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