Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Genocide?

According to Dr. Julio Montaner, shutting down a supervised illegal drug injection site is equivalent to genocide.

Actually, that's being kind. He says it is genocide.

Regardless of whether or not it's a good policy (and I have an extremely hard time seeing how tax dollars are appropriately being spent funding the injection of illegal drugs, but that's a different discussion), comparing shutting down Insite to genocide is disrespecting victims of true genocide (see Rwanda, Holocaust). And it does nothing to advance the cause of Insite.

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