Canadian Town Shocked by American's Reaction to Shopping Ad

Crossing the Canadian Border into America?

The residents of metro Detroit felt the Canadians from Leamington were taking potshots at them when they read an ad put out by the Uptown Leamington Business Improvement Association. In turn the Canadians were stunned and wondered if the Americans were thin skinned and lacked a sense of humor.

Some metro Detroit residents are seeing red because a small Canadian town known as the Tomato Capital of the World is slamming Detroit and the United States ina marketing campaign to keep Canadian shoppers from crossing the border.

The Uptown Leamington Business Improvement Association sent a list last month to 14,000 households in the town of 30,000 and the surrounding area detailing why Leamington -- with 200 unique shops -- is a better place to shop than southeast Michigan.

A look at what's on the list

1. Uptown Leamington has over 200 unique shops, restaurants and other attractions, takes your loonies and has the best service in North America.

2. With the gas and time you'll save, why risk it in a crazy foreign country?

3. Being strip searched at customs should not be part of your holiday shopping tradition.

4. No need to wear that new gown under your sweats coming back over the Ambassador.

5. American cashiers keep asking what Helen Mirren is doing on the Canadian twenty.

6. U.S. stores sooner ship to Guam than Essex County.

7. If you're going to downtown Detroit and you speak English ... good luck.

8. If you're going to downtown Detroit and you speak French ... good luck.

9. Distance from parking spaces to Somerset Mall entrance farther than your house to
10. U.S. Customs won't believe you are picking up Aunt Elsie at the airport for the third time this week.

Source: Uptown Leamington Business Improvement Association

Melanie Davis, president of the Macomb County Chamber of Commerce, took the high road while she had harsh words for the Tomato Capital of the World:

I would like to think that I could come up with some reasons to shop somewhere without having to take potshots at another community."

Hopefully the two communities will be able to "rise above" the current crisis and reach some sort of holiday "truce."

In the interim, we wondered, what language do they speak in downtown Detroit?

By LBG
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Source - Detroit Free Press

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Prosecutors Accused Of Being Child Predators Commit Suicide

The Tale Of Two Alleged Predators Posing As Prosecutors

Last October Assistant Federal Prosecutor John Atkinson killed himself after he was caught in a child sex sting.

In today's Houston Chronicle it was reported that child porn was found in a former District Attorney in Texas's home. Fifty seven year-old Louis “Bill” Conradt Jr., caught up in an internet child sex solicitation sting, shot himself last year when the cops showed up at his door.

Atchison’s perverse background was exposed when he was arrested and then arraigned September 17th in U.S. District Court in Detroit. The irony was that Atchison was an assistant U.S. Attorney from the northern district court of Florida.

According to the police Atchison solicited an undercover officer posing as a mother for the opportunity to have “sex” with her five-year-old daughter.

Atchison was arrested at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport and charged with “enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity.”

In deposition, detectives said Atchison suggested the mother tell her daughter that "you found her a sweet boyfriend who will bring her presents."

The undercover detective expressed concern about physical injury to the 5-year-old girl as a result of the sexual activity. Detectives said Atchison responded, " I am always gentle and loving; not to worry, no damage ever, no rough stuff ever. I only like it soft and nice."

The undercover detective asked how Atchison can be certain of no injury. He responded, "Just gotta go slow and very easy. I've done it plenty," according to detectives. Click On Detroit

Conradt, former Kaufman County District Attorney, was caught in an internet sting put together by the NBC show Dateline and the group, Perverted Justice. Conradt was accused of chatting online in a sexual manner with underage kids. A house was set up where those chatting online with the undercover adults were told they could meet the child. When Conradt failed to show up the cops went to his house armed with a search warrant and a Dateline camera crew.

The state investigation into Conradt's death found evidence of the online graphic chats, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety report released to The Dallas Morning News. The chat logs covered topics such as sex, erections and masturbation, according to the investigation.

Also, three laptops, a cell phone and several computer disks found in the home "all contained pornographic material (and) some included child pornography," according to the state's investigation.

The Texas Department of Public Safety asked the state attorney general to allow it to withhold some of the report's contents because it "contains images the Department believes may constitute child pornography."

The attorney general's office granted the request, saying: "The submitted documents consist of photographs of unidentified males who generally appear to be juveniles.
Houston Chronicle

Atchison hanged himself in prison on October 5th. He wrapped a bedsheet around the showerhead of his cell. He was 54 years old. Conradt shot himself in his home. He was 57.

Because they chose suicide neither man had a trial nor conviction, left in the land of the "alleged." This raises a point, both these men were prosecutors. If they were, in fact, pedophiles, what about the cases they prosecuted? Did any those cases involve child sex and/or child pornography cases?

Some might claim that these men were "unjustly" accused and therefore felt killing themselves was their only way out.

Others might have the opinion that these two men, when caught, took the only way they knew out. The fate of child molesters in prison is not a pretty one.

These two cases highlight the fact that predators can be found anywhere in our society. If these two men had been convicted then we would have had known predators in charge of prosecuting their fellow child molesters and pornographers.

As for Achison and Conradt, they chose a different route. Why did they choose suicide instead of trusting the legal system, their own profession? Why didn't they feel they could trust the courts where a man is innocent until proven guilty?

By LBG



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