Doug Collins on Trial in Vancouver for Thumbing Nose at Schindler’s List

Outspoken, revisionist-friendly Canadian journalist Doug Collins is currently being tried before a so-called human rights tribunal in Vancouver, British Columbia. His crime? In the eyes of BC authorities, publishing something “likely to expose a person or a group or a class of persons to hatred or contempt,” but actually for his lack of reverence for the Holocaust holy cow and Steven Spielberg’s epic Schindler's List.

In March 1994 the outspoken, native-born Englishman zinged the movie and the Holocaust lobby in a column entitled “Hollywood Propaganda”; that he neither “denied” the Holocaust nor slurred Jews collectively was not enough to prevent the Canadian Jewish Congress from bringing charges under British Columbia’s Bill 33, a provincial amendment to Canada's Human Rights Act that outlaws publishing anything “likely to expose a person or a group or class of persons to hatred or contempt.”

The trial underscores a difference between the United States and Canada. An American, let alone an American journalist, would never face such charges; on the other hand an American columnist for an establishment newspaper who repeatedly challenged Holocaust hype as well as the sacrosanct status of various of his country's minorities would soon be looking for another line of work.

In this case, Doug Collins has been steadfastly supported by his paper, the North Shore News (which to be sure is also on trial) and is being defended as well by attorneys from the British Columbia Press Council and the BC Civil Liberties Association. Furthermore, the prosecution, and the legislation it’s enforcing, have been heavily criticized by major Canadian media, from theToronto Globe and Mail, Canadian Time, and the Financial Post on down.

Those of you familiar with Collins’s bulldog English tenacity, his contempt for sham, his war-record as a British infantryman captured at Dunkirk and several times escaped from German stalags, and his common-sense commentary will recognize that in selecting a sacrifice to the Moloch erected to punish free expression in British Columbia, the province’s ruling left-liberal clique and the Jewish thought-controllers from the CJC have chosen the wrong man. The trial is well on the way to making Doug Collins and his sensible views on Hollywood Holo-hype household words across the length and breadth of our neighbor to the north.

As the hearing opened on May 19, Doug Collins and his fellow defendants were bolstered by the presence of a hundred outspoken supporters—perhaps explaining the hasty decision of human rights tribunal head Nitya Iyer (high priestess of the multicultural cult in BC) to close the hearing to the press and to the public.

In any case, Collins and his publisher have alerted millions of opponents of enforced “political correctness” to the follies of censoring revisionists, and given them food for thought as to why Holocaust true believers feel driven to silence their critics.