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To: Abner Hosmer who wrote (74456)	8/4/2001 7:04:21 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116820

Murdered and mugged by bush creep is extremely rare in Canada. We don't have that many bush bunnies anyway, and creep bush bunnies, with the exception of the odd crazed abo, are unheard of. And even murderously crazed abos, with or without political causes and excess barleycorn, are rare as 100 dollar bills appearing before your eyes on a summer sidewalk. The only bush whackers that really whack people are usually fr. "extremists" who are killing without cause or because of some immigrant/language issue disturbing the oscillations of their unbalanced servo mechanism. A few in the paper in the last few months. Only in Quebec will you get people: a.) spraying lead in the legislature because, "their school language instruction did not contain enough of one of the official languages" b.) holding a convenience store clerk ransom for 28 bucks c.) killing good looking spanish chicks walking on the beach because, "there are too many of them in the country displacing opportunity". or ... d.) murdering scads of female engineers students in a community college because "guys with no brains aren't getting into these college courses." (did they ever think of the easy solution? i.e. marrying one of them?) But the Stateside 48 is the sole province, it seems, of weird, Heart of Darkness, Deliverance style, Easy Rider, country-killers. Folks in Canada are downright disturbingly friendly back in most northwoods places. The most they will do is acquire your outboard motors, trail bikes, generators and cash at favourable prices, and this rarely at the point of a gun. They always wait until you are busy elsewhere out of sheer politeness and consideration. This is the overwhelming Canadian trait, the characteristic of meticulous deferential accommodation, even while the planned divestment of other-owned belongings by opportunistic extraction is taking place. (Be ready, however, for the occasional cold shoulder from the "Official Quebec Tourist Board, Political-Hegemony Education Association, and Formal Visitor Greetin' Group", or "Bloc-Q" for short.) This loose aggregation of friendly merchants and villagers is in charge of reminding English speaking tourists that the both the traveller and the despised fr. peasant, share the nominal appellation of "scumbag".) EC<:-}