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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 733466" data-attributes="member: 2189">Scratch,According to the FBI, from 1989&#039; to 2008&#039; crime across the country has been down and in some catagories, drastically down. Not to say there aren&#039;t pockets of problems or situations that drive public opinion to think the problem is vastly bigger than it really is but the claims of crisis IMO are more driven by people out to twist for political gain or obtain wrongly misplaced power that does more harm than good over the longrun.The more one reads about the Arizona law and circumstances, the more one concludes that both sides of the debate are overhyping the situation in order to exploit it. Thanks for pointing out the above!jmoBTW: Growing up as a child into early teens in the dying days of the segregated south, the utter and unnecessary white adult hysteria I saw then as if the world were ending is the same thing I often see now when it comes to the illegal alien. Now 40 to 50 years later we learn how ridiculous such overacting drama was and I wonder what we&#039;ll learn again in another 40 or 50 years about today?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 733466, member: 2189"] Scratch, According to the FBI, from 1989' to 2008' crime across the country has been down and in some catagories, drastically down. Not to say there aren't pockets of problems or situations that drive public opinion to think the problem is vastly bigger than it really is but the claims of crisis IMO are more driven by people out to twist for political gain or obtain wrongly misplaced power that does more harm than good over the longrun. The more one reads about the Arizona law and circumstances, the more one concludes that both sides of the debate are overhyping the situation in order to exploit it. Thanks for pointing out the above! jmo BTW: Growing up as a child into early teens in the dying days of the segregated south, the utter and unnecessary white adult hysteria I saw then as if the world were ending is the same thing I often see now when it comes to the illegal alien. Now 40 to 50 years later we learn how ridiculous such overacting drama was and I wonder what we'll learn again in another 40 or 50 years about today? [/QUOTE]

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