Dear Editor: Re: New West unites to stand against hate, Aug. 17.
It is not against the law to be a racist. There is no provision in the Criminal Code of Canada that says being a racist is illegal. Hate speech is against the law; unruly protests are against the law. There are babies born every minute of the day; some of those babies are going to grow up to be fine, respectable people, while others are going to be just the opposite.
That human relationship has and will always exist. You have two groups meeting within the boundaries of free speech and as long as there is no violence, both groups are within the confines of the law to protest. The violence is against the law, not the racism. You have Americans against Americans and Canadians against Canadians; you have humans against humans, and that has always been. I will neither confirm nor deny whether I am a racist or not but if I am, I am operating within the confines of the law.
Mike Husdon, New Westminster
