System favours addicts, felons

Dear Editor:

Why are addicts being treated better than seniors and veterans?

They have “wet” facilities where they can shoot up drugs they bought with money from stolen goods. They are supplied with needles they discard anywhere, thus becoming a health hazard for children and adults alike.

They’re supplied with naloxone kits, which are $20 to $40 each.

What’s next, a couple of 24s at an AA meeting?

I realize addiction is a serious disease, but despite all the education on drugs, these people are still choosing their path of destruction. They have created a huge burden on paramedics, the hospital system and the RCMP.

Why not jail the “pushers” and sentence them to “hard time?”

They should be charged with murder. Can’t do that though because the Charter of Rights protects them. Too bad the “Charter” doesn’t protect the people they killed.

The felons have more rights than the victims. The law has no teeth. In some other countries, the penalty is death.

Why can't our “learned” politicians put some teeth back in the judicial system?

Our leaders in Ottawa and Victoria need to show the leadership they were elected to do instead of wallowing in their self importance, toeing the party line and posing for photo ops.

The system is broken and needs to be fixed. We need compassion for the victims, not the felons. We need to get tough on the felons.

I feel sorry for the mentally challenged people on the street. They have been swept under the cracks. Another cost saver for the government. Sad.

I wonder what the free housing that is being supplied will look like, judging from the mess in the “tent cities?” We’ll probably never hear.

Lastly, I really feel sorry for the police who try to do their job, but see the felons they arrest, back on the street, only to be arrested again and again. A big revolving door.

More people need to speak up.