Letters
Page Inside the Johann Dueck
file Edmonton
-- This article by Kirk
Makin ranks as one of the boldest and
most insightful pieces of journalism of
the past decade. Bravo to The Globe. Terry Beitner of Anne
McLellan's War Crimes Unit lamely
points out in defence of the
denaturalization and deportation policy
that "there is no principle in law that
requires the government to use criminal
law where other principles and remedies
can be involved." That those other principles and
remedies take the form of misleading the
court, of submitting blatantly falsified
evidence, of parading laughable witnesses
and then withdrawing the substantive
charges that form the crux of the case at
the outset of a trial -- all this does not
seem to deter Mr. Beitner and Ms. McLellan
from savaging their victims' civil
liberties and debasing the justice system
they are both sworn to uphold. Eugene
Harasymi, LL.B., president,
Alberta Ukrainian Self-Reliance League
North
Vancouver -- Your excellent article
about the injustices done in the name of
the so-called Nazi hunt in Canada raises
so many questions that it is difficult
even to begin listing them. I would like
to point out just two: how easily the
spineless Canadian government yields to
influential pressure groups, spending
millions of taxpayer dollars in morally
suspect and probably unconstitutional
legal ventures; and how hard it is for
innocent people to defend themselves
against these hysteria-fuelled accusations
if they don't have enough money for the
exorbitant legal fees. So much for Canada
being a free and democratic country. Mariusz
T. Wesolowski
Toronto
-- In the case of the persecution of
Johann Dueck by the Canadian
government, I fail to see the benefits
that will accrue to the average Canadian
by the expenditure of $47-million of
taxpayer funds to deport octogenarians who
may have acted badly outside of Canada.
Isn't it up to the countries that were
involved in the cruelty to take
action? Perhaps you
could explain to me how much better off
I and other Canadians will be by
further taxpayer expenditures on behalf
of the Canadian Jewish Congress. Alex
C. Doulis
Calgary
-- It's time for members of
Parliament to put a stop to these witch
hunts. If there is no proof of personal
criminality, stop using taxpayers' money
for these unproductive fishing expeditions
that insult the integrity of the Canadian
conscience. Before the War Crimes Unit of
the Ministry of Justice announces the next
slate of suspects for deportation
hearings, insist that they show some form
of concrete evidence of personal criminal
behaviour that would stand up in a
courtroom. Brian
A. C. Conley | 
ONCE again: we are tempted to
open a dossier for such items, labelled:
"The global origins of
anti-Semitism."
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