Pubdate: Sun, 29 Jul 2007
Source: Victoria Times-Colonist (CN BC)
Copyright: 2007 Times Colonist
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/481
Author: Donell McDonell

NEEDLE EXCHANGE CRITICS BEING CRUEL

I find it hard to understand how persons who live in comfortable, 
safe homes, leading comfortably safe lives, can find it so easy to 
condemn the needle exchange.

Our lives, in our custom renovated homes and luxury vehicles, have 
not been reduced to such awful choices, such terrible conditions, in 
which the difference between a miserable death from a preventable 
disease may simply be the gift of a clean needle. We're talking about 
life and death for these people. People who need us as much as we 
seem to not need them.

I've never been there, but God forgive the man who would kick his 
brother down one more notch into despair, when there is nowhere else 
to go, because he doesn't like how it looks against the backdrop of 
"civilized" Victoria's gardens and homes.

Rockland, where I live, seems an awfully comfortable place to pass 
judgment from, compared to the scrap of dirt behind the Janion Building.

Donell McDonell,

Victoria.
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