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=F CR ic EB IS: Editorial 6 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, July 12 1988 Comments Most decent law-abiding Canadian citizens recog- nize that political protest is a legitimate exercise in any country that calls itself a democracy, up to a point. That gong show on the streets of downtown Toronto last week was anything but a legitimate exercise of dem- ocratic rights. Many of those involved in the violence were just plain street punks with nothing better to do. But police have determined that the core of the 300 or so"demonstrators" in front of the American consulate were hard core anar- chists for whom violence is not just a passing fancy., but a means to an end. And they end they have in mind is a complete up-heaval of the socio-political system that we have in this country and other western democracies. The anarchists just happened to be in Toronto that week attending a "convention." They must have tired of sitting around debating ways to bring down the existing order of things in Canada and decided to put their theo- ries into practise by burning Canadian flags, shouting obscenities and assaulting police officers who were bad- ly out-numbered. Their convetion, by the way, was held in a community facility in dowtown Toronto, which is owned by the City, and receives some $400,000 yearly from the tax=-payers of Toronto to remain open. Not surprisingly, some City politicians and officials want to know how a violent group got permission to use these facilities, paid for by the tax-payers of Toronto. Police arrested about 30 of these rowdies who took part in the "demonstration." What is a little shocking is that half of them aren't even Canadians. One was from West Germany and 14 are Americans. Not only do we have to tolerate the mindless violence from those who are fortunate enough to be citizens of this country, we have to put up with the same nonsense from non-citizens. The Deputy Chief of the Toronto police force de- scribed this particular "demonstration" last week as the most violent he ever witnessed. And he was around back in the 60's when anti-American, anti- Viet Nam street demonstrations were a common occurrence. Obviously, this most recent violent demonstration was triggered by shall we say "professional trouble-makers," people who know that they are doing when it comes to creating havoc in the usually peaceful streets of down- town Toronto. So how did these People gain access to Canada? Who let them in and why? Surely, the authorieis must have some kind of list of known trouble-makers with a penchant for violence? What did they say at the border or the customs office? "Excuse me, officer. I'm just visiting Canada to attend an anarchists convention in Toronto, and while I'm there | think I'll get a riot going on the streets." What they did while here was a crime and an affront to all decent Canadians. It's also a crime that they man- aged to get into this country in the first place. -- hs rr -.. WELL, ANYWAY, WHILE | HAVE you ON THE LINE ... TH14 /9 JHE OVERDUE ACCOUNTS MANAGER. _ _ AND / sec..." (+ CNA (a 1 Port Perry 235 QUEEN STREET - PORT PERRY, ONTARIO Phone 985-7383 P.0.Box90 LOB 1NO J. PETER HVIDSTEN Publisher Advertising Manager 0 @) 3 0 Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Community Newspaper Association. Published every Tuesday by the Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. J.B. McCLELLAND Editor Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for cash CATHY OLLIFFE payment of postage in cash. News & Features Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 ... (ENA » Subscription Rate: In Canada $20.00 per yéar. Ww Elsewhere $60.00 per year. Single Copy 50° 1\ » Altay a3s0ChT © COPYRIGHT -- All layout and composition of advertisements produced by the adver- tising department of the Port Perry Star Company Limited are protected under copyright and may not be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher. Chatterbox by Cathy Olliffe WE'LL MISS YA, JERRY Hooray for Jerry Taylor, he's been a super Mayor, he's friendly and he's generous, and with folks he's really fair. He's listened to complainers for hours at a time, and never once did Jerry let his temper cross the line. His handsome face would redden his hair's turned silver white but Jerry's voice was never raised and he always did what's right. He's probably got ulcers-- who wouldn't in that job? With people always bugging him His time they'd surely rob. They wanted him to sever land they wanted sideroads fixed, they wanted fairgrounds, libraries, schools their demands were truly mixed. They called all day and then all night, and stopped him on the street, "We don't want group homes, prisons or umps, ski slopes, pig farms, subdivisions elite. We don't want it in our backyard, so make it go away! We pay our taxes and we demand, you do just what we say!" His handsome face would tighten, but a smile came just the same, You see, Jerry is an expert at the public relations game. No matter what the problem he'd listen and decide what is best for everyone and put the worst aside. I've watched him with admiration, in the last five years or so. And I'm really gonna miss him, I'm not afraid to tell him, though I'm supposed to be unbiased (that's a reporter's way) but | think he is the best my opinion will not sway. Over the years, I've bugged him with requests both big and small, and he's always helped me out with stories one and all. No matter how busy he was he'd always retugn my call and answer stupid questions (1 have a lot of gall). One time | had to take his picture of a ribbon-cutting in Blackstock. But instead of being there on time, I went and got my boss's van stuck. While waiting for a tow truck | called to say I'd be late (I was already late an hour and the ribbon-cutters couldn't wait). So Jerry came to my rescue, picked me up in his car where | sat red-faced for the entire trip thank goodness it wasn't far. | apologized profusely, embarrassed to the core, but Jerry shrugged the whole thing off, - and never said anything more. Of course Jerry's embarrassed sometimes like at the roast the other night, or at the Scugog Monopoly tourney, where he certainly had a fight against other greedy players who wanted to beat the Mayor. That would be a feather in their caps, so they didn't play too fair. But back to ribbon-cuttings at that, me and Jerr are experts. We set 'em up and shoot 'em In the sun, or rain or dirt. I've really come to like this man I respect him through and through and when his term as Mayor is over | don't know what I'll do. It'll be tough talking to a stranger, and learning a new name. I'll miss Scugog's longtime Mayor and-1 know others feel the same. Your friendly, generous nature ~ is an inspiration to us all.