Even though God said vengeance was his, can we at least pretend that bathing in the glow of irony isn’t?
On this very blog, many debates have occurred involving private property and the rights of those people who own it. As a mindless thug, it is mentally devoid to demand what others have. It’s even worse when you have nothing of your own that compares. So what happens when the tide is reversed?
I was reading Ed Morrissey this morning at Hot Air. Ed was talking about how some of the protesters at Occupy Wall Street were sorely upset because while they were demanding that others share what they have with them, redistribution of wealth was taking place behind the protesters’ backs. It seems thieves were out and about at Zuccotti Park in New York City, and taking property owned by the protesters, i.e. laptops, cash, etc.
Morrissey puts it this way:
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.
Few, if any, people who place demands on others, mostly in the form of forcing ideals onto others, consider the consequences until the falling of the shoe lands on their own foot. It’s mindless cognition to demand the protection of wild species, even to the point of stealing someone’s property, when there is never a personal risk to the commander seeking to usurp the property of others.
Rural Americans are often subjected to the ridiculous demands of urban hijackers, who will never realize any of the resulting consequences of the “redistribution” of anothers’ property through demands of environmental protection, animal rights, etc.
When you have a real dog in any fight, you then can be taken seriously. In the meantime, without being vengeful, enjoy the darling irony.
Tom Remington
