Pubdate: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 Source: Aurora, The (CN NF) Pubdate: December 22, 2003 Contact: P.O. Box 423, Labrador City, Labrador A2V 2K7 Fax: (709) 944-2958 Website: http://aurora.optipresspublishing.com/ Author: Michelle Murphy THE HIDDEN TRASH It's seems everyone is catching on to ways and measures available out there to protect the environment. More and more people are recycling and becoming self-conscious of things that litter and/or damage their milieu. The latest approach is a private company taking on a new initiative of providing garbage containers to residents in Labrador West. If enough people opt to buy into the new idea, no doubt it will add to the cleanliness of this area. The towns of Labrador City and Wabush are, without a doubt, close to pristine in appearance, which is indicative of the great efforts of both towns. People are cognizant these days and simply just don't tolerate trash. They don't like to see it and they don' t like to smell it. But there is a form of garbage and scum dirtying up the towns that will require a lot more work and creativity to fumigate. The most dangerous form of trash is drug dealers and pushers lurking in the area. The foul air this type of trash creates, reeks far worse than the contents of a month-old bag of garbage. When students can readily buy marijuana and - even scarier - cocaine at their high school, it's a sad and frightening reality for every decent citizen of this area. Those cowards have kids peddling their wares in schools and on the street while they sit comfortably in their overpriced easy chairs. The marketing pitch is an unspoken concept.it is much cooler to snort white stuff up your nose than ace a math test. The RNC has made a number of arrests associated with cocaine and marijuana trafficking this fall, so this problem isn't a figment of anyone's imagination. This a big red flag to what's lurking in the streets and schoolyards of Labrador West. The police are cracking down and are making differences in the supply coming into the area, but it's far from eliminated. Those who reap the benefits of stinking livelihood haven't got the intelligence or foresight to see the cruel and unjust havoc they are inflicting on the most susceptible and precious of society. The top-of-line furniture, houses, electronics, automobiles and any luxurious adult toys those conscienceless parasites are enjoying have a cost to the community. The price falls on the shoulders of many kids whose lives are screwed up and the heartbreak of the parents. The drug suppliers run in the same vein as the abhorrent pedophiles who molest children and destroy. How many children's futures are shot because of problems with addictions before they are even old enough to take a drink? How many futures are raped by these ruthless self-serving vermin? Parents and educators are up against enough obstacles raising and educating children, without this human scum infecting and polluting young lives. Those living high on the hog from the dirty revenues can easily send their kids off to the best colleges and stick their chests out in public as they take the free ride. Those dealers have no desire to see the horrors they spew on lives, nor do they view the addict on the streets or the inmates in prisons as products of their wrongdoings. Any rubbish is unhealthy, but this form of human trash is the worst, as it breeds violence, addictions, robs futures and destroys some of the best and brightest young minds. Just because the opportunity is there to leech off the most vulnerable, it doesn't give them the right. Those dealers are the trash that needs to be taken out of town and dumped like the rest of the garbage found on the curbs collection day. - --- MAP posted-by: Derek