[sky7i]

There is way more crime that happens than people get arrested or convicted for.

If you're talking about shoplifting or prostitution, then yes. If you're talking about blowing things up and killing people en masse, no.

You cannot base it on arrests and convictions. Besides, people can't be arrested for having radical ideas it is when they follow through on them.

Having radical ideas is not a crime-- if it were, then perhaps another 24% of the American population would be in prison, and the Asper family (see below) would be as well.

alluding to the Asper family's Jewish heritage as their 'agenda'

It's interesting how *you* singled out the Aspers' religious heritage, but not Conrad Black's or Rupert Murdoch's. Earlier I mentioned that I am very proud of the Muslims' record of protecting the Jews from virulent European anti-Semitism for centuries. Anyhow, in the Aspers' case I was refering to their draconian and unethical policies of:

(a) forcing local newspapers to run editorials promoting their own personal point of view on things like Israel and business policy AND forbidding the editors from publishing any editorials with an opposing point of view AS WELL AS forbidding the publication of letters from citizens with an opposing point of view -- dictating to the Canadian people, not informing or listening to them;

(b) firing employees who simply don't share their points of view on Israel, their pro-Jean Chretien views, and certain business issues;

(c) deliberately fudging Reuters articles that they reprint, illegally rewriting them to make the Palestinians look like the bad guys.

I strongly recommend that you read:
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200703010014
http://www.canwestwatch.org/

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression:
http://www.cjfe.org/specials/canwest/canwintro.html

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1106

Given that so much of the media is concentrated in their hands, this leads to Canadians having a very distorted, imbalanced picture when it comes to the Middle East conflict, or to domestic issues of corporate or political malfeasance. Do you like being kept in the dark on important policy issues by a single family?

There are, incidentally, many Jewish voices who *do* take an honest look at the Middle East conflict.