I’ll make this observation...but you have to realize...I spent sixteen years living in Germany and only returned to the US in 2010. I currently live and work in the DC region.
I’ve come back to find myself a stranger in a strange land. In the Arlington area where I live....it’s fair to say it’s safe. If I cross the river into DC? You run into crime and nuts.
Last year, I spent an entire Saturday walking around DC. There are probably 3k homeless folks that you might notice on any given day. I’d say a hundred of them are dangerous. I had some nut down by a museum who started yelling and screaming at me when I came within six feet of her. Down by the Navy memorial....I stood and watched some other homeless person yelling at passers-by. Cops? They do nothing.
I spent a day in New York City last year....and noted the same problems. Nuts everywhere, and on the verge of physical aggression. The cops do nothing, until it’s too late.
There’s probably several hundred thousand Americans who ought to be locked up....for the safety of everyone else. The authorities? They do nothing....until it’s too late.
I noticed a week ago that New York City is talking of cleaning up the subway areas of the nuts. They say they apprehend, and force a mental test onto the people. I’m waiting to see if they really have the guts.
There’s a problem here, but no one cares much.
I'm as libertarian as anybody, but it has been proven over and over again that humans can't live in large cities without firm-handed - even fascist-looking - local policing. Granting the same liberties to the indigent and mentally ill that are granted to fully functioning adults is just like letting children play near the freeway. Rudy Giuliani and Lee Kwan Yew showed us the way.
I'll give it about ten more years before the world economy reroutes itself around the USA so completely as to render us virtually irrelevant. Rather than Brazil, we are turning into another Russia - a Third World country with corrupt public officials, a dysfunctional public economy, a thriving black market, and a huge, powerful military.
There’s a problem and the answer is concealed carry. No gun zones are the problem. Europeans live in a bubble and need to be forewarned that the North American Continent is one big Disneyland for strangers.
There’s a problem and the answer is concealed carry. No gun zones are the problem. Europeans live in a bubble and need to be forewarned that the North American Continent is not one big Disneyland for strangers.
The cops are there to protect the lazy, crazy bums. If any decent person were to physically confront the bums they would be instantly arrested. If a group of decent citizens tried to forcibly remove the bums from their midst then an army of local, state, and federal cops would swoop in to protect the bums. The decent people would have the book thrown at them. If the cops were not enough then the military would be called out.
Ironic that Liberals want to take away our right to defend ourselves from these people and at the same time look the other way when these people commit violent acts against us.
Hi Pepsi,
I tried to do a private reply, but FR says I’m to new for that service. I wasn’t too new for them to accept my donation though... Anyhoo, I spent 29 years in Germany. The Aschaffenburg/Hanau area. We came back in ‘07 and settled in Oakton. We said WTF happened to America!
I know how you feel about D.C. I got jumped by a couple of Eric Holder’s people on 7th and H N.W. in ‘09. I was “Walking while White”. Fortunately, a couple of valet’s came to my rescue or else I would not be writing this.
All the best to you, my freeper friend. Keep the faith!