Redistribution Among the Redistributors
Courtesy of melvin_udall at http://melvin-udall.livejournal.com/1319608.html#comments
According to the New York Post, "Thieves Preying on Fellow Protestors," by Larry Celona, Laura Italiano, Rebecca Harshbarger, Frank Rosario and Jamie Schram at http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/criminal_occupation_oh3CnKANUqYHrGPCaZaLRK ,
It’s a den of thieves!
Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops-- and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food.
Sounds as if the message of Occupy Wall Street is really getting through to the people attending the event! They understand that property is theft, and therefore theft is property, and they are engaging in some spontaneous redistribution of property. This is good, right?
“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.
“I had my Mac stolen -- that was like $5,500 ..."
Wait, I'm confused, Nan. The whole point of your protest is that richer people should be forced to give their property to poorer people, right? Now, someone who owns a $5,500 Mac must be pretty rich -- certainly is by comparison to me, who am typing this post on a system for which I paid under $1,000. So as far as I can see it, someone adopting your philosophy just transferred some property from a richer person -- you -- to a poorer person -- themselves. What's the problem?
You say it was your Mac? Why Nan, that sounds an awful lot like you're asserting your right to your private property! But Nan, if you have a right to your property, then don't those other rich people against whom you're demonstrating have a right to their property? Or does the right to one's own property only apply to you, Nan, and not to others?
"... Every night, something else is gone."
Wow, Nan, sounds as if some poor people are really sticking it to the rich! Way to go! Wait, you're not happy about this either?
... Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”
(*nods*) Yes, and you're all the children of fat cats ... "fat kittens" as it were ... and I guess some hungrier less privileged kittens decided to take some of your suprlus wasted wealth and get themselves a little cat food ... or cat nip, perhaps. What's the problem? Isn't this just to what you're asking big corporations to submit?
Crafty cat burglars sneaked into the makeshift kitchen at Zuccotti Park overnight and swiped as much as $2,500 in donated greenbacks from right under the noses of volunteers who’d fallen asleep after a long day whipping up meals for the hundreds of hungry protesters, the volunteers said.
“The worst thing is there’s people sleeping in the kitchen when they come, and they don’t even know about it! There are some really smart and sneaky thieves here,” Terrie said.
So, basically, your staff is incompetent. But this implies that said staff wouldn't just give in to the moral superiority of those requesting redistribution from you to them! Wait, what would you do to stop them?
Security volunteer Harry Wyman, 22, of Brooklyn was furious about the thievery -- and vowed to get tough with the predatory perps.
Ah, he's a police stooge for the wealthy organizers for the protest, oppressing the proletariat who just want your Macs and money and umbrellas and foldout beds. Hiss! Boo! Oh no, wait, you approve of his attitude, because these thieves are taking your stuff. While disapproving of the real police who are preventing you from taking other people's stuff.
Got it. Stealing from others good; stealing from you bad. Can I apply this morality to myself? Can everyone?
According to the New York Post, "Thieves Preying on Fellow Protestors," by Larry Celona, Laura Italiano, Rebecca Harshbarger, Frank Rosario and Jamie Schram at http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/criminal_occupation_oh3CnKANUqYHrGPCaZaLRK ,
It’s a den of thieves!
Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops-- and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food.
Sounds as if the message of Occupy Wall Street is really getting through to the people attending the event! They understand that property is theft, and therefore theft is property, and they are engaging in some spontaneous redistribution of property. This is good, right?
“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.
“I had my Mac stolen -- that was like $5,500 ..."
Wait, I'm confused, Nan. The whole point of your protest is that richer people should be forced to give their property to poorer people, right? Now, someone who owns a $5,500 Mac must be pretty rich -- certainly is by comparison to me, who am typing this post on a system for which I paid under $1,000. So as far as I can see it, someone adopting your philosophy just transferred some property from a richer person -- you -- to a poorer person -- themselves. What's the problem?
You say it was your Mac? Why Nan, that sounds an awful lot like you're asserting your right to your private property! But Nan, if you have a right to your property, then don't those other rich people against whom you're demonstrating have a right to their property? Or does the right to one's own property only apply to you, Nan, and not to others?
"... Every night, something else is gone."
Wow, Nan, sounds as if some poor people are really sticking it to the rich! Way to go! Wait, you're not happy about this either?
... Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”
(*nods*) Yes, and you're all the children of fat cats ... "fat kittens" as it were ... and I guess some hungrier less privileged kittens decided to take some of your suprlus wasted wealth and get themselves a little cat food ... or cat nip, perhaps. What's the problem? Isn't this just to what you're asking big corporations to submit?
Crafty cat burglars sneaked into the makeshift kitchen at Zuccotti Park overnight and swiped as much as $2,500 in donated greenbacks from right under the noses of volunteers who’d fallen asleep after a long day whipping up meals for the hundreds of hungry protesters, the volunteers said.
“The worst thing is there’s people sleeping in the kitchen when they come, and they don’t even know about it! There are some really smart and sneaky thieves here,” Terrie said.
So, basically, your staff is incompetent. But this implies that said staff wouldn't just give in to the moral superiority of those requesting redistribution from you to them! Wait, what would you do to stop them?
Security volunteer Harry Wyman, 22, of Brooklyn was furious about the thievery -- and vowed to get tough with the predatory perps.
Ah, he's a police stooge for the wealthy organizers for the protest, oppressing the proletariat who just want your Macs and money and umbrellas and foldout beds. Hiss! Boo! Oh no, wait, you approve of his attitude, because these thieves are taking your stuff. While disapproving of the real police who are preventing you from taking other people's stuff.
Got it. Stealing from others good; stealing from you bad. Can I apply this morality to myself? Can everyone?