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To: goldworldnet who wrote (409996)	12/18/2023 1:46:26 AM
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After nearly 11 years as a resident of DC, I was finally pushed to my breaking point and moved to the Commonwealth of Virginia this week. I’m writing this post to put it on record that I departed the District for one reason and one reason only: rampant crime. No one, nowhere, at no time is safe in the nation’s capital. People are mugged at 7am while commuting to work. Murders take place in broad daylight in the middle of the afternoon. A member of Congress was attacked inside her apartment building! DC is pushing to hit 1,000 carjackings this year — an all-time high that would blow the old record out of the water…and those are carjackings — that number doesn’t even include theft of unoccupied vehicles! I haven’t owned a car in years, but that didn’t make me feel any safer. Today, in Washington, DC, people are being robbed at gunpoint of their wallets, their phones, their winter coats — even their dogs! Pure-bred dogs are sold on the black market soon after their capture, while mutts are stolen and used to train pit bulls how to kill another dog. I didn’t dare walk my dog outside of my building’s dog park the last 2 months because losing him that way would break my heart. Did you hear about the CVS that has been robbed so many times that there are no longer items on the shelves? It made national news. That CVS was in my neighborhood. Photos of inventory are displayed on shelves and consumers have to point to what they want to purchase so staff can obtain it in the back of the store. Uh…sorry — this is not normal. It should not be normalized nor excused. 98% of America has never experienced a retail situation like that and never will. This is not the DC that I moved to in January of 2013. Amazing how much the place has changed in just a decade. How did this shocking decline happen in such a short time? In 2020 the @councilofdc , led by @BrianneKNadeau and @charlesallen , demolished the city in the name of “equity.” I’m not sure what that means, but I do know that after what I’ve seen, if you ever hear a politician or policymaker use the term “equity,” don’t walk — run as far and as fast as you can. As far as I’ve been able to see, the only thing “equitable” policies do is facilitate lawlessness. The DC City Council defunded the police. MPD is stretched to the brink, but even when they put their lives on the line and make arrests, prosecutors drop charges and put felons back on the street hours after they’re taken into custody. Only suckers like me pay to ride Metro anymore — dozens of people can be seen hopping turnstiles at every station, all day every day. Most all of the crime in DC is committed by repeat offenders who realize there are no consequences to their actions. Teachers are attacked by students. Children as young as 11 are committing armed robbery! Enough! I am now a Virginian, living in a place that respects the rule of law. There was a special satisfaction I felt when I learned that the day I departed the nation’s capital because I was done with all the crime in DC, the Washington Capitals and Wizards announced that they, too, would be moving the teams to Virginia because of all the crime in DC — a move that will leave the open-air drug markets as the only remaining “commerce” left in Gallery Place when all is said and done. The abrupt announcement of the departure of the Caps and Wizards was a total embarrassment to DC leadership, both because they had no idea it was coming, and because they couldn’t do a thing about it. DC Metro is reducing service because it’s operating at a deficit, schools are falling apart, MPD desperately needs more resources, and the city has a housing crisis — but when it comes to funding a pro sports stadium, the DC City Council immediately “found” and unanimously approved half-a-billion dollars to keep the teams in DC?? Give me a break! If by some miracle that does happen, it’s law-abiding DC taxpayers who will be on the hook to underwrite it. I will not be one of those people. DC has made comebacks before, but the current state of the city is going to take years to turn around, if it happens at all. I didn’t want to be one of the people who waits around to find out. This week I became one of the thousands of former DC residents fed up with crime in the nation’s capital who had the means to go elsewhere, and did. Good luck, DC — you’re going to need it. @MurielBowser @FeverPotomac @alanhenney @dccrimefacts @RealTimeNews10 @PoPville @teoarmus After nearly 11 years as a resident of DC, I was finally pushed to my breaking point and moved to the Commonwealth of Virginia this week. I’m writing this post to put it on record that I departed the District for one reason and one reason only: rampant crime. No one, nowhere, at… pic.twitter.com/N5WnWl8PCM — Gregory T. Angelo (@gregorytangelo) December 15, 2023

To: goldworldnet who wrote (409996)	12/18/2023 3:27:09 AM
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Correction: The UAE doesn't have any F-35 yet. The deal was originally under Trump and may not be dead, but appears to have stalled. * * *