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I thought about this possibility overnight and it worries me. I do believe Obama comes from the U.S. but I don't believe he is committed to American traditions, law or the Constitution. His view of "change" is to smash away at these institutions.
I hope that if he tried to either cancel elections or find some "workaround" the term-limit amendment there would be a full-fledged rebellion. In that case I would support the use of force. This country is not Indonesia or some African country where leaders routinely suspend elections.
Dear god....you rube....they roll this chestnut out ever 4 years since forever.
Doesn't matter whom the president is, the guys selling gold and survival supplies start up the rumor mill and every single time it works with scared, weak=minded highly partisan suckers.
Reported crime. Greatest decrease in reported crime, which is simple if you change the rules on what counts as a reportable crime,
So your claim is that under the Clinton administration, the police departments of America all secretly fudged the crime numbers, in some vast national conspiracy?
Or is the more likely answer you just don't like Bill Clinton, so you would resort to completely outlandish claims to explain positive trends during the Clinton administration?
Dear god....you rube....they roll this chestnut out ever 4 years since forever.
Doesn't matter whom the president is, the guys selling gold and survival supplies start up the rumor mill and every single time it works with scared, weak=minded highly partisan suckers.
This President is pushing through climate change rules and international commitments such as the Iran "agreement" without required Congressional assent. This President seems capable of anything at all.
So your claim is that under the Clinton administration, the police departments of America all secretly fudged the crime numbers, in some vast national conspiracy?
Or is the more likely answer you just don't like Bill Clinton, so you would resort to completely outlandish claims to explain positive trends during the Clinton administration?
Actually, the FBI changed the way UCR is reported. Any department who did not go along with the change (and there were definitely hold outs) ended up having "high" crime relative to everyone else who had dropping crime. It was no secret conspiracy; you can look up the UCR changes yourself.
I voted for Bill twice and would have again if he could have run. But that doesn't gloss over that the drop in crime is partly a reporting artifact.
Some cities actually did hold on to the old standards (which are voluntary anyway) so they could get more grant money. More infamously, the state of Illinois refused to use a revised rape definition, resulting in them being dropped from uniform reporting (hence why Chicago never appear in those "most dangerous" lists that various publisher derived from the uniform reports).
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