America - a life "British people can only dream"

says the BBC!! This from Justin Webb no less, whose infamous admission that he distorts the true picture of America adorns the masthead of this blog.

Justin has been living in America for 6 years and is having difficulty resovling the distored picture of America he wants to portray to the world, one the BBC wants to promote, and the true America. Just listen.

"What surprises the British tourists is that, in areas of the US that look and feel like suburban Britain, there is simply less crime and much less violent crime.

Doors are left unlocked, public telephones unbroken.

One reason - perhaps the overriding reason - is that there is no public drunkenness in polite America, simply none.

I have never seen a group of drunk young people in the entire six years I have lived here. I travel a lot and not always to the better parts of town.

It is an odd fact that a nation we associate - quite properly - with violence is also so serene, so unscarred by petty crime, so innocent of brawling. "

How can it be both Justin? How can it be "so serene" and "so innocent of brawling" and yet "quite properly" associated with violence? Because the BBC and left wing reporters like Justin want it that way.