Opinion
“It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
lest it fall into error, and go astray;
And so, when you’re requested to ‘pay-up, or be molested,’
You’ll find it better policy to say:
We never pay Dane-geld (extortion), no matter how trifling the cost,
Because, the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!” ~ Kipling.
“Street Tax!”
A professional man (whom I know personally) and his wife were robbed one evening recently in a nearby city where they live.
As they walked to their car after leaving an upscale political event. The couple was confronted, at gunpoint, by an armed robbery suspect.
This VCA (violent criminal actor) demanded that both hand over their wallets, which they did. The suspect then ran away, and neither victim was harmed physically.
The suspect was eventually arrested. Not surprisingly, he had an extensive rap sheet and should have been long-ago permanently confined to prison, but of course, he was “out on parole.”
In subsequently speaking with the male victim (a liberal/woke Democrat, unarmed, of course), I expected to hear him passionately articulate his personal indignation, plus his relief that neither he nor his wife suffered fatal injury!
Not so!
He explained that this robbery amounted to “restorative justice.” He also used the term “reparations.” He said he was merely paying a “street tax” (apparently at the risk of his life)!
No righteous indignation, no anger, no outrage, only meek surrender to the omnipotence of violent criminals (whom Democrats support, protect, defend, and apologize for), who apparently have a “right” to commit violent crimes!
He was utterly incapable of audaciously claiming his own magnificence, his own right to life and property.
I find his self-imposed “serfdom” nauseating!
It struck me that woke liberals like him sincerely want all our citizenry to be just as morally and ethically decrepit as they are.
Such a compromise of personal honor makes it easy for individual citizens to casually yield to evil and willingly allow themselves to be victimized by private and public criminals.
What is rare among professing liberals is any sense of “right and wrong”
“Sometimes, in a crisis, a vice’s devices seem worth the high prices But, for men of honor, the question is moot” ~ Anon.
/John
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Perfect demonstration that democrats/progressives suffer from mental illness. No same person would respond like that.
They do live among us John.
Today they are voting for Harris.
Just don’t try to outdraw a person who has a gun pointed at you. It doesn’t work anywhere but on a movie set. Just do like MM44 suggested, shoot the VCA in the back. I’d be in fear of my life and being shot for having so little cash in my wallet.
I’ve mentioned it before, but statistically half of our fellows are of below average intelligence. And you can’t fix stupid.
Restorative justice? I want all my tax money that the corrupt leftist government gave to Ukraine.
I don’t owe any reparations to anyone, I don’t owe any street tax to anyone either. Pity the fool who attempts to enforce either on me, my family, friends, neighbors, co workers or the innocent guy on the street in my presence. I will absolutely defend life, liberty and property. Anyone with common sense would do the same.
Arm up and carry on
As a man of Danish descent, I’m both appalled and proud that it is still called Dane Geld, which really just translates as Money for Danes, so we wouldn’t assault your women and kill you. Racist 😉
What would have been hilarious if that victim then turn around and robbed that woke Democrat and said he was getting his reparations for the things taken from him. Until these leftists start having all their stuff taken, they won’t get it.