Born
to be wild
Motorcycle gangs have been claimed to involve themselves in prostitution
trade as well as the drug trade. In nations such as Holland and Switzerland,
prostitution is legal and so are many drugs which are illegal in Canada.
Those same nations have very large populations who ride on motorized two-wheeled
vehicles, except they have no motorcycle gangs involved in the prostitution
and drug trade. The politicians and bureaucrats in Ottawa are aware of
this fact, yet they refuse to accept that their own anti-prostitution and
anti-drug laws are the very reason as to why such activity has moved into
the underground economy.
The sensible solution for Canadian politicians and bureaucrats to implement
would be to legalise prostitution and drugs. Within a week, the prices
would drop in both activities. Many smokers of marijuana may choose to
grow their own plants; in fact, they would have little choice but to do
so and keep it secret from people who depend on selling the marijuana at
high prices. In time, the demand for marijuana would drop and people who
previously sold marijuana at high prices will look to other more profitable
areas of business.
However, the sellers of high-priced marijuana have no fear of a sudden
drop in the demand or price of the product they sell. The marijuana sellers
know only too well that the government officials will do everything in
their power to keep the demand for marijuana very high, its supply very
low and its price quite astronomical.
« The marijuana sellers know only too well that the government officials
will do everything in their power to keep the demand for marijuana very
high, its supply very low and its price quite astronomical. »
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The government's own policies and actions are creating the very situation
it is trying to combat via its new draconian anti-gang laws. In the beginning,
any group of people riding motorcycles could be pulled over by the police
at any time, on any public road. A group of people who are riding on motorcycles
looks like a motorcycle gang... and the new law gives the police power
to investigate. The anti-gang law will go further than groups of people
riding on motorcycles however. The anti-gang law gives the state the power
to investigate any group of people it so chooses. The right to the freedom
of association may exist in Canada's constitution; however it is a right
which government officials are conspiring to undermine, on the pretense
that they are trying to control motorcycle gangs.
The government's officials and bureaucrats know full well that they can
use the precedents from Holland and Switzerland to control gangs which
engage in the prostitution and drug trade. However, using such a precedent
would deny the government officials the chance to expand their power, their
prestige, their status and their public image by curtailing everybody's
rights. Once they get their precedent, they may legally use it to discourage
people from associating with each other in groups... or gangs. A group
of people organising a political meeting could find themselves being harassed
by the police, in Canada's future.
The repressive nightmares which once existed in Soviet Russia could become
reality in Canada. Canada is taking those crucial but necessary first steps
on the road to becoming a totalitarian state. In the future, a group of
university science students could find themselves arrested as criminals,
if they got together in a group to discuss transferring the THC-producing
gene from a marijuana plant into a dandelion plant, or a cabbage plant.
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