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January 2006

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 How many more lives must be lost before this city and it’s (lack of) leadership stand up and show some courage?

 An open letter

 

 RE:  What this city has lost to crime

 

How many more lives must be lost before this city and it’s (lack of) leadership stand up and show some courage?

Yet another innocent life has been taken away. What if it was your child, loved one?

This gun violence and these gangs are sending our city on a one way spiral into the heart of darkness.

Where is the leadership?

 

Those who carry guns and use them are domestic terrorist!  They instil fear and terror into the people of this city; they take innocent lives and destroy the quality of life in the city. They are a cancer that must be eradicated by any means necessary. Yes, we must work to restore hope to people in an economy where some people’s only hope for a future and a job is eight dollars and hour-of which half goes to taxes.

 

Once you pick up a weapon, carry a weapon and use that weapon to cause harm you have forfeited your right to exist in this community.  Since we have spent billions of dollars on the “war against terror” lets use some of that money to protect our people and eliminate these urban terrorist.

 

 These monsters are terrorising our people. Let’s use the power and resources to eliminate them. Whether it is the military, better police resources, media and public support we must work together. Of course the misery industry (the organizations that make their living off the misery of people and communities) will declare that the gangs and the gun men –and women are the victims – to bad!  Pick up a gun and you are now a cancer to this city, a cancer which will be removed.

 

We must clean up our courts. Those judges who live in the land of OZ and release theses parasites out to the public must be removed from the bench, they have failed to protect the public.

 

The road to a safe city begins with our leadership. The time talk is over; the time to act is now! If the current leadership refuse to act then they should step aside   and let new leadership stand up and take control.

 

John Papadakis

Soon to be Municipal Candidate

Ward 29 Toronto-Danforth

 

Suggestions to deal with gun crimes

 

  • Access “war on terror” funds and resources. Declare weapons users and gang terrorist organizations

  • Invoke special legislation to bring in military support and Special Forces to hunt down and eliminate gangs /terrorist organization.

  • Increase community patrols and community police stations.

  • Set up special courts to address only weapons and gang /terrorist crimes

  • Maximum mandatory sentencing on weapons crime

  • Removal of judges that do not hand out maximum sentence to weapons crimes.

  • Immediate depuration of foreign criminals- if they return locks them up indefinitely as a threat to national security.

  • Politicians who fail to act on this matter should be voted out of office- wake up Toronto.

  • Address the economic reality on low paying dead end jobs

  • Remove user fees from parks and recreational facilities.

  • Work with the armed forces cadet program to get young people away from criminal activity.

  • Work with community programs and organizations

  • Access federal surpluses to fund programs – why are the feds not doing this?

  • Launch awareness /zero tolerance policy to let the terrorist gangs know that “we the people run this city”.