Loonywatch
Chcek this out:
Perhaps now, as a serial killer picks off a few more women from their drugs-fuelled trade, we could at last have the debate Miss Widdecombe tried to launch six years ago. Mr Duncan Smith, in his report, talks of the need for better rehabilitative treatment. I am sure that is right. However, to intervene dramatically before the stage for rehabilitation is reached might be even more effective.
Drugs use is against the law because of its appalling social consequences. The law should be enforced in an exemplary way. If that means nice middle-class people – possibly like some of those in the shadow cabinet – going to jail, so much the better. It was scandalous, but typical, that Kate Moss was not punished for her recent promiscuous cocaine use, because it indicated that the trade is acceptable too, with heaven knows what results for those who idolise her. If drugs use is made more difficult, there will be fewer pushers. If there are fewer pushers then life will become harder for those further up the food chain.
Punishing drugs users would also be likely to give the police more information about their suppliers. The prisons cannot be too full for such people, who are the most destructive in society. Can we not see this blindingly obvious truth? Of course, even if drugs use were eliminated, there would still be tarts, and there would still be people who kill tarts. There would probably, though, be gratifyingly fewer of both.
And people pay Heffer to write this kind of rubbish? The man is so completly divorced from reality as to make you think this is some kind of caricature run by the Onion or something. I used to enjoy reading Heffer, he took no shit and insulted everyone who disagreed with him, but his politics are utterly odious. I bet he has no mates.
As for the Telegraph, I used to enjoy reading that as well, but since Mark Steyn left it doesn't even have any Lefty-baiting Court Jesters left. Heffer is a poor substitute as well as looking like a pig-in-a-wig.
-posted by Adam
