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FORSETH: REALITY, AND COMMON SENSE, HAS LEFT THE BUILDING

Heads up … this is advance warning that some reading this are going to be outraged by what I have to say.

I don’t care, because I'm sick and tired of feeling like reality, and common sense, has left the building.

Yesterday (Dec 29), in a decision that has left many scratching their heads, and others simply outraged, the BC Supreme Court put a hold on the ‘Restricting Public Consumption of Illegal Substances Act’.

The act, passed in the BC Legislature just two months ago, is now in limbo given Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson ruling which said:

“When people are isolated and out of sight, they are at a much higher risk of dying from an unreversed overdose.”

In other words, drug addicts, many suffering from mental health issues, should be permitted to shoot up, snort up, and inject (illicit) drugs anywhere their addled brains find then – regardless of where that might be.

Along with business store-fronts, the ‘Restricting Public Consumption of Illegal Substances Act’ had set out zones where drug use would not be permitted; for example, playgrounds, parks, and schools …

ALL areas where 100 per cent of children, of all ages, will now once again be subjected to the wraiths of society sprawled out on the ground looking like props from a zombie movie.

ALL areas where those consuming poisonous drugs are likely to overdose and require emergency health services to bring the dead back to life … which will sure as hell give toddlers and young children nightmares.

ALL areas where the youngest children – we as adults are charged to protect – will again be afraid to go.

While I will lay the blame for this latest egregious decision squarely in the lap of Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson … there’s plenty more blame to go around.

For decades governments of all political stripes have failed in providing services required for those suffering from addiction to recover – and they are only now beginning to make up for that failure.

There has been a failure to provide required services, for those suffering from mental health issues, available at precisely the time they are needed.

And, there has been a complete failure to find a way around rulings that the addicted and those suffering from severe mental health issues can be treated for their own well-being.

NO, instead, social justice warriors argue that those who are totally incapable of making a sound and reasonable decision should instead, in the end, be allowed to wallow in misery; and their own puke and shit.

And those social justice warriors include the judiciary – one of which in my personal opinion includes Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson – are allowing that to happen.


I will go so far as to say that Hinkson is in the wrong job.

If he cannot find a way to make decisions based on the rule of law, rather than a misplaced and misguided rose-coloured glasses version of social justice, he should leave the bench and instead go to work for any number of social agencies that would welcome him.

The bottom line is WE HAVE FAILED some of the weakest members of society – and WE SHOULD BE ASHAMED we have ALLOWED IT to happen!

In Kamloops, I’m Alan Forseth.

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  1. AnonymousJanuary 20, 2024 at 1:16 PM

    Well done

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 27, 2024 at 9:55 AM

    I agree! This would be a good place to start. The problem is much bigger than incompetence in lower level government. We need to address how the drugs are coming in to this country and who’s bringing it in Who is responsible for poisoning our country?? This is the real question we need to ask.

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