CRIME PERPETUATED

Editor, The Journal

So now Mike Harcourt, egged on by Hubert Beyer, says we must get tough
on organized crime.

Are there more steadfast, more helpful friends of the police, the
politicians and the media than organized crime? I don't think so. If
there were no criminal gangs, how would the police be able to justify
their huge budgets, how would politicians promise the slay the dragon
of organized crime and what would newspapers like yourself find to
write bout? In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if organized crime were a
cooperative make-work project of the federal government, cops and
newspaper publishers.

If drugs and prostitution were legal, which they should be if the
Charter means anything at all, the Hells Angels and their ilk would
disappear, but, of course, that will never happen because the police,
the politicians and the media all have a vested interest in the
continuing enforcement of these ridiculous laws.

Alan Randell

Victoria