Pubdate: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 Source: Chilliwack Times (CN BC) Copyright: 2010 Chilliwack Times Contact: http://www.chilliwacktimes.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1357 Author: Solms Coutinho TOUGHER STANCE IS NEEDED HERE Editor: The Times once again raised the sad spectre of the drug and sex trade. Community resource societies, various forums and panels will give presentations and people who have had to deal with these sad specimens of the human race will be in attendance. But if truth be known, in the final analyses, very little will have changed. What is sadly missing is the kind of vacuum which will syphon off this human scum. The closest I have ever come to a virtual drug and crime-free society is Singapore. I served there militarily as well as a police officer. Anyone dealing in drugs or any other vile form of human behaviour were on a very short leash and paid a harsh penalty. Unfortunately, western society is at the other end of the spectrum, backed by a legion of lawyers who have to make a living. As Mark Twain put it so succinctly, the very name "lawyer" is enough to make good men disbelieve in justice. But hope remains and just perhaps we will finally get a government that will take some pointers from Singapore, return the death penalty, turn the prisons over to the military, and give us the same second amendment as written for the U.S. Solms Coutinho Chilliwack - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom