ADDICTED VICTIMS NEED PROTECTION

To the Editor,

Re: Homelessness as an industry, April 7.

The addicted victims need protection.

The new Red Zone has changed some things in the area - a lot less of
the unfortunates gather on the streets near Milton and Haliburton.
They have simply moved.

Homeless people will remain.

The RCMP's strategic plan targets large scale dealers. But this leaves
the same vultures free to target those people having trouble getting
rent money or other funds together.

Every third night, the same truck pulls up to the same house on Irwin
Street and for the next three or four days, people come and go, night
and day.

This same truck parks on the corners where street people gather and
they flock to him.

On the day that social services doles out the meager monthly pittance,
this man is there.

In short, the dealers and the crack house he supplies are allowed to
operate with impunity.

This individual deals his wares in the wee hours of the morning,
without interference.

How do the addicted homeless stand a chance when the outlaws seem to
be so well protected by society?

Homelessness is an industry indeed.

Hugh Baker,

Nanaimo