DON'T ENCOURAGE JUNKIES

Re: "B.C. Views" column, Sept. 6

I just returned from a two-week holiday visiting my family, most of
whom emigrated to B.C. around 50 years ago.

Here in Scotland we have the same problems with the so-called
"homeless drug addicts" and we also have the same bleeding heart
politicians and social workers with their schemes, projects and
solutions to the problems of crime, illegal squatting on private
property and vandalism caused by these people.

Throwing public money at them, giving them sympathy, free needles and
places to inject is all futile. I know - I'm a civil servant in the
Department of Work and Pensions, and the word "work" is simply not in
their vocabulary. They would do anything to avoid a day's honest hard
work.

With increasingly crazy liberal governments tolerating and encouraging
these parasites, things will never change.

Thomas Toye,

Paisley, Scotland