Pubdate: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 Source: Vancouver Courier (CN BC) Copyright: 2010 David Berner Contact: http://www.vancourier.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/474 Author: David Berner LETTER OF THE WEEK To the editor: Re: "12th and Cambie," Sept. 22. Mike Howell has written this week about Dean Wilson hanging out with the premier and lodging complaints to the Vancouver Police Board. Wilson is the spokesperson for VANDU, the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users. VANDU argues that it's an addict's right to be enslaved to drugs and to commit crimes and to live a limited life conscribed by misery, poverty and stupidity. Unfortunately, many people listen to this drivel. That includes the people at city hall, who only a few months ago awarded this group about $45,000 in tax money to conduct some spurious survey about how safe we all feel on the streets of the Downtown Eastside. The blind leading the wilfully blind. David Berner, executive director, Drug Prevention Network of Canada - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D