Pubdate: Wed, 06 May 2009 Source: Regina Leader-Post (CN SN) Copyright: 2009 The Leader-Post Ltd. Contact: http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/letters.html Website: http://www.canada.com/regina/leaderpost/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/361 Author: Dave Wilson JUSTICE MISSES BIG PICTURE Recently, I read in the Leader-Post of the teenaged Edmonton girl who lost her life due to an overdose of the illegal drug ecstasy. The article also stated this drug, and others, are readily available wherever teenagers hang out. More recently, I read it is taking seven Saskatchewan Court of Appeal justices to determine if an RCMP officer overstepped his authority when his intuition resulted in the arrest of a traveler whose car was loaded with 5,000 ecstasy pills and eight kilograms of marijuana. What a waste of time and effort! The officer did his job and removed from circulation drugs that have the ability to kill our teenagers and make fortunes for the criminals who distribute them. Our justice system apparently cannot figure out who the bad guy is. My hope is that those defenders of our freedoms -- the lawyers whose skill, cunning and knowledge of our justice system allow criminals to carry on their trade, the lawmakers who rush to draft laws that fail to punish wrongdoers and the judges who fail to see the big picture - -- will someday be victims of the flawed justice system that they all have had a hand in designing and perpetuating. Dave Wilson Regina - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom