RESIDENTS CAN BE PART OF THE DRUG SOLUTION

Editor:

Re: "Mounties crack down on drugs," Page A1, Tribune, April 26.

Love the attitude. Crack down on drug dealers and crack down hard.

These people have no concern for anyone or anything other than
supplying their own pathetic drug habits and making a profit off the
anguish, illness and death of others. Lock them up and throw away the key.

There is no doubt that the drug community in Williams Lake is a
leading contributor to the string of robberies and break-ins at local
business establishments. Not to mention the cost to the community
health system.

If the judicial system gives the drug dealers short sentences and
they go back to business as usual upon release, become their worst
nightmare and arrest them again. If the court system kicks them loose
a third time, arrest them again and again and again. Shut them down.
Say bye bye.

As residents, we can all become part of the solution. Quit speeding
down the highway. Quit drinking and driving. Keep your vehicle in
good repair. Wear your seat belt. Go to marital counseling instead of
beating up your wife.

Free up our RCMP so that they can spend the time they need to put and
keep these social predators behind bars.

This is our community and we are all partially responsible for what
happens in it. We all need to be the best citizens we can be.

And we can all contribute in many ways to the problems we have.

Debra Powers-Barron

Williams Lake