Letters to the Editor

The needle and the damage undone Vancouver has halted a drug epidemic by helping street addicts shoot up in safety. Will U.S. cities -- and Bush's drug czar -- learn from the Canadians' success? By Mark Follman [2006-09-22]

• Impatience vs in a hurry

  The attitude represented by Insite, compared to the attitude of the War Against Some Drugs, reminds me of speeders on the freeway. Some people tailgate instead of changing lanes and going around, others simply go around well before they reach you. They are the ones in a hurry, places to go, things to do, and Insite reminds me of them. There is a problem, and they want to fix it. The tailgaters remind me of the War On Some Drugs, where the appearance of being in a hurry, of pretending to want to do something, is what's important to the control freak within. They are not really in a hurry, they don't really want to do anything, but they want to present the appearance of doing something, so they tailgate and flash their lights when there is a perfectly open path right there for the taking -- if they were truly in the hurry they claim to be.

  And no, I don't drive down the fast lane at the speed limit. I am talking about empty save for me and the speeder, where there is no excuse for tailgating for those who truly do have places to go and things to do. It is only the impatient with nothing else to do who tailgate.

  -- Felix
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