attendant. Mr. Weingust interjects, saying the officer was trying to intimidate his client.

“Aw, come on, Jack, I don’t want to get this guy in any trouble!” Mr. Rubin said. “He’s starting his career….You can tell the chief, I’m not interested in going after this guy.”

But Mr. Rubin allows that the officer had an “inflated idea” of his power. “He’s a new cop, I doubt if the guy’s over 25 years old. And he couldn’t believe this old shit is going to run away from him.”

He was kept waiting, he says, for more than half an hour while the officer wrote up a parking ticket, as well as a ticket for unsafely pulling away—Mr. Rubin says he did pull away safely, since there was no other traffic—and for allegedly not wearing a seatbelt.

The parking ticket was tossed out for being incorrectly filled out. And after hearing testimony from both Mr. Rubin and the officer—who denied all the allegations—a justice of the peace at Old City Hall tossed out the other two tickets as well.

Mr. Weingust has written three letters to the police, including one to Chief Bill Blair, complaining about the officer’s “threats.” But, the lawyers says, he has never received a response. While both them say they no longer want to lodge a formal complaint against the officer, they do want to know why their letters were never answered.

Contacted by The Globe, police spokesman George Christopoulos said the officer’s superiors looked into the matter last year, interviewing him shortly after receiving Mr. Weingust’s letter. The case was dropped, however, after police were unable to reach Mr. Rubin, despite, Mr. Christopoulos said, leaving several phone messages.
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Reached by phone, Mr. Weingust disputed this version of events, denying that he or Mr. Rubin ever heard back from police. “This just doesn’t make any sense,” he said. “I just don’t understand this thing at all.”

Regardless of where the truth lies, it was not the first time Mr. Rubin had pulled away from an impending parking ticket. And it likely won’t be the last.

“I hate the parking guys,” he says, leaning across the table at Tim Hortons, gritting his teeth. “It’s a rip-off. The city is using it as a method of taxation, and it bothers me. So whenever I can, I run away. And if I get a ticket, I go down, I ask for a court date, I always show up, and they usually give it to you for 40 per cent, 50 per cent.”

Mr. Rubin is not alone. The city says runaways cost it $4.8 million in lost revenue in 2008. Other provinces allow cities to mail tickets to would-be scofflaws, but doing so here would require changes to legislation at Queen’s Park.

Until then, Mr. Rubin remains unrepentant: “It’s a game! They hide in the doorway while you’re going in, and they run over and give you a ticket. It’s a game. So I’m playing their game. If they get it on my windshield, I’m done. If I can get away, that’s what I do.”

MALES DOMINATE WORLDWIDE

The status of women has improved substantially in certain parts of the world; at least it has not deteriorated. For people who read my blog they are well aware of my contention that the search for Power, Self-Interest and Hypocrisy govern all relationships on every level. Because of the physical strength of men, their ability to dominate other men and women, extends back into the beginnings of recorded history. It is without question a “Man’s World”, it always was, and will be for the foreseeable future. There are, fortunately, a few ways of measuring the position of women in societies throughout the world.

How many women have ruled their respective countries? Egypt was ruled by queens around 3000B.C. However it was not until after the First World War that women became ministers of the revolutionary governments in Russia, the Ukraine and Hungary. Development was very slow but at the end of the 20th century women were regularly named to the cabinets of ruling parties. But even to-day some countries have no women as ministers. In 1960 Sirivano Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world’s first female elected Prime Minister and in 1974 Isabel Peron of Argentina became the first woman president. In 2009 Monaco was the last country with elections to have its first female member of parliament. There are 193 members of the U.N. and there are 29 female leaders. Queens rule in Denmark, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. In Denmark and the Netherlands the first born of the Queen is heir to the throne, but most significantly in the United Kingdom a new law is in the works to have the same system. At present, the male heir becomes king even if not the first born.

Now let’s talk business. When the leadership of 2000 of the world’s top performing companies were studied, it was found only 29 or 1.5% of the CEO`s were women. It then should not be surprising that only one woman, Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay made it to the top 100 of the rankings. In the judiciary I am proud to say that Canada has 3 Supreme Court judges out of 9, a very unusual occurrence.

It is not in the halls of power whether Parliament, Multi-National Companies or Supreme Court of Nations that the real problem lies. Most women throughout the world do not aspire to these high positions. It is the rape and abuse, both physical and verbal that takes place in the homes, villages and cities where women live their daily lives in constant fear of offending some man or men in power over them. From the poorest homes to the most majestic palaces women have to be submissive. In many Moslem countries women are not allowed to go to school. Honour killing of women is a tradition prevalent in many countries in the East, where the perpetrators are never punished even if the law provides for such action. A 2008 study of the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights found that 83% of Egyptian women reported sexual harassment and 62% of Egyptian men admitted they had harassed women. The 12 women interviewed and the advocacy group, said reporting sexual assault to the police was a waste of time as they were not sensitive to the problem.

What prompted me to write this article? It is the second on this subject in my blog. Marriage, the most sacred of institutions between men and women, belies the so called equality of men and women. Norway, a country that prides itself on equality of sexes, is one of 127 countries…including 12 members of the European Union…that do not explicitly criminalize rape within marriage, according to a United Nations survey published in July 2011. Laura Turquet, chief author of the 2011 report, sees explicit criminalizing of spousal rape as crucial, both symbolically and practically. “Explicit legislation accompanied by clear protocols sends a clear message to the police and the courts that sexual violence is never a private matter. 40% of rapes in which the perpetrator did not know the victim were prosecuted with conviction rates of more than 70%, by contrast, only 14% of suspects in partner rape were convicted. Why is sexual violence still so prevalent in countries where gender equality has made such gigantic strides? Some experts argue that as society moves to redistribute power between genders, there might be a transitional period where violence rises as the last expression of male domination

Equality between sexes is on the rise but is not moving as quickly in the homes and bedrooms of all nations including those in the west.

MEN RULE

Upon rising in the morning an orthodox Jewish man recites a benediction giving thanks to God for not having been born a woman. When confronted that this is sexism he will argue that this is not negative towards women but allows God to place different obligations of observance on the two sexes. I take exception to that interpretation. No matter the religion, the country, the society and the life-style, in one way or another, women are treated differently and more often than not, the end result is not in their favour. The extent of the negativity will vary depending on the men in their lives, the nation where the woman lives and the religion she practices.

If one goes back hundreds of centuries, it is easy to see why women were dominated. The rule of law was non-existent and women were, in most cases, physically weaker. Especially during pregnancy and child-rearing, women needed to be protected by a man from other men. Eventually in western society laws were promulgated which gave women a measure of protection and the beginnings of the opportunity to attain equality. The discovery of the birth-control pill, for the first time allowed women the possibility of determining when they would become pregnant. However even with laws to protect women, because of the private nature of the relationship between the sexes in the home, physical strength usually determined the outcome of disagreements.

The Convention on “The Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women” was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979 and is often described as an international bill of rights for women. Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination.

The Convention defines discrimination against women “…as any distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis of sex which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women, irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, social, civil or any other field”.

By accepting the Convention, States commit themselves to undertake a series of measures to end discrimination against women in all forms, including:

a. to incorporate the principle of equality of men and women in their legal system, abolish all discriminatory laws and adopt appropriate ones prohibiting discrimination against women
b. to establish tribunals and other public institutions to ensure the effective protection of women and against discrimination, and
c. to ensure elimination of all acts of discrimination against women by
persons, organizations or enterprises.

Ninety per cent of all the nations in the UN have ratified this Convention including Saudi Arabia. This clearly shows that the Convention is of no use to protect the rights of women and is not worth the paper it is written on.

Life for women in North America and Europe has many shortcomings and it would be negligent to leave the impression that lives lived in the west are without hazards. It can be both violent and unfair.

…In the U.S. a woman is raped every six minutes and a woman is battered every fifteen seconds.
…1 in 3 female trauma patients taken into the emergency department in a hospital are victims of abuse.
…In Canada a government report reveals that indigenous women between the ages of 25-44 were five times more likely to die violently than all other women of the same age.

If a woman had confessed to the sexual acts of David Letterman, and was a T.V. personality, would she still have her job? If Hilary Clinton, the wife of President Bill Clinton, had confessed to extra-marital sex in the white house, would she have been elected senator from New York? A woman who has had many sexual partners is looked on as a slut or a whore but a man in the same position is called a womanizer, a swinger or a skirt-chaser….a definite difference in attitude.

Many women today are single parents, raising families by themselves. Fewer women are holding top executive jobs in Canada, according to a study by Rosenzweig and Co. The report said the number of women at the highest ranks of the one hundred biggest publicly-traded companies declined to thirty-one women from thirty-seven. There is an irony in all of this, as study after study shows that when corporations tap into the huge talent pool of women for top jobs, financial performance improves and shareholders benefit. Sylvia Bashevkin, a noted author on women’s affairs, recently stated “that the prospects for Canadian women in public life seem to be getting worse, not better.

If the results of the U.N. Convention had a moderate effect in the West, in the Middle East and the East they had no effect at all.

In North Africa, six thousand women are genitally mutilated each day. Thousands of women are sold into sexual slavery in China. Two hundred women in Bangladesh will be disfigured when their spurned husbands or suitors burn them with acid. Thousands of women in India will be murdered by their families and in-laws in domestic disputes. Violence against women is rooted in a global culture of discrimination which denies equal rights with men and which legitimizes the appropriation of women’s bodies for individual sexual gratification or political ends. Every year, violence in the home and throughout the world devastates the lives of millions of women. (Amnesty International 2001)

Nonie Darwish, a convert to Christianity from Islam, details some of the rules abided by the leaders of radical Islam and a large percentage of their followers.
…In the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as young as one year old and be sexually intimate with this child, consummating the marriage by age nine.
…The dowry is given to the family in exchange for the woman who becomes his slave.
…Even though a woman is abused she cannot obtain a divorce.
…To prove rape, the woman must have four male witnesses.
…Often after a woman has been raped, she is returned to her family and the family must return the dowry. The family has the right to execute her (an honour killing) to restore the honour of the family. A husband can beat his wife “at will” without giving an explanation. The husband is permitted to have four wives and a temporary wife for an hour (prostitute) at his discretion.
…The Sharia Muslim law controls the private as well as the public life of the woman.
…According to the Quran, a daughter can receive only half the inheritance of a son, a woman’s testimony in court is worth half of a man’s and the compensation for the murder of a woman is half that of a man.

In Afghanistan the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001 raised the hopes that women would rapidly regain their human rights. Ongoing threats to women’s security make their participation in public life almost impossible. Afghan women are still among the most vulnerable in the world. Recently Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, and supposedly in favour of more freedom for women, secretly passed a law dubbed “the rape law” which requires among other things that women submit to sex with their husbands every four days with few exceptions. The law applies only to the Shia minority who make up ten to twenty percent of the Afghan people. When the women staged a rally to protest the law they were attacked by groups of men calling them whores.

The “Social Institutions and Gender Index” ranked the ten worst countries for gender inequality:
1. Sudan
2. Afghanistan
3. Sierra Leone
4. Mali
5. Yemen
6. Chad
7. India (there are more Muslims in India than in Pakistan)
8. Iran
9. Pakistan
10.Iraq

The Muslim world represents twenty percent of the world’s population and in general pays lip service to the demands of the United Nations for equality to women. There is no REAL equality of women ANYWHERE in the world. I believe that Canada should remain in Afghanistan if only to protect the hard-won minimal rights of women there.

HYPOCRISY

Hypocrisy according to the Oxford dictionary is “the practice of claiming to have higher standards or more laudable beliefs than is the case”. Humans should be aware that no matter the organization’s standing in the world, whether it is government or private, religious or secular, it is under the management of flawed individuals who cannot escape their own short-comings. I intend to press my point by highlighting three cases of absolutely disgraceful conduct by employees of organizations that claim to have standards above and beyond the norm

Starting with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMP, Robert Dziekanski, and I am sure the name is familiar. He came from Poland as an immigrant, and expected to meet his mother at the airport. He spoke no English. His mother was waiting for him nearby, but out of sight. Eight hours passed and he was agitated and confused. His mother had left after being told he did not arrive. He began throwing some small furniture around and yelling, and as it became known later crying for help in Polish. In 45 seconds after the RCMP arrived, they tasered him and one of the officers pinned his head to the floor. It appears he died quickly of heart failure. The officers acted inappropriately, there was no danger to anyone, but the point I want to make is, in a subsequent hearing, they all lied and told a story of a very aggressive man hitting out at them. A bystander’s video of the whole event negated all their testimony.

Canadian newspapers have been filled with articles about the Boy Scouts of America. Is there a youth organization, or any organization, more imbued with the reputation for the clean-cut American image that can do no wrong? But to protect that image for the executives of this organization, is more important than the safety of the young boys under the care of the supervisors hired by the organization. That an organization with this program would attract sexual deviates is a foregone conclusion, but to avoid notifying the police about these men and even, in some instances, moving them about to other scout groups is intolerable. The “Scout” brand must be protected under all circumstances.

The Roman Catholic Church has no equal in the Christian world. It is big and wealthy and undoubtedly is responsible for a great deal of momentous works to the benefit of all humanity. But it insists on maintaining the celibacy of its clergy and under these defined circumstances it has to attract men who use the church as a cover for their deviant activities with young boys. Rather than report these activities to the police, or at least dispense with these men from the clergy, they move them around from parish to parish where they continue their sordid activities.

The world, to say the least, is an imperfect place and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the American Scouts and the Catholic Church cannot avoid incidents happening in their activities but they can take measures to minimize their occurrences. Do a stringent background check on all new applicants and when an incident is reported and proved ,fire the person involved and if it is flagrant report it to the police.

It must be policy to protect the public more than the reputation of the organization.