Having travelled to Europe a fair bit on business at one time, I try not to lecture other countries about their problems or how to solve them.
Most of my trips were to England, and it seemed whenever I would go to a pub, some inebriated local would detect the presence of an American and stick his face in mine and lecture me about our gun problem and our lack of control over our blacks and our women. Assuming he knew all he needed to know about me and my country of origin by watching TV and movies. Luckily, they were very unlikely to be carrying firearms, so it didn’t progress beyond a tongue lashing. Also, everyone I actually knew or worked with over there was just the nicest person you’d ever want to meet. Plus they have that goofy royal family, and mediocre food that a Frenchman probably wouldn’t feed to his dog, so it’s hard to get mad at them. Of course we have our own goofy royal family now too, so I can’t feel superior about that. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of SmarterBroadband Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 5:11 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Politics Stop listening to alt-facts, fake news. Politifact says that is not true. If we look specifically at sex offences, which the Fox News segment highlighted, there were 18,100 sex offenses reported to the police in 2015, down 11 percent from 2014, according to the <https://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statistics/rape-and-sex-offences.html> Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention. The number of rapes reported decreased 12 percent between 2014 and 2015, to 5,920, the agency reported. The council noted that in Sweden, when a single case is reported, every incident associated with the case is also reported as an offense during the same year. The amount of reported rape offenses has gone up in the last 10 years (2006-15), which the agency said can be partially attributed to new legislation in 2005 that augmented the types of acts that can be classified as rape. "The effect of the statutory change appeared in the statistics such that the number of reported offences in respect of sexual coercion and exploitation declined in the years immediately following the statutory change while the number of reported rapes increased," according to the agency. In 2013, a rape offense was broadened "to include cases where the victim reacts passively." And on crime "In general, crime statistics have gone down the last (few) years, and no there is no evidence to suggest that new waves of immigration has lead to increased crime," From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Cameron Crum Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 2:38 PM To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Politics I think any rational person who has followed the news about the refugee situation in Europe would have figured out exactly what he meant. A 70% increase in rapes in the last couple years in Sweden is a pretty good indication that there is a problem there. If any city, let alone our whole country, had seen this much of an increase, you know you'd be hearing about it. Swedish authorities took a lot of heat for covering up the number of assaults recently at the Stockholm Music Festival, but I don't think to many news outlets over here even reported it. On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> > wrote: 2 & 2 is 22, give the guy some credit -----Original Message----- From: Bill Prince Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 2:30 PM To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Politics No. He heard "something" on Fox about "something" in Sweden. He put 2 and 2 together and got 11. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 2/20/2017 1:22 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: I am guessing something happened in some other country and he got confused. Or, better yet, he was spilling the beans on some kind of intelligence without thinking. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Prince Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 1:41 PM To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Politics Is that what happened in Sweden? Sweden! Sweden? Sweden! Really? Sweden?!? bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 2/20/2017 11:37 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: >From the news: Russia's ambassador to the United Nations . . . died suddenly after falling ill Monday in his office at the mission. We all know what that means...
