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Tuesday, December 9, 1980.

The Other Press

Goebbels type propaganda

Dear Editor,

Some posters around the
New Westminster campus
put up by the Socialist
Discussion Group concern-
ing abortion have come to
my attention. While I wished
to express my views on the
subject, I did not feel that
those who spent their time
discussing socialism would

e receptive to reason. How-
ver, the issue the group
was discussing, namely the
Pro-Choice argument riles
me, to say the least.

Other posters around the
campus, announcing a Pro-
Choice rally are master-
pieces of Goebbels-type pro-
paganda. They espouse a
desire to protect the rights
of women, women who in
most cases don’t want to be

responsible for their actions.

The Pro-Choice argument
has a flaw in it that it fails to
recognize that an unborn
baby, i.e. a foetus, is a
person, a human being, with

a right to life, no matter how
terrible a life it may be that
the mother may prophesy for
it as an excuse for an
abortion. Either that or they
condone murder of the de-
fenceless and innocent.

‘‘Termination of the preg-
nancy’’ is one example of
their propaganda -- a nice
way to say ‘‘kill the baby’,
which doesn’t hit home with
the unwary listener. Their
name, Pro-Choice, is pro-
paganda too, as they should
be called Pro-Death, as they
are only interested in help-

Loveless stinks

Dear Editor,

It’s too bad that ‘‘Tecnica
difficulties’’ prevented you
from running the picture o!
Ron Loveless. I’m sure many
people would find his face
funnier than his comic strip

His comic strip is dull
humorless and hard to read
the latter due to poor print
ing. Normally, I take grea)
joy in reading comic strips in

ny paper. In the case ol
The Other Press; however, it

Dear Mr. Glark,

I would like to open this
reply with a quote by Salva-
dor Dali, who stated, ‘‘No
masterpiece was ever creat-
ed by a lazy artist.’’

-Don’t get me _ wrong,
Clarke, I like criticism, es-
pecially if it is constructive
criticism, but yours was
neither, it was downright
insulting!

However, it did bring
forth some good points:

1) I realize my printing is
not up to standards but I
never exploited the fact that
my handwriting was good. I
do, however, feel my art-
work is good. I am coping
with the printing problem

' because you are not the first

to bring up the subject.

2) Just because you ‘think
my comics are beyond the
a aCe

THANK YOU
I wish to take this oppor-
tunity to thank all those who
made our recent White Ele-
phant and Book Sale on

Surrey campus a success.

Without your donations of
goods and without your sup-
port at the sale, we would
not have collected just over
$43; we would not now be
able to make a donation to
the Cancer Society on behalf
of Douglas College students,

faculty and staff.

Many thanks on behalf of
the ABE department,
Carrie Dahl.

is more like a chore to read
Loveless’ strip. I would hope
for the sake of saving him-
self embarassment, he doe:
not pursue writing comic
strips as a career. Person:
ally, I find the ad for
condoms funnier than Love.
less and I suggest you run it
in the place of his cartoon.
The guy STINKS!

Gary Clark

p-s. To Ron Loveless
Nothing Personal.

Downright insulting!

grasp of your personal ap-
peal does not mean to say
that they are humourless.
My art form is very person-
al. It comes from the heart,
my heart, and as far as
humour is concerned I am
somewhat hidered by the
moral standards of The Oth-
er Press. Otherwise I could
put forth some excellent
material only found in the
best underground comix.

3) Torturing my work is one
thing, but torturing my phy-
sical appearance is a bad
move on anybodys part.
Your cheap shots are badly
taken and those were very
cheap shots. The person you
criticize could come off with
a few insults of his own, but
I wouldn’t stoop that low. As
far as I am concerned, Gary
Clarke, you do not make it
as a critic and if you want to
make it in the world of
criticism you should be more
constructive and less insult-
ing.

If you are so concerned’
about my personal appear-
ance then maybe you should
see me at the next produc-
tion night on the New West-
minster campus and you can
have a look at the person
you insulted. Maybe then we
can both have a good laugh
because I’m sure under your
exo-plasma shell you are
probably a nice person.

Ron Loveless
p.s. you'll recognize me, I'll
be the funny-looking one.

‘ course

ing those who want to kill
their baby, not those who
want to let him or her live.
The only choice is whether
or not to fall victim of their
propaganda.

And that’s what abortion
is, killing, usually because
the baby is inconvenient.
The Pro-Choicers say it is
not a personuntil it is born,
ice. the foetus is not a
person. Posh! A woman's
pregnancy is roughly nine
months, but some babies are
born prematurely, while
others may be born long
overdue. Birth was the stage
chosen by primitive people
as the beginning of life
because they didn’t under-
stand the human metabol-
ism. We know today it is not
a fixed time and doesn’t
represent a change in the
humanity of the individual.

In the case of the doctor
who, when he removed the
foetus during an abortion
and found it would nor die,
strangled it to death, was
that not yet a person? Of
course it was. It was living
and breathing on it’s own.
But the mother had found
it’s life. inconvenient.

Let’s face it, in today’s
world of low moral stand-
ards, women can and do get
pregnant easily, without re-
gard for the consequences,
and are now scared that

- their ultimate form of birth

control may be denied them.
Their rallies help to bolster
them, to give each other
confidence, to try to keep
themselves thinking they’re
right.

The Pro-Choice propagan-
da tries to lump all Pro-Life:
people into one group and
call them ‘‘religious zealots’’
and this, along with expell-
ing them from their rallies,
attempts to keep their audi-
ences from taking the Pro-
Life arguments seriously.
This is a cheap trick known
as ‘‘poisoning the well.’’

However, their biggest
lie, in my view, is that it is a
woman’s right to abortion.
Who has the right to mur-
der? Whereas a woman may
vie for the rights of sexual
promiscuity and freedom
from parenthood, these nev-
er supersede the right to life
of any human being. Of
there are a few
exceptions, but for the maj-
ority of abortions, which are
basically for convenience,
this holds true. ’

I find it sad that in a
society that has striven to
improve the health and liv-
ing conditions of the world,
which has saved and pro-
longed many, many lives,
which has enabled more
babies to be concieved yet
prevent the conception of too
many, and which had lower-
ed the infant mortality rate
drastically, there are now
factions trying to convince
us that it is morally right
and socially beneficial to put
it up again.

Nic’ »las Roberts

 

Benny McGraw: I don’t
know. I passed everything
but I think they should do
away with the finals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ian Macdonald: Let me
think for a minute. I prob-
ably gat an A there, a B
there, another B there and
another B. I probably got
an A and three B’s.

 

 

    
   

 

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Gary Bartley: Well, I have-
n’t done much yet, after all
the ski slopes only just
opened. But I got some new
skis and boots and when I
hit those moguls....Oh!!!
You mean in school. Maybe
we better stick to skiing.

 

 

 

 

 

Jeff Beamish: I’ve taken
Com 265 twice now so I
think I’m ready to become
copy boy for The Other
Press. That is if I can get
this lettuce out of my
mouth.

 

 

 

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