Robert Bridge – Strategic Review Nov 29, 2021
Looting in Manhatten amid protests over the death of George Floyd. Click to enlarge
How looting and stealing could help a person “imagine a world that could be” it is difficult to imagine, but the left must do better than merely coddling and apologizing for the criminals in their midst.
Americans are facing a new type of crime wave that got its start in the mad liberal laboratory, where the utopian notion that going soft on criminals is going terribly awry. While threatening the traditional brick and mortar shopping experience with extinction, and making communities a living hell, the left needs to stop trying to reinvent the wheel.
Apparently unwilling to wait for Black Friday discounts, roaming gangs of young men are descending on retail outlets and pharmacies in flash mobs, clearing out the store shelves in a matter of seconds as clerks look on helplessly.
$100k in handbags 👜 stolen at a Louis Vuitton store near Chicago! pic.twitter.com/jaElFgbkWO
— Asian Crime Report (@activeasian) November 19, 2021
In one pre-Thanksgiving raid, about 90 individuals stormed a Nordstrom outlet in Walnut Creek, situated in the San Francisco Bay Area. Members of the masked mob pepper-sprayed one employee, and assaulted another with a knife before making off with an estimated $100,000 in merchandise. Many of the looters made their getaway in some 25 vehicles parked out front.
Disturbingly, as this sort of mayhem unfolds in major cities across the country, liberals seem more preoccupied with determining how to define the criminal acts.
Lorenzo Boyd, PhD, Professor of Criminal Justice & Community Policing at the University of New Haven, and a retired veteran police officer, is just one academic who seems more obsessed with semantics than digging to the root of the problem.
“Looting is a term that we typically use when people of color or urban dwellers are doing something,” Boyd remarked in an interview with ABC7 news channel. “We tend not to use that term for other people when they do the exact same thing.”
And by “other people” it is abundantly clear who Boyd is referencing.
It’s looting. Just like there were riots in Kenosha, not just protests. https://t.co/trvUHxsCHU pic.twitter.com/nmdUTg6IXT
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) November 23, 2021
Martin Reynolds, Co-executive director of the Robert C. Maynard Institute of Journalism Education, invited listeners to compare the current wave of flash mob thefts to the fallout from Hurricane Katrina, when many marginalized New Orleans residents, the majority of them Black, were labeled looters for stealing from local businesses.
“This seems like it’s an organized smash and grab robbery,” Reynold said, speaking about the current phenomenon of flash mobs. “This doesn’t seem like looting. We’re thinking of scenarios where first responders are completely overwhelmed. And folks, often may be on their own,” he said.
While both academics do make some valid points, there is a risk of liberals getting trapped in a game of semantics that eventually leads to social disaster. More on that in a moment. At the same time, the radical progressives wish to ignore the fact that the primary reason for these crimes happening at all is because they went soft on crime.
Back in 2014, the Democrats in California passed ballot initiative Proposition 47, which legislates that theft of less than $950 in merchandise is considered to be a nonviolent misdemeanor. In other words, such cases are rarely prosecuted. The repercussions of such stupidity should not have been hard to predict.
Prop. 47 led to a rise in the larceny theft rate of about 135 per 100,000 residents, an increase of close to 9 percent compared to the 2014 rate, according to a report by the Public Policy Institute of California. Police Chief David Swing, president of the California Police Chiefs Association, responded, saying that the PPIC’s conclusions “are consistent with what police chiefs across the state have seen since 2014.”
But for store owners in California and elsewhere, there is no need for special reports. The damage from the shortsighted legislation is abundantly clear.
“Theft in Walgreens’ San Francisco stores is four times the average for stores elsewhere in the country, and the chain spends 35 times more on security guards in the city than elsewhere,” reported the San Francisco Chronicle, discussing just one of the myriad casualties of Prop 47.
Experts caution use of 'looting' in describing rash of Bay Area smash and grabs https://t.co/dQfftRG84T
— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) November 23, 2021
Compounded with the problem of a legal system that is increasing willing to let criminals walk, a confab of writers, agitators and academics are more inclined to see the ‘poetic justice’ of young marauders clearing out stores in coordinated flash mobs.
Last year, during the street protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death, a Chicago Black Lives Matter organizer called looting in the Windy City “reparation” for past crimes committed against Black people.
“I don’t care if somebody decides to loot a Gucci’s or a Macy’s or a Nike because that makes sure that that person eats,” Ariel Atkins screamed at a rally outside the South Loop police station.
“That’s a reparation,” Atkins said. “Anything they want to take, take it because these businesses have insurance.”
But even before George Floyd had become a household name, self-described agitator Vickie Osterweil had penned a book entitled, ‘In Defense of Looting,’ provided an apology for the act of looting before it was cool.
Beginning by explaining that the word comes from the Hindi, lút, which means “goods” or “spoils,” Osterweil (who wrote the book under the name ‘Willie Osterweil,’ apparently at a different stage in life) goes on to argue that the idea of property in the United States is “derived through whiteness and through Black oppression, through the history of slavery and settler domination of the country.”
Funny how many of the oppressed and downtrodden of the world are willing to be consoled by Gucci bags, Samsung televisions and Nike tennis shoes. But I digress.
Osterweil goes off on a massively contradictory spiel, somehow equating the theft of property with liberation from the “White man’s world.”
“Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police; it gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected,” she says. “And also it provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure and helps them imagine a world that could be. And I think that’s a part of it that doesn’t really get talked about — that riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory.
How looting and stealing could help a person “imagine a world that could be” it is difficult to imagine, but the left must do better than merely coddling and apologizing for the criminals in their midst. More than just midterms are at stake.
Blacks and white anarcho-junkie trash behaving like this should surprise no-one. Nor should the response of castrated, self-hating white liberals.
The depressing thing is that the majority seem unable to fight back. No-one – despite all the posturing with guns and ‘tactical’ gear – seems capable of getting it together and mowing these scum down.
What makes you think this wasn’t planned?
Just about every flash mob theft I’ve seen on video includes a gang of a specific race, it’s not the Hezhen.
Just another sign America, along with hedonism, celebrating sexual deviancy and other signs, is in the final stages before implosion. Just about every country in Western Civilization (mostly or all countries Whites created) are on the same path as America due to massive immigration.
The chaos happens in the USA when the majority (White race) are close to losing their majority status, thus their culture and values no longer matter.
It’s now racist in America to say Merry Christmas! It’s now Happy Holidays. Thanks elite Jewish controlled media! Oh well.
I still say Merry Christmas!
Basically, sub-human savages are tearing down civilisation. The communist vermin behind the scenes are just fine with that.
only leave those places !
LEAVE LEAVE LEAVE !
Marxists still think that a shop is a Capitalist oppressor ultimately owned by White Supremacists and they have invented a new form of wealth distribution in Prop. 47.
This is a way to defeat the elites. Loot their shops then fire or flood them. Target all large commercial premises, make it just too darned expensive for them to rebuild. They will flee, preferring to lose their income not their heads. Then change our currency and use roubles or yuan until we can produce our own, thereby denying the elites the billions or trillions they’ve stashed overseas. They’ll still have their gold and silver so impose restrictions on exchanging precious metals for cash, to make sure they can never exchange enough in volumes that will make them extremely rich again.
Fantasy, I know. But it is possible. The first problem will be greed again. As new rulers arise many will demand no limits to their power “to get stuff done”. But many will just want to become the new elite.
Behind every crazy negro simian is a hooked nosed Jew. But the brainwashed white liberal blames the so- called “supremacy” of their own kind. This logic is known as “bizarro world”.
For some of these high-end retailers, looting turns out to be the best shopping days in their history.
Because they do have insurance. And these insurance companies will compensate their payouts by increasing their premiums on middle class homes and cars. So while Gucci and Prada become fashion statements around the public housing projects, its the honest working citizens that are ultimately paying for much more than the looter’s free housing and ebt cards.
The Apes are inside the gates. Its funny watching these Caucasian created nations like the USA, now crumble into dysfunctional idiocy & ape anarchy– while the masses of egalitarian white idiots continue supporting/defending these worthless non-white animals–as they plague every town/city with their robberies, shootings, gangs, violence & homicides.
But remember, you destroyed Hitler for this.
Of course it’s planned and obvious the outcome. Covid saw lots of independent businesses close, leaving way for the online giants, predominantly Amazon.
Therefore, they’ll steal from the small businesses, drive them out of business and give more to Amazon and online businesses. Eventually, the small shops have a choice and that’s to go online and compete with Amazon (which they technically do with eBay) or face closure.
And of course, no money is being passed. All done through card to drive through digital transactions and the create the cashless society.
You’ve got to hands out to TPTB. They’re playing this beautifully (to achieve their endgame that is). It’s horrific to those awake, reading this like a book, but sadly they’re the minority and the looters (blacks) just think it’s easy shopping, failing to see all they’re doing is putting the shackles back on their ankles and a future life of hell.
This, happening right now, the demolition of the West, can be blamed, completely, on immigration. Firstly with the jew calling the shots and secondly through using their protoges, the non white immigrants. We’re seeing, precisely, why blacks don’t do civilization. Other than low IQ, no way at all of understanding the consequences of choices.
That all said, we drop need this. Society can’t continue as it is. It needs to implode. It’s wallowing in the ‘D’s’ – denigration, deprivation, deviancy, debauchery, debasing, devaluation, destabilising… It of the mess, the subsequent mass cull, a new breed of nationalist will arise, giving no quarter, to the jew and the immigrant.
Nico X, you are a fucking idiot, Hitler was a degenerate waste of space and betrayed the German people, you dumb ugly simian.
Ignorant simians like you can’t get enough of dysfunctional, effeminate, catty, bitch negroes, as it gives you something to write about and makes sure you have something to discuss with your fellow simians over your soft-boiled egg and soldiers in the morning.
A name like Laquan and you’re calling someone an ignorant simian. What department of Unit 8200 do you work at? How’s the weather on the shores of Tell Aviv? Be sure to say hello to Jeffrey Epstein for us.
A to be honest black people been getting played from slavery to now the present. Whites been living high off the horse and frowning down and doing sneaky tactics to keep the black people down and under their control. Now blacks are tired of the bull and don’t give a care about a system that was formed against them. Now you idiots want to blow some people away for materials stuff that has no life. I’ll never kill life for materials y’all sound sick. And remember the black race is the true race of this earth Whites and every race came from blacks. When black people started giving birth to albino seeds that’s when the mixing and different races came into play. So stop trying to play blacks because you all are on some devilish make believe idiotic mess. The sun don’t burn them. They are people that’s tired of being played. It’s to the point where really race don’t matter in the truth sense but too many of you all are to dumb in the mind to see it. Y’all let the devil enter your minds and when that happens all truth and logic form of thinking cease. It’s evil against good and evil always loses in the end because evil is about playing sick idiotic games with people. GOD AND TRUTH MATTERS but too bad because truth and GOD is afar from alot of you small minds.
Mark my words …at some point sooner or later there will be a masacre of a flash mob in one of the stores. Probably several flash mobbers will be gunned down . The liberal media will say it was a white supremist. Videos will show legal defense in this way: A concerned citizen or owner of the shop attempts to block the exit in an attempt to prevent the crime. Several mobbers pull out knives and threaten the citizen or owner who then unloads a barrage of killing bullets in self defense. This is going to happen pretty soon. I believe in Texas one can use deadly force to protect property. It goes back to the old cowboy days where if your horse was stolen you were as good as dead in the desert.
I just looked up the name Laquan and it is Chinese, meaning Spring, but laquan has talked as if he is Black.
It’s not at all a coincidence that these events are happening in the most disarmed places. We need more rooftop Koreans.
R.C.
@laqan….Settle down simian.
“roaming gangs of young men are descending on retail outlets and pharmacies in flash mobs, ”
Stopped there,,,, Getting tired of the political correctness that is everywhere now…
Prince Charles marks the end of White Supremacy in Barbados and Barbados becomes a Republic.
By all accounts he had a penchant for Black Velvet in his younger days and was once caught in compromising circumstances with Rihanna astride his face using his ears for extra purchase…..not a very supremacist type of situation.
Anyway luckily…..now that Barbados is free of racist whites it will really shoot ahead…..so to speak.
Rihanna used to be associated with the hip-hoppist Drake,aka “Drakesteen”….Drake has had the full works including a barmitzvah (see Wiki…hopefully they haven’t removed it yet)
I think “laquan” must be a jew.
@lerch
Well said.
I don’t care if you are Black or white you break the law you should be punished.
Law & order is needed for safe & vibrant society. Without Law & Order you have societal decay & society.
I had been the victim of an Armed Robbery whilst working 1/4 century ago by three people whom robbed the Service Station I worked at . I was working late one night at & was held up. The Robber pointed his knife at my stomach whilst he proceeded to take all the money out of the Cash Register, as much Tobacco products as they could. The ordeal was all over in under 2 or 3 minutes but at the time felt like 5 minutes.
They were prepared to hurt me to get what they wanted. I had no weapons to protect me. The boss wouldn’t allow a Base ball Bat for protection.
This changed my life forever and left me with heightened sense of security for myself.
So when I see this happening in America I have only one solution. After three criminal offences you will never get the chance to do a fourth as on the third time you are caught no matter how petty or serious the offence was you would be instantly killed.
People can slag off theMafia all they want, but this never happened in the early 80’s were I grew up in.
People had alot of respect for life back then, Yes crimes were committed but not like this so brazen and open without any resistance.
It’s shocking & is further evidence America is being torn apart. An Agenda is at hand here.
I say the sooner the Three strikes & your executed policy is signed into law only then will society benefit from it.
People are to afraid to walk the streets, catch a bus, drive a cwr, ride the train.
The left really are responsible for all the carnage you see in America & around the world.
If I had my way the three people that robbed and traumatised me would be brown bread. It would off with their lemon spreads.
And it would be kept Macarthur Park.