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Neighbors must
‘band together’
to protect homes

Dear Editor:

Every week I read about various
break and enters and pray we will
not be among them. On July 27,
after being to the dentist I arrived
home to find various items stolen.

F can put into words the feelings
that came to me: shock, disbelief,
confusion, anger, sadness. This
was my home, away from the
hustle and bustle of the wortd.
This was our place to feel warm
and happy and safe.

How can people do such a cruel
thing to someone else? Would
these people enjoy having the
same thing happen to them or
their family? 1 don't think so.

The material things are even-
tually replaceable, some of them.
But what is not is a feeling of
some strangers being in your
home alone, touching and looking

and destroving and stealing your
things,

We work very hard to have a
few pleasures. We are good people
and want to live in peace to raise
our family. What a tragedy this
all is.

But bE will not be a passive vic-
tim. We should all try to band
together in our own
neighborhoods and start being
nosy and concerned. We have to
fight back and protect: what is
rightfully ours — our home and
possessions —- and nabody should
ever take that away.

I can only hope that 1 will feel
safe again and that these people
will develop a conscience that will
guide them into a positive direc-
tion.

Name Withheld
North Vancouver

This time Hunter has
‘stepped over the line’

Dear Editor:

[I’ve been following Bob Hunt-
er’s column for the last year with
growing amazement, disbelief and
now fear. His Aug. 19 article, Go-
ing to war against ecological crim-
inals, has stepped over the line, in
my opinion, to one of supporting
civil disobedience.

He fails to mention further ex-
ploits of Paul Watson of the Sea
Shepherd Society, such as bilking
a Vancouver seniors citizen with
Alzheimer’s out of her home and
taking the proceeds. The public
trustee’s office has received a
judgment against Watson. Has

Watson complied with the court
order? | think not.

Also, two members of the Seu
Shepherd Society have Canada-
wide bench warrants out on them
for skipping $10,000 bail cach
after vandalizing Vancouver retail
fur outlets four years ago.

Ends do not justify the means,
Mr. Hunter. We do not need
more terrorism in this world.
There are better ‘‘messengers”*
than the ik of Paul Watson, as
any true environmentalist could
confirm.

Gaye Lebianc
North Vancouver

Reader finds little
use for metric system

Dear Editor:

Metrification, which was forced
upon us with no reference to dif-
fering opinions, has now been
given a fairtrial. ~~

I think it is far inferior to miles,
yards, feet and inches. Who on
earth wants to buy 447 grams of
sugar when he can have half a
pound? Or 0.194 of a metre in-
stead of a yard? J don’t know
anyone who stands six feet in his
socks who describes himself as
one and a bit metres tall.

Perhaps the most idiotic change
has been that from Fahrenheit to
centigrade/celsius when a degree
could mean the difference between
life and death. The substitution of
litres for gallons is obviously a
means of adding to inflation.

I would like to put my 31 cen-
timetre foot to the backside of
Napoleon, who imposed this
system on Europe and encouraged
today’s metrification fanatics.

T. Wilson Jones
North Vancouver

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