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Why do they call it “public broadcasting” when it promotes actions against the public interest? What do we pay our tax dollars for “public radio” that advocates theft in the midst of rioting? On Thursday, NPR’s blog “Code Switch,” with the slogan “Race In Your Face,” posted an interview promoting a new book titled In Defense of Looting. This tweet says it all for us:


 
Publishers Weekly‘s review sells the book on Amazon: “Osterweil debuts with a provocative, Marxist-informed defense of looting as a radical and effective protest tactic…a bracing rethink of the goals and methods of protest.”



NPR’s Natalie Escobar summarized author Vicki Osterweil’s current take:

Now, as protests and riots continue to grip cities, she argues that looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society. The rioters who smash windows and take items from stores, she says, are engaging in a powerful tactic that questions the justice of “law and order,” and the distribution of property and wealth in an unequal society.

Escobar blandly asks the author to paint a “Marxist-informed” picture of why radicals loot:

It gets people what they need for free immediately…

It also attacks the very way in which food and things are distributed. It attacks the idea of property, and it attacks the idea that in order for someone to have a roof over their head or have a meal ticket, they have to work for a boss, in order to buy things that people just like them somewhere else in the world had to make under the same conditions. It points to the way in which that’s unjust. And the reason that the world is organized that way, obviously, is for the profit of the people who own the stores and the factories. So you get to the heart of that property relation, and demonstrate that without police and without state oppression, we can have things for free.

What kind of madness is this? If people just steal everything to “have things for free,” how does society function? Escobar asks about small businesses being devastated by looting. Escobar asked about neighborhoods losing essential businesses. There are apparently NO essential businesses.

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Why are taxpayers forced to pay to promote that it is OK to loot them and steal from them? NPR needs to be disposed of.

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@Deplorable Me:
Ronny tried 8 straight years to “defund” it! A liberal named Bob Dole was against Ronny.

I did not vote for the liberal in 1996

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Author Vicki Osterweil is not even sure of it’s own sexuality.
How can it redefine what this or that other thing is?
It doesn’t know what it is!

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@Nan G:

‘In Defense of Looting’ Author Says the Value of Small Businesses Is a ‘Right-Wing Myth’

The rioters who smash windows and take items from stores, it says, are engaging in a powerful tactic that questions the justice of ‘law and order,’ and the distribution of property and wealth in an unequal society.”

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.edg5X1Gd1xSapKG6hPwgvQHaFj?w=276&h=207&c=7&o=5&pid=1.7

This is who Vicky osterweil actually is. It’s name is willie but now it is vicki….

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIF.bz6X17jKnsM4qkNMgDTSig?w=115&h=180&c=7&o=5&pid=1.7

Indeed, in an interview with Escobar, Osterweil claimed that looting — which it defined as “the mass expropriation of property, mass shoplifting during a moment of upheaval or riot” — is a tool for justice that doesn’t really harm anyone

According to Osterweil, looting “attacks the very way in which food and things are distributed. It attacks the idea of property. It claimed that property itself is unjust because it means that “in order for someone to have a roof over their head or have a meal ticket, they have to work for a boss, in order to buy things that people just like them somewhere else in the world had to make under the same conditions.”

More lunacy at the link below. These social retards are batshit crazy.

https://pjmedia.com/columns/tyler-o-neil/2020/08/29/new-book-provides-a-terrifying-glimpse-into-how-antifa-justifies-looting-and-rioting-n864754

This bullshit is promoted by NPR(National Panhandler Radio)

Why should tax dollars promote theft and violence. NPR, like planned butcherhood should be defunded.

Biden Signals He Wouldn’t Use National Guard to End Riots as President

sleepy joe biden supports this lawlessness as does his slut vp pick….

The leftist democrats are lunatics….

I can hardly wait for the imbecile greg to wake up, 8 times zones away, to defend and support this….

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@July 4th American: So, where does Osterwell live? I’m sure she would have no problem with people coming into her home and taking whatever they “need”… since there is no private property.

How quickly do you think that concept would fall apart if it was applied to those that espouse it… directed at others?

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@Deplorable Me:

Yea, this piece of work would be the first to scream foul. Then he/she/it would call the poe-lice except there would be no poe-lice.

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>b>Cultural Marxism, Are We Supposed to Ignore What All the San Francisco Looters Have in Common?

Perhaps there is a rule book somewhere that says you must not point out that all of the San Francisco looters who hit Nordstrom and Louis Vuitton are black.

There are hundreds of media reports talking about the brazen nature of the ongoing mob and rob situations, but no one seems to point out what they all have in common. All of the people doing the robbing are black.

Here’s an example of CBS outlining a massive mob-n-rob of Nordstroms just outside San Francisco. WATCH:

Look at how this media report shared the news:

…”Just before 9 p.m. dozens of cars pulled up to 1200 Broadway Plaza to block off the street and rush into store.” (link)
The cars did it!

Dozens of random cars just pulled up to the store and began robbing the place. It might sound crazy, but that’s exactly how NBC reporter and eye witness Jodi Hernandez, described the incident when she initially tweeted out the alarm as she watched. Look:

“About 25 cars just blocked the street and rushed into the Walnut Creek Nordstrom making off with goods before getting in cars and speeding away,” Hernandez said on Twitter.
25 cars blocked the street, rushed the store, stole stuff and then got into cars?

So the cars were in cahoots with more cars.

All of this effort to twist language is intended to do what…. avoid noticing that all of the robbers are black?

This is silly .

“Walnut Creek Police investigators are in the process of reviewing surveillance footage to attempt to identify other suspects responsible for this brazen act,” the department said in Sunday’s statement. Nordstrom reopened as usual on Sunday. (more)

This must be “economic justice” or something.

The video from the Louis Vuitton mob-n-rob is below:

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Cultural Marxism Running Amok – San Francisco Media Say Term “Looters” is Off Limits
comment imaget first I thought this was a parody of news media outlooks. However, once I saw the article [ABC News] I realized it was not a spoof; it’s very real.

The San Francisco news desk of ABC7 actually has a position called “race and social justice reporter” who claims the term “looting” is a politically and culturally incorrect way to describe the looting that has been taking place over the past several days. However, I’m not exactly sure of the journalist’s qualifications for reporting, because he also claims not to be able to see the race of the people doing the actual looting. WATCH:

… In order for the ideological leftists to continue advancing their insane ideology, they have to pretend not to know things. Race and social justice reporter Julian Glover is certainly proving that point by pretending not to see who is doing the robberies.
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Tis the Season… Large Group of Looters Empty Out Clothing Store in Oakland – The Second Time This Month (VIDEO)

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Looting Inevitably Turns Deadly: Retired Oakland Police Officer Shot and Killed by Flash Mob of Looters While Protecting a Local News Crew

A retired Oakland police officer has tragically passed away from his injuries after he was shot while protecting a local TV crew that was documenting a large flash mob of looters as they ravaged several stores earlier this week.

Kevin Nishita was working as a security guard and had been assigned to protect a KRON4 news team as they covered the city’s recent wave of organized retail heists. On Wednesday, while on the scene at one of these smash-and-grabs, a group of looters broke off from the rest and went after the TV crew for their cameras and equipment.

Nishita immediately stepped in to protect the KRON4 team, confronting the looters head-on as they approached, but one of the dozen-or-so thugs quickly shot him in the abdomen, which ended up being fatal.

He died from his injuries on Saturday after being rushed to the hospital in critical condition and being treated for several days.

The killer, and the criminal looters, are still at large. The Oakland PD has issued a $32,500 reward for any information on the killers or the people involved.

From the Daily Mail:

“The news team from KRON4 had been reporting on Wednesday on a robbery which had involved 12 armed thugs wearing masks and hoods targeting a Prime 356 clothing store in Oakland,

Police officers also later found an additional victim – a Berkley man who had been hit by shrapnel – who was also transported to [the] hospital. He is in stable condition.”

KRON4’s Vice President Jim Rose called Nishita’s murder “senseless” and blamed it on “yet another violent criminal act” that has happened in the Oakland / San Francisco area.

Nishita will be given a full honor guard and precession by the Alameda County Sheriffs Office, according to the department.

https://twitter.com/ACSOSheriffs/status/1464644039257382913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1464644039257382913%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2021%2F11%2Flooting-inevitably-turns-deadly-retired-oakland-police-officer-shot-killed-flash-mob-looters-protecting-local-news-crew%2F

Nishita’s death is the tragic, inevitable result of radical felon-first policies that enable violent thugs to run wild with no consequences – we already saw several people and police officers who were murdered as a result of the left’s unhinged violence during last year’s George Floyd looting and riots.

It’s no wonder we are seeing another massive wave of looting and destruction that is hitting democrat cities in California, Minnesota, and Illinois.
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Looting Inevitably Turns Deadly: Retired Oakland Police Officer Shot and Killed by Flash Mob of Looters While Protecting a Local News Crew

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So, has the left wing media denounced the shooter as a white supremacists yet, thought they know nothing about him?

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Why Crime Is Out Of Control in San Francisco

When Chesa Boudin ran for San Francisco district attorney in 2019, he said crime was caused by poverty, wealth inequality and inadequate government spending on social programs. He called prostitution, open drug use and drug dealing “victimless crimes” and promised not to prosecute them. The result has been an increase in crime so sharp that San Francisco’s liberal residents are now paying for private security guards, taking self-defense classes, and supporting a recall of Mr. Boudin, with a vote set for June 2022. Retailers like Walgreens and Target are closing stores in the city, citing rampant shoplifting. Last week, a shockingly organized mob of looters ransacked a downtown Louis Vuitton store.

Mr. Boudin and his defenders say crime in San Francisco has actually declined under his watch. The store closings had little to do with shoplifting, they insist; Walgreens announced in 2019 it would close stores as a cost-saving measure. And after the Louis Vuitton looting, Mr. Boudin talked tough on Twitter : “Standby for felony charges. Indeed, some crimes did decline, but for Covid-related reasons, while many other offenses increased. The pandemic crimped tourism, which meant fewer car break-ins and less shoplifting, but both are now on the rise. Car break-ins were 75% higher in May 2021 than in 2019, before the pandemic.

While it’s true that official incidents of shoplifting haven’t increased under Mr. Boudin, the punishment has changed—and the bad guys appear to have gotten the message. In 2019, 40% of all shoplifting reports resulted in arrest; in 2021, under Mr. Boudin, only 19% did. Walgreens says shoplifting is five times as high, and security costs 50 times as high, in its San Francisco stores as the chainwide average.

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1464380859864158215/pu/vid/1280×720/sDUiibDOBTiX7vQd.mp4?tag=12
Why Crime Is Rising in San Francisco: A Video Explainer

November 28th 2021

Meantime, the charging rate for theft by Mr. Boudin’s office declined from 62% in 2019 to 46% in 2021; for petty theft it fell from 58% to 35%. San Francisco’s jail population has plummeted to 766 in 2021 from 2,850 in 2019. More than half of all offenders, and three-quarters of the most violent ones, who are released from jail before trial commit new crimes.

Like other progressive prosecutors around the country, Mr. Boudin has expressed great antipathy toward the police. At his election-night party, a supporter led the crowd in a chant against the Police Officers’ Association: “F— the POA! F— the POA!” The San Francisco Police Department is short 400 officers and demoralized. A security video obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle last week appeared to show officers allowing a robbery of a marijuana dispensary. Total narcotics arrests declined by half from 2019 to 2021.

Mr. Boudin has increased charges for some crimes. The charging rate for rape rose from 43% to 53%, and for narcotics dealing from 47% to 60%, even as it declined for theft, illegal weapons and assault. He appears to be following through on his promise to ignore quality-of-life crimes, but it’s also the case that the state has ordered local prosecutors to reduce prosecution of such crimes because of Covid.

The solution to San Francisco’s problems is relatively straightforward. The city needs to shut down the drug scene by working with the federal government to deport dealers who are here illegally, most of whom are from Honduras; arrest addicts who camp and use drugs publicly and offer them rehab as an alternative to jail; and redevelop the squalid Tenderloin neighborhood, which, because of the influx of out-of-town addicts, fosters depravity and criminality affecting the entire city.

The situation has degenerated to the point that an opportunity exists for moderates to wrest power away from progressives like Mr. Boudin and implement a sweeping, common-sense political agenda. What’s not clear is whether most San Franciscans want to do this, or could do it alone, without the involvement of California’s state government, which is sitting on a $31 billion budget surplus.

San Francisco is an uberliberal place, and Mr. Boudin is only the latest in a long line of progressive prosecutors. In the mid-1990s voters elected Terence Hallinan, who had a history of illegal drug use and promised to stop arrests of street addicts and prostitutes. When Mr. Boudin blamed crime on inequality in 2019, his message landed on sympathetic ears. When he said he wouldn’t prosecute victimless crimes, he was singing a familiar hymn.

It may be that Mr. Boudin went too far, even for San Francisco’s progressive voters, with his statements justifying crime and demonizing the police. But if history is any guide, they won’t have learned anything more from the experiment in lawlessness than they did from the one in the mid-1990s, and will almost certainly repeat it.

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without police and without state oppression, we can have things for free.

Does the author stop to think? Who the hell will make things that are given out for free? The materials for those free products must just appear in the factories where the volunteer workforce cobbles away happily then the products are wished into the stores.
Any other scenerio might be slaves of the state unpaid that will after work line up for food and the selection of the products will be state decisions, like the model T would you like it in black or dark charcoal?
Lets get this author to build a free pencil with all components
from scratch, for the next novel. All materials must be renewable and done only in a totally green economy. No fossil fuels at all.
Here we see delivery of free products coming to port on a sign up for a free cruise ship.comment image

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Notice how all these geniuses offering all the advice on how to make live all utopic don’t have business, don’t have employees and don’t have any economic responsibilities? We’ve also seen that when the money comes out of their pockets, even socialist Bernie won’t pay his people minimum wage.

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