Seven Days,Seven Dead

The drug war that's raging on the streets of the lower mainland(Metro Vancouver)has now reached a milestone.For the last week,there's been one drug related murder for each passing day.The deaths have been as follows: March 7th,a 47 year old man dies in a fight with his son-in-law. March7Nhat Truong Tran,23 Shot in his parked mercedes. March8Kyle Richard Wong20,Fatally shot returning home,an A-K 47 was found at the scene March 12,Unidentified man collapses and dies after knocking on a door and getting no response.Shot several times. March 12,Abbotsford,Silas O'brien21,is killed in an apparent act of road rage. March 13,another unidentified man found in his bungalow in the 7300 block of 12 ave.in burnaby.Police had spent a whole night in the residence just a few weeks prior. March 14,a body is found dumped in a semi-rural area of Maple Ridge. I personally don't see how all of these deaths are drug war connected but I'm not a homicide detective.Five of the seven are drug deaths for sure.This is going to become standard fare until the drug war is ended and the profit and control of the drug market is removed from the clutches of organized crime.Several papers did a coronation piece for my old friend Dianne Watts last week.She does do a wonderful job of managing the statistics to make herself look good to the public.The papers seem to like her.She is a drug war hard liner and would gladly bring in the Thai,court system if she thought she could get away with it.That's my Province in a nut shell.Half of the people are working very hard for reforms and new approaches to an old problem.The other half look back at the days when the drug squad could act with impunity and wish for nothing less than a return to beatings and lengthy,prison sentences for addiction.Ms. Watts is driving the later bus.