Pubdate: Thu, 14 Sep 2006
Source: Burnaby Newsleader (CN BC)
Copyright: 2006 Burnaby Newsleader
Contact:  http://www.burnabynewsleader.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1315
Author: Thomas Toye, Paisley, Scotland

BRITISH COLUMBIA MUST NOT ENCOURAGE JUNKIES

Re: Bums Prefer Ocean Views (B.C. Views, Sept. 7)

I have just returned from a two-week holiday visiting my family, most 
of whom immigrated to B.C. around 50 years ago.

I congratulate you on your article, which I read on the Internet. 
Here in Scotland we have the same problems with the so-called 
"homeless drug addicts" and we also have the same bleeding heart 
politicians and social workers with their schemes, projects and 
solutions to the problems of crime, illegal squatting on private 
property and vandalism caused by these people.

Throwing public money at them, giving them sympathy, free needles and 
places to inject, etc. it's all futile. I know -- I'm a civil servant 
in the Department of Work and Pensions, and the word "work" is simply 
not in their vocabulary. We have them here too: people who would 
rather commit suicide rather than do one day's honest hard work in 
their natural lives.

And why should they? When our government and its agencies give them 
welfare, so-called community care grants and everything they need to 
lead a comfortable life and all at the taxpayers' expense?

We live in crazy times, and with increasingly crazy liberal 
governments not only tolerating these parasites in our midst but 
encouraging them, things will never change.

Your article was accurate, not only describing the junkie issue in 
Canada, but throughout the Western world.

Thomas Toye

Paisley, Scotland
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MAP posted-by: Elaine