LETTER OF THE WEEK

To the editor:

Re: "12th and Cambie," Sept. 22.

Mike Howell has written this week about Dean Wilson hanging out with
the premier and lodging complaints to the Vancouver Police Board.

Wilson is the spokesperson for VANDU, the Vancouver Area Network of
Drug Users. VANDU argues that it's an addict's right to be enslaved to
drugs and to commit crimes and to live a limited life conscribed by
misery, poverty and stupidity. Unfortunately, many people listen to
this drivel.

That includes the people at city hall, who only a few months ago
awarded this group about $45,000 in tax money to conduct some spurious
survey about how safe we all feel on the streets of the Downtown Eastside.

The blind leading the wilfully blind.

David Berner, executive director,

Drug Prevention Network of Canada