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Dec. 2, 2007 Look at a newspaper article dealing with the situation in Italy vis-à-vis illegal migrants. It seems that every day there is a report of some kind of horrendous crime committed by one of them. I suppose the situation is the same throughout the western world. I know that in the city in which I live most of the murders are committed by those coming from the Caribbean and in the main drug related. It is common to see entire blocks infiltrated by dealers, users and addicts.These people in the main confine their crimes to one another but still they are the reason for the international drugs trade. I have often wondered why society is so soft on immigration and drugs. I have seen addicts dealing openly in front of passing traffic alongside reasonably well to do middle class people who do not phone law enforcement. But then again why should they get involved? as the police will probably do nothing, and if they do phone and those involved do go to trial, they will be in a dangerous position as the accused will in all likelihood walk out of the police station within a few hours of being arrested. I have seen benefit concerts advertised which promised to address global poverty, aides, and even global warming but so far nothing on illegal immigration or drugs. When I was young the possession and subsequent conviction for any type of drug would bring you five years; now you can walk out of jail after a couple of years for committing murder. Don’t people care or is it that they are some how remotely involved. Do certain companies derive a benefit from illegal migrants? Do the promoters of rock concerts receive a hidden benefit from drugs in the form of an audience amenable to the most childish self serving philosophy created by the friends of illicit drugs industry? If it’s OK to have laws on the books and at the same ignore them can I too do the same? Can I go into a large chain and after blocking the security devices and making sure the security is involved somewhere else take the merchandise. If it is OK to blame ones acts on some outside agency; from the corruption of big business to the war started by George Bush in Iraq, can I too blame my larceny on the fact that I can't get a job as I can't work for wages that are suitable only for one who sends his money to Mexico or some other such place? If this was matter of shallow punks justifying their dope dealing or petty crime it would not be to big a deal but when you hear national broadcasters and newspaper journalist attributing crime to the social ills of society it is too much. We have all seen the quizzical amused look upon TV commentators when asked what to do about the drug problem who invariably answer that the roots go deeper than visible at first meaning of course that it is George Bush’s fault and the evils of a capitalist society. And they may be, unbeknownst to themselves, right, at least partially right. It is the Wal Marts and the record labels that derive benefit from illegal immigration and drugs who are in effect driving international crime. Western society ,due to the greed of large corporations ,is in the conundrum of being unable to eliminate the disease that is strangling the world: Drug addiction.
Those who have allowed the laws to be scoffed at
should not complain too loudly when they too are the
victims of lawlessness.
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