First let me say that I am not advocating for the crime of murder. I
am sardonically criticizing the logic of author Vicky Osterweil’s
new book, In Defense of Looting.
In an interview
with NPR, she says of looting: “You're mass shoplifting. Most
stores are insured; it's just hurting insurance companies on some
level. It's just money. It's just property. It's not actually hurting
any people.”
Nobody gets hurt. At least, nobody "Ms." (tranny) Osterweil cares about. Like
the shop owners with no insurance because they can’t afford it.
And shop owners whose insurance rates skyrocket or have their
coverage dropped because of the increased risk. How about the
law-abiding residents of the community, who now have lost their
stores and restaurants as well as their jobs when the owners move
away and don’t rebuild.
But no looters are harmed, unless they are cut by broken glass when
they step through a shattered store window while carrying an armful
of Gucci purses. It’s just grassroots-level wealth redistribution
from the rich to the poor, per the logic of leftists. But it is the
honest middle class and poor who end up suffering the most.
I also suppose Ms. Osterweil doesn’t consider the death of retired
St. Louis police captain David Dorn to be of consequence, even though
he was killed defending a friend’s store from looters during the
George Floyd riots. It was cold-blooded murder, but the left and
their media downplayed it because a criminal killing a black cop does
not support The Cause.
The Cause is radical collectivist revolution, where free-market
capitalism is destroyed, along with our American heritage, our
Constitution, and Judeo-Christian culture and religion. There is no
Utopia there, and never will be. The radical leaders will never be
satisfied, or reach a state of equilibrium. Demands on their
subjects will be ever-increasingly burdensome, irrational and
endless.
There are no principles or ethics that supersede The Cause. The law
does not supersede it. Like the concept of Islamic “taqiyya”,
lying in support of The Cause is no sin, but rather it is encouraged.
Everything and everyone else is expendable and dangerous if they
threaten The Cause, and must be eliminated.
As the saying goes, “The issue is not the issue. The issue is the
revolution.” For the left, everything is political, and politics
is war. Power and control are the spoils. They are a formidable
enemy to the America we cherish and those of us who defend it.
Unfortunately, it is now obvious we have a divided country. Nothing
is going to put it back together again. The left is too far
radicalized, a fate they imposed on themselves. This radical faction
has taken over the Democrat party, the news media, the education
systems, and even the major global corporations. One side must
completely defeat the other and relegate them to a state of
irrelevance.
Right now, the left is actively fighting this war. They are using
every trick and advantage at their disposal. They intend to win by
any means necessary. In that environment, anything can be defended
and rationalized.
The leaders of the revolution do not care about equality. Racism is
only a tool for The Cause to be used as a weapon for power when
needed. Leftist black leaders are elevated to sainthood status,
above criticism despite any past criminal or ethical misdeeds.
Conservative black leaders on the other hand, like those who spoke at
the Republican National Convention, i.e., US Senator Tim Scott,
football star Herschel Walker, HUD Secretary Ben Carson, and
Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron, are reviled and smeared by the left with
the most vile racist epithets imaginable.
If the left truly believed in racial justice and equality, would they
allow this treatment of black conservatives without loudly denouncing
it? But no objection has been made, and none is likely forthcoming.
The leaders of the revolution do not care about sexism. It’s just
another arrow in the leftist quiver to shoot into the heart of their
latest enemy. Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh felt the relentless
onslaught of charges of sexism from the leftist mob, with no credible
witnesses to support them.
Yet when a very believable witness comes forward with credible
charges of serious sexual assault against Joe Biden, suddenly the
#BelieveAllWomen / #MeToo crowd goes crickets. Women’s Rights
groups order radio silence. Kamala Harris said she believed her.
Now as the Vice Presidential candidate, she does not.
BLM rioters staged a mock murder of a policeman by running over an
innocent raccoon
twice, and then beat it to death with baseball bats. So far we have
heard no statement of protest from PETA.
Something tells me that if the left determined that killing every
animal on Earth would bring The Cause into reality, PETA would be
handing out the baseball bats.
Climate change environmentalism and the Green New Deal are false
fronts for the righteous revolutionary Cause. If they thought they
could achieve it by destroying the environment, they would erect
their own dirty smokestacks and coal plants.
BLM
openly calls for the murder of cops. Nancy Pelosi
calls Trump supporters “enemies of the state”. Five days later,
Trump supporter Jay Bishop is shot and killed in cold blood during a
Trump rally in Portland. The protesters cheer and celebrate
his murder. The leftist mainstream media
covers it up by calling it a “clash”.
What it all ultimately comes down to is that the left will justify
and defend anything necessary to achieve its ultimate goal, including
rioting, looting and even cold-blooded murder.
Andrew Thomas
edited version published in American Thinker