You Made Them do This

Yesterday, I got smacked in the face with another reminder that civilization is dissolving.

As you may know, shoplifting is, for all practical purposes, legal in San Francisco. You can literally walk into a store, take a garbage bag out of a box on the shelf, fill it with merchandise of your choosing, and stroll past the security guard with your middle finger raised high. And because San Francisco permits public nudity, you can do all this naked. It’s not clear what purpose the guards serve now. Perhaps they’re reverse-greeters. Instead of greeting you when you walk in (which is annoying) they can wish you and your stolen goods a nice day as you leave.

New York is just about as bad. The Wormy Apple has new bail laws which allow most arrested thieves to walk free after booking. No bail required. New York is also choosing not to prosecute lots of cases.

I believe the theory is that because bail laws are harder on minorities and the poor than the rest of us, they’re inherently racist and classist.

It used to be that our legislators understood that not all laws that hit minorities harder were inherently racist. If you pass a city ordinance banning an antisocial act, and it turns out more Polynesians than whites are arrested as a result, because they are more likely to perform the act, it doesn’t necessarily mean the law is racist. It may be a fair, race-neutral law which hits Polynesians harder because they choose to violate it more often. If a particular group decides to break the law more often, it’s their hard luck if they are arrested more often. They deserve it, so it’s good they’re being arrested.

These things are obvious.

The truth, which always offends people, is that blacks and Hispanics commit way, way more crime than everyone else, so it’s good that they have to post bail more often. It would be unfair if they did not, because it would mean other groups were being treated more harshly. The original bail laws were not written with minorities in mind, with racist intent. They were written to protect us from criminals of all varieties. If you choose to be a criminal, you opt into the bail system, so instead of making asinine claims of racism, you should shut your mouth and put up the cash.

In America, over 50% of our homicides are committed by black people, so all laws involving murder hit black people disproportionately. If laws that hit black people disproportionately are racist, then all laws aimed at preventing and punishing murder are racist. We definitely need those laws, so does this mean we want racist laws and a racist system? Uh, no.

As for the poor, I suppose bail should be set so people of means have to pay more. Otherwise, many would turn potential prison terms into painless fines. They would post bail and run off. For all I know, courts already consider the wealth of defendants. I am not a criminal lawyer, and Google searching doesn’t turn up much information on the subject.

There is a limit to what government should do for the poor, though. Trying to make life “fair” to the poor, meaning similar outcomes in every situation, is stupid, futile, and somewhat unfair. The whole point of working to accumulate wealth is to make your life easier. It’s supposed to do that. It’s okay. It’s good. If wealthy people didn’t have better lives, we would all beg or work at McDonald’s, and nothing would ever get done.

To this day, we are surrounded by things Thomas Edison invented, or which followed from his inventions. He worked like a dog. Did he do it for social credit? Did he do it out of patriotism or a desire to bring about justice? Of course not. Edison was a ruthless capitalist, like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. He adored money. Rich people do more for the world than poor people, because the world gives them more back.

If you do more for society than another person, it would be unfair for government to step in, take money from people like you, and use it to buy that person things you earned. Of course, this is what our socialist government does all the time. It’s amazing that anyone doesn’t think America is socialist.

Leftists say people who are indigent shouldn’t have to pay anything. That may make sense for people who rack up parking tickets or solicit prostitutes, but thieves need to be confined in order to protect society, so my feeling is that if you’re too poor to pay the bail, you’re too poor to do the crime. If you commit a crime knowing you can’t make bail, your pretrial detention is your own fault.

What about the presumption of innocence? If it was a factor in setting bail, no one would be jailed before trial. You may be presumed innocent for purposes of the trial, but as for arrest, booking, and detention, you’re guilty until proven innocent. If that sounds bad to you, picture Jeffrey Dahmer sitting at home awaiting trial, chewing on a fried human buttock and admiring a jar containing alcohol and your son’s severed genitals.

Nearly all arrestees are guilty, so don’t feel too bad.

Anyway, we need cash bail, pretrial detention, and incarceration to protect the innocent and prevent society from breaking down. But leftists are under supernatural delusion, so they are trying to do away with these things. They are trying to wokify us from the sleep of sanity.

I was talking to my charming bride the other day, and I talked about the new legal shoplifting, and I said the next thing to expect was store closures, followed by complaints that the store owners were racists. You know how it works. If a chain won’t operate in bad neighborhoods, leftist nuts say they’re racist and greedy. Never mind that it’s not possible to turn a profit or break even when thieves run amok in your business.

Oddly, if they DO put stores in minority neighborhoods, it’s gentrification and an attack on minority-owned businesses, so there is no way to win.

Yesterday, my prediction came true. Walgreen’s closed a San Francisco store because looters made it impossible to keep it going, and guess what locals said? They complained that Walgreen’s only cared about money. They said they had relied on the store to feed their families. One person said “reform” was needed, but that a person who needed food to feed her children should do what she had to do, meaning steal.

What was notably absent in the story? Remarks like, “I can’t believe how much people here steal. It’s destroying the neighborhood. We need to shame thieves and march against crime. We need prosecutions and jail time. Men need to stop impregnating multiple unmarried women and leaving them on their own to raise criminals.”

What was missing was accountability, not to mention honesty.

I read it, and I thought, “Go ahead and starve. You did this to yourselves, and you haven’t learned a thing.”

In Joe Biden’s America, a kid who tries to protect businesses from rioters is a dangerous vigilante, actual vigilantes who try to lynch him in the street are martyrs and heroes, and drugstore chains exist to give criminals free beer, junk food, and things they can sell on street corners.

In America, we now have prosecutors who have time and resources to railroad innocent people who kill in clear-cut, classic, well-documented cases of self-defense, but we can’t find anyone to go after imbeciles who go into stores and fill up duffel bags.

I wonder what a typical shoplifter selling Walgreen’s merchandise would do if someone tried to steal it. I assume he would stand by and watch, wishing them godspeed and thanking them for letting him play a part in fighting income inequality. I’m sure he wouldn’t beat him bloody or threaten him with a weapon.

Is it a crime to steal from a thief? I don’t even know. Maybe it’s receipt of stolen goods. If you steal my garbage, it’s not theft, even if it’s in my possession, because it’s not my property. If that’s true, can it be theft if you steal 90 boxes of stolen Depends from a Social Justice Warrior who ripped off a CVS?

My wife Rhodah says shoplifting is not yet legal in poor, backward Zambia. She says that if you shoplift in Zambia, the store owners grab you, call the police, and give you a coat of spray paint to humiliate you. And they don’t get charged with anything.

It’s not the height of due process, but it shows that not every nation is as insane as America’s Blue Belt. Zambia’s approach is much healthier than letting cretins make commerce impossible.

“Walgreen’s fed my family.” What a stupid, despicable, evil thing to say to the management of Walgreen’s. You should say it to the thieves your community shelters and pays. They caused the problem. Walgreen’s did everything right. Let’s be honest. National chains do more than they have to. They open stores in bad neighborhoods, knowing they won’t do well, just to keep SJW’s quiet. Your local Dollar General may really be a charity.

The article made me very sad. I felt like crying. I’m not a weepy person, so I can’t claim I actually cried, but I felt very bad. The apocalypse is really here, and there are millions of Americans who can’t be saved because they are just too trashy and proud.

I saw something else that made me certain the end was upon us. Reddit now has a disgusting new area, and the large corporations Buzzfeed and Yahoo are promoting it. It’s called “byebyejob.”

The idea is that someone gets fired, usually for being unwokenated, and members of the group pounce on him or her, celebrating personal destruction with sick and often obscene comments. Most of the entries are about people who got in trouble for things like not allowing the government or their employers to rape them with needles. “My body, my choice,” is not what it used to be. Of course, this is the Internet, so the comments are vicious, baseless, biased, and ignorant.

They even went after Terry Gilliam, a leftist if there ever was one; a proud draft dodger who makes depressing nihilist movies. He complained about MeToo’s excesses and joked about people being offended when he said he was a “black lesbian in transition.” Now he’s officially unbewokened and banished. His Old Vic production of a Sondheim musical is canceled.

Hateful extremists posting stuff like this are not new, but it’s discouraging to see major Internet players endorsing it. It shows that only one side is allowed to speak now. Words, not guns and bombs, control the world, so when you can’t speak, you are not merely gagged, but chained.

I was thinking about revival yesterday, and I believe I had a revelation. I had decided to quit praying for revival, because I thought America was too far gone, but I wondered if I had made the right decision. Then I thought about it. God poured the Holy Spirit out on America about 120 years ago, and we have seen all sorts of healings, miracles, and prophecy. He has given us every chance. The whole time, people have been praying for revival, but America has turned on God instead.

I realized praying for revival was dumb. Revival doesn’t depend on what God does. It depends on what we do with our free will. How many hundreds of millions of revival prayers has God heard in the last century? There is nothing wrong with the prayers or God. The problem is that we’re asking him to do humanity’s job.

If America were going to have revival, we would have already had it. We don’t want it.

When the Hebrews worshiped the golden calf, and God told Moses he would destroy them and raise a new race up from him, Moses interceded for them. Shouldn’t I be as patient as Moses, especially since I used to be God’s enemy? Is it right for me to jump in the lifeboat and quit pulling others in? Thing is, I have been patient. Nearly all of us have.

Also important: God punished the Hebrews who rebelled. He killed lots of them, and he made the whole group wander in the sand for 40 years until nearly all the older people died. Moses, for all his patience and love, didn’t save them from extreme punishment which lasted decades.

The best thing is to pray for God to conserve the people who are saved and to prevent them from being lost before the rapture. I pray for this, and I ask him to come as soon as possible. This place is absolutely crazy. Americans think men menstruate, women have penises, common sense laws are racist, and the police are more dangerous than the civilians who commit nearly all murders. I’m done praying for America. Done, done, done. Americans have had one break after another, and we haven’t learned a thing. Let America destroy itself. I can’t do anything about it. Better to pray for the family of God.