Letter to the editor | CCLA should find else to do
"The Freedom of no one is safe unless the freedom of everyone is safe," says the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA)
That all sounds great, so what do they do?
Some of the objectives that guide the organization are:
• The protection of the fundamental freedoms essential to the democratic system.
• The promotion of legal protections against unreasonable invasion by public authority of the freedom and dignity of the individual.
• The promotion of fair procedures for the resolution and adjudication of conflicts and disputes.
Recently, the Supreme Court ruled the RCMP overstepped its bounds by allowing a sniffer dog to search in a school for drugs and all charges resulting from the search had to be dropped.
The case made it to the Supreme Court through action by the CCLA.
I guess it is now legal for students to bring their drugs to school. Don't get me wrong, only a small percentage of students use and peddle drugs, but now that the CCLA has become involved, these predators have free reign.
My question is, do we need a watchdog like the CCLA? If that is the kind of "freedom" they protect, the organization would do more for society if they were disbanded.
The CCLA state it is a non profit, non government law reform organization dealing with issues of fundamental civil liberties and human rights that affect those who live all across Canada.
As a parent, I consider any organization that condones drugs in schools to be infringing on my liberties. I don't care how the police or school officials rid their premises of drugs. Action has to be taken and has to be taken immediately. I don't care if they use sniffer dogs or Bengal tigers. Just get the job done.
As for the CCLA, find something productive to do.
That's the way I see it.
Sincerely,
Ted Ross
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The CCLA is simply a defender of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I suspect the Charter is Ted's deeper dislike. If so he should say so openly.
We could reduce physical and sexual abuse of children with mandatory lie detector tests for parents, but we don't.
We could reduce impaired driving by breathalyzing drivers before they leave bars, but we don't.
We don't because a police state cure is worse than the disease.