Deluding themselves

Gary Meyerhoff (Northern Territory News October 8, "Unpragmatic drug laws") seems to think that the law should not be enforced if someone strongly objects to them as he, Luke Masters and others did by objecting to NT drug house laws.

Such a society would be completely unworkable. Laws are enforced by the authorities for order.

Anything else would be as unreasonable as his explanation of the rise in Hepatitis C figures.

Under more than 17 years of harm minimisation drug policies, its supporters have talked up the benefits such as reducing Hep C and other blood-borne viral infections, despite drug use, crime, etc all rising over time.

When a report exposes their delusions they don't like it and blame zero tolerance, but harm minimisation is weakened by constant campaigns to see drug use as normal.

In a democracy he is free to seek election to parliament to debate those laws, not to protest them by breaking them.

Michael D. Robinson
executive director
Drug Free Australia LTD

Newshawk: Gary Meyerhoff
Pubdate: Friday 10th October 2003
Source: Northern Territory News
URL: http://www.ntnews.com.au
Email: ntnmail@ntn.newsltd.com.au
Author: Michael D. Robinson