TOUGHER PENALTIES NEEDED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKERS

In light of the four Mounties murdered and the unsolved murders of high-risk
women in Edmonton I am in favour of much harsher penalties for drug
trafficking, especially since drug traffickers contribute to so many deaths.
The existing penalties are not severe enough and are not a deterrant to the
greediest of traffickers. Traffickers have no conscience, they know what
happens to the people who buy from them.

As for the women who are forced onto the streets to sell their bodies to buy
their next fix, how about charging the trafficker with contributing to child
prostitution, especially since most of these women became addicts as minors?

How many more women have to die at the hands of sexual predators/murderers
because of greedy drug traffickers? Like it or not, traffickers contributed
to the deaths of these "high-risk" women, most of whom were only children
when they became addicts.

Something more serious has to be done to make Edmonton and Canada safer from
drug traffickers and sexual predators some of whom have resorted to murder
to hide their sick deeds.

The Canadian justice system is nothing more than an illusion. We should be
more like Americans, you know, "zero tolerance." Canadian "justice" is not
justice, it is a "licence to kill." Let us take up the American flag.

Donna Campbell, Edmonton