Pubdate: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 Source: Winnipeg Sun (CN MB) Copyright: 2009 Canoe Limited Partnership Contact: http://www.winnipegsun.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/503 Author: Rob Brown Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n163/a01.html Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor. RIGHTS TRAMPLED Re: 'Inmates conning us over drugs,' Point of View, Paul Rutherford. Feb. 11. I am shocked at how easily you would throw away our constitutional rights over an issue like prison inmates taking drugs. Each time we believe that some issue is more important than the Charter, we demonstrate how much we take our freedoms for granted. If the Charter can simply be ignored because it is "inconvenient", we will end up effectively with no Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It is unfortunate that people are willing to throw away the Charter because it effects someone else and not themselves. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is vastly more important than the issue of inmates taking drugs. Rob Brown Ottawa (Take it easy pal, we said challenge the Charter not get rid of it.) - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin