Vancouver has so encouraged the hard-drug and commercial sex trades in the Downtown Eastside neighborhood that law enforcement has no traction there. A "safe-injection" site has been established for junkies, and pending a government study, a new clinic will legally distribute heroin and methadone.

As Vancouver's progressive solons promote drug addiction and prosititution under the guise of compassion, Statist progressives have unfurled their latest plan to help Vancouver's most wretched save themselves.

Local booksellers, a major publisher and Simon Fraser University have joined forces so local prostitutes can get free copies of a book written by an ex-Vancouver hooker about, well, their lives.

The idea seems to be that government-sanctioned needles, drugs and "treatment" for addicts - including sex-trade workers - won't be enough. But if they hear from an ex-peer about the hidden yearnings and brutal treatment of other drug-addicted sex trade workers in Vancouver, THEN they'll pull themselves up out of the muck.

Yet the risks are already clear. In a gruesome case that has been all over Vancouver newspapers, radio and TV, as many as 31 Vancouver prostitutes were abducted, slaughtered and buried on a pig farm east of Vancouver. Charges have been filed in more than 20 cases so far; some 60 women had gone missing.

Perhaps the whole descent into depravity, Vancouver-style, will be replicated in quaint, tourist-bethronged Victoria, just across the water on Vancouver Island. The city's addict population has finally reached the desired critical mass, and a "safe injection site" is now under consideration. Presumably, a bit aways from the ladies in lace going to afternoon tea.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at May 20, 2004 10:48 AM

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