Pubdate: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 Source: Windsor Star (CN ON) Copyright: 2008 The Windsor Star Contact: http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/letters.html Website: http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/501 Author: J.R. Loewenberg LOCK 'EM UP MENTALITY DOESN'T BENEFIT SOCIETY Apparently watching the U.S. lurch toward fascism has given our glorious leaders some great old ideas of social control. "Behind the gangs and guns you have drugs,"said Coun. Ron Jones. And behind all this you have drug laws which criminalize personal use and addiction, thus delivering the drug market, which is mainstream in every modern democracy whether you like it or not, into the hands of organized crime by default. Are Canadians really stupid enough to keep falling for the "lock 'em all up" mentality of the police who obviously have a vested interest in criminalizing all behaviour? The police don't know how to fix social problems any more than the garbage collector knows how to fix the environment. How about if we grow a brain instead and try something other than the same old rhetoric, posturing and inept social engineering from the regressive dolts in government? J.R. Loewenberg Windsor - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom