It's been almost three weeks since the last update

The boy keeps on reminding me (as do all the emails I recieve) that I have
been neglecting Superdrewby for a few weeks. Well that is true in some ways
but it isnt in other ways. I have still be creating new content although it
is not ready to be included on the site. I have also received some new stories
from other people to publish here and a new poem as well. Chris Summerfield
has also sent me some new photos to include, and I will ahve them up on the
site in the next couple of days.

I have been very focused on work over the last few weeks and so have consequently
not been doing much else apart from stuff for my company. But I promise to get
some new stuff on Superdrewby soon. As for new chapters of my stories, I haven't
really had the inspiration to write of late so no new chapters have been written.
Sometimes I open the files and start to write but the muse just dries up and
I have to close the file and go on to something else. This doesn't mean that
I won't be writing new chapters, I will be, I just have to find the right moment
to actually write.

Sniffer Dogs in Public Places

Over the last couple of months New South Wales has eneacted some very severe
and in my mind "police state" laws allowing the use of sniffer dogs.
Now we all know that sniffer dogs are used throughout the world to identify
people and packages with drugs, food stuffs (at airports) guns and bombs etc.
However last December the NSW State Government allowed the use of sniffer dogs
in public places to be used to passivley search patrons of clubs and people
walking down the street.

Now we live in a high crime area of Sydney, most of the crime is drug related
because we are between a methadone clinic, drop in center and numerous homeless
people hostels. Unfortuntaley this means that we have a lot of heroin addicts
in our area looking for their next fix and breaking into houses and cars to
get quick money for their habbits. In our small little street we have had home
invasions, almost every car has been broken into at least once and we even find
used syringes in our street.

About three weeks ago the house three doors down was broken into at night while
the residents were sleeping, in this case a female resident woke to find a young
male in her bedroom rifling through her purse. She promptly yelled at him and
then proceeded to kick him out of the house and over the balconey. When the
police arrived (twenty minutes later) they admitted that the entire crime problem
is casued by the heroin addicts at the hostels, drop in centres and clinics.
We spoke for a while about how the area could be cleaned up and they said quite
bluntly that the only way would be to get rid of the heroin addicts in the area.
Obviously the problem is more involved than that, but it is the major contributor
to the crime problem.

The State Government has however decided that the culprits of crime are not
the hard core drug users or dealers that are selling heroin etc, but they are
the clubbers who take recreational drugs such as ecstasy etc. So on any given
night we now have ten to twenty police people with dogs doing "raids"
on clubs and standing on the main streets of the gay community harassing and
searching people for small quantities of recreational drugs. But do we see the
police dealing with the people that are breaking into our cars or our homes?
Of course not, they are acting in a stupid media orchestarted raid on clubs
and places that do not have a crime problem and are not a danger to society.

Now I am neither condoing or villifying recreational drug use, but in reality
drugs such as ecstasy have been proven to be a hell of lot safer than going
out and binge drinking. The Police in the wrap up from the Year 2000 Parties
actually admitted that the reson there was so little violence and the fact that
the crowds were so easy to control was because people were no longer drinking
alcahol, instead they were taking pills. yes they are illegal and yes they can
be dangerous, but drugs such as ecstasy are not the problem. They are however
the easy target of a police force that needs to be seen to do something about
the larger crime problem. I get very pissed off that the police can find money
to do these ridiculous publicity stunts but cannot find the money to have proper
policing of the real crime areas. If they are really serious about getting rid
of the drug problem, then get the sniffer dogs in the hostels, clinics and dropin
centres.

So far after three weeks of doing these drug busts with the sniffer dogs, the
police have arrested less than ten people in total, and most of thise offences
have been for a small offence such as pot or having one pill. Sure they are
illegal, but come on what about the guy who is selling heroin caps down the
street and will accept stolen mobile phones, wallets and more that the junkies
have just nicked from the parked cars in the area?

12:45:00 PM