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2020-12-13 -PC Follies

Not the Bee: Seattle is considering making it legal to steal, as long as you're poor and plan on selling the items

Remember over the summer when AOC blamed the spike in crime in New York City on parents stealing food to feed their families?

She was roundly ridiculed for that, of course, but now Seattle hopes to make AOC's fantasy a reality by creating an affirmative defense for theft if you intended to sell the stolen items for "basic needs" like food or rent.

It's called "the poverty defense," and would not only make stealing legal, but apparently fencing items as well, and would cover over 100 misdemeanor crimes.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2020-12-13 08:51|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 Well, you can scratch this quote then...

"The law, in its majesty, forbids the rich as well as the poor from begging, stealing bread and sleeping under bridges."

- Anatole France

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-12-13 10:47|| 2020-12-13 10:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Seattle Soviet.

The Revolution has begun

Posted by Omugum Schwarzeneggar5681 2020-12-13 10:52|| 2020-12-13 10:52|| Front Page Top

#3 URL fixed. For some reason you had an extra ht at rhe beginning of it, Deacon Blues.

Thank you for putting Not the Bee up there. I was able to go search the website to find the link to this specific article, and added the title. Without that information I would not have bothered.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-12-13 10:54|| 2020-12-13 10:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Gangster Government

Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2020-12-13 13:19|| 2020-12-13 13:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Someone smarter than me might know to contradict this, but the theory of Prosecutorial Discretion is based on prioritizing resources to deal with various violations of the law by a District Attorney. I cannot imagine that can be stretched, even by democrat lawyers, in any credible way, to voiding whole classes of crime that are standard, legal, and previously enforced. The DA isn't royalty or a legislature, he is oath bound to prosecute crime and enforce the law (all the law, not just the ones he agrees with). So this action seems to constitute a crime itself, malfeasance in office, and would seem to call for his arrest and prosecution. What am I missing beside the usual democrat presumption that they have the moral authority to disregard things they don't like?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-12-13 18:50|| 2020-12-13 18:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Thanks tw.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2020-12-13 19:10|| 2020-12-13 19:10|| Front Page Top

#7 The normalization of immorality by the immoral left.

Also they have no clue about retail. Many times the margin is so thin, just a few shoplifters could make the establishment not worth keeping open

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2020-12-13 21:39|| 2020-12-13 21:39|| Front Page Top

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