From the Streets to the Prisons cont'd.

If people like union leader Buzz Hargrove, author of Labour of Love, Toward a Humane Canadian Society, expect to be taken seriously as a social reformer then he’s going to have to include the plight of the non-union member and the welfare recipients and the extremely poor who have been hounded off welfare. Union dues are probably more than these people see all month.

But as it stands, I don’t recall any union executives howling in protest against this Safe Streets Law which will find our prisons burgeoning with the new victims of our indifferent and very inhumane society.

Bottom Line: We don’t care if it costs us more to penalize and imprison these people. It’s enough to get them out of our sight. And just how humane is that Mr Hargrove? Maybe you can ask your confessor after he becomes a paying union member.