Methadone In Their Madness

Monty Don's attempt to help junkies by inviting them to leave their urban drug fuelled squalor and work on the land (BBC prog) may be commendable - or a fool's errand, but the role of the State in facilitating their addiction by dispensing methadone is worrying. It is typical of the coke-eyed approach of State that it thinks it can salve a problem by feeding it. Whether it is providing needles to junkies or houses to single parent mothers the State has become an enabler and facilitator to social evils across the board.

Now there is talk of liberalising the prostitution laws in the wake of the Ipswich killings. Always the counsel of despair... A nice little tax revenue from the 'sex industry' is beckoning. We now face the prospect of the State As Pimp. It already has its grubby hands in the gambling industry which in my book spells only one thing. It is official. We now have Government as Mafia....