How do we explain the many thousands of
Americans who believe they are entitled
to steal?
American Thinker,
by
Patricia McCarthy
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
6/2/2020 10:05:55 AM
For days now, since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Americans have seen riots take over many of our big cities. Countless properties have been vandalized and businesses have been looted and torched — damage that only hurt the neighborhoods of the rioters. But the most disturbing revelation of these clearly organized riots throughout the country has been seeing the thousands of people in all the affected cities who feel they have a right to steal that which does not belong to them. Night after night, we have watched thieving thugs break windows of small and large businesses, charge into them,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
justavoter 6/2/2020 10:30:18 AM (No. 429366)
The price we pay for not teaching Civics in school. We have a protest every 2 and 4 years. They are called elections!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Banjo Willy 6/2/2020 10:31:40 AM (No. 429368)
Heck.... I don't know ....... maybe promise them reparations at some point .... ?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LadyHen 6/2/2020 10:32:34 AM (No. 429369)
This is a question I have been asking and the responsible people in minority communities doing the vast majority of the looting should be asking. Why do so many feel entitled too steal? I think we know the real answer. Had I behaved this way, I would have been on the streets. My momma and daddy would have disowned me and even turned me in to the police. The 10 Commandments ruled in our house.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/2/2020 10:37:01 AM (No. 429376)
Understandable...only 204 shopping days till Kwanzaa.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/2/2020 10:37:41 AM (No. 429378)
Whatever happened to the warning I always see here in FL during a hurricane:' Looters Will Be Shot'
Seems like an appropriate time to be practiced everywhere.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/2/2020 10:37:56 AM (No. 429380)
...or Festivus for the paler shoppers.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Wizard of is 6/2/2020 10:43:59 AM (No. 429387)
When your mentors tell you that everyone who has more than you stole it from you it’s logical to assume you’re entitled to steal it back. Logical, but still wrong. Now burning down your own neighborhood.....that’s not even logical.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 6/2/2020 10:46:14 AM (No. 429391)
they have been given food, housing, cash, medical, rides to doctors and who knows what else. why should should they not think they should not be given what ever they want? you are a racist for only giving them what YOU want to give them and not what THEY want you to give them.
A South African once explained the root problem to me(at least as in africa) but I dare not repeat it here.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 6/2/2020 10:48:29 AM (No. 429395)
They have grown up being told they are victims, so the act out as victims.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mathman 6/2/2020 10:55:41 AM (No. 429411)
That is how they are taught. That is what they learn in school. Lie, cheat, steal. It is how to get on in life.
Rich people are evil thieves. They deserve to have everything taken away from them.
Thank your local Teachers' Union and your local School Board.
Thank XiNN and the other broadcast networks.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/2/2020 11:02:36 AM (No. 429437)
Animals will be animals. There is no explanation. They have been getting stuff for free since they were born, stealing is just another method.
As has been suggested many times, shoot the first three or four and the rest will run away.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 6/2/2020 11:05:21 AM (No. 429444)
I know exactly how to explain it: You won't have morals for very long minus a relationship with God, and they rejected Him a long, long time ago!
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Generations of ignorant students who have been taught nothing of citizenship, respect for others and living a moral life are the reason for this outrage. Sending a child to the public school system is a form of child abuse
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
David Key 6/2/2020 11:08:54 AM (No. 429453)
Its easy to explain. When we see politicians making shady millions, their children given questionable sinecures that hands them millions. Then why should not their sheep follow their ways.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Safari Man 6/2/2020 11:27:24 AM (No. 429488)
The Great Society
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Connor 6/2/2020 11:28:32 AM (No. 429491)
From what I saw on videos and right here where I live in Spokane at least 50% were white people. I read today that antifa is recruiting at college campuses.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 6/2/2020 11:34:08 AM (No. 429507)
It is the inner city culture. Criminals and thieves are looked up to. This is why so many folks, born in these places, get the heck away from them as soon as they are able. They are sewers.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/2/2020 11:49:23 AM (No. 429536)
Sorry #4 but it's not just a racial thing. Plenty of white kids in there too. The operating principle is "How can Nike DARE to charge $150 for sneakers when I've only got 20.
Head for SF and LA. Even without a riot you can walk out with $900 worth and they won't arrest or prosecute.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 6/2/2020 11:52:15 AM (No. 429540)
Red for ed education that's been going on for the last 40 years and fatherless households. That's how you explain it.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
czechlist 6/2/2020 12:02:28 PM (No. 429558)
just musing
I grew up in segregated schools. There was discipline in the schools. You got in trouble at school then you had troubles awaiting when you got home.
It all changed with integration.
2nd law of thermodynamics -entropy.
While I am musing
Why do we have police?
Why are police concentrated in black areas?
Is a solution obvious?
I am a realist, not a racist.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Krause 6/2/2020 12:25:45 PM (No. 429594)
Lefty governors and mayors are soft on looters because the looters votes are needed, mostly by harvesting. And the Dems are going to need all the votes they can get in November, by any means.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
obdurate 6/2/2020 12:33:15 PM (No. 429603)
Genetic propensity
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 6/2/2020 12:57:18 PM (No. 429631)
An overwhelming majority of the looters are black. I saw it with my own eyes, watching video that the MSM broadcast on the evening news for all to see. How are we supposed to ignore that? How many ghetto mama's are going to whip out foodstamps from a Coach or Gucci $1,000 purse? All of this anarchy, all of this social breakdown, can be laid at the feet of liberal Democrats who have abandoned the middle class and have jumped completely over to the side of Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao, and the North Korean crime family running that country. Keep blacks stupid and poor by sabotaging their schools but keep them dependent upon us so they keep voting for the Dems. This November, vote Repub across the line. Vote out all the Dems, every single last one of them.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 6/2/2020 2:44:49 PM (No. 429794)
As one person put it: How do you know when a store has been a victim of panic-shopping? All that's left on the shelves are vegan products.
How do you know when a store has been a victim of looting? All that's left on the shelf are Father's Day cards.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 6/2/2020 3:41:08 PM (No. 429884)
Spawned of felons, raised by felons, surrounded by felons, their heroes are felons, their friends are felons and the intend to be felons themselves.
Why would you be surprised when they steal?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
msjena 6/2/2020 3:56:59 PM (No. 429903)
I hate to say it but thieves are everywhere, of every race, color or sex. The only difference is that the looters are so blatant about it. I had jewelry stolen at a health club with majority white professional membership. I had money stolen from my ATM and in researching how this was happening, I found out it was likely from a gang of Eastern European (white) immigrants. When I was growing up, I learned quickly to lock up my money at a swanky tennis club where I used to swim. I do agree that it seems to be the result of a failure in parenting. And I think it is because some parents are thieves themselves.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/2/2020 4:23:05 PM (No. 429927)
Dr. Thomas Sowell, writing in his textbook "Basic Economics" stated that up through the 1950's, blacks had stronger families and a higher rate of married vs. unmarried mothers than whites, and were economically gaining on white families. Then came Lyndon Johnson and the 'Great Society' federal programs. Money was given to single mothers, but not complete families where there was a man in the household. This resulted in the destruction of black families on an industrial scale. A broken family is the strongest indicator of poverty.
Women on welfare with children, no man in the family. No guidance for the young males as they grew up. This is the recipe for social disaster.
We see it every day in Urban Thug Culture.
Crime, Beat-down houses, trash everywhere, beat-down cars, graffiti, closed businesses and boarded-up commercial buildings. Grown men loafing around in the middle of the workday, trying to bum a cigarette, booze or drugs. No constructive work being done. The distinct feeling that if you were to leave your semi-nice car for 10 minutes, it would be gone. I've seen it in large urban areas since the late 1960's.
We see it today in the riots taking place.
A Peaceful Protest is what the gun owners held at the Virginia Capitol in Richmond what.... last summer? Huge crowd, many of them armed, but not a 'SMIDGEN' of violence, of trouble...... and the grounds were CLEAN when it was over.
What we are seeing Today is THUG CULTURE, infused with PAID, ORGANIZED RIOTERS.
It's the SAME as we saw with 'Fergusen', with 'Black Lives Matter', with 'Occupy Wall Street'. The same play, over..... and over..... and over.
Find and JAIL the organizers. Use RICO laws to financially Break the Organizations behind the Riots.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Penney 6/2/2020 5:02:45 PM (No. 429972)
Chris Plante talked about this just this morning and Dennis Prage, among others who all have some good insights today. This current disrespect for property and even life itself has been crafted and building for decades, even as has disrespect for this land which has historically symbolized, ''Liberty,'' for centuries. But lefties are trying to spin truth around now. The USA has fought wars to have victory over tyranny and life has increasingly been better & better for all Americans. But have our children had it so easy they don't know or their elders have forgotten forgotten how fragile freedom is and why America's Constitution has guided us as a map to stay on course? 'Snowflakes,' who get honors for nothing don't even know the basic principles of freedom & peaceful living with others. Disrespect for authority, personal property & life seems to allow just about any autrasity and the enemies of America, symbol of Liberty on this planet, sure know how to use the naive snowflakes, selfish thieves and assorted pawns of the left. When they break the law, they must pay the consequences, along with the derelict officials who abuse their oaths of office.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
or gate 6/2/2020 7:25:46 PM (No. 430129)
They are taught that if you leave your stuff laying around, that means itś ok to steal.
Your fault.
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I am out in the community all the time. We have taught people to be victims and you owe me. We reward them for bad behavior. If only you knew the loot they were getting since the Corona Virus. You have no idea.
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Not sure how the rioters were raised, but my mother would have stuck her foot up my backside if I had stolen something that didn't belong to me!! I knew it, SHE knew I knew it and the law was respected!!