Source: Evening
News, Norwich
Pub Date:
Monday, 29 September 2003
Pub LTE: A plea for more tolerance for all
Author: Antonia
Blaxland
Contact:
EveningNewsLetters@archant.co.uk
Cited: Legalise
Cannabis Alliance, http://www.lca-uk.org/
Ref; http://www.ccguide.org.uk/en020903.php
A plea for more
tolerance for all
May I commend
the Evening News for its broad and fair coverage of opinions expressed by people
in our community on important and controversial issues.
I speak in
general but foremost in my mind is the current debate between racists and
bigots on the one hand and fair-minded, decent citizens on the other.
My thanks go to those who have written replies
to the recent letters from members of the BNP including Diane Smith (EN July 29
)and those of Denise Soffe(EN August 18) and John Wright (September 9)
My own views are
so completely and succinctly expressed by Alun Buffry, (EN August 19) of the
Legalise Cannabis Alliance, now a thriving and influential radical political
party, that I have nothing to add except gratitude for such clarity and wit.
How welcome a
bit of humor is these days.
Certainly, when
this Party stands candidates in future local and national elections, I will
give it my vote.Its message seems to be tolerance: tolerance of our fellow
citizen no matter what his race or colour. It will fight the ideals of racial
purity that Diane Smith (BNP) is so passionate about - as was Adolph Hitler.
I believe it is also right to ask, as it
does, for tolerance of those who prefer to use cannabis as a medicine to
pharmaceutical drugs, and cannabis for relaxation to alcohol.
I feel sure it
would also ask for tolerance of the travellers and gypsies who prefer a nomadic
lifestyle.
Antonia
Blaxland,
Mount Pleasant, Norwich