MAYOR HEARD, BUT NOT RIGHT

Dear Editor,

Langley City Mayor Peter Fassbender has indeed been very outspoken on
drugs and organized crime. Unfortunately, he has put all his energy
in being heard, and little into being right. Fassbender has gained
favour in Harper's Ottawa because he so willingly and skillfully
repeats the distortions required to maintain pressure for more prohibition.

Too bad he has no interest in understanding that more prohibition
cannot solve the problems that prohibition causes. It was seven years
ago that the Senate report denounced existing legislation imposed on
the Cannabis plant and culture.

Now it's being forced to consider worse legislation on drugs than
ever before, and neo-con ideologues are being flown in to spew more
baseless propaganda. This is not how rational government operates.
This is a farce. All science and history prove prohibition is corrupt
and counterproductive.

The people need to demand better from our politicians, or they in
turn will answer only to wealth.

Bruce Codere,

Fox Creek, Alberta