From NYfC, some politician:
“Most of what we saw were crimes of poverty-people who are stealing things like toothpaste, people who were stealing things like, you know, soap. And that means if you’re stealing those things, you need them.”
Justifying crime on the basis of need. Were this not on the Planet Manhattan, I’d think we were all going bats.
Random thought: think this asshole would say differently if someone broke into her house and stole her $10,000 Persian carpet because they “needed” some floor covering?
#RhetoricalQuestion
It is part of the looter ethic:
We are entitled to take what we need from those who have the ability to create it.
Victor Hugo approves her message.
More like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, methinks.
Jean Valjean, and Fantine, mother of Cosette, then, with continuing rebuttal by Inspector Javert.
Coming soon to a NYC grocery store near you the Socialist TM bountiful supply chain where everyone gets four bars of government-issue bath soap, one tube of government-issue toothpaste, ten loaves of government-issue bread, eight tins of government-issue spam, and so on, per month, in short all daily necessities, for free. The system worked perfectly in the USSR and should work even better in NYC, because New York has rich that can be taxed and the USSR didn’t.
For a refresher, perhaps while you and New Wife are indulging in your Saturday morning lie-in you might watch The Simple Question Socialism Couldn’t Answer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMHyhneAxXY. 25 Minutes.
They ain’t stealing work boots, or shovels.
Maybe the stores can give out anal lube, NYFC residents are going to need it.