ROBERT McINNES: ‘Stephen Harper wants to double our prison population for nothing!’

CANADA DAY JOY MARRED BY WORRIES

My joy in celebrating Canada Day was marred by thinking about where the federal government is taking us.

Many of its paths are those the Americans are trying and failing.  

The war on drugs is U. S. alcohol Prohibition of the 1920s and 1930s revisited, complete with gangs providing what people want.

Stephen Harper wants to double our prison population for nothing!

The “war on terror” sent our brave lads to a failed mission.

The U. S. invented the Taliban, arming them to drive out the Russians, and today they are stronger than ever.

There might be no simple answers to either drug use or the problems of Afghanistan and Pakistan, but relentlessly pursuing the same old failed policies is a form of insanity!

Robert McInnes

Victoria

 

[CCC reprint: Victoria Times Colonist, Friday, July 3, 2009, page A11]

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