GET TOUGH ON DRUG DEALERS

THE EDITOR:

What is wrong with this picture?

Anyone caught speeding in a motor vehicle is served a fine immediately. Get
caught not wearing a seat-belt and another $100-plus fine is thrown your
way. The avid fisherman who gets caught taking home one fish over the limit
sees the swiftest of action with his vehicle being impounded and fines
without delay.

Yet, any theft, vandalism, drug dealings or marijuana growing creates no
immediate fines of any kind. The eventual justice, if any, is mighty slow
in coming. It seems intruders can pretty well do anything their heart
desires but, oh, the victims better not rebel or they might find themselves
behind bars in no time flat.

How is it possible that the despicable actions that threaten and destroy so
much in life, is toyed about with in such lenient and disgusting manner?

I am told how on "Welfare Wednesday," a slow drug trading business will
burst into action like never before.

As I start thinking about all these things it came to me how in many cases
the tax-paying public is actually paying for far too many able-bodied
welfare recipients to continue terrorizing our lives in devious ways.

Nonetheless, there is a way to curb this utter nonsense. Concerned citizens
need to take action:

Set up a "Neighbourhood Drug Dealing Watch Program," relentlessly take all
concerns to the police; and demand the police take their concerns to the
courts and make sure that they, in turn, do take their concerns to the
federal government by asking them to free up a large jail that is to be
used for drug dealers and their cohorts.

Let's face it, the system today is nothing but a screwed up affair where
many employees feed at the trough of plenty like there is no tomorrow.

What bothers me to no end is the fact that the present justice system
babies and protects the rights of criminals 100 per cent of the time. Yet,
are the rights of law-abiding citizens, wanting to live in a safe and
peaceful environment not equally important?

One can not blame the courts only for all of their leniencies toward
criminals. The harsh fact is that judges are told not to put too many in
jail because jails are full.

The question that remains is how to turn around the present mal-functioning
judicial system.

By looking truth square in the face, I am very much afraid that vigilante
justice is just around the corner as more and more citizens start taking
matters in their own hands.

And who can blame them?

Gertie Pool,

Abbotsford