Pogo The Clown wrote: ↑Wed Jan 23, 2019 6:17 pm
All things considered Spokane is one of the better cities left in this country. Definitely a much better place to live then most of the east coast cities these guys are from.
You'd love Spokane. There used to be a huge skinhead population there in the 1980s and 90s, not sure about today but I'm sure it still leans that way. Eastern Washington is a much different world from the Seattle area. It's true for Oregon as well as I'm sure you know.
Oh I'm familiar with the regions history. I've followed it like I follow LCN. A few years ago I visited Spokane. Great city indeed. That whole Spokane-Spokane Valley-Coeur d'Alene area is beautiful. Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho is truly Gods country (as is the Northwst in general).
Pogo
It's a new morning in America... fresh, vital. The old cynicism is gone. We have faith in our leaders. We're optimistic as to what becomes of it all. It really boils down to our ability to accept. We don't need pessimism. There are no limits.
Pogo The Clown wrote: ↑Wed Jan 23, 2019 6:17 pm
All things considered Spokane is one of the better cities left in this country. Definitely a much better place to live then most of the east coast cities these guys are from.
You'd love Spokane. There used to be a huge skinhead population there in the 1980s and 90s, not sure about today but I'm sure it still leans that way. Eastern Washington is a much different world from the Seattle area. It's true for Oregon as well as I'm sure you know.
Oh I'm familiar with the regions history. I've followed it like I follow LCN. A few years ago I visited Spokane. Great city indeed. That whole Spokane-Spokane Valley-Coeur d'Alene area is beautiful. Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho is truly Gods country (as is the Northwst in general).
Pogo
the skinhead history??? did u ever read that book i recomended to u years ago about the guy infiltrated neo nazi gangs?
No I never got around to it. Though I did see the movie it inspired (Imperium). A good book on the area during the 70s and 80s is The Silent Brotherhood.
Pogo
It's a new morning in America... fresh, vital. The old cynicism is gone. We have faith in our leaders. We're optimistic as to what becomes of it all. It really boils down to our ability to accept. We don't need pessimism. There are no limits.
Also, consider that OC in Canada has been way behind the states. Montreal wasnt really founded until the 50s, so I’m sure it’s taken Canadian law enforcement a few decades to catch on how powerful the mob is up there. This shit is a secret, right? Not like the mob puts out a press release when they open a new branch in a new town. It takes people a while to realize how bad the problem is.
I mean, it took the US about 100 years after the mob came over from Italy to both make RICO a law and to actually figure out how to put it to use in the 80s. Only then did we really start seeing the huge busts and tons of guys flipping.
Same thing in Italy, it took their government forever to even acknowledge the mafia existed or to make membership in a family even a crime. This stuff didnt happen until Falcone and Borsellino in the 80s.
So I don’t think it’s that Canada’s laws are that much more lax, it’s more their policing hasnt caught up to, say, the FBI. I mean, the FBI has like multiple decades of hard core OC investigations under their belt now, but that took them forever to get off their asses and realize how to do multi-year complex invstigations. Like, Joe Pistone undercover for six years durng the seventies changed everything because nothing like that had ever been done before.
Canada will get there eventually, it just takes time.
I've followed it like I follow LCN. A few years ago I visited Spokane. Great city indeed. That whole Spokane-Spokane Valley-Coeur d'Alene area is beautiful. Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho is truly Gods country (as is the Northwst in general). 
