[farming pharmer]

..........got two good friends, a lawyer and his wife, that I’m waiting on hearing from. I heard from her around 5 am this morning and she said they were hunkered down in their condo with 75mph winds hitting them and no power. The condo faces north on the north side of the island about 300 feet from the water.

Real worried about them at the moment.

The power doesn’t surprise me as it often doesn’t work on a sunshine no wind day but effectively there is no police control on that island. And when there is the judges let them go because they are scared of them. Hopefully the National Guard is there.

Who knew that the US Virgin Islands were that much of a crap hole? That's pretty eye opening. Are the European owned islands any better?

[granite]

Tucker Carlson and Mark Steyn are all over the USVI Governor who is obfuscating the story big time.

[Cen-Tejas]

No, same thing. Murderers average around 6 or 7 years prison time IF THAT! Another friend of mine was robbed at gunpoint on St. M. crossing a main street in broad daylight. The police, except for the gendarmes, are totally corrupt and feared by many more than the bad guys.

The couple I spoke of owned a restaurant on the island and were from South Carolina. Their own security guards at the complex they stayed in which was a very upscale complex tied them up in chairs in their condo, robbed them and abused her and then hacked them to death with machetes.

The local media covers it all up in the interest of their own survival financially and physically (their body).

They ran the story of the couple killed a few days and after that it just sort of went away. Then, so did I.

I won’t even visit there any more. Go to Anquilla and Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. Crime there is far less. Police forces much better.