FOCUS OUR POLICING ON REAL SECURITY ISSUES

Re: Canada is the only country left on Osama's list, July 8

In the wake of the London attacks, Anne McLellan, deputy prime
minister and minister of public security and emergency preparedness,
said that Canada did not appear to be under any specific threat, but
security forces were on "heightened alert."

I hope that will mean that we have finally taken all the RCMP officers
who are on marijuana grow-op duty and placed them at the borders,
airports, and subways where they belong. By not legalizing cannabis,
our government is knowingly subsidizing a multi-billion dollar
international black market. I am sure that criminals, even
terrorists, are happy about police being pre-occupied with this activity.

How could joining George W. Bush in his insane plan for a continential
missle defense shield possibly help protect us from bombs in subways
and buses? When was the last time a terrorist ever used an
inter-continential missle?

I predict that governments around the world, including Canada, will
use this attack as a reason to suspend even more civil rights and
civil liberties. Is this Orwellian nightmare the "freedom" that we
are supposed to be exporting to the Middle East?

Russell Barth

Ottawa