With guns blazing

As another weekend moved towards it's conclusion,dark forces were at work in the Okanagan town of Kelowna,BC.By days end,Jonathan Bacon,late of the Red Scorpions drug gang was dead and a full patch Hell's Angel named Larry Amato and an associate from the Independent Soldiers street crew were wounded.Amato is still in critical condition,fighting for his life.A niece of another Angel,a club president,was also wounded.This was just the first shoe dropping in what could be the start of another bloodbath like the one we just experienced in 2009.Word on the street(and the interweb)says the smart money is on the UN gang to have instigated this hit.That is the same UN gang that was put to rest by reporter Kim Bolan,in a documentary on the subject just this year.With their leader in prison and another member as the subject of said documentary it was easy to see how such a conclusion could have been reached.This shooting says that the demise of said gang was greatly exaggerated and totally incorrect.There are several members in prison,but this was a huge gang and able to rebuild.That one member,a former crack addict was out, meant nothing.As long as the prohibition of drugs is pursued by politicians with no idea who or what they are dealing with.There is no end in sight to the escalating violence that it takes to run a drug cartel or gang in this day and age.There is just too much easy money to be made and far too many people with little or no prospect of any kind of decent paying job with which to support their families.Drugs are the one thing that gets a lot of people through their otherwise unbearable day.Such it is,was and always will be.The current prohibition has only thrown gasoline on the fires that are the addiction to drugs and the use of other drugs by people.With an addiction to opiate drugs at 1-1&1/2% of the population,the traditional number throughout history,it has done nothing positive and had a lot of very negative things.The gang wars here are just a small example of the results that can be found throughout the world.40,000 have died in Mexico to date with no end in site in spite of protests by Mexico's people to end the violence.It's not just the gangs and cartels that make this situation so terrible.Law enforcement has been placed in the position of having to be the face of the war on drugs.They have been not only corrupted by the money and the use of criminal informants.They have had to take to hiding under balaclavas and carrying heavy weapons.They break into peoples homes and destroy their property or else seize it and forfeit it to the courts.This causes police to act in a manner that is non condusive to the proper restraint they used to show when doing their jobs.Many take it personally and lose sight of their impartiality.The current group in Ottawa never had any impartiality and have used their bully pulpit to further people's confusion over the issue by attacking harm reduction measures as a form of surrender.True war time jargon.Although we sit on the border of the most anti drug government on the face of the planet.That doesn't mean we have to repeat the horrible mistakes that have caused the US to have the largest prison population,by population on the planet.