Anyone compiling examples of the pompous, arrogant, sophistic blindness to
property rights exhibited by many running the halls of so-called "justice"
can add another to their ever-expanding list. This time, it's from San
Francisco, and, this time, it's from the lips of none other than the San
Fran District Attorney who has willingly taken on the mantel of the city's
top prosecutor of criminals and crime.

Go figure, he's a left-collectivist.

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin already has prejudiced the
case against the infamous "Walgreens Shoplifter" who was caught on video in
mid-June as he packed a trash bag full of products off the Walgreen's
shelves, then hopped on his expensive-looking mountain bike and rode out of
the store, untroubled.

In a gushing New Yorker interview Boudin-- the child of leftist Sixties
radicals-- offered all kinds of excuses for the suspect.

"When I watch that video, I think about five questions that people are not
asking that I think they should. Is he drug addicted, mentally ill,
desperate? Is he part of a major retail fencing operation? What's driving
this behavior and is it in any way representative, because it was presented
as something symptomatic?"

How about:

"Did the suspect commit the crime of property theft?"

That seems a much more pertinent question, especially for those who WERE
ROBBED.

Supposedly, the polis (i.e. government) exists to protect people from being
robbed, defrauded (another form of robbery), or physically harmed.

But Boudin goes on issuing excuses, equivalencies, and what might be seen
as indirect threats:

"If Walgreens has insurance for certain goods or they expect a certain
amount of loss, if they would rather not risk lawsuits or escalation to
violence-- then maybe that's something we should know about."

Why?

Again, the question, from a traditional Natural Law standpoint, is whether
the state is going to fulfill its supposed rationale for existence and
prosecute someone for committing property theft. Period. Why are those
other facets of Walgreen's business structure in any way "things" about
which anyone "should know"?

Why does Boudin-- the son of leftist radical David Gilbert (who went to
prison for his involvement in the 1981 crime that took three lives in NY
state) and Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin (who pled guilty to
felony murder in connection to the same triple homicide and also pled
guilty to robbery)-- talk about an "escalation to violence" simply for
Walgreens staking its claim to property rights as all people should be able
to do?

Because collectivists don't recognize private property rights. All
property, in their eyes, should be in the hands of the state, to be
divvied-up according to the rulers' view of "equity".

In the mold of tired and tiresome Marxist hypocrisy, Boudin discounts and
dismisses peace and respect for property, even as he derives his livelihood
off the bounty that property rights and free trade facilitate.

He shows absolute contempt for market exchange and coughs-up excuses upon
seeing "the video", a video of a crime perpetrated in HIS city, against HIS
neighbors-- the very people who are forced to pay his salary.

Perhaps likening that taxation to the theft of property by this shoplifter
is not a stretch.

Perhaps Mr. Boudin's comments offer a clear window to recognize the fact
that government-- the very entity that we're told is there to "protect
property" from aggression-- is the ultimate machine of theft and
aggression, and that Mr. Boudin has settled into a comfortable position as
one of its major lever-pullers and parasites.

I knew a store owner who was burglarized three times. His insurance costs were then too high to pay for. The DA is a moron.

On 8/3/2021 8:50 AM, RichA wrote:
> I knew a store owner who was burglarized three times.

Was he in a movie?