{"id":27372,"date":"2020-09-04T15:09:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T19:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=27372"},"modified":"2020-09-04T15:13:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T19:13:23","slug":"these-banana-republic-petty-tyrants-are-now-promoting-looting-as-a-legitimate-means-to-get-what-they-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=27372","title":{"rendered":"These Banana Republic petty tyrants are now promoting looting as a legitimate means to get what they want."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>NPR features Leftist Lunatic advocating Looting in America<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Patty McMurry<\/p>\n<h3><em><strong>\u201cLooting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society\u201d\u2026\u201dProvides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Last week, we wrote about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/100percentfedup.com\/soros-funded-district-attorney-officers-should-determine-if-looters-needed-stolen-merchandise-before-charging-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Contra County\u2019s Diane Becton<\/a>, a first-term District Attorney, who is one of a number of radical district attorneys supported by the far-left Democrat billionaire George Soros. When looters are caught stealing from local businesses, the radical DA, Diane Becton, is asking officers to consider the needs of the looter when charging them.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-94131 lazy-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/100percentfedup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-28-at-5.26.46-PM-740x408.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/100percentfedup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-28-at-5.26.46-PM-740x408.png 740w, https:\/\/100percentfedup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-28-at-5.26.46-PM-1034x569.png 1034w, https:\/\/100percentfedup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-28-at-5.26.46-PM.png 1144w\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"408\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" data-src=\"https:\/\/100percentfedup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-28-at-5.26.46-PM-740x408.png\" data-srcset=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"1\">On August 23, Black Lives Matter leader Alycia Moaton accused Americans of misplacing their anger over the mass looting in the city of Chicago that devastated Chicago\u2019s Magnificent Mile.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cPeople are worried about looting and there are literal lives being taken away? There are people who are dying and y\u2019all are mad about looting Mag Mile? Get over it!\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cThese buildings are insured. Materials will come back, but we will not come back if they kill us. What do y\u2019all not get about that? Gucci, Apple store, whatever it is, that stuff can be replaced. But we won\u2019t be replaced. We lose our lives every single day for this cause, and y\u2019all are mad about the wrong shit,\u201d Moatan said.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=100percFEDUP&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1296506456829767681&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2F100percentfedup.com%2Ftaxpayer-funded-npr-promotes-author-making-case-for-looting-in-america-looting-is-a-powerful-tool-to-bring-about-real-lasting-change-in-societyprovides-people-wit%2F&amp;siteScreenName=100percFEDUP&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=223fc1c4%3A1596143124634&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1296506456829767681\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" data-twitter-extracted-i1598905670734682296=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Which side are you on? (4\/4)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iU23CJqlQn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/iU23CJqlQn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BLMChicago (@BLMChi)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLMChi\/status\/1296506456829767681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">August 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"tpd-box-ad-d z-ad-adsense-inline-1 z-ad-revcontent-inline-1\">\n<div id=\"rc-solo\" class=\"default_rc_theme\">\n<div class=\"rc-block-for-well\">\n<div class=\"rc-hot-holder\">\n<div id=\"hotnum_118708\" class=\"hotnum\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Chicago area woman who took part in the recent mass lootings in Chicago actively bragged on Facebook about selling stolen merchandise and liquor, saying it wasn\u2019t the first time she looted from local stores:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpdev-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazy-hidden\" title=\"Woman Defends Looting, Selling Stolen Goods On Facebook Live\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N-p77D3bcbs?feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-lazy-type=\"iframe\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N-p77D3bcbs?feature=oembed\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3 data-reader-unique-id=\"1\">Now, taxpayer-funded NPR (National Public Radio) is promoting writer and activist, Vicky Osterweil, who has written a book defending the right for minorities to loot, titled, \u201cIn Defense of Looting.\u201d Osterweil\u2019s book makes the case that \u201clooting isn\u2019t a betrayal of protests for Black lives, but a vital aspect of the movement.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/08\/31\/amid-riots-ripping-the-country-npr-promotes-book-in-defense-of-looting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The Federalist<\/a>\u00a0writes- \u00a0Osterweil is a transgender male who calls himself a \u201cwriter, editor, and agitator.\u201d His Twitter handle is Vicky_ACAB. ACAB means \u201call cops are b-stards.\u201d The acronym has been spray-painted on buildings in Kenosha and numerous other riot-torn American cities this summer in the name of Black Lives Matter. Osterweil has written for The Nation, an openly Jacobin publication, and Al Jazeera America, according to his Barnes and Noble bio.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"3\">National Public Radio decided to feature Osterweil Thursday on its podcast \u201cCode Switch,\u201d for which the tag line is \u201cRace. In your face,\u201d under the banner, \u201cAmerica reckons with racial injustice.\u201d The interview openly makes the case that the existence of racial injustice in history justifies violent crime.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"9\">NPR assistant editor Natalie Escobar, a graduate of the nation\u2019s top-rated journalism school at Northwestern University and who previously worked at The Atlantic, uses her publicly funded job and platform to interview Osterweil about his new book. It is expanded from a 2014 essay with the same name issued in the wake of the Michael Brown riots in Ferguson, Mo., which also included looting.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"11\">\u201cIn the past months of demonstrations for Black lives, there has been a lot of hand-wringing about looting,\u201d Escobar opens the introduction to their interview. Since the looting-accompanied rioting has ruined myriad innocent,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/07\/28\/corporate-media-is-ignoring-broadest-riots-in-u-s-history-but-americans-hurt-by-these-riots-arent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-reader-unique-id=\"12\">largely working-class and minority Americans<\/a>\u2018 businesses and lives, yes, I\u2019d say there has been \u201ca lot of hand-wringing about looting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"13\">Escobar wants to turn that into hand-waving. Osterweil \u201cargues that looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society,\u201d Escobar writes. \u201cThe rioters who smash windows and take items from stores, she says, are engaging in a powerful tactic that questions the justice of \u2018law and order,\u2019 and the distribution of property and wealth in an unequal society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"19\">Looting is wealth redistribution. Good to know.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"20\">Another thing Osterweil says is that Democrat public officials\u2019 and the media\u2019s constant attempts this summer to distinguish the rioters from \u201cpeaceful protesters\u201d is a lie and a ruse: \u201cAnother trope that\u2019s very common is that looters and rioters are not part of the protest, and they\u2019re not part of the movement. That has to do with the history of protesters trying to appear respectable and politically legible as a movement, and not wanting to be too frightening or threatening\u2026.<strong>the history of the movement for liberation in America is full of looters and rioters. They\u2019ve always been a part of our movement.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"21\">Osterweil clarifies early in his NPR interview that he is indeed openly supporting theft in the name of justice: \u201cWhen I use the word looting, I mean the mass expropriation of property, mass shoplifting during a moment of upheaval or riot. That\u2019s the thing I\u2019m defending. I\u2019m not defending any situation in which property is stolen by force. \u201d<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"22\">Stealing\u00a0<em data-reader-unique-id=\"23\">is<\/em>\u00a0force, bucko. Taking away someone\u2019s property is taking away his life. That\u2019s because, for non-criminals, money comes from work. Work requires time. Time is a limited and precious commodity. Non-criminals use large parts of our lives to work to generate the income that we use to buy things. Therefore, property represents a portion of our lives. Taking someone\u2019s property, therefore, equals taking part of his life away. (This is also why high taxes are immoral.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"32\">This is a\u00a0<em data-reader-unique-id=\"33\">publicly funded<\/em>\u00a0\u201cnews\u201d organization using U.S. tax dollars to glamorize and rationalize\u00a0<em data-reader-unique-id=\"34\">theft and property damage<\/em>. While that may be surprising, considering that professors and teachers at tax-funded institutions use their comfortable public sinecures to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/08\/25\/wisconsin-professor-taxpayers-pay-six-figure-salary-cheers-rioters-on-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-reader-unique-id=\"35\">also encourage looting and rioting<\/a>, maybe it shouldn\u2019t be. Just like they haven\u2019t done anything to keep public funds from people who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/02\/27\/dear-joe-scarborough-more-americans-hate-america-than-you-think\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-reader-unique-id=\"36\">teach Americans to hate America<\/a>, however, don\u2019t look to Republicans to defund NPR any time soon.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"37\">Osterweil says many other eyebrow-raising things, including in this section of the NPR interview:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-reader-unique-id=\"38\">\n<h2 data-reader-unique-id=\"39\">[Looting] does a number of important things. It gets people what they need for free immediately, which means that they are capable of living and reproducing their lives without having to rely on jobs or a wage\u2026<\/h2>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"40\">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\u2019s unjust\u2026<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"41\">Importantly, I think especially when it\u2019s in the context of a Black uprising like the one we\u2019re living through now, it also attacks the history of whiteness and white supremacy.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/pdf\/1341787.pdf?seq=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-reader-unique-id=\"42\">The very basis of property in the U.S. is derived through whiteness and through Black oppression<\/a>, through the history of slavery and settler domination of the country.\u00a0<strong>Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police.<\/strong>\u00a0It gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected. And\u00a0<strong>also it provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>helps them imagine a world that could be\u2026riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"43\">Osterweil\u2019s essay \u201cIn Defense of Looting\u201d was also promoted this summer in GQ magazine\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/radical-reading-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-reader-unique-id=\"44\">Reading List for Radicalizing Your Parents<\/a>.\u201d The GQ article summarizes the essay: \u201cIn challenging the widely accepted notion that the civil rights movement was non-violent, and that its non-violence predicated its limited successes, Vicky Osterweil flatly lays out the practical, tactical, and political benefits of rioting and looting.\u201d Note how here GQ legitimizes violence in the name of \u201ccivil rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"51\">\u201cOne thing about looting is it freaks people out. But in terms of potential crimes that people can commit against the state, it\u2019s basically nonviolent. You\u2019re mass shoplifting. Most stores are insured; it\u2019s just hurting insurance companies on some level. It\u2019s just money. It\u2019s just property. It\u2019s not actually hurting any people,\u201d Osterweil told NPR.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"51\">In his 2014 essay, he said looting has been \u201cone of the most righteous anti-white supremacist tactics available\u201d in America.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"51\">It\u2019s bad enough that the Democrat Party and the media are referring to these violent criminals as \u201cpeaceful protesters,\u201d but when taxpayer-funded NPR is promoting the concept that looting is an acceptable form of justice, that\u2019s when Americans need to start demanding we put an end to their funding.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"51\">___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/jamesfetzer.org\/2020\/08\/npr-features-leftist-lunatic-advocating-looting-in-america\/\">https:\/\/jamesfetzer.org\/2020\/08\/npr-features-leftist-lunatic-advocating-looting-in-america\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR features Leftist Lunatic advocating Looting in America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}