Guest Editorial from V.
I'm sure you followed the story of Rebarman. This is the guy who killed a junkie by driving a rebar through his head down in the DTES. The junkie was flailing along the street cursing loudly over the bad outcome of a drug deal. Rebarman was a refugee wanted on drug charges in the USA and "known" to the Vancouver Police. Junkie threw Rebarman's girlfriend to the ground because she asked him to stop cursing in front of her toddlers. Rebarman went into an alley, grabbed some trash rebar and did his deed.
I found this this pastoral vignette to be a perfect encapsulation of the insanity of both our drug policy and refugee policy. Undoubtedly, Junkie would have turned his life around if provided with a free squat through Simple Sam's Silly City program. And Rebarman was undoubtedly a victim of oppression in his native Honduras.
And we pay for this dreck.
Reminds me of an old Yiddish saying from Czarist Russia, sardonically muttered at times of state oppression. "For these pleasures, we pay taxes."
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The underlying problem in both cases is that the powers at be have decided that the traditional values of our society are worthless and unimportant. In their minds it's more important to respect the "rights" [I use that term loosely] of minority groups than respect the rights of the majority to live in a peaceful, civil society where law & order are respected by all.
Anyone who wishes to do whatever they want (read "disrespect the law") have learned that they can get away with it by expressing 4 simple words: "I Am A Victim".
P.S. I've used "minority" generally. New refugees are minorities. So are drug addicts. And so are any special interest groups.
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