Politics

[steve white]

Yes, to the kids committing crimes. I live pretty much in the epicenter of the problem.

 

[deewayne2003]

Or the vacuum is filled with non-illegals.

I don't care, we have enough POS people in this country without letting others self import.

When Travis Co. Texas(Austin) became a sanctuary county there were 200 illegals in the county jail and they issued bail for any of them not charged with Aggravated sexual assault, Murder or Human trafficking only 48 of the 200 were held........

That's 24% of the illegals in the county jail were charged with crimes eligible for LIFE SENTENCES!

But the county sheriff Sally Hernandez didn't even hold to that, they let an illegal from Mexico out on bail that was charged with child molestation and had an OPEN WARRANT for the same crime out on bail - he was caught trying to illegally reenter Mexico.

Another man was being released on bail for aggravated rape of a child and was collecting his property when a journalist investigating the releases told the sheriffs staff that news reporters were waiting outside the jail to cover his release..... they quickly reversed their decision after to release him and decided to honor the ice hold for fear of public backlash.

 

[mdwest]

He's trying to position himself for for the Governor's seat when Abbott gives it up. He's started out as Cruz's number two at the AG's Office. I would guess he's counting on his help again.

I hadn’t thought about that… but, now that you say it, I bet you’re right… AG to governor is a pretty common move.. especially in TX… and I think he’s got a whole lot of ambition… AG wouldn’t be where he’d want to peak.

 

[CoElkHunter]

There are lies, damn lies and then statistics.

- Bob’s @Bob Nelson 35Whelen quote? Emphasis on “statistics” (cartridge velocities). LOL

 

[CoElkHunter]

No murders in D.C in over a week.

Must have run out of ammo?

 

[WAB]

Yup. If you leave out rape, assault and many other crimes.

Are you suggesting that rape is not a violent crime?

Are you also suggesting that the VP and the current administration are wrong when the same crime has been massively underreported?

I have a bit of a window into crime in Canada as my uncle founded and led the tactical weapons team in a major Canadian city. He also served undercover with the RCMP in the FBI/RCMP bike gang bust in the ‘70’s. I’ve had untold first hand accounts of what is actually going on. To think that major urban areas in Canada are significantly safer than those in the US is a fallacy. It’s a narrative Canadians like to support, along with the claim that their health care is better and cheaper. I’ve lived on both sides of the 49th. I am in no more danger of violent crime in the US than I was in Canada. In fact, the only time I’ve been the victim of a significant crime was in Toronto.

 

[1dirthawker]

Also, you have moved the bar from illegal immigrants committing crimes to their kids committing crimes.

still crimes.

 

[Scott CWO]

So, US citizens? If they are dropping out of school to be in gangs etc., then the onus is on our school and support system. I would also like to see some data, supposedly there are 10+ million illegal immigrants in the States. What is the percentage of their kids in gangs vs our home grown gangs in inner cities?

Also, you have moved the bar from illegal immigrants committing crimes to their kids committing crimes.

If they are anchor babies, get em outa here, along with their parents.

 

[Altitude sickness]

The Federalist Papers

info.hillsdale.edu

 

[Brent in Az]

FBI raids the home of John Bolton

 

[fourfive8]

FBI raids the home of John Bolton

Do tell! The darling of all the Dems, closet Dems, TDSers, RINOS and MSM alike.

 

[PARA45]

Appeal's court throws out the $500m civil fraud penalty against Donald Trump. A case that Letitia James instigated by lawfare.
That woman belongs in prison.

She definitely doesn't like Donald. She is planning on appealing.

https://www.newsmax.com/us/letitia-james-appeal-court-ruling/2025/08/21/id/1223421/

 

[Hank2211]

I have a bit of a window into crime in Canada as my uncle founded and led the tactical weapons team in a major Canadian city. He also served undercover with the RCMP in the FBI/RCMP bike gang bust in the ‘70’s. I’ve had untold first hand accounts of what is actually going on. To think that major urban areas in Canada are significantly safer than those in the US is a fallacy. It’s a narrative Canadians like to support, along with the claim that their health care is better and cheaper. I’ve lived on both sides of the 49th. I am in no more danger of violent crime in the US than I was in Canada. In fact, the only time I’ve been the victim of a significant crime was in Toronto.

There are indeed parts of Canada and the US which have crime rates which are more or less the same.

On the other hand, while it’s easy to rail at statistics (as people tend to do when they don’t much like what the statistics demonstrate), taking just murder rates as an example of serious crime (is there a more serious crime?), it’s hard to argue with homicide rates in Canada and the US.

I could take a point in time - say, 2023, and here, Canada had a homicide rate of 1.94 per 100,000 population, compared to the US rate of 6.3 per 100k of population. Or, I could look at the 23 years since 2000, where the US rate ranged from 5.5 to 6.3 per 100k, with a high of 6.8 per 100k of pop, while Canada’s rate ranged from 1.78 to 1.94 per 100k of pop, with a high of 2.27 (stats from statista.com, generally considered to be a reliable source of data).

Having said that, I would think we all want lower crime rates, but I for one would rather not give up my freedoms in exchange for some vague government assurance of safety and security, along with the heightened police (let alone military) and surveillance presence which would come along with that.

Oddly, at least to me, is that it used to be the left which suggested that people should give up some personal freedom in exchange for security, and the right which resisted that.

One last point. I don’t see what’s gained by people on this (or any other) thread crapping on each others’ countries. I expect Americans to be proud of their country (I’m married to one, so I have some idea), and American might expect that Canadians would be proud of their country, and the same for citizens of any other country. No country is perfect (not even the US or Canada), and we could all stand to focus more on the issues and less on the citizenships.

 

[rookhawk]

I'd say AH is a pretty well intentioned group of people and its predominated by Americans. As such, I think the bias or occasional digs on Canada, Britain, and Australia are out of absolute frustration that our cousins and parent nation are going down the toilet. We have a shared ideological ancestry and when the whole family is going to hell emotions run high.

 

[Hank2211]

I'd say AH is a pretty well intentioned group of people and its predominated by Americans. As such, I think the bias or occasional digs on Canada, Britain, and Australia are out of absolute frustration that our cousins and parent nation are going down the toilet. We have a shared ideological ancestry and when the whole family is going to hell emotions run high.

Canada is going down the toilet?!!!

Seriously, you need to come spend some time here. We have our issues, Lord knows, but the toilet isn’t one of them.

 

[RLD]

I have a bit of a window into crime in Canada as my uncle founded and led the tactical weapons team in a major Canadian city. He also served undercover with the RCMP in the FBI/RCMP bike gang bust in the ‘70’s. I’ve had untold first hand accounts of what is actually going on. To think that major urban areas in Canada are significantly safer than those in the US is a fallacy. It’s a narrative Canadians like to support, along with the claim that their health care is better and cheaper. I’ve lived on both sides of the 49th. I am in no more danger of violent crime in the US than I was in Canada. In fact, the only time I’ve been the victim of a significant crime was in Toronto.

I remember those bike gang cases well. Later, a good friend of mine was the first judge to run a case against them under our new criminal organization laws. She declared the Hells Angels a criminal entity. A very brave woman indeed.

But, your personal experience, sad as it might be, is no measure of the general crime experience between the two countries. The only place I have faced violent crime is in the United States (visiting relatives in Detroit), but that fact is not helpful in understanding the big picture.

You are significantly more likely to be raped, shot or murdered in the United States than Canada.

And there is literally no doubt that Canadian health care is cheaper than U.S. health care. U.S. health care is the most expensive health care in the world. By definition Canadian health care is less expensive than American health care. Whether or not it is better is a much more complex and controversial question.

But as Hank says, it is not a contest between countries. In this forum, quite often when I disagree with someone on an issue, including issues that have nothing to do with the United States or Canada, people seem to think insulting Canada is the right response. I think that says a lot about the person who takes that approach, in that they can't really engage on the issue at hand so they have to resort to vague nationalist insults. But insulting my homeland neither proves your point, or gets me to back down.

 

[rookhawk]

Canada is going down the toilet?!!!

Seriously, you need to come spend some time here. We have our issues, Lord knows, but the toilet isn’t one of them.

I spent a decade working for Canadian companies. Downtown Vancouver and Toronto remind of of downtown Chicago...ten years later and they do not have the same culture, cleanliness, law and order, or functionality.

I can't speak for the Maritimes or Prairie Provinces but I'm told they are holding their own which makes sense because they are appalachians in the east with the same culture as the mid-Atlantic Americans, or they are midwesterns in the prairie provinces and pretty much an upper-midwest world view.

I hope I'm completely wrong on the negatives, but it seems Ottawa/Toronto/Vancouver thinking is destroying a remarkable nation just as Chicago/DC/SanFran/LA is attempting to do to America.

 

[WAB]

Canada is going down the toilet?!!!

Seriously, you need to come spend some time here. We have our issues, Lord knows, but the toilet isn’t one of them.

It’s pretty regional in Canada. I grew up on a farm in Ontario and most of my extended family are still there. The left has destroyed that province. There is no way I would live there again, I find it hard enough to visit.

There is still a semblance of sanity in the West and the Maritimes. Canada needs another Stephen Harper to right the ship.

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

There are indeed parts of Canada and the US which have crime rates which are more or less the same.

On the other hand, while it’s easy to rail at statistics (as people tend to do when they don’t much like what the statistics demonstrate), taking just murder rates as an example of serious crime (is there a more serious crime?), it’s hard to argue with homicide rates in Canada and the US.

I could take a point in time - say, 2023, and here, Canada had a homicide rate of 1.94 per 100,000 population, compared to the US rate of 6.3 per 100k of population. Or, I could look at the 23 years since 2000, where the US rate ranged from 5.5 to 6.3 per 100k, with a high of 6.8 per 100k of pop, while Canada’s rate ranged from 1.78 to 1.94 per 100k of pop, with a high of 2.27 (stats from statista.com, generally considered to be a reliable source of data).

Having said that, I would think we all want lower crime rates, but I for one would rather not give up my freedoms in exchange for some vague government assurance of safety and security, along with the heightened police (let alone military) and surveillance presence which would come along with that.

Oddly, at least to me, is that it used to be the left which suggested that people should give up some personal freedom in exchange for security, and the right which resisted that.

One last point. I don’t see what’s gained by people on this (or any other) thread crapping on each others’ countries. I expect Americans to be proud of their country (I’m married to one, so I have some idea), and American might expect that Canadians would be proud of their country, and the same for citizens of any other country. No country is perfect (not even the US or Canada), and we could all stand to focus more on the issues and less on the citizenships.

No one has suggested giving up rights for security. Washington DC is not sovereign state and president Trump is well within his legal authority to clean it up.

I don’t thing there’s anything controversial about the federal government cleaning up a federal jurisdiction. In Los Angeles, he deployed the national guard to support ICE in the legal performance of their duty, again within his federal powers.

No one wants Trump to send the marines in to normal cities to do police work. Both instances have had very narrow deployments in very specific circumstances.

When you see the National Guard performing stop and frisk searches in Manhattan, then your concerns may be justified but that isn’t likely to happen.

 

[RLD]

It’s pretty regional in Canada. I grew up on a farm in Ontario and most of my extended family are still there. The left has destroyed that province. There is no way I would live there again, I find it hard enough to visit.

There is still a semblance of sanity in the West and the Maritimes. Canada needs another Stephen Harper to right the ship.

I think you are behind the times on Ontario. Doug Ford, a staunch and effective conservative has been premier since 2018. Things are really looking up here.

I do agree with you though that Harper was a very good P.M.