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
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