Ed Morrissey
HotAir.com
10/18/2011
The lesson in this story, besides that irony is often delicious? Redistributionism always looks better when you don’t own anything yourself (via JWF):
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.
“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. Every night, something else is gone. 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!”
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.
Who’d have thought that a crowd of people demanding the seizure of wealth from banks, corporations, and the wealthy might also have a few thieves? I’m shocked, shocked to find theft occurring in a group that has hijacked private property it refuses to leave. I can’t imagine that a crowd that demands free higher education and the forgiveness of tens of thousands in student debt would also think of someone’s Mac or an iPhone as equally as communal as a college education.
The best part of this story is that it sounds like the thieves might be creating a few proto-conservatives…
The article continues at HotAir.com
Related: Charles Payne’s charged argument with an OWS protester: “I took my opportunity!”
In case you missed this yesterday, it’s worth revisiting. In it, lefties (including the Super Rich Russell Simmons) parrot Elizabeth Warren: “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody.” But Charles Payne hits back with what essentially amounts to this: I did.
“I took it! I took it!” he says. “I took my opportunity!”
Payne doesn’t mean he became successful “on his own” in the conventional sense of the phrase: He recognizes the help he received from other people, starting with his own family. Rather, he means he became successful “on his own” in the new sense Warren gave the expression: That is, he lived his life without looking to the government for a handout.
Later, Payne explains more fully…
Watch the video!
Also, Thieves preying on fellow protesters
H/T DaTechguy’s Blog
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Moonbattery comments, “As noted, Fithian helped plan the 1999 Seattle riots. One of her community organizer colleagues is now President of the USA.”
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