Open let­ter to Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning:

I have news for you. No­body, least of all the drug deal­ers, have any fear of your 360-de­gree radar or your pa­trol boats. In fact, all your so-called drug-fight­ing ef­forts are a big joke in drug cir­cles, I hear. So far from tar­get­ing you for it, they are hop­ing you re­main in pow­er for­ev­er.

Tell me, sir, how many drug deal­ers have your radar or pa­trol boats caught so far? None. So do you think the drug deal­ers will tar­get some­one who is so in­ef­fec­tive? All you have to do is catch a few crim­i­nals with your radar and boats, then we might be­lieve you.

While you're at it, you can send the same mes­sage to Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald. Tell her the best way to con­vince us of how many dif­fer­ent kinds of shows can be held at NA­PA is to mount them, not waste mon­ey telling us so in in­ces­sant tele­vi­sion and full-page ad­ver­tise­ments. But I guess that nei­ther of you will lis­ten.

R Baksh

Co­coyea Vil­lage