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To: Ilaine who wrote (3213)	11/23/2002 9:26:05 AM
From: Condor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

Thanks for the review. Should Americans see it? Should Canadians see it? C

To: Ilaine who wrote (3213)	11/23/2002 5:43:17 PM
From: frankw1900	Respond to of 6901

Canada has higher unemployment, although as Moore tells it, Canada doesn't really have any indigent people. I don't know about that -- maybe the US has more crazy people living in parks, maybe Canada locks up its crazy people -- certainly Moore doesn't spend a lot of time on this This is wrong. We can see them on the streets. No, he seems to say it's because we are afraid. We kill each other with guns because we are afraid of each other. This a thesis worth exploring rigorously. I've always been interested in this since I travelled in places with lots of guns but relatively low murder rates. The concept I found most interesting was the difference between Canadians and Americans. Apparently there are a lot of differences. I deal with a lot of US folk. When the US folk are here, they don't seem that much different from us. So the differences must show more when we are at home. If Moore's idea about fear is true, then how much is it exacerbated by the War On Drugs? If at all? I watch, not often, US local news and I am fascinated by all the crime stories. Watching the Seattle news with all those shots of folk being taken away with a tag on their toe gives me the first impression that Seattle must be the murder capital of the US, but actually it's way down on the list. (At least it was when I checked a few years ago). I live downtown in Victoria, a very quiet place, but I've run across folk who are afraid to come downtown because they think it's dangerous. When I ask why they think so it's usually because of the impression they got from the TV news. I don't watch the local TV news, I don't think downtown is very dangerous. That said, I don't think news media distortion is the total explanation.