DOWNTOWN "CODE OF CONDUCT" WOULD HAVE SERVED THE NAZIS WELL

The "code of conduct" proposed by the Greater Victoria Chamber of
Commerce looks like it would have served the Nazis well in 1930s
Germany; everybody is an agent of the state in some noble cause.
Turning Canada into a police state to deal with political criminals
and drug prohibition is morally bankrupt.

Racism blinded by moral righteousness is what the drug war is all
about. In fact, the ability to do work is what started the racially
prejudiced drug war.

It was observed that opium-smoking Chinese people could outwork the
whiskey-drinking, hungover, white union members when the Chinese did
the backbreaking work of building this nation's railways.

When the railway was built, many of the Chinese workers gathered in
Vancouver. They were competing for jobs and starting their own businesses.

Canada's first drug law, the Opium Narcotic Act of 1908, was used to
deport over 30,000 Chinese.

The working habits of the coca leaf chewers of South America are
legendary, too. None of that sat well with the Christian crowd that
used alcohol for religious rituals and societal ceremonies.

Problems of economic productivity - crucial for the prosperity and
very survival of every society - has nothing to do with drugs and
everything to do with family stability, cultural values, education and
social policies.

The drug war is immoral because it debases those family values.
Parents being encouraged to betray their children to the police in the
'70s evolved into children betraying their parents to the police in
the '90s.

Today, the immorality of betraying strangers is encouraged by
"community leaders" in the name of achieving a "safe" community.
Temperance, prudence, justice and fortitude are the four Cardinal
Virtues of St. Thomas Aquinas. Neither the drug war nor a single one
of the Chamber of Commerce's recommendations live up to that ancient
code.

Vainglory is the first of the seven deadly sins. Wanting your way so
badly that you would willingly harm another person to get it is
vainglory defined.

It is the sinful state that the chamber clamours for and it is the
sinful state they will get - if no one in Victoria has the courage to
stand up for liberty.

In Genesis 1:29, the Creator bestows the plants of planet Earth not to
medicine, and certainly not to the state, but to you - the individual.

Canadians ought to restore our natural right to drugs - all of
them.