LETTER OF THE DAY

I trolled through your April 24 editorial ("Tumor growing") in search of
intelligent life, but, sadly, came up empty.

Mindless promises from federal Solicitor General Andy Scott to cut the
"bikers to their knees," exhortations to "devise a battle plan to rid
Canada of these violent criminal organizations" and statements such as
"like fighting cancer, the battle will be costly and painful and it will be
worthwhile" will accomplish nothing.

IT'S DRUG PROHIBITION, STUPID!

Just as the prohibition of alcohol killed users, nurtured organized crime
and created murder and mayhem on the streets some 80 years ago in the U.S.,
so now, America's drug war, brought to Canada, has spawned the violence
anew. End the prohibition and end the power of the biker gangs.

Truly, the post of Canada's solicitor general re-mains empty, even though
Andy Scott occupies it.

No doubt Andy's VCR has been flashing 12 midnight since the day he bought it.

Alan Randell

(Legalizing drugs would kill more people and cause more crime.)

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