DRUG LAB BUST SHOWS SOCIETY NOT FREE

Re 'Several charged in methamphetamine probe, News, June 5.

In a free society, the criminal law is used solely to punish those
who inflict harm upon others, for example, those with a complaining
victim or, in the case of where the victim is incapacitated, a
complaining family.

In a free society, those who engage in an activity that does not
directly and physically harm another are not regarded as criminals.

By "harm" I exclude actions that make others angry, unhappy or upset,
else we would imprison all divorcing parents as well as all children
who didn't do their homework.

In a free society, therefore, drugs and prostitution would be legal.

Clearly, our society remains entangled in government-forged chains.

Alan Randell

from Victoria, B.C., via e-mail