Speaking of the Rule of Law - shoplifting shouldn't be against the Law? - Granite Grok

Speaking of the Rule of Law – shoplifting shouldn’t be against the Law?

Remember, the “right to happiness” was originally “right to property” in one of the drafts of our Declaration.  In the NH Constitution:

[Art.] 2. [Natural Rights.] All men have certain natural, essential, and inherent rights – among which are, the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting, property; and, in a word, of seeking and obtaining happiness. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by this state on account of race, creed, color, sex or national origin.

And gives a better definition of “pursuit of happiness” as you can read.  Yet, this academic “director of community relations” (Everett Mitchell) has made it known that the illegal taking of other peoples’ property should not be a crime – I just cannot make this up!  Take this as the perversion of the American Rule of Law as a conflux of Occupy Wall Street meets BlackLivesMatter spawned by Progressives/Socialists with a tinge of Anarchy from the Ivory Towers (emphasis mine):

To an approving murmur from the audience, Mitchell advocated,“I just don’t think that they should be prosecuting cases or [unintelligible] up cases for people who steal from Wal-Mart. I just don’t think that, right? I don’t think Target or all them other places, them big box stores that have insurance. They should be using justification, the fact that people steal from there as justification to start engaging in aggressive police practices, right?”

Yup,  a “director” level person from a school of higher learning – great “them” grammer, eh? But that’s minor (but indicative?) – he shows no regard for other peoples’ property.  It makes no difference who owns it, be it an individual or that on behalf of an individual shareholder (re – an owner) – stealing is wrong.  Yet, Everett Mitchell, this ambassador of higher learning from the University of Wisconsin, has a lesson for the rubes that have paid for property: it ain’t yours so don’t kvetch when someone takes if from you.  Just soak someone else for it – the insurance company.  That, in case you didn’t know, is tantamount to telling “them big box stores” to go steal from someone else (the insurance company shareholders) – just don’t rat out those that actually did the deed and have no concern other than “I want this – so I will make it mine”).

Would Everett Mitchell have these “liberators” over for lunch often?

He went on to argue that, “I go to these meetings and that’s what they throw up there on the table, ‘look at where all this crime is happening, at the East Towne and the West Towne Mall, and the Wal-Marts and Targets, that’s where crime is happening, that’s why we have to focus so much’…they do that all the time to justify why they’re going to over police our children.”

Hey, Everett (I can call you that, right?  That wouldn’t be “cultural appropriating” your culture since you are denigrating mine, of which part of it is easy to understand: don’t take my stuff!!).  How about the learning the basics of raising children – like teaching them NOT to steal?

And get this:

Everett is a former Dane County (Wisconsin) assistant district attorney

Uh-huh.  Yeah, a guy who was responsible for enforcing The Law?  Saying what’s your’s is someone else’s and stop complaining when it isn’t your’s anymore?

 

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