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Focus Our Policing On Real Security Issues
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1094/a01.htmlNewshawk: Tim Meehan
Pubdate: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 FOCUS OUR POLICING ON REAL SECURITY ISSUES
Source: Ottawa Citizen (CN ON)
Copyright: 2005 The Ottawa Citizen
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Section: B5
Author: Russell Barth
Note: Photo caption: The City of Montreal beefed up security in its
subway
system in the aftermath of the London terrorist attacks. Letter writer
Russell Barth says Canada could strengthen national security by
reassigning all police on marijuana grow-ops to security details.
Re: Canada is the only country left on Osama's list, July 8
In the wake of the London attacks, Anne McLellan, deputy prime minister and
minister of public security and emergency preparedness, said that Canada did not
appear to be under any specific threat, but security forces were on
"heightened alert."
I hope that will mean that we have finally taken all the RCMP officers who are
on marijuana grow-op duty and placed them at the borders, airports, and subways
where they belong. By not legalizing cannabis, our government is knowingly
subsidizing a multi-billion dollar international black market. I am sure
that criminals, even terrorists, are happy about police being pre-occupied with
this activity.
How could joining George W. Bush in his insane plan for a continential
missle defense shield possibly help protect us from bombs in subways and buses?
When was the last time a terrorist ever used an inter-continential missle?
I predict that governments around the world, including Canada, will use this
attack as a reason to suspend even more civil rights and civil liberties.
Is this Orwellian nightmare the "freedom" that we are supposed to be
exporting to the Middle East?
Russell Barth
Ottawa
