Harper's number one priority

With the stock markets tanking and surging,for no apparent reason other than a complete lack of confidence in the state of the world economy,one would be forgiven for thinking that this countries government's primary concern would be in how to keep people working.Not so with the Government of Stephen Harper.Don't forget that this is the same Harper who prorogued parliament to save his own job when he totally misread the first economic collapse.The same Harper that insisted we harmonize our banking system with that of the US.Luckily,we were once smart enough in this country to know an idiot when we heard one speak.Now that the man has dictatorial power for a five year margin his first act is to take a bunch of already tried crime bills,bills that were so against the common good that they were dropped without a debate and jammed them in with a bunch of even worse bills and with the demand that this omnibus bill be passed in 100 days.Harper never listens to the statistics or to science or even to what is happening around the world.He is continually in court trying to close down insite,which is a program that has earned this country praise world wide.His hatred for cannabis is legend and his opposition to harm reduction based on personal morality,period.Why,with the world backing away from the disastrous prohibition that has seen a spreading of drug use around the planet that is unprecedented,would Harper want to expand the very laws that caused this plague in the first place?One can only surmise that it is yet another of the many foolhardy motions and statements that spring eternal from the evangelical right.Their placing of their personal beliefs above all else,above science,math,history,and common sense is against any known form of logic known to man.These terrible crime bills.Formed in consultation with the victims of violent crime and police chiefs,and we all know how impartial those groups are,these laws are aimed at the poorest people in the country.Oh,they call them organized crime bills and they might even be so deluded as to believe that that is who will suffer under these acts.I will guarantee,after 45 years of watching the local crime scene closely,that these bills will put a huge number of low level drug addicts in prison for serious lengths of time.People say that at least while they're in prison they're not out committing crimes.They are also not learning anything but how to be a better criminal and they come under the influence of the most sick and violent people in the country.They come out,and they all do come out as angrier,smarter and more hair triggered criminals than when they went in.Many will pick up serious drug habits.So it was,so it is and so it always will be.Canada,in the 60's and early 70's put away more people by population than any western democracy.More than even the US.Now we have another conservative government that wants to put more people in prison than any government before them.It seems to be a conservative badge of honor.It doesnt work.It costs a fortune for no return and it does nothing to resolve the underlying problems of poverty and drug abuse that have been at the root of crime since we crawled out of the sludge and began walking upright.You would think that we would learn from history.We don't.The election of Stephen Harper makes me wonder if we ever learn at all.