Man Who Dismisses US Urban Violence As Sensationalized Afraid To Visit Israel Because Of Media Reports

“It’s agitators who want you to be scared, because scared people are easier to control.”

New York, May 8 – A suburban resident of the Tri-State Area known to downplay journalists’ accounts of unrest, mayhem, and murder in various big cities across the country has also expressed reservations about traveling to see Masada, Jerusalem, the Galilee, and various pilgrimage and tourist sites, given the frequent journalist accounts of terrorist attacks in the Jewish State.

Local friends and acquaintances noted that Alan Crawford, 50, of Norwalk, Connecticut, has commented with derision on multiple occasions that media stories of violence in San Francisco, Oakland, Portland, Chicago, and New York itself paint a false picture of the situation, which in reality features only small amounts of violence in otherwise-peaceful settings, and that those stories serve a political agenda. In discussing possible travel destinations with friends and family, Mr. Crawford has shied away from committing to destinations in Israel, because he fears the political violence that media have reported there, making it seem that a stabbing, shooting, automotive, or rocket attack lurks around every street corner.

“Those reports are all sensationalized,” stated Crawford, a floor manager at an area Home Depot, in reference to items in his social media feeds about major store chains closing their branches in the San Francisco Bay area amid the city’s refusal to prosecute or deter shoplifting, and an epidemic of car burglaries there. “It was also true with the so-called riots in Portland a few years ago – you had to go looking for the trouble, when most of the city was cam and peaceful. It’s agitators who want you to be scared, because scared people are easier to control.”

Crawford also ruled out a family trip to Israel last year, two years ago, and six years ago, when finances permitted such an expense, because of occasional media reports of terrorist violence there. Instead, the five members of the Crawford family, including Alan’s eighty-year-old mother Joyce, spent a week and a half in Italy and Greece, where their passports were stolen and Joyce fell victim to pickpockets.

“Maybe we’ll go to Disney World later this year,” Crawford suggested today. “That is, if the company doesn’t decide to take their business out of Florida because of DeSantis. I understand they’re lining up trans people in Florida, forcing them to remove their anti-COVID masks, and executing them by mass-misgendering. Then they’re trafficking asylum seekers to hellholes such as Martha’s Vineyard, which as everyone knows can’t afford to care for them.”

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