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The cure for dopeheads...Dubai-style fear
Daily Mail
Saturday 04 Aug 2007 Even the soppy liberal media, and their flapping, punctured hero David Cameron, now admit that cannabis is a nasty poison. For many shameful years they lied that it was harmless fun. May God forgive them for the many young people condemned to a life of staring into space on the locked ward, thanks to their bad advice. So what are we to do about it? We know teenagers believe they are immortal and will never be the ones who end up as gibbering blighted patients. Parents may advise as much as they like, but old-fashioned fear will have much more effect. That is why I favour harsh, immediate punishment for a second offence of possession of this, or any, dangerous drug, classing drug-taking as what it is – an indulgent act of criminal selfishness. How the liberals will squawk. Do I want to fill the jails even fuller? Not necessarily, though I would build a thousand new jails if necessary to restore the peace and safety of the good and the gentle. But I suspect it would take little more than a few dozen well publicised hard-labour jailings of prominent rock stars and supermodels to change the damfool, casual attitude towards narcotics that does so much damage to our society, and which symbolises its selfish abandonment of personal responsibility. Such a programme would do more to empty cells than any amnesty offered by a Government so bankrupt of ideas about crime that it would have long ago been forced to resign by an opposition made up of anybody but the Useless Conservatives. And here's an interesting thing. Our governing class claims not to believe that punishment changes behaviour. But if you go to the Foreign Office website you will find a little warning to travellers to Dubai. "The penalties for drug-trafficking, smuggling and possession are severe," it says. "The presence of drugs in the body is counted as possession, and carries a minimum sentence of four years' imprisonment." Now, do you think the diplomats who posted this information at public expense thought that by doing so they would increase the number of British travellers going to Dubai with dope in their luggage? No. They rather hoped that the British Consul in Dubai will have to spend less time explaining that he cannot help the latest druggie dingbat who has flown into the airport assuming he is as safe as he would be in London but now faces four years of Sharia penal philosophy. The information is there to scare. Well, if the threat of imprisonment works for the Foreign Office, surely it would also work for the Home Office? But I bet that if you ask Home Secretary Jacqui Smith she will say that punitive measures don't work. Of course they do, if you really mean them. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
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