'VICTIMLESS' CRIME Re the Feb. 12 story Florida drug law at center of case: Richard Paey's case is a perfect example of a "crime" committed in the name of a fraudulent drug war. Paey has not done the slightest injury to anyone, yet prosecutors think that it serves justice to send him to prison for 25 years. Throwing a person in prison for a "victimless crime" cannot be justified by anyone who professes a belief in the Bible. Paey, who bought painkillers, did not murder or maim anyone, yet prosecutor Scott Andringa thinks that it's right to send to prison for 25 years a wheelchair-bound man suffering extreme chronic pain who was trying to ease his agony. The prosecution can show no injury whatsoever to justify that sentence, but insists that an immoral law must prevail. REDFORD GIVENS San Francisco
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