TIME TO END PROHIBITION

THE EDITOR:

The Abbotsford police are operating with antique police
techniques.

Prior to 1880 the western provincial police forces took their guidance
from the RCMP. The RCMP policed a wild frontier and were not expressly
police, they were also styled military.

Their criminals had no charter of rights and they "always got their
man."

I expect Abbotsford police chief Ian Mackenize to understand the
difference between modern, Charter-friendly policing and the
paramilitary techniques he insists on using.

It is not that the courts are too soft on criminals, it is that the
judges see what crimes with real victims are on a daily basis.

They are sending an uncoded message back to the police that marijuana
is a victimless crime.

There are more serious crimes to deal with than to waste the court's
time with sanctuary crimes where there are no victims.

Abbotsford mayor Mary Reeves, Mackenize and Alliance MP Randy White
[Abbotsford-Langley] refuse to have an intelligent discussion about
the problems of prohibition.

Increased crime is a symptom of prohibition, just as a runny nose is a
symptom of a cold.

If the people of Abbotsford want to cut the crime rate by 70 per cent
and cut the police force by $6 million a year, then they, along with
Reeves and Mackenzie, should renounce prohibition of marijuana.

Prohibition is a cancer on society that causes it to be more violent
and less moral.

Prohibition sucks the economic life out of the poorest members of
society and leaves an inheritance of poverty to all its victims.

We can not solve the problems of the world without money. All levels
of government are strained for money .

Why then are we wasting $1 billion a day and causing 5,000 human
deaths each day to support the CIA's international
prohibition?

White refuses to admit the CIA is involved in international drug
dealings.

I invite all people to check out my website at
www.britishcolumbiacannabis.com and watch the videos and see for themselves.

Tim Felger

Abbotsford