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Communism as usual:

North Korea has increased its public executions against cell phone users and those who circulate outside information in the communist country, a South Korean government think tank said Thursday.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181813030361&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

What the heck is going on in this country?
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Man receives 'slap on wrist' for severely beating infant

Jeremy Ashley / The Intelligencer
A Madoc man who attacked a four-week-old girl, crushing eight of the infant's ribs and breaking an arm and a leg was sentenced to 18 months in community custody earlier this week.

Darren Wadforth, 23, was found guilty Monday of aggravated assault in Picton court in connection to an incident at a Picton home in June 2005.

He will spend the first half of his sentence under house arrest with electronic monitoring.

Wadforth was also ordered to perform 240 hours of community service, undergo counselling and must not be allowed with a child under 12 without another adult present.

read the full article at
http://www.intelligencer.ca/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=567962&catname=Local%20News&classif=

Surprise, surprise:

Taliban Jack Layton-NDP's taliban forces include Muslim Islamist murderers from outside Afghanistan's borders.
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Insurgents massing in volatile district
Hard-core fighters have infiltrated the region where Trooper Caswell died, official says

KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — The district where a Canadian soldier died this week has been infiltrated by Arab and Chechen fighters who form the notorious hard core of the insurgency, a senior military official says. ...-
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070614.wafghan14/BNStory/Front

10 digit dialing for all local calls coming to Alberta this September.

I can't find a link but just heard it on the news on QR77.

How come no discussion on Calvert's intention to sue the feds?

For some cockamammy reason I got this posted in the comments on the Wheat Board. Not too swift this a.m.

Assuming Calvert is dumb enough to take the Feds to curt over equalization, does that mean that, because the issue is in court there would be no "equalization payments" until the issue is settled. That could take quite a while.

I figure Calvert is dumb enough to do it.

Just thought I'd bring up the topic of Tuesday's byelection in Alberta, where the Liberals won former premier Ralph Klein's seat. I am stunned that could happen, but with some after thought, I can see how it might come to pass! Just thinking this might be a good 'heads up' to SK. Con. MP's, as we still have no action on CWB wheat, we still have a gun reg. costing as much to run as when the Liberals were in power, we have the flip flop on equalization and the differing postions between whats good for Atlantic areas and whats good for SK. when it comes to nonrenewable resourses, we have the flip flop on 'Trusts' ( i wouldn't be surprised if that didn't play into the anti Con. vote in Calgary!) plus we're caught not paying the full cost for soldier's funerals, not dealing with the native protesters at Caldonia, and buying into the religion of Global Warming !!! Carl

http://tinyurl.com/2jbgao

BC: Natives and Residences could "tee off" over land claims.
This is going to wake the sleeping public up! Not till it hits them in the golf course will they start paying attention to what the governments are trying giving away.

Update on the CBC's Great Canadian Wish List contest.

As you may have heard, the CBC is holding a contest on facebook. The idea is that you suggest a wish, people vote for it and the wish with the most votes gets covered on the CBC on Canada Day.

Well, "Abolish Abortion" has been number one for a while now. It was featured on the CBC local news on Tuesday in various locations across Canada. By CBC standards, the pro-lifers were given platinum treatment-- the segment was entirely devoted to that wish.

Of course, that rallied the pro-choicers. Now there is even a call (From Audra Williams' Your Dirty Answer) to recruit ANYONE even NON-CANADIANS to vote for the #2 wish-- which is to keep Canada pro-choice. Audra says that if the pro-lifers won "the optics would be bad".

You just know that the leftists would be the FIRST to scream if pro-lifers did that.

And of course, I've been the object of accusations of sock puppetry and other dishonest tactics. They can't imagine that pro-lifers are winning with a "clean" campaign.

I've also seen that at least one feminist is taking a list of all the websites that advertized the contest and encouraged others to vote for the pro-life option-- the idea being that it was "dishonest" for pro-lifers to advertize to pro-life audiences. Never mind that the CBC Wish List contest instructions ENCOURAGE mobilizing others to join.

For anyone who wants to participate, The Great Canadian Wish List contest is here. There are lots of good conservative wishes to choose from. Besides fetal rights, I've supported an Elected Accountable Senate, Israel, and Privatize the CBC, A spirital Revival, and Traditional Marriage.

Carl:

I don't buy your reasoning. The Alberta PCs aren't the same party as the CPCs. And Albertans know this. Just like how the BC Liberals are nothing like the LPC.

The results of the Calgary by-election are reflective of Alberta Provincial issues and not Canadian Federal issues.

The Arab version of a public service announcement

http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1480wmv&ak=null

More poll results. It's a verifiable poll.
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Major markets notch big gains on US strength

Vancouver Sun - 7 hours ago
US markets had their best one-day gain in 11 months. Retail sales and mortgage applications showed unexpected strength, and the US Federal Reserve released a tame inflation outlook that sent bond yields lower. (google news)

Sandy: Harper shows compassion meeting with widow

This is going to be a “good news” post — for a change — one that praises an elderly woman for her chutzpah and the prime minister for his ability to stop what he is doing and listen to a citizen of this country. So, if good news and compliments about our prime minister’s ability to show compassion and leadership is not something you want to hear about, read no further.

Usually the first thing I do in the morning is check out what Jack has listed on “Canada” at Jack’s Newswatch, then Bourque and National Newswatch — in no particular order. Since I am tired of all the hysteria and nastiness in Ottawa, which I am sure many readers are as well, I was hoping to find something uplifting today.

So, as soon as I saw the Globe and Mail article about the war widow, I knew I had a winner. What it showed was: ...-
http://crux-of-the-matter.com/?p=163
(via jack's newswatch)

Here is the sneering, hateful screed from G-M Taber:

Widow gets one-on-one with Harper
PM is lectured on keeping promises

JANE TABER
From Thursday's Globe and Mail

OTTAWA — Joyce Carter is 80 years old, five feet tall, diabetic, afraid to fly and had never been to Ottawa. She says that several years ago she would have been too shy even to speak to an MP.

Yesterday, however, this all changed, as Mrs. Carter - having flown from Nova Scotia to Ottawa - took on Prime Minister Stephen Harper, shaming him into inviting her into his office for a meeting and then proceeding to lecture him for 13 minutes on the importance of keeping his promise.

He apologized to her. And then, she said, he said that in the next budget he will extend a home-care program, called the Veterans Independence Program, to the widows of all Second World War and Korean War veterans. This is what she has been after. ...-

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-- NEW YORK -- Colgate-Palmolive Co. [CL-N] said Thursday
counterfeit "Colgate" toothpaste that may contain a toxic
chemical had been found in discount stores in four U.S. states.

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Warning about Couriers. Alert your boss, get a raise.

Businesses, banks and credit unions send bags of your and my personal information across town for processing. Organized crime offers the underpaid courier guy a C-note and suddenly our identity and accounts are at risk of being harvested.

This just happened here in Courtenay. We got a letter from our Credit Union where I keep a small balance. The letter warned of a security breach.

I went to the CU and learned that the customer accounts data bag and the courier both vanished on the way to processing in Comox.

Take a closer look at your courier for security and bonding issues. You can save a few dollars by using the same people who deliver pizzas, but also lose customers you depend upon.

How many people at the Credit Union moved their 3K to a new bank for safety as I did?

Pinching a few dollars on courier service will cost them plenty.

Ask your bank manager who they use as courier. Show him / her this note. = TG

On 10-digit dialing:

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2007/14/c4668.html

On Omar Khadr:

http://www.am770chqr.com/station/blog_the_world_tonight.cfm?bid=13358&m=6&y=2007

Re: Calvert's rampage about "broken promises".

Does anybody here from Saskatchewan have the resources to compile a list of Calvert's own broken promises?

How about Danny William's. I heard there was an Indian band who were going to take HIM on for broken promises.

Related - if circumstances change or more details come to light or if there is opposition to a political campaign pledge or the promises turns out that it would be bad for Canada overall should the promise still be kept?

Re: The Equalization - 7 out of 10 provinces NIXED excluding 100% of resource revenues in the formula. The Premiers met 4 times and had NO concensus. This tells me that 7 provinces were opposed to Calvert, Williams and Rodney in their own negotiations and could not come to any agreements.

An independant panel led by O'Brien had to break the stalemate to broker the new formula. Harper insisted that the Atlantic Accords which gave NS & NL revenues from off shore oil which is normally federal jurisdiction be kept intact as he had promised. That was done.

7 out of 10 provinces were okay with taking 50% of non renewable resources into account as part of the formula as in the O'Brien formula. 3 out of 10 opposed.

In a democracy 7 out of 10 trumps 3 out of 10. That was fair if not totally what the PM originally wanted.

So what would YOU do in the same situation?

Gunther Grass gets joined to the Waffen SS and experiences death, fear and collapse.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/04/070604fa_fact_grass

Reid, at June 14, 2007 11:32 AM is correct to say, **The Alberta PCs aren't the same party as the Fed PCs. And Albertans know this.**

Carl, at June 14, 2007 11:21 AM is correct with the his short neat list of knots that need fixing by Harper PCs.

Maz2 [just above], ties these together with War Widow Mrs. Wright who shames Harper into inviting her into his office for a meeting and then proceeds to lecture him for 13 minutes on the importance of keeping his promise.[es]

PCs performance and the keeping of promises is what we will be voting on next election. How the Feds take care Carl*s short list of knots will make all the difference.= TG

TG:

If you're going to quote someone's post you shouldn't edit it.

If you look at my post I did NOT say "Fed PCs." I did not say this because there is no such thing. The provincial party is "The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta." The federal party is "The Conservative Party of Canada." Completely different entities.

Someone asked me about the CBC's Wish List Contest--

You have to Register for an account on facebook to both access the pages AND participate.

Not only is Alberta going to 10 digit dialing there's a new area code being added: 587.

But, the new area code applies to ALL new numbers in Alberta regardless of where you live. At least with the current 403 & 780 divisions you have an idea of what part of the province the number is from. But you won't know with the new code.

Reid, True. Caught in the act, I am. = TG

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One of the disadvantages of not living in the big city...
if you're a repeat dickhead... chances are the local
cops will be only too happy to fill your dance card.

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Muslims murder each other and gloat.
Islam: Mohammed says to Muslims, Kill Muslims and gloat.
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Scandal: Video of Opposition News Anchor Gloating At The Death of Walid Eido

The News anchor didn’t notice she left the mic on: “What took them so long to kill him?” she asked her “hajj” co-worker as they both giggled.

VIDEO LINK

According to March14’s website, she also said “I wonder if Ahmad Fatfat is next” and “How many are left before we get rid of the majority?”, but that was not evident from the video.

Unfortunately, her schadenfreude is secretely shared by many pro-Syrian opposition members who are all too happy their opponents are being eliminated one by one. Shame on them.

Unless Nabih Berri, the owner of the TV station (and supposedly a “moderate” in the March 8 opposition) immediately dismisses her, we will all conclude that his position is the same as hers. ...-
Link to video here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1850198/posts

CANADIAN TAXPAYERS ASSN. TO HARPER: "END NATIVE OCCUPATION AND CUT SN OFFER BY 46 MILLION"

http://www.caledoniawakeupcall.com/updates/070613cta.html

"Six Nations Should End Protest and Pay Costs
Reduce Government Offer $30 to $46 million

By Kevin Gaudet, Canadian Taxpayers Association
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

The federal government has made an offer of $125 million to Ontario's Six Nations to resolve four outstanding land claims. This offer sends a message to natives everywhere in Canada that the rule of law will not be enforced and that occupations will end with a cash offer. With June 29th looming, when native communities have planned a national day of protest, governments should make it clear that they will not negotiate with occupiers. A starting point would be to present the Six Nations a bill for the costs incurred during the Caledonia standoff."

An interesting development! I
m sure CBC is disappointed!

Prisoner of Taliban is and Arab!

KABUL (Reuters) - A member of Afghanistan's U.S.-led coalition force who has gone missing is a United Arab Emirates national, a coalition official said on Thursday.

The official, who declined to be identified, gave no further details about the male soldier who the Taliban say they kidnapped in the southern province of Helmand on Wednesday.

A UAE government official said on Wednesday a member of a team providing security for a UAE aid mission in Afghanistan had gone missing.

Rival gangs -sorry- rival Palestinian political parties going at it in Gaza.

http://phantomsoapbox.blogspot.com/2007/06/punks-with-guns.html

What the hell is wrong with lefties????

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=2b67ab9a-8d3b-4520-9d25-3bf4a578e0f1&k=84121

I say we have Kadhr stay at Ed Broadbent's house if he's so enamoured with him.

And do we really want this a$$hat staying in Canada?

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=e01bab77-5256-446d-8ffc-2d7709b36acd&k=98405

So what's wrong with 10 digit phone numbers? With the number of cell phone users on the rise there is not really any choice. I gave up trying to decipher which area code belongs where. The area code on my cell doesn't change when I'm in Nevada, Ontario or Texas. Whether it's 403, 780 or now 587, you will have a pretty good idea it's an Alberta (or NWT)call or at least the phone was registered there. You can always opt for caller ID.

Texas Canuck. I don't have a problem with it. Just breaking the news.

The one problem I see with how they are implementing it is with respect to long distance dialing. An inconvenience if you will. But since the new area code can be located anywhere in the province, if you just have the phone number you won't know for certain if you need a "1" or not. But that's no different than the current situation with 403 or 780. I think the phone companies should get rid of the "1" entirely for domestic long distance. The computer systems used to log the calls know when a call is LD regardless of if there's a 1 or not.

On a lighter note.

Six-year-old Connie Talbot singing on Britain's Got Talent

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zBxt_w8_zQ&eurl=

Speaking of battling Muslims: there's been a state of emergency declared in Palestine. Hamas has 'taken it to the streets' against al-Fatah.

Ten digit dialing...sounds like a poorly conceived plan by Telus. Just for starters every directory needs to publish a ten digit number now. You see a phone number on a sign and have no idea which area code it is in. All the current business advertising would have to consider changing to add the area code.

How do they do it in Texas?

The headline you will never see:

"Saskatchewan NDP refuses to honour Kyoto commitments"

http://taxpayersfederation.blogspot.com/2007/06/headline-you-wont-see.html

Hot off the presses over at Steven Taylor's...

Looks like an adjournment of the HOC is coming tomorrow.

http://www.stephentaylor.ca/archives/000851.html

Bye bye Chapters and Amazon:

"Buying a book could soon be as easy as buying a pack of gum. After several years in development, the Espresso - a $50,000 vending machine with a conceivably infinite library - is nearly consumer-ready and will debut in ten to 25 libraries and bookstores in 2007. The New York Public Library is scheduled to receive its machine in February.

The company behind the Espresso is called On Demand Books, founded by legendary book editor Jason Epstein, 78, and Dane Neller, 56, but the technology was developed six years ago by Jeff Marsh, who is a technology advisor for New York City-based ODB. The machine can print, align, mill, glue and bind two books simultaneously in less than seven minutes, including full-color laminated covers."

money.cnn.com/popups/2006/fsb/nextlittlething/2.html

All is c-a-l-m.
NYSlimes says no Civil War in Iraq.
Gotta be true iffen the Slimes says its true.

The bad news: Them Muslims is killing mosques. To use a cliche from the MSM-leftists: It's a step forward.
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Several Mosques Attacked, but Iraq Is Mostly Calm
New York Times (google news)

Check out the populations of NS and SK and you will find their populations are very small. One would thing the premiers could balance the budgets! Do they realize the money comes from taxpayers in the other provinces?

Wikipedia: The island of Newfoundland has a population (2001) of 466,172. However, it is common to consider all directly neighbouring islands such as New World, Twillingate, Fogo and Bell Islands to be 'part of Newfoundland' (as distinct from Labrador). By that measure, the population is (2001) 485,066

Billy Graham's wife, Ruth, just passed away.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/14/ruth.graham.ap/index.html

MONTREAT, North Carolina (AP) -- Ruth Graham, who surrendered dreams of missionary work in Tibet to marry a suitor who became the world's most renowned evangelist, died Thursday. She was 87.

You remember Jordan Manners, the 15 year old kid who was gunned down inside C.W. Jefferys C.I. in North York (Toronto).

You heard that in the wee hours of June 14, 2007 Toronto police conducted a major anti-gang raid, arresting and charging upwards of 60 people.

But did you know that it's now being whispered that Jordan Manners' sister is one of the gun-tottin' criminals picked up by police?

Ontario Premier fully backs PM Harper on budget. Says equalization is already rich enough.

[ "The point I'm making to Prime Minister Harper is don't enter into any kind of new arrangement that somehow gives people living in equalization-receiving provinces a greater fiscal capacity than ours. That is not fair," McGuinty told a provincial Liberal fundraiser.]

Danny $Millions will go ballistic :)

[ In an interview later, McGuinty also urged his federal Liberal cousins in the Senate, who have sided primarily with Saskatchewan and the two Atlantic provinces in the budget battle, to pass the budget implementation bill quickly - and without changes.]

[ As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central (now global) planning.] Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9deb730a-19ca-11dc-99c5-000b5df10621.html

Para President Gore and Czech President on opposite ends of political spectrum.

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Over here it's safe injection sites.
In Britain... they're calling for
"safe houses"... for gang-bangers.

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Waiting room today. Time magazine's pick for 'those that made a difference'.

Albert Gore and Rosie O and others I never heard of.

Guess who did Al's wrong up ?? James Hansen.

Said Gore knew a lot about climate. Bold face lie. He doesn't even know what sea level is. Believes in the 'hockey stick graph' fraud. Doesn't know why it is called Greenland. To mention a few.

Full blown Tabloid.

Tabloid Tabloid Tabloid

[ AP
New York Times May Ad Revenue Drops
Thursday June 14, 10:19 am ET
New York Times May Advertising Revenue Down 8.5 Percent, Internet Ad Sales Up ]

C-change happening in the media world. More to come.

When the print media dominated, just a short time ago, people would read, say the New York Times, and that was that. Not easy to compare.

Today, even if someone is on the NYT's web site looking at the ads, a simple 'click' and presto !! A different, and likely better take on the news straight from Delisle, Saskatchewan.

The playing field is leveling. Has been 'slanted' badly ever since German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg, invented the printing press in 1440. Seems like an eternity :(

These guns for hire
The guns -- some available for rent -- are off the street but you'd never know it
Toronto Sun

...for the first 10 minutes of the news conference yesterday the media seemed focused elsewhere. It was shocking. It was like there was an agenda to spin this somehow against the police when it was the police's day.

The most outrageous of all was some sort of speech/question by a CBC reporter about "predominately white cops" raiding a "predominately black neighbourhood."

This one took the award as most disgraceful and the whole line of questioning was embarrassing because all of this anti-cop rhetoric was right in front of a table full of guns and photo evidence of more than $1 million in illegal narcotics and the seizure of more than $200,000 in cash...

Radical Islam's "End-Game"

Terrorism

A friend of mine said recently, “We shouldn’t even be there. Let them kill each other. I mean, that would solve the problem. Right?” I thought about that statement as I read the news coming out of the Gaza Strip. As Hamas and al-Fatah literally battle to the death for supremacy in their region, it is crucial that we take the time – right now – to understand what it is they’re fighting about. The truth is our lives depend on it.

To look at the situations in Iraq and Gaza as separate conflicts is to view them in a naïve and overly simplistic way. True, the battles taking place in Gaza are more akin to a civil war, if in fact a civil war can take place without a recognized country to govern. And the battles taking place in Iraq are almost completely instigated at the hands of al Qaeda terrorists hell-bent on creating chaos with violence while destroying any chance of democracy in that nation. But what the less visionary among us are deficient in understanding and neglectful or deceitful in not addressing is the reason they are fighting, their goal, their end-game.
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If we are to take the leaders of the Islamofascist movement at their word – and the leaders of the United States and the West have been delinquent in accepting the declarations of fascists in the past, so much so that world war has ensued – we can only surmise that the battles taking place between Sunni and Shi’ite factions in Iraq, Gaza and elsewhere in the world are for dominance in what they perceive as an inevitable global Islamic Caliphate.

It is crucial that the United States government – and all the governments of the West – dispense with the political infighting that currently holds hostage national unity and the collective will, so we can defend ourselves from the inevitable full-scale confrontation with an emboldened and strengthening Islamofascist movement. The first step to achieving this unity is an honest, comprehensive understanding of the enemy. The education to achieve that end must begin immediately.

Make no mistake. We are essentially re-visiting the ominous days of 1938. It took everything that the freedom loving people of the world could muster to vanquish evil then. This time we may not be so lucky. This time the forces of evil will have nuclear capability. ...-
http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/fsalvato/terrorism/06152007.htm

Check for Librano$ brown envelopes.
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Missing Liberal money triggers probe

About $16,000 has vanished from a London federal Liberal riding association, triggering a police investigation.

The probe comes amid indications an official with the party's Ontario wing offered a way to keep a lid on the issue. ...-

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2007/06/15/4262216-sun.html

meanwhile, the good law students teach students respect

The Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente writes

"Shortly after the shooting death of Jordan Manners, the 15-year-old Toronto student, eighth-grade students at nearby Oakdale Park Middle School were called to an assembly. The subject: relations with the police. It's a hot issue in that part of town. The community is in an uproar over the shooting and allegations are flying that police have been heavy-handed in their hunt for Jordan's killer.

But the group invited by the school to address the students weren't interested in improving relations with the police. They were there to fan the flames. Their message to the 12- and 13-year-olds was simple: Don't trust the cops. They are not your friends. They deserve to be hated and feared, because they are bullying, brutal and racist. For good measure, they handed out an offensive little leaflet called "Survival Tactics: Dealing with Police." It kicks off with a reference to Rodney King, the black man who was beaten up by the Los Angeles police several years before these kids were born. "Although it may be difficult, be polite when they are insulting and bullying you," the brochure reads.

Who were these anti-cop propagandists? They were law students from nearby Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. They are volunteers with an outfit called Community and Legal Aid Services Programme, CLASP.

Glenn Stuart, who directs the program, told me that CLASP works with many local schools, starting as early as Grade 5. Its goal is to teach the kids their "rights." In these sessions, students are encouraged to relate incidents of police harassment and alleged brutality. Each kid gets a wallet-sized reminder entitled "Know Your Rights." It has an illustration of upraised fists - presumably representing the masses rising up against their oppressors.

Needless to say, the police aren't included in these programs. That's because they're the enemy.

In fact, Toronto's police have made admirable efforts to expand community policing and outreach programs. Some officers spend hours of their own time volunteering with youth groups. And yet the cone of silence remains an tough obstacle to solving crimes and protecting the community from thugs."