Drug kits a bad idea

As the state and city government continues to relentlessly expand its doomed, dangerous and increasingly expensive attempts to “protect” us from ourselves, it is rendering such character traits as personal responsibility, individual courage and what used to be called “common sense” as no longer necessary or particularly valued in our Great Society, all the while continuing to erode our freedom, to empty our pocketbooks and eliminate the possibility of choice — especially in regards to how our hardearned tax dollars are spent.

Have any of these well-intentioned city officials, “public health officials,” and “legal experts” so intent on providing New Haven’s drug addicts with nice, clean crack pipes, syringes and tourniquets, ever heard of the word “enabling”? My God, what’s next? Why not supply them with clean drugs, as well? Isn’t this really where we are headed? After all, a drugged, dependent, uneducated and irresponsible populace is so much easier to manipulate and control. Shame on all of these public “guardians” for their stupidity, their duplicity, or their misguided arrogance in foolishly believing that their so-called “kits” are anything more than a ridiculous Band-Aid that is being applied to what very well may be the greatest threat that faces our society.

I say this as the child, grandchild, nephew, cousin, brother and friend of a host of alcoholics and drug addicts. Preventing someone from “hitting bottom,” providing them with one safety net after another, and enabling them to keep taking drugs safely and inexpensively is not the answer. You numskulls need to wake up, maybe by attending a few 12-step meetings! Well-intentioned or not, the nanny state, in all its ineptness, arrogance and futility, has a stranglehold on New Haven in particular and Connecticut in general. Until that stranglehold is broken and we start electing people with a little common sense, I’m afraid we are in for more and more of this idiocy and waste. As I said earlier, wake up.

Gary J. Carlson West Haven