Looting

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Oct 012021
 

Ugh.

You know how in the movies when there has been an earthquake or a flood or a kaiju outbreak, the National Guard or the cops show up and someone issues an order to shoot looters on sight? Yeah, in the US that ain’t gonna happen unless things have *really* broken down. Such an order would be *monumentally* illegal.

Still and all, though…

A pity more of them don’t end like this one:

I understand the argument that it’s not worth it for a lowly employee to try to stop a criminal in order to save a billion dollar corporation some money. But if the corporation loses money, said employee will be out on his ass, getting no pay whatsoever. And what’s more, the message given to the criminal is that criminality is acceptable. This will incentivize *more* criminality, inevitably leading to crimes against individuals, their properties and bodies. It would of course be best for society if the looters here are found and thrown into the same speedy justice system that has seen some of the January 6 folks imprisoned for *months* in solitary without trial. The home addresses of these looters should be published; if that leads to their homes being robbed while they’re in the hoosegow… well, we sure wouldn’t want that to happen.

Of course, the politicians and activists who promoted policies that decriminalized theft and defunded the cops should be remembered.

 Posted by at 8:19 pm