We need police for police. If that didn’t stain your skull – again, we need police for police. Ask yourself or teenagers if you have them – how do you feel when a cops around? How do you feel when another person isn’t equal to you? With some magic word called “authority” they are granted the right to carry that which can kill – and has killed both criminals and innocents. How does it feel when you watch videos of these “protectors” or the people whom represent justice and law on youtube, in our world kick another man, beat another man, keep him on the ground, abuse him, scream at him, and all the other horrors you wouldn’t tell your 6 year old wanting to be a cop that they actually do. How they beat whores and drug addicts whom they themselves label the trash of the world and not see as other souls – they appoint themselves law of the street and send the these people out of their town to another – this is how they really clean the street, worse then pushing the dirt under the rug – they send all the troubled spirits away to be troubled more and cause trouble away from the public eye as much as possible. (They’ve been doing this in Vancouver and dumping them in Chilliwack) But they can’t hide everything…

That’s why there are videos of police abuse – this law enforcement has changed much from the 19th century. The technology and power they have has grown to the point where it is at an uncomfortable level. I’m not saying take their weapons away and let the criminals at them – even though some are just the same as the criminals themselves. We must have a police for the police – we need a police for the police. Separate from them, civilian members, voted in by us civilians. Fear is what police are in this age. Fear is not what they should be – but fear is what so many officers who stain the badge black do. Police should be trusted, members of society, meant to make us feel safe, protect us, protect our rights, protect the laws we make. Somewhere down the path it became socially acceptable that police are the next level of the scary parent saying no, but at much more serious matters from loud parties to murder. While some can take pride they are loved and actual good cops, I can’t see how any person of the newest generation would view a cop as “good” as they are meant to.

The police have lied to us through the D.A.R.E. program, lied to children, lied to your children, your youth, us! Even grown up you can think “well this and that are different” and be mature, however it will always psychologically linger in the back-brain of each grown children lied to by that abomination of drug education, a simple innocent thought entirely at fault from the D.A.R.E. creation – “Well, they lied to me about this so maybe this is actually like this?” even if that thought is not in the front of the brain it’s in the back brewing. So I say, dare to tell the truth as so many others have cried – dare to bring actual doctors and medical professionals in the class rooms – other real heroes of society, whom can teach the next generation the truth, and we must allow eachother to trust that generation to make their decisions.

Furthermore if we are to really trust the next generation to make their own decisions then legalize not just Marijuana, which should be at least decriminalized finally… legalize all drugs, from psychedelics which we need all our scientists, philosophers, psychologists, artists, and probably a lot of other people, to have legal ability and choice to legally experiment with responsibly, legalize the commonly seen “bad” drugs, such as crack and heroin too. It’s a strong serious step we must take one day and are only prolonging with unacceptance, ignorance, and the old views. Canada should proudly take the bold step in showing not only how we can prove history wrong of us Canadians being the U.S.’s little buddy, but prove Canada’s law and people are not dependant upon any variable concerning the U.S…

Or perhaps this beautiful British Columbia shall separate from Canada as Quebec wishes – I could dive into about how most of the seats in our government are on the East side of Canada, and they kiss B.C.’s bottom by honouring us and cursing us with the Olympics – but where else would Canada hold the Olympics? The side those West-ignorers shiver in the cold? The colder tops of Canada? The prairies are beautiful, but they don’t have the money making capacity B.C. does for our government. I’m a pro-B.C. separatist. Because the bigger the country, the more parts of a system there is to corrupt, and flaw, and the larger – the more at risk it is from itself. East tries to rule West and cannot – it is too much land and people to rule. Harper lacks the charisma of a great leader to keep all of Canada one forever and I don’t see a new leader surfacing anytime soon. The same thing is happening in the U.S. right now – with different states having different views, medical marijuana being a most notable one. The U.S. is not fully united. Now… this is another letter, another message to you the public for another day. Back to my worry of the world I’m trying to focus on.

We had hippies and that entire revolution which destroyed itself – somehow peace of love withered and instead of the peaceful counter-culture future once possible we live in a boring businessman’s corporate world where instead of experimenting with drugs because they have the money and are interested/curious, they (us – this generation) experiment out of being poor and bored.

We need police to stay on the streets and out of classrooms, we need police for those police on the streets due to the fear in our culture that has spawned onto the image of our law enforcement, and through doctors replacing them giving our kids real drug education – not lies, and fear – and through a civilian police for the police, eliminating the fear by destroying this new image we have on cops, and turning it back into the police we actually feel comfortable around.

My finals words I must speak have to be – that I myself am a D.A.R.E. program graduate and I’ve experimented – and as a D.A.R.E. graduate who’s been around please, do whatever in your power you can to stop the D.A.R.E. program. I honestly think it is causing far more trouble then it solves. Just as this fear of cops we have today, you yourself can process, how it could cause difficulty.

Derek Vandenberg