Pubdate: Thu, 04 Aug 2005
Source: Nanaimo News Bulletin (CN BC)
Copyright: 2005, BC Newspaper Group
Contact:  http://www.nanaimobulletin.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/948
Author: Alan Randell
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LEGALIZING ILLICIT DRUGS WILL WIPE OUT CRIME

To the Editor,

Re: Hells Angels arrests keep cops on alert (July 28).

Are there more steadfast, more helpful friends of the police, the 
politicians and the media than organized crime?

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 about?

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if organized crime were a co-operative 
make-work project of the federal government, cops and newspaper publishers.

If drugs and prostitution were legal, which they should be, the Hells 
Angels and their ilk would disappear.

Alan Randell, via e-mail 
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